The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 19 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 158 169 198
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +29
Permanent jobs citing MCP 1778 1817 1497
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.746% 1.603% 1.232%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.366% 5.833% 4.736%
Number of salaries quoted 1642 1703 1395
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27929 31153 31609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.43% 27.49% 26.02%
Number of salaries quoted 22863 26848 26740
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
UK

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +11 590 £40,000 - 69
South East -8 523 £40,000 +6.66% 63
North West +36 168 £35,000 - 28
East of England -17 134 £36,834 -7.91% 21
East Midlands -1 102 £35,213 -6.10% 17
West Midlands +19 95 £35,000 - 15
Yorkshire +5 94 £27,500 -21.42% 11
South West +20 74 £40,000 - 9
North East +5 13 £25,000 -33.33% 6
MCP
UK

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the 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 3537 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2305 (65.17%) SQL Server
3 2177 (61.55%) .NET
4 2068 (58.47%) MCTS
5 2059 (58.21%) C#
6 1966 (55.58%) MCSD
7 1945 (54.99%) MCAD
8 1851 (52.33%) ASP.NET
9 1843 (52.11%) TDD
10 1811 (51.20%) Windows
11 1702 (48.12%) MVC
12 1695 (47.92%) WCF
13 1692 (47.84%) ASP.NET MVC
14 1652 (46.71%) Microsoft
15 1609 (45.49%) Web Application Development
16 1454 (41.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 1399 (39.55%) NUnit
18 1375 (38.87%) Scrum
19 1374 (38.85%) Rhino Mocks
20 1237 (34.97%) Razor View Engine
21 1084 (30.65%) WPF
22 1024 (28.95%) Kanban
23 981 (27.74%) Castle Windsor
24 918 (25.95%) Moq
25 907 (25.64%) NHibernate
26 816 (23.07%) MCSE
27 771 (21.80%) Dependency Injection
27 771 (21.80%) Ninject
28 694 (19.62%) SQL Server 2012
29 678 (19.17%) Active Directory

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the 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 2177 (61.55%) .NET
2 1851 (52.33%) ASP.NET
3 1695 (47.92%) WCF
4 1692 (47.84%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1454 (41.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 1237 (34.97%) Razor View Engine
7 1084 (30.65%) WPF
8 981 (27.74%) Castle Windsor
9 907 (25.64%) NHibernate
10 771 (21.80%) Ninject
11 658 (18.60%) WinForms
12 529 (14.96%) LINQ
13 527 (14.90%) Unity DI Container
14 525 (14.84%) Spring.NET
15 377 (10.66%) MonoRail
16 368 (10.40%) .NET Framework
17 365 (10.32%) Ajax
18 271 (7.662%) Node.js
18 271 (7.662%) Silverlight
19 246 (6.955%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 482 (13.63%) MS Exchange
2 288 (8.142%) SharePoint
3 226 (6.390%) Exchange Server 2010
4 209 (5.909%) Exchange Server 2007
5 131 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
6 117 (3.308%) IIS
7 98 (2.771%) BizTalk Server
8 81 (2.290%) SharePoint Server
9 74 (2.092%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 65 (1.838%) SharePoint 2013
11 55 (1.555%) SharePoint 2010
11 55 (1.555%) Lync
12 37 (1.046%) CMS
13 30 (0.848%) IBM Notes
13 30 (0.848%) Sitefinity
13 30 (0.848%) Sitecore CMS
13 30 (0.848%) Kentico
13 30 (0.848%) Immediacy CMS
13 30 (0.848%) DotNetNuke
13 30 (0.848%) Umbraco
Applications
1 625 (17.67%) MS Excel
2 406 (11.48%) MS Office
3 27 (0.763%) Office 365
4 26 (0.735%) MS Visio
5 22 (0.622%) MS PowerPoint
6 9 (0.254%) Photoshop
7 8 (0.226%) MS Project
8 6 (0.170%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.085%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 44 (1.244%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (0.396%) Dynamics AX
3 6 (0.170%) Applix TM1
4 3 (0.085%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.057%) Changepoint
5 2 (0.057%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.028%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.028%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.028%) TIBCO iProcess
6 1 (0.028%) Eikon
6 1 (0.028%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.028%) Oracle BPM
6 1 (0.028%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 330 (9.330%) TCP/IP
2 307 (8.680%) DNS
3 256 (7.238%) Firewall
4 255 (7.209%) DHCP
5 244 (6.899%) Internet
6 217 (6.135%) SAN
7 180 (5.089%) LAN
8 159 (4.495%) VPN
9 141 (3.986%) WAN
10 94 (2.658%) VoIP
11 75 (2.120%) Broadband
12 42 (1.187%) Network Security
13 39 (1.103%) HTTP
13 39 (1.103%) IP Telephony
14 34 (0.961%) FTP
15 33 (0.933%) NAS
16 23 (0.650%) SSL
16 23 (0.650%) ADSL
17 21 (0.594%) SMTP
18 20 (0.565%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2305 (65.17%) SQL Server
2 694 (19.62%) SQL Server 2012
3 618 (17.47%) SQL Server 2008
4 163 (4.608%) SQL Server 2005
5 92 (2.601%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 66 (1.866%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 64 (1.809%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 54 (1.527%) RDBMS
9 50 (1.414%) MySQL
10 43 (1.216%) SQL Server 2000
11 36 (1.018%) Data Warehouse
12 34 (0.961%) OLAP
13 25 (0.707%) NoSQL
14 17 (0.481%) Oracle 8/8i
15 12 (0.339%) MS Access
16 11 (0.311%) Star Schema
17 9 (0.254%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 7 (0.198%) Data Mining
19 6 (0.170%) Oracle OLAP
19 6 (0.170%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1399 (39.55%) NUnit
2 1374 (38.85%) Rhino Mocks
3 918 (25.95%) Moq
4 526 (14.87%) MSTest
5 309 (8.736%) Subversion
6 81 (2.290%) Selenium
7 79 (2.234%) Cucumber
8 71 (2.007%) Visual Studio
9 34 (0.961%) Team Foundation Server
10 32 (0.905%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 32 (0.905%) Git (software)
11 25 (0.707%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.113%) JIRA
13 2 (0.057%) Hudson
13 2 (0.057%) ProC
13 2 (0.057%) Serena SBM
14 1 (0.028%) CruiseControl
14 1 (0.028%) Jenkins
14 1 (0.028%) GitHub
14 1 (0.028%) TeamCity
General
1 520 (14.70%) Finance
2 252 (7.125%) Games
3 165 (4.665%) Retail
4 157 (4.439%) Banking
5 153 (4.326%) Music Industry
6 132 (3.732%) Telecoms
7 80 (2.262%) Advertising
8 54 (1.527%) Investment Banking
9 49 (1.385%) Law
10 44 (1.244%) Legal
11 43 (1.216%) French Language
12 38 (1.074%) Back Office
13 28 (0.792%) Front Office
13 28 (0.792%) German Language
14 25 (0.707%) Italian Language
15 16 (0.452%) Marketing
16 14 (0.396%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.226%) Electronics
18 7 (0.198%) Aerospace
19 6 (0.170%) Military
Job Titles
1 2063 (58.33%) Developer
2 1740 (49.19%) .NET Developer
3 399 (11.28%) C# Developer
4 306 (8.651%) Support Engineer
5 305 (8.623%) C# .NET Developer
6 293 (8.284%) Analyst
7 189 (5.344%) ASP.NET Developer
8 180 (5.089%) Support Analyst
9 174 (4.919%) 2nd Line Support
10 169 (4.778%) Junior
11 168 (4.750%) Graduate
12 167 (4.722%) C# ASP.NET Developer
13 161 (4.552%) Junior Developer
14 157 (4.439%) Junior .NET Developer
15 133 (3.760%) Graduate Developer
16 129 (3.647%) IT Support
17 126 (3.562%) Graduate .NET Developer
18 101 (2.856%) Infrastructure Engineer
19 99 (2.799%) Desktop Support
20 95 (2.686%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 525 (14.84%) Inversion of Control
2 258 (7.294%) Tandem
3 182 (5.146%) Blackberry
4 177 (5.004%) Computer Science
5 168 (4.750%) Enterprise Software
6 122 (3.449%) Client/Server
7 72 (2.036%) Social Network
8 71 (2.007%) iPhone
9 59 (1.668%) DTV
10 53 (1.498%) Mobile App
11 51 (1.442%) Streaming Music
12 48 (1.357%) Management Information System
13 45 (1.272%) Clustering
14 32 (0.905%) N-Tier
14 32 (0.905%) Mathematics
15 26 (0.735%) SaaS
16 20 (0.565%) Cloud Computing
17 19 (0.537%) Firmware
18 18 (0.509%) iPad
19 15 (0.424%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1811 (51.20%) Windows
2 530 (14.98%) Windows Server 2008
3 483 (13.66%) Windows Server 2003
4 339 (9.584%) Windows XP
5 293 (8.284%) Windows 7
6 187 (5.287%) Linux
7 174 (4.919%) Windows Vista
8 115 (3.251%) UNIX
9 86 (2.431%) Android
10 63 (1.781%) Windows Server 2012
11 45 (1.272%) Solaris
12 41 (1.159%) Windows 8
13 39 (1.103%) Mac OS
14 36 (1.018%) Windows 2000 Server
15 33 (0.933%) Windows 2000
16 27 (0.763%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 24 (0.679%) Mac OS X
18 19 (0.537%) Apple iOS
19 13 (0.368%) AIX
20 10 (0.283%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1843 (52.11%) TDD
2 1702 (48.12%) MVC
3 1609 (45.49%) Web Application Development
4 1375 (38.87%) Scrum
5 1024 (28.95%) Kanban
6 771 (21.80%) Dependency Injection
7 676 (19.11%) BDD
8 582 (16.45%) MVVM
9 540 (15.27%) Continuous Integration
10 446 (12.61%) OO
11 422 (11.93%) Domain-Driven Design
12 416 (11.76%) ITIL
13 270 (7.634%) Business Intelligence
14 204 (5.768%) Agile Software Development
15 176 (4.976%) CQRS
16 81 (2.290%) Disaster Recovery
17 79 (2.234%) Scrum-ban
18 73 (2.064%) Asset Management
19 71 (2.007%) CRM
20 68 (1.923%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2059 (58.21%) C#
2 410 (11.59%) VB.NET
3 369 (10.43%) SQL
4 312 (8.821%) VB
5 296 (8.369%) JavaScript
6 129 (3.647%) T-SQL
7 59 (1.668%) C++
8 57 (1.612%) PowerShell
9 41 (1.159%) C
10 32 (0.905%) VBScript
11 26 (0.735%) Ruby
11 26 (0.735%) Java
12 25 (0.707%) XPath
13 19 (0.537%) PHP
14 17 (0.481%) VBA
14 17 (0.481%) Python
15 13 (0.368%) Perl
16 8 (0.226%) Bash shell
17 7 (0.198%) PL/SQL
18 2 (0.057%) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications
1 3537 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2068 (58.47%) MCTS
3 1966 (55.58%) MCSD
4 1945 (54.99%) MCAD
5 816 (23.07%) MCSE
6 370 (10.46%) MCITP
7 365 (10.32%) MCSA
8 342 (9.669%) Degree
9 282 (7.973%) Cisco Certification
10 271 (7.662%) CCNA
11 88 (2.488%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 79 (2.234%) MCDST
13 75 (2.120%) Citrix Certification
14 71 (2.007%) Security Cleared
15 61 (1.725%) CCA
16 53 (1.498%) A+ Certification
17 52 (1.470%) CCNP
18 49 (1.385%) MCDBA
19 41 (1.159%) SC Cleared
20 32 (0.905%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 172 (4.863%) SLA
2 28 (0.792%) ISO 9001
3 19 (0.537%) QA
4 16 (0.452%) PCI DSS
5 5 (0.141%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.028%) COBIT
System Software
1 678 (19.17%) Active Directory
2 343 (9.697%) VMware Infrastructure
3 125 (3.534%) Hyper-V
4 95 (2.686%) XenApp
5 77 (2.177%) vSphere
6 55 (1.555%) Terminal Services
7 53 (1.498%) XenServer
8 48 (1.357%) XenDesktop
9 44 (1.244%) VMware ESXi
10 42 (1.187%) Microsoft App-V
11 32 (0.905%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 29 (0.820%) VMware ESX
13 27 (0.763%) VMware Server
14 26 (0.735%) ISA Server
15 24 (0.679%) NFS
16 12 (0.339%) Xen
16 12 (0.339%) Forefront TMG
17 10 (0.283%) Terminal Server
18 6 (0.170%) Citrix Presentation Server
19 3 (0.085%) Squid
Systems Management
1 126 (3.562%) SCCM
2 70 (1.979%) WSUS
3 65 (1.838%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 54 (1.527%) Backup Exec
5 43 (1.216%) Norton AntiVirus
6 27 (0.763%) SCOM
7 26 (0.735%) Tivoli
8 21 (0.594%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 19 (0.537%) WMI
10 14 (0.396%) ARCserve
11 12 (0.339%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
12 9 (0.254%) OpenView
13 8 (0.226%) SolarWinds Orion
13 8 (0.226%) MOM
14 5 (0.141%) NetBackup
14 5 (0.141%) BMC Marimba
15 2 (0.057%) McAfee ePO
15 2 (0.057%) HP SIM
15 2 (0.057%) Puppet
15 2 (0.057%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 1652 (46.71%) Microsoft
2 503 (14.22%) VMware
3 301 (8.510%) Cisco
4 297 (8.397%) Citrix
5 166 (4.693%) HP
6 115 (3.251%) Symantec
7 101 (2.856%) Oracle
8 73 (2.064%) McAfee
8 73 (2.064%) Sun
9 68 (1.923%) NetApp
10 57 (1.612%) Apple
11 53 (1.498%) Avaya
12 50 (1.414%) IBM
13 48 (1.357%) Google
14 46 (1.301%) Juniper
15 41 (1.159%) EMC
16 38 (1.074%) Dell
17 36 (1.018%) Sophos
18 34 (0.961%) Veritas
19 33 (0.933%) CheckPoint
Oxford, Oxfordshire
To be considered for the position, you should hold a relevant qualification, at least 1 years .Net experience and SQL Server experience and ideally an MCP or MCE.
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £20,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
To be considered for the position, you should hold a relevant qualification, at least 2 years .Net experience and SQL Server experience and ideally an MCP or MCE.
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reading, Berkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Penrith, Cumbria
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Farnborough, South East
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Penrith, North West
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Guildford, Surrey
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Guildford, South East
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Bishop's Stortford, South East
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cirencester, South West
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Ellesmere Port, North West
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Wokingham, Berkshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Wokingham, Thames Valley
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Derby, East Midlands
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Wakefield, Yorkshire
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Ascot, Berkshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013