The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 93 49 114
Rank change year-on-year
-44 +65
Permanent jobs citing MCP 45 87 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 2.203% 4.527% 1.010%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.197% 14.31% 3.477%
Number of salaries quoted 43 85 20
Average salary £40,000 £27,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.14% -15.62%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £20,800 £22,050
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
549 608 604
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.87% 31.63% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 474 539 519
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £23,650
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -36 34 £45,000 +50.00%
Aylesbury +11 6 £30,000 -14.28%
Chesham +4 4 £24,500 -42.35%
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 136 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 116 (85.29%) SQL Server
3 112 (82.35%) .NET
3 112 (82.35%) MCAD
3 112 (82.35%) MCSD
4 111 (81.62%) C#
5 95 (69.85%) NUnit
6 92 (67.65%) TDD
7 88 (64.71%) Scrum
8 81 (59.56%) WCF
9 73 (53.68%) MCTS
10 72 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
11 71 (52.21%) WPF
12 69 (50.74%) ASP.NET
13 67 (49.26%) Microsoft
14 61 (44.85%) Kanban
15 60 (44.12%) Moq
16 54 (39.71%) Windows
17 53 (38.97%) WinForms
18 49 (36.03%) Castle Windsor
19 47 (34.56%) Web Application Development
19 47 (34.56%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 47 (34.56%) Razor View Engine
19 47 (34.56%) ASP.NET MVC
19 47 (34.56%) MVC
20 38 (27.94%) OO
21 37 (27.21%) Dependency Injection
21 37 (27.21%) Inversion of Control
21 37 (27.21%) MSTest
21 37 (27.21%) Spring.NET

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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
1 112 (82.35%) .NET
2 81 (59.56%) WCF
3 71 (52.21%) WPF
4 69 (50.74%) ASP.NET
5 53 (38.97%) WinForms
6 49 (36.03%) Castle Windsor
7 47 (34.56%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 47 (34.56%) Razor View Engine
7 47 (34.56%) ASP.NET MVC
8 37 (27.21%) Spring.NET
8 37 (27.21%) Unity DI Container
8 37 (27.21%) Ninject
9 35 (25.74%) NHibernate
10 31 (22.79%) LINQ
11 28 (20.59%) .NET Framework
12 12 (8.824%) Ajax
12 12 (8.824%) MonoRail
13 1 (0.735%) Application Packaging
13 1 (0.735%) HTML5
13 1 (0.735%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.412%) MS Exchange
2 4 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (0.735%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 7 (5.147%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.676%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.676%) WAN
2 3 (2.206%) VPLS
2 3 (2.206%) Firewall
2 3 (2.206%) MPLS
2 3 (2.206%) TCP/IP
2 3 (2.206%) VPN
3 2 (1.471%) DNS
3 2 (1.471%) DHCP
4 1 (0.735%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (0.735%) IP Telephony
4 1 (0.735%) SAN
4 1 (0.735%) LAN
4 1 (0.735%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 116 (85.29%) SQL Server
2 31 (22.79%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (5.882%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (2.206%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 95 (69.85%) NUnit
2 72 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
3 60 (44.12%) Moq
4 37 (27.21%) MSTest
5 28 (20.59%) Visual Studio
6 12 (8.824%) Subversion
General
1 23 (16.91%) Music
1 23 (16.91%) Music Industry
2 9 (6.618%) Finance
3 1 (0.735%) German Language
3 1 (0.735%) Banking
Job Titles
1 106 (77.94%) Developer
2 77 (56.62%) .NET Developer
3 56 (41.18%) C# .NET Developer
3 56 (41.18%) C# Developer
4 13 (9.559%) Senior C# Developer
4 13 (9.559%) Senior .NET Developer
4 13 (9.559%) Senior Developer
4 13 (9.559%) Analyst
5 7 (5.147%) C# Software Developer
5 7 (5.147%) .NET Software Developer
5 7 (5.147%) Applications Support
5 7 (5.147%) Support Analyst
5 7 (5.147%) .NET Software Engineer
5 7 (5.147%) C# Software Engineer
5 7 (5.147%) Software Developer
5 7 (5.147%) Software Engineer
6 6 (4.412%) ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (4.412%) Applications Support Analyst
6 6 (4.412%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (3.676%) Junior C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (27.21%) Inversion of Control
2 12 (8.824%) Social Network
3 11 (8.088%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.735%) iPhone
4 1 (0.735%) Statistics
4 1 (0.735%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.735%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 54 (39.71%) Windows
2 6 (4.412%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (4.412%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (4.412%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.471%) Windows XP
3 2 (1.471%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.735%) Android
4 1 (0.735%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (67.65%) TDD
2 88 (64.71%) Scrum
3 61 (44.85%) Kanban
4 47 (34.56%) Web Application Development
4 47 (34.56%) MVC
5 38 (27.94%) OO
6 37 (27.21%) Dependency Injection
6 37 (27.21%) MVVM
6 37 (27.21%) Continuous Integration
7 26 (19.12%) Business Intelligence
8 24 (17.65%) BDD
9 17 (12.50%) ITIL
10 15 (11.03%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (7.353%) Configuration Management
12 8 (5.882%) Change Management
13 4 (2.941%) PRINCE2
13 4 (2.941%) RUP
13 4 (2.941%) Disaster Recovery
13 4 (2.941%) Unit Testing
13 4 (2.941%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 111 (81.62%) C#
2 3 (2.206%) SQL
3 1 (0.735%) VB
3 1 (0.735%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 136 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 112 (82.35%) MCAD
2 112 (82.35%) MCSD
3 73 (53.68%) MCTS
4 30 (22.06%) Degree
5 15 (11.03%) MCSE
6 10 (7.353%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (7.353%) CCNA
7 9 (6.618%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 7 (5.147%) CCNP
8 7 (5.147%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (3.676%) HP ASE
10 4 (2.941%) MCSA
11 3 (2.206%) MCDST
11 3 (2.206%) MCITP
12 2 (1.471%) HP MASE
13 1 (0.735%) HP AIS
13 1 (0.735%) VCP4
13 1 (0.735%) VCP5
13 1 (0.735%) Security+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.206%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.147%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.412%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.941%) vSphere
4 3 (2.206%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.206%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.735%) XenApp
5 1 (0.735%) XenDesktop
5 1 (0.735%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.735%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (2.206%) SCOM
1 3 (2.206%) MOM
2 1 (0.735%) SCCM
2 1 (0.735%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 67 (49.26%) Microsoft
2 12 (8.824%) VMware
3 7 (5.147%) HP
3 7 (5.147%) Cisco
4 5 (3.676%) Citrix
5 2 (1.471%) Sophos
5 2 (1.471%) WatchGuard
6 1 (0.735%) SonicWALL
6 1 (0.735%) Draytek
6 1 (0.735%) LANDesk
6 1 (0.735%) ProCurve
6 1 (0.735%) Altiris
6 1 (0.735%) McAfee
6 1 (0.735%) Symantec
6 1 (0.735%) NetApp
6 1 (0.735%) CheckPoint
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Posted: 20 May 2013
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