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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 131 114 139
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +25
Permanent jobs citing MCP 149 187 137
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 1.802% 2.150% 1.444%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.160% 6.996% 4.495%
Number of salaries quoted 143 177 133
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £23,498
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
2419 2673 3048
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 29.25% 30.74% 32.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2001 2189 2681
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
England

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Essex +33 42 £40,000 -5.88%
Hertfordshire +3 40 £35,000 -30.00%
Cambridgeshire -27 35 £37,500 -
Bedfordshire -15 18 £36,834 +13.33%
Norfolk - 11 £27,500 -
Suffolk -25 3 £22,500 -41.93%
MCP
England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 325 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (72.31%) MCTS
3 229 (70.46%) SQL Server
4 212 (65.23%) .NET
5 210 (64.62%) C#
6 204 (62.77%) MCAD
6 204 (62.77%) MCSD
7 201 (61.85%) TDD
8 168 (51.69%) Windows
9 163 (50.15%) NUnit
9 163 (50.15%) Rhino Mocks
10 159 (48.92%) Scrum
11 135 (41.54%) ASP.NET
11 135 (41.54%) Castle Windsor
12 128 (39.38%) WCF
13 127 (39.08%) Web Application Development
14 126 (38.77%) Microsoft
15 125 (38.46%) MVC
15 125 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
16 124 (38.15%) WPF
17 119 (36.62%) Kanban
18 108 (33.23%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 103 (31.69%) SQL Server 2008
20 97 (29.85%) Moq
21 94 (28.92%) NHibernate
22 93 (28.62%) Razor View Engine
23 84 (25.85%) Ninject
23 84 (25.85%) Dependency Injection
24 75 (23.08%) MCSE
25 74 (22.77%) MVVM

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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
1 212 (65.23%) .NET
2 135 (41.54%) ASP.NET
2 135 (41.54%) Castle Windsor
3 128 (39.38%) WCF
4 125 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
5 124 (38.15%) WPF
6 108 (33.23%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 94 (28.92%) NHibernate
8 93 (28.62%) Razor View Engine
9 84 (25.85%) Ninject
10 69 (21.23%) Unity DI Container
10 69 (21.23%) Spring.NET
11 65 (20.00%) WinForms
12 51 (15.69%) Silverlight
13 44 (13.54%) MonoRail
14 30 (9.231%) LINQ
15 22 (6.769%) Lucene
16 16 (4.923%) Node.js
17 15 (4.615%) KnockoutJS
18 8 (2.462%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 56 (17.23%) MS Exchange
2 29 (8.923%) Exchange Server 2010
3 26 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 20 (6.154%) IIS
5 14 (4.308%) Lync
6 10 (3.077%) Office Communications Server
7 9 (2.769%) SharePoint
8 8 (2.462%) Exchange Server 2003
9 6 (1.846%) Windows Azure
10 5 (1.538%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (1.231%) Amazon AWS
12 3 (0.923%) Exchange Server 2000
13 1 (0.308%) Lotus Notes
13 1 (0.308%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.308%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 36 (11.08%) MS Excel
2 23 (7.077%) MS Office
3 3 (0.923%) Photoshop
3 3 (0.923%) Office 365
4 1 (0.308%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.308%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (0.308%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 49 (15.08%) DNS
2 42 (12.92%) DHCP
3 39 (12.00%) WAN
4 38 (11.69%) LAN
5 36 (11.08%) Firewall
6 31 (9.538%) SAN
7 19 (5.846%) Internet
8 18 (5.538%) Network Security
9 17 (5.231%) TCP/IP
9 17 (5.231%) VPN
10 14 (4.308%) VoIP
11 13 (4.000%) NAS
12 10 (3.077%) iSCSI
13 5 (1.538%) HTTP
13 5 (1.538%) HTTPS
13 5 (1.538%) SSL
14 4 (1.231%) VLAN
15 3 (0.923%) Broadband
16 2 (0.615%) SMTP
16 2 (0.615%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 229 (70.46%) SQL Server
2 103 (31.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (8.615%) SQL Server 2012
4 15 (4.615%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.308%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.308%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 163 (50.15%) NUnit
1 163 (50.15%) Rhino Mocks
2 97 (29.85%) Moq
3 69 (21.23%) MSTest
4 22 (6.769%) Cucumber
4 22 (6.769%) Selenium
5 7 (2.154%) Subversion
6 3 (0.923%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.615%) ProC
8 1 (0.308%) Git (software)
General
1 45 (13.85%) Finance
2 28 (8.615%) Music
2 28 (8.615%) Music Industry
3 27 (8.308%) Retail
4 3 (0.923%) Advertising
4 3 (0.923%) Law
4 3 (0.923%) Legal
4 3 (0.923%) Telecoms
5 2 (0.615%) Marketing
5 2 (0.615%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.615%) Games
6 1 (0.308%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 206 (63.38%) Developer
2 167 (51.38%) .NET Developer
3 44 (13.54%) C# Developer
4 39 (12.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 23 (7.077%) Support Engineer
5 23 (7.077%) Analyst
6 15 (4.615%) Support Technician
7 13 (4.000%) Support Analyst
7 13 (4.000%) Network Technician
7 13 (4.000%) Network Support
7 13 (4.000%) Network Support Technician
8 11 (3.385%) Wintel Engineer
8 11 (3.385%) IT Manager
8 11 (3.385%) 2nd Line Support
9 9 (2.769%) 1st Line Support
9 9 (2.769%) Support Manager
9 9 (2.769%) ASP.NET Developer
9 9 (2.769%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 9 (2.769%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 9 (2.769%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 69 (21.23%) Inversion of Control
2 45 (13.85%) Tandem
3 22 (6.769%) Enterprise Software
4 7 (2.154%) Mathematics
5 3 (0.923%) Computer Science
5 3 (0.923%) Social Network
5 3 (0.923%) Graphic Design
5 3 (0.923%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.308%) Firmware
6 1 (0.308%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 168 (51.69%) Windows
2 46 (14.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 40 (12.31%) Windows 7
4 31 (9.538%) Windows Server 2003
5 30 (9.231%) Windows XP
6 15 (4.615%) Windows Vista
7 10 (3.077%) UNIX
8 3 (0.923%) Linux
8 3 (0.923%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.308%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.308%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 201 (61.85%) TDD
2 159 (48.92%) Scrum
3 127 (39.08%) Web Application Development
4 125 (38.46%) MVC
5 119 (36.62%) Kanban
6 84 (25.85%) Dependency Injection
7 74 (22.77%) MVVM
8 73 (22.46%) BDD
9 69 (21.23%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (11.38%) Domain-Driven Design
11 36 (11.08%) Business Intelligence
12 25 (7.692%) OO
13 24 (7.385%) ITIL
14 22 (6.769%) Scrum-ban
14 22 (6.769%) CQRS
15 16 (4.923%) Agile Software Development
16 13 (4.000%) E-Commerce
16 13 (4.000%) Automated Testing
17 10 (3.077%) Network Load Balancing
18 9 (2.769%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 210 (64.62%) C#
2 39 (12.00%) VB.NET
3 38 (11.69%) VB
4 16 (4.923%) SQL
5 7 (2.154%) C++
6 5 (1.538%) C
7 3 (0.923%) Java
7 3 (0.923%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.615%) PHP
8 2 (0.615%) VB6
8 2 (0.615%) Ruby
8 2 (0.615%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.308%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.308%) Python
9 1 (0.308%) VBScript
9 1 (0.308%) Perl
Qualifications
1 325 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 235 (72.31%) MCTS
3 204 (62.77%) MCAD
3 204 (62.77%) MCSD
4 75 (23.08%) MCSE
5 42 (12.92%) MCITP
6 34 (10.46%) MCSA
7 25 (7.692%) CCNA
7 25 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (4.615%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 12 (3.692%) CCA
9 12 (3.692%) Citrix Certification
10 8 (2.462%) CCNP
11 7 (2.154%) Degree
12 6 (1.846%) A+ Certification
13 5 (1.538%) CCIP
13 5 (1.538%) CCSP
14 3 (0.923%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.923%) SC Cleared
14 3 (0.923%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.077%) PCI DSS
2 6 (1.846%) SLA
3 2 (0.615%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.308%) QA
System Software
1 69 (21.23%) Active Directory
2 47 (14.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (7.077%) vSphere
4 17 (5.231%) XenApp
5 13 (4.000%) Hyper-V
6 12 (3.692%) XenServer
7 11 (3.385%) XenDesktop
7 11 (3.385%) Microsoft App-V
8 10 (3.077%) VMware Server
8 10 (3.077%) NFS
9 6 (1.846%) VMware ESX
10 3 (0.923%) ISA Server
10 3 (0.923%) Forefront TMG
11 2 (0.615%) UAG
11 2 (0.615%) Terminal Server
11 2 (0.615%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.308%) Samba
Systems Management
1 11 (3.385%) WSUS
2 4 (1.231%) Backup Exec
3 3 (0.923%) SCCM
3 3 (0.923%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (0.615%) MAILsweeper
4 2 (0.615%) Business Desktop Deployment
5 1 (0.308%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (0.308%) Puppet
Vendors
1 126 (38.77%) Microsoft
2 53 (16.31%) VMware
3 23 (7.077%) Cisco
3 23 (7.077%) Citrix
4 19 (5.846%) HP
5 12 (3.692%) Avaya
6 11 (3.385%) CommVault
6 11 (3.385%) CheckPoint
6 11 (3.385%) LANDesk
7 10 (3.077%) EMC
7 10 (3.077%) Remedy
8 4 (1.231%) NetApp
9 3 (0.923%) Symantec
10 2 (0.615%) Altiris
10 2 (0.615%) Trend Micro
10 2 (0.615%) McAfee
10 2 (0.615%) Sophos
10 2 (0.615%) Red Hat
10 2 (0.615%) Apple
11 1 (0.308%) 3Com
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Healthcare
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Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits + bonus
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Salary: From £17,000 to £19,000 per annum
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