The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT jobs advertised for the City of London 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 310 324 335
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +11
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 7 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.060% 0.015% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.252% 0.068% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 1
Average salary £31,500 £31,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.80% -10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+1.21% +7.69%
All Qualifications
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2775 2961 3188
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 23.77% 22.52% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 2397 2687 2873
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCPD
London

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCPD across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London MCPD Salary Histogram

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 16 (100.00%) MCTS
2 14 (87.50%) CRM
3 13 (81.25%) OOA/OOD
3 13 (81.25%) .NET
3 13 (81.25%) SQL Server
3 13 (81.25%) Ajax
4 11 (68.75%) Finance
4 11 (68.75%) CMS
4 11 (68.75%) jQuery
4 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
4 11 (68.75%) C#
4 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
4 11 (68.75%) SQL
4 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
4 11 (68.75%) Web Services
4 11 (68.75%) XML
4 11 (68.75%) XSLT
4 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
4 11 (68.75%) OO
4 11 (68.75%) Degree
4 11 (68.75%) LINQ to SQL
5 8 (50.00%) UML
6 6 (37.50%) IIS
6 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (37.50%) VMware
6 6 (37.50%) WinForms
6 6 (37.50%) MVC
6 6 (37.50%) Subversion
6 6 (37.50%) Content Management

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 13 (81.25%) Ajax
1 13 (81.25%) .NET
2 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
2 11 (68.75%) jQuery
2 11 (68.75%) LINQ to SQL
2 11 (68.75%) Web Services
2 11 (68.75%) XML
2 11 (68.75%) XSLT
3 6 (37.50%) WinForms
4 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
4 2 (12.50%) WCF
4 2 (12.50%) WPF
4 2 (12.50%) WF
4 2 (12.50%) LINQ
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (68.75%) CMS
2 6 (37.50%) IIS
3 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
4 3 (18.75%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (12.50%) Umbraco
5 2 (12.50%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (81.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Subversion
1 6 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 13 (81.25%) .NET Developer
3 11 (68.75%) C# Developer
3 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET Developer
3 11 (68.75%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 11 (68.75%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (37.50%) SQL Developer
4 6 (37.50%) Microsoft Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Junior Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Junior C# Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Junior .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Junior
5 3 (18.75%) Junior ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Junior C# .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Mid-Level C# Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Business Developer
6 2 (12.50%) Applications Developer
7 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (68.75%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) CRM
2 13 (81.25%) OOA/OOD
3 11 (68.75%) OO
4 8 (50.00%) UML
5 6 (37.50%) MVC
5 6 (37.50%) Content Management
6 2 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 2 (12.50%) Time Management
6 2 (12.50%) TDD
6 2 (12.50%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 11 (68.75%) C#
1 11 (68.75%) JavaScript
1 11 (68.75%) SQL
1 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) MCTS
2 11 (68.75%) Degree
3 3 (18.75%) MCITP
4 2 (12.50%) MCAD
4 2 (12.50%) MCSD
4 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) VMware
1 6 (37.50%) Ektron
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) EPiServer
3 2 (12.50%) Sitecore