The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCPD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 81 90 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 11 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.940% 0.303% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.514% 0.873% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £32,500 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.21% +2.94%
All Qualifications
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
313 458 506
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 26.75% 34.67% 31.22%
Number of salaries quoted 175 333 351
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,750 £27,900
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCPD
Scotland

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
1 14 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (78.57%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (78.57%) Analytics
3 10 (71.43%) SQL Server 2012
3 10 (71.43%) Unit Testing
3 10 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (71.43%) Subversion
3 10 (71.43%) Scrum
4 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
5 6 (42.86%) WPF
5 6 (42.86%) MVVM
6 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (28.57%) MCDBA
7 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
7 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle
7 4 (28.57%) SQL
7 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
7 4 (28.57%) jQuery
7 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
7 4 (28.57%) MCTS
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (42.86%) WPF
3 4 (28.57%) jQuery
3 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.143%) WCF
4 1 (7.143%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) DotNetNuke
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
2 10 (71.43%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
3 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (7.143%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 10 (71.43%) Subversion
1 10 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 4 (28.57%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (71.43%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Database Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Web Applications Developer
3 4 (28.57%) .NET Architect
3 4 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Applications Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Architect
4 2 (14.29%) Software Developer
4 2 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (7.143%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (78.57%) Analytics
2 10 (71.43%) Scrum
2 10 (71.43%) Unit Testing
2 10 (71.43%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (57.14%) Data Modelling
4 6 (42.86%) MVVM
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Software Architecture
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) Web Development
7 1 (7.143%) Change Control
7 1 (7.143%) Big Data Analytics
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) MCDBA
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) MCTS
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
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