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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank - 120 115
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 0 4 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire - 0.208% 0.060%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.795% 0.310%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 1
Average salary - £37,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.94%
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.21% +7.69%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
372 503 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 20.79% 26.10% 19.49%
Number of salaries quoted 269 450 261
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 £50,000 £46,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCPD
North West

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCPD across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 11 (100.00%) XML
1 11 (100.00%) XSLT
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) OO
1 11 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 11 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (100.00%) MCTS
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 11 (100.00%) XPath
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WPF
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 11 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (18.18%) OOD
3 2 (18.18%) OOP
3 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
1 11 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 11 (100.00%) XML
1 11 (100.00%) XSLT
1 11 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 11 (100.00%) WCF
1 11 (100.00%) WPF
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (36.36%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 11 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 9 (81.82%) Software Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Software Developer
3 1 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 11 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) OO
1 11 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (18.18%) OOP
2 2 (18.18%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 11 (100.00%) SQL
1 11 (100.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) MCP
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft