The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Bishop's Stortford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Bishop's Stortford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 7 9 12
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCP 6 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 30.00% 33.33% 16.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 75.00% 85.71% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 6
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -15.78%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Bishop's Stortford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8 7 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bishop's Stortford 40.00% 38.89% 35.14%
Number of salaries quoted 8 7 13
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -15.78%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Hertfordshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Bishop's Stortford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Bishop's Stortford MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Bishop's Stortford region.

Bishop's Stortford MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bishop's Stortford region citing MCP also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCP.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) MCAD
1 6 (100.00%) MCSD
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) Tandem
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) MCTS
1 6 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
1 6 (100.00%) MonoRail
1 6 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 6 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bishop's Stortford region citing MCP also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
1 6 (100.00%) MonoRail
1 6 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) NUnit
1 6 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
1 6 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) MCAD
1 6 (100.00%) MCSD
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
Bishop's Stortford, South East
.NET Developer, C#, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, .NET 4.5, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, NHibernate, RhinoMocks, NUnit, Analyst Programmer, Engineer, Architect,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013