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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 9 13 16
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCP 9 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 17.65% 2.381% 10.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.50% 8.333% 54.55%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 6
Average salary £40,000 - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Dartford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
24 12 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 47.06% 28.57% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23 11 10
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Kent

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dartford 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 Dartford region.

Dartford MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 12 (100.00%) MCAD
1 12 (100.00%) MCSD
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) MCTS
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
1 12 (100.00%) Kanban
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 12 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 10 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
2 10 (83.33%) Moq
2 10 (83.33%) BDD
2 10 (83.33%) NHibernate
2 10 (83.33%) Music
2 10 (83.33%) Music Industry
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
2 10 (83.33%) NUnit
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) ASP
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 12 (100.00%) WCF
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 12 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 10 (83.33%) NHibernate
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) ASP
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 10 (83.33%) Rhino Mocks
1 10 (83.33%) Moq
1 10 (83.33%) NUnit
General
1 10 (83.33%) Music
1 10 (83.33%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (16.67%) ASP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Classic ASP Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) MVC
1 12 (100.00%) Scrum
1 12 (100.00%) Kanban
1 12 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 10 (83.33%) BDD
2 10 (83.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) MCAD
1 12 (100.00%) MCSD
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (100.00%) MCTS
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