The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 108 93 132
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +39
Permanent jobs citing MCP 35 61 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.330% 2.125% 0.704%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.964% 5.437% 1.900%
Number of salaries quoted 34 59 21
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
883 1122 1105
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 33.55% 39.08% 37.06%
Number of salaries quoted 747 916 1021
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
East of England

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge -12 29 £37,500 -6.25%
Peterborough -10 4 £20,000 -11.11%
Huntingdon +4 2 £26,500 -41.11%
MCP
East of England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 82 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 67 (81.71%) SQL Server
3 66 (80.49%) C#
3 66 (80.49%) MCAD
3 66 (80.49%) MCSD
3 66 (80.49%) .NET
3 66 (80.49%) TDD
3 66 (80.49%) MCTS
4 61 (74.39%) Rhino Mocks
4 61 (74.39%) NUnit
4 61 (74.39%) Scrum
5 58 (70.73%) Moq
5 58 (70.73%) Kanban
6 45 (54.88%) Windows
7 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET
7 36 (43.90%) MVC
7 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET MVC
7 36 (43.90%) WCF
7 36 (43.90%) Razor View Engine
7 36 (43.90%) Web Application Development
7 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 33 (40.24%) BDD
8 33 (40.24%) Castle Windsor
9 31 (37.80%) NHibernate
9 31 (37.80%) VB
9 31 (37.80%) VB.NET
10 30 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
10 30 (36.59%) WPF
10 30 (36.59%) WinForms
10 30 (36.59%) Dependency Injection

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 66 (80.49%) .NET
2 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET
2 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET MVC
2 36 (43.90%) WCF
2 36 (43.90%) Razor View Engine
2 36 (43.90%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 33 (40.24%) Castle Windsor
4 31 (37.80%) NHibernate
5 30 (36.59%) WPF
5 30 (36.59%) WinForms
5 30 (36.59%) Spring.NET
5 30 (36.59%) Ninject
5 30 (36.59%) Unity DI Container
6 3 (3.659%) LINQ
6 3 (3.659%) MonoRail
6 3 (3.659%) Ajax
7 1 (1.220%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.878%) MS Exchange
2 2 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.220%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.220%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 3 (3.659%) MS Excel
1 3 (3.659%) MS Office
2 1 (1.220%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.878%) LAN
1 4 (4.878%) WAN
2 1 (1.220%) DNS
2 1 (1.220%) Firewall
2 1 (1.220%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (81.71%) SQL Server
2 26 (31.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (12.20%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.220%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 61 (74.39%) Rhino Mocks
1 61 (74.39%) NUnit
2 58 (70.73%) Moq
3 30 (36.59%) MSTest
4 3 (3.659%) Subversion
General
1 28 (34.15%) Music
1 28 (34.15%) Music Industry
2 1 (1.220%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 66 (80.49%) Developer
2 36 (43.90%) .NET Developer
3 30 (36.59%) C# Developer
3 30 (36.59%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (7.317%) Support Engineer
5 5 (6.098%) IT Support
5 5 (6.098%) Analyst
6 4 (4.878%) Support Analyst
6 4 (4.878%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (4.878%) Field Engineer
7 3 (3.659%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (2.439%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (2.439%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (2.439%) Service Analyst
8 2 (2.439%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 1 (1.220%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 1 (1.220%) 1st Line Support Analyst
9 1 (1.220%) Graduate .NET Developer
9 1 (1.220%) IT Technical Manager
9 1 (1.220%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 30 (36.59%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (3.659%) Social Network
3 1 (1.220%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (54.88%) Windows
2 9 (10.98%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (8.537%) Windows XP
3 7 (8.537%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (7.317%) Windows 7
5 4 (4.878%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (80.49%) TDD
2 61 (74.39%) Scrum
3 58 (70.73%) Kanban
4 36 (43.90%) MVC
4 36 (43.90%) Web Application Development
5 33 (40.24%) BDD
6 30 (36.59%) Business Intelligence
6 30 (36.59%) Dependency Injection
6 30 (36.59%) MVVM
6 30 (36.59%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (6.098%) CQRS
7 5 (6.098%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (4.878%) OO
9 3 (3.659%) Incident Management
10 1 (1.220%) ITIL
10 1 (1.220%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 66 (80.49%) C#
2 31 (37.80%) VB
2 31 (37.80%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.220%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 66 (80.49%) MCAD
2 66 (80.49%) MCSD
2 66 (80.49%) MCTS
3 7 (8.537%) MCITP
4 6 (7.317%) MCSA
5 5 (6.098%) MCSE
6 3 (3.659%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.659%) CCNA
7 1 (1.220%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (12.20%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.439%) XenApp
3 1 (1.220%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.220%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.439%) Backup Exec
2 1 (1.220%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.317%) Citrix
3 4 (4.878%) NetApp
4 3 (3.659%) VMware
5 2 (2.439%) HP
5 2 (2.439%) Cisco
6 1 (1.220%) Adobe
6 1 (1.220%) Lotus
6 1 (1.220%) Apple
6 1 (1.220%) Symantec
6 1 (1.220%) McAfee
6 1 (1.220%) Google
Cambridge, East Anglia
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Healthcare
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Salary: £23000 - £30000 per annum + great opportunity
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