The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 17 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 105 102 107
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +5
Permanent jobs citing MCP 12 15 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 0.686% 0.856% 0.500%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.993% 2.180% 1.633%
Number of salaries quoted 11 15 7
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +31.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £31,500 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £37,700
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
602 688 551
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 34.44% 39.25% 30.59%
Number of salaries quoted 502 611 429
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South West

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bristol MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 28 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 12 (42.86%) .NET
3 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 12 (42.86%) C#
3 12 (42.86%) Windows
4 11 (39.29%) MCAD
4 11 (39.29%) MCSD
4 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
4 11 (39.29%) MVC
4 11 (39.29%) Tandem
4 11 (39.29%) TDD
4 11 (39.29%) Retail
4 11 (39.29%) MCTS
4 11 (39.29%) WCF
4 11 (39.29%) WPF
4 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 11 (39.29%) Dependency Injection
4 11 (39.29%) Domain-Driven Design
4 11 (39.29%) Node.js
4 11 (39.29%) Ninject
4 11 (39.29%) KnockoutJS
4 11 (39.29%) Web Application Development
4 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
6 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
7 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (17.86%) A+ Certification
9 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 12 (42.86%) .NET
2 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET
2 11 (39.29%) WCF
2 11 (39.29%) WPF
2 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC
2 11 (39.29%) Node.js
2 11 (39.29%) Ninject
2 11 (39.29%) KnockoutJS
2 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) MS Exchange
2 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (10.71%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
2 5 (17.86%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) DHCP
1 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 2 (7.143%) LAN
2 2 (7.143%) WAN
3 1 (3.571%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.571%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (39.29%) Retail
2 2 (7.143%) Advertising
3 1 (3.571%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
1 11 (39.29%) .NET Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (10.71%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Analyst
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Security Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Desktop Support
5 2 (7.143%) Technical Support
5 2 (7.143%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) Administrator
6 1 (3.571%) Operations Manager
6 1 (3.571%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.571%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (3.571%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.571%) Support Team Leader
6 1 (3.571%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Tandem
2 4 (14.29%) iPhone
3 3 (10.71%) Fat Client
3 3 (10.71%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.571%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.571%) Handset
4 1 (3.571%) Smartphone
4 1 (3.571%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.571%) iPad
4 1 (3.571%) Mobile Computing
Operating Systems
1 12 (42.86%) Windows
2 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (7.143%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (7.143%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) MVC
1 11 (39.29%) TDD
1 11 (39.29%) Domain-Driven Design
1 11 (39.29%) Dependency Injection
1 11 (39.29%) Web Application Development
2 4 (14.29%) ITIL
2 4 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) CRM
4 2 (7.143%) Service Management
4 2 (7.143%) Business Continuity
4 2 (7.143%) Information Security
5 1 (3.571%) Scrum
5 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.571%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
5 1 (3.571%) Time Management
5 1 (3.571%) BPMN
5 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2
5 1 (3.571%) UML
5 1 (3.571%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) C#
2 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.571%) SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (39.29%) MCAD
2 11 (39.29%) MCSD
2 11 (39.29%) MCTS
3 5 (17.86%) A+ Certification
4 3 (10.71%) MCSE
4 3 (10.71%) MCITP
4 3 (10.71%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (7.143%) CISM
5 2 (7.143%) MCSA
5 2 (7.143%) CCNA
5 2 (7.143%) CISSP
5 2 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.571%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (3.571%) Degree
6 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.571%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) SLA
2 2 (7.143%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.71%) Terminal Services
3 2 (7.143%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 14 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) HP
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
3 3 (10.71%) Cisco
4 2 (7.143%) Apple
5 1 (3.571%) McAfee
5 1 (3.571%) VMware
5 1 (3.571%) SAP