The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 20 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 84 85 97
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +12
Permanent jobs citing MCP 36 36 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.022% 1.844% 1.105%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.626% 7.045% 5.678%
Number of salaries quoted 30 35 14
Average salary £35,000 £31,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +0.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £21,500 £22,800
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
374 511 317
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.01% 26.18% 19.46%
Number of salaries quoted 272 458 258
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,000 £21,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £46,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
North West

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Warrington +6 14 £25,000 -20.63%
Macclesfield - 12 £22,500 -
Chester - 8 £35,000 -
Ellesmere Port +3 2 £37,500 -
MCP
North West

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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.

1 114 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 99 (86.84%) MCTS
3 90 (78.95%) MVC
3 90 (78.95%) C#
3 90 (78.95%) .NET
3 90 (78.95%) ASP.NET
4 83 (72.81%) WCF
4 83 (72.81%) ASP.NET MVC
5 79 (69.30%) TDD
5 79 (69.30%) MCAD
5 79 (69.30%) MCSD
5 79 (69.30%) Web Application Development
5 79 (69.30%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 78 (68.42%) SQL Server
7 77 (67.54%) Windows
8 64 (56.14%) WPF
9 61 (53.51%) Razor View Engine
10 53 (46.49%) Ninject
10 53 (46.49%) Rhino Mocks
10 53 (46.49%) Dependency Injection
10 53 (46.49%) NUnit
10 53 (46.49%) WinForms
11 51 (44.74%) Scrum
12 49 (42.98%) Kanban
12 49 (42.98%) Moq
13 46 (40.35%) Castle Windsor
14 42 (36.84%) Spring.NET
14 42 (36.84%) Inversion of Control
14 42 (36.84%) MSTest
14 42 (36.84%) MVVM

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 90 (78.95%) .NET
1 90 (78.95%) ASP.NET
2 83 (72.81%) WCF
2 83 (72.81%) ASP.NET MVC
3 79 (69.30%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 64 (56.14%) WPF
5 61 (53.51%) Razor View Engine
6 53 (46.49%) Ninject
6 53 (46.49%) WinForms
7 46 (40.35%) Castle Windsor
8 42 (36.84%) Spring.NET
8 42 (36.84%) Unity DI Container
9 30 (26.32%) .NET Framework
10 11 (9.649%) NHibernate
10 11 (9.649%) XML
10 11 (9.649%) XSLT
10 11 (9.649%) Node.js
10 11 (9.649%) KnockoutJS
11 7 (6.140%) LINQ
12 4 (3.509%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 17 (14.91%) MS Exchange
2 13 (11.40%) Exchange Server 2003
2 13 (11.40%) SharePoint
2 13 (11.40%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (8.772%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (6.140%) IIS
4 7 (6.140%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 16 (14.04%) MS Excel
2 6 (5.263%) Office 365
3 5 (4.386%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.53%) TCP/IP
2 11 (9.649%) SAN
3 10 (8.772%) VPN
4 7 (6.140%) VoIP
4 7 (6.140%) Firewall
5 6 (5.263%) DHCP
5 6 (5.263%) DNS
6 4 (3.509%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 33 (28.95%) SQL Server 2008
3 18 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (7.895%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 53 (46.49%) NUnit
1 53 (46.49%) Rhino Mocks
2 49 (42.98%) Moq
3 42 (36.84%) MSTest
4 2 (1.754%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.754%) Subversion
General
1 28 (24.56%) Finance
2 11 (9.649%) Music
3 2 (1.754%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (64.91%) Developer
2 72 (63.16%) .NET Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Junior Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Graduate
3 19 (16.67%) Junior
3 19 (16.67%) Junior .NET Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Graduate Developer
3 19 (16.67%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 10 (8.772%) Support Engineer
5 9 (7.895%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.140%) Server Engineer
6 7 (6.140%) Senior Server Engineer
7 6 (5.263%) IT Support
7 6 (5.263%) IT Support Engineer
8 5 (4.386%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (3.509%) 2nd Line Support
9 4 (3.509%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 2 (1.754%) Technical Support Analyst
10 2 (1.754%) Technical Analyst
10 2 (1.754%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (36.84%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (34.21%) Enterprise Software
3 19 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 11 (9.649%) Client/Server
4 11 (9.649%) N-Tier
4 11 (9.649%) Streaming Music
5 2 (1.754%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.754%) Tandem
5 2 (1.754%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.877%) iPhone
6 1 (0.877%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 77 (67.54%) Windows
2 24 (21.05%) Windows Server 2003
2 24 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (10.53%) Windows XP
4 7 (6.140%) Windows 7
4 7 (6.140%) Windows Server 2012
4 7 (6.140%) Linux
5 4 (3.509%) Windows NT
6 1 (0.877%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (78.95%) MVC
2 79 (69.30%) TDD
2 79 (69.30%) Web Application Development
3 53 (46.49%) Dependency Injection
4 51 (44.74%) Scrum
5 49 (42.98%) Kanban
6 42 (36.84%) Continuous Integration
6 42 (36.84%) MVVM
7 29 (25.44%) OO
8 26 (22.81%) Domain-Driven Design
9 22 (19.30%) BDD
10 15 (13.16%) CQRS
11 14 (12.28%) Agile Software Development
12 12 (10.53%) ITIL
13 8 (7.018%) Performance Management
14 7 (6.140%) Change Control
14 7 (6.140%) Capacity Management
14 7 (6.140%) Business Intelligence
15 4 (3.509%) PRINCE2
15 4 (3.509%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (78.95%) C#
2 11 (9.649%) JavaScript
2 11 (9.649%) SQL
2 11 (9.649%) VB
2 11 (9.649%) VB.NET
2 11 (9.649%) XPath
3 2 (1.754%) C
Qualifications
1 114 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 99 (86.84%) MCTS
3 79 (69.30%) MCAD
3 79 (69.30%) MCSD
4 12 (10.53%) MCSE
4 12 (10.53%) MCITP
5 11 (9.649%) MCPD
5 11 (9.649%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (4.386%) CCNA
6 5 (4.386%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.509%) MCSA
System Software
1 23 (20.18%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.140%) ISA Server
2 7 (6.140%) vSphere
3 3 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.754%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (6.140%) SCCM
1 7 (6.140%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 34 (29.82%) Microsoft
2 14 (12.28%) VMware
3 8 (7.018%) Cisco
4 7 (6.140%) SolarWinds
4 7 (6.140%) FrontRange
4 7 (6.140%) HP
4 7 (6.140%) Citrix
4 7 (6.140%) NetApp
5 2 (1.754%) Sophos
5 2 (1.754%) SonicWALL
5 2 (1.754%) Draytek
Ellesmere Port, North West
Our client can provide you with Greenfield project work and exposure to: .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), AJAX, Agile, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, North West
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD, ORM, LINQ and NHibernate... (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warrington, North West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Macclesfield, North West
Own Change Control process for Infrastructure Services in the UKJob Qualifications:Solid technical experience of server technologies which should include the following:*Windows 2003 / 2008 Server (Windows Server...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013