England MCP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clevedon Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fairford Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	137	193
Rank change on same period last year	+56
Matching permanent IT job ads	2628	2412
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.387 %	0.988 %
As % of the category below	7.034 %	5.134 %
Salaries quoted	2476	2080
Average minimum salary	£28,899	£28,455
Average salary	£31,356	£30,897
% change on same period last year	+1.48 %
Average maximum salary	£33,813	£33,338
UK excluding London average salary	£28,885	£28,669
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Qualifications England
Matching permanent IT job ads	37359	46983
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	19.72 %	19.24 %
Salaries quoted	31811	38304
Average minimum salary	£37,589	£39,006
Average salary	£40,955	£42,523
% change on same period last year	-3.68 %
Average maximum salary	£44,321	£46,040
UK excluding London average salary	£37,731	£38,242
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
MCP UK

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the England region.

MCP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Job Locations

This section 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 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+87	1058	£35,543	+2.15 %
South East	+46	731	£30,962	-4.00 %
West Midlands	+27	195	£27,873	+12.29 %
North West	+28	163	£24,539	+7.39 %
East Midlands	0	132	£23,862	-4.22 %
Yorkshire	-40	118	£26,911	+0.92 %
East of England	+3	116	£29,839	+5.14 %
South West	-23	105	£28,353	+8.64 %
North East	+9	17	£25,028	+10.25 %
Midlands	+24	6	£28,250	-9.60 %

MCP UK

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 5241 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3082 (58.81 %) Windows 3 2732 (52.13 %) Microsoft 4 2450 (46.75 %) MCSE 5 1954 (37.28 %) Active Directory 6 1571 (29.98 %) SQL Server 7 1492 (28.47 %) MS Exchange 8 1402 (26.75 %) MS Excel 9 1288 (24.58 %) .NET 10 1089 (20.78 %) C# 11 1081 (20.63 %) SQL 12 1073 (20.47 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 1013 (19.33 %) TCP/IP 14 979 (18.68 %) ASP.NET 15 960 (18.32 %) MCSD

16 954 (18.20 %) MCSA 17 953 (18.18 %) MS Office 18 918 (17.52 %) MCAD 19 909 (17.34 %) Windows XP 20 783 (14.94 %) Windows 2000 21 774 (14.77 %) SQL Server 2005 22 771 (14.71 %) XML 23 732 (13.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 24 687 (13.11 %) LAN 25 678 (12.94 %) WAN 26 651 (12.42 %) Cisco 27 633 (12.08 %) Citrix 28 565 (10.78 %) Degree 29 550 (10.49 %) Cisco Certification 30 528 (10.07 %) Internet

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 1288 (24.58 %) .NET 2 979 (18.68 %) ASP.NET 3 771 (14.71 %) XML 4 411 (7.842 %) AJAX 5 351 (6.697 %) CSS 6 334 (6.373 %) HTML 7 301 (5.743 %) WCF 8 269 (5.133 %) WinForms 9 257 (4.904 %) WPF 10 253 (4.827 %) WebServices 11 235 (4.484 %) Silverlight 12 218 (4.160 %) WF 13 184 (3.511 %) XHTML 14 96 (1.832 %) .NET Framework 15 84 (1.603 %) ADO.NET 16 83 (1.584 %) ASP 17 53 (1.011 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 44 (0.840 %) Application Packaging 19 41 (0.782 %) LINQ 20 31 (0.591 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 1492 (28.47 %) MS Exchange 2 1073 (20.47 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 732 (13.97 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 445 (8.491 %) SharePoint 5 269 (5.133 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 259 (4.942 %) BizTalk Server 7 238 (4.541 %) IIS 8 167 (3.186 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 120 (2.290 %) Lotus Notes 10 79 (1.507 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 62 (1.183 %) CMS 12 55 (1.049 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 46 (0.878 %) Commerce Server 14 35 (0.668 %) Lotus Domino 15 22 (0.420 %) Commerce Server 2007 16 20 (0.382 %) SharePoint Portal Server 17 19 (0.363 %) GroupWise 18 10 (0.191 %) Content Management Server 19 8 (0.153 %) Apache 20 5 (0.095 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 1402 (26.75 %) MS Excel 2 953 (18.18 %) MS Office 3 24 (0.458 %) MS Project 4 22 (0.420 %) MS Visio 5 21 (0.401 %) MS PowerPoint 6 16 (0.305 %) Photoshop 7 6 (0.114 %) Fireworks 8 5 (0.095 %) AutoCAD 9 2 (0.038 %) SmartSuite 9 2 (0.038 %) SPSS 10 1 (0.019 %) DeltaView 10 1 (0.019 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 56 (1.068 %) Microsoft CRM 2 24 (0.458 %) Dynamics CRM 3 18 (0.343 %) Summit 4 6 (0.114 %) Navision 5 3 (0.057 %) SAP HR 5 3 (0.057 %) SAP CRM 5 3 (0.057 %) SoftGrid 5 3 (0.057 %) GoldMine 6 2 (0.038 %) Line 50 6 2 (0.038 %) assyst 7 1 (0.019 %) Oracle Applications 7 1 (0.019 %) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking 1 1013 (19.33 %) TCP/IP 2 687 (13.11 %) LAN 3 678 (12.94 %) WAN 4 528 (10.07 %) Internet 5 511 (9.750 %) DNS 6 497 (9.483 %) Firewall 7 293 (5.591 %) VPN 8 249 (4.751 %) DHCP 9 206 (3.931 %) SAN 10 136 (2.595 %) VoIP 11 76 (1.450 %) Wireless 12 74 (1.412 %) Intranet 13 65 (1.240 %) SMTP 13 65 (1.240 %) ADSL 14 55 (1.049 %) Network Security 15 51 (0.973 %) Broadband 16 41 (0.782 %) MPLS 17 32 (0.611 %) HTTP 18 28 (0.534 %) IP Telephony 18 28 (0.534 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1571 (29.98 %) SQL Server 2 774 (14.77 %) SQL Server 2005 3 415 (7.918 %) SQL Server 2000 4 289 (5.514 %) SQL Server 7 5 54 (1.030 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 45 (0.859 %) MS Access 7 41 (0.782 %) DTS 8 35 (0.668 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 34 (0.649 %) MySQL 10 27 (0.515 %) Crystal Reports 10 27 (0.515 %) ETL 11 14 (0.267 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 11 14 (0.267 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 12 11 (0.210 %) RDBMS 13 8 (0.153 %) OLAP 14 7 (0.134 %) Oracle 9i 14 7 (0.134 %) Oracle 10g 15 6 (0.114 %) DB2 15 6 (0.114 %) MSDE 16 5 (0.095 %) Oracle 11g
Development Applications 1 90 (1.717 %) Visual Studio 2 48 (0.916 %) Flash 3 20 (0.382 %) InstallShield 4 7 (0.134 %) NUnit 5 6 (0.114 %) MSI 5 6 (0.114 %) Dreamweaver 6 5 (0.095 %) ProC 7 4 (0.076 %) VSS/SourceSafe 8 3 (0.057 %) FrontPage 9 2 (0.038 %) InterDev 10 1 (0.019 %) JIRA 10 1 (0.019 %) Oracle Forms 10 1 (0.019 %) ClearCase 10 1 (0.019 %) Rational Rose 10 1 (0.019 %) Ant 10 1 (0.019 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 490 (9.349 %) Finance 2 275 (5.247 %) Pensions 3 228 (4.350 %) Health 4 227 (4.331 %) Retail 5 190 (3.625 %) Banking 6 189 (3.606 %) Insurance 7 148 (2.824 %) Telecoms 8 81 (1.546 %) Education 9 76 (1.450 %) Investment Banking 10 70 (1.336 %) Music 11 60 (1.145 %) Law 12 54 (1.030 %) Marketing 13 48 (0.916 %) Games 13 48 (0.916 %) Back Office 14 47 (0.897 %) Legal 14 47 (0.897 %) Government 15 35 (0.668 %) Manufacturing 16 32 (0.611 %) Automotive 17 24 (0.458 %) Pharmaceutical 17 24 (0.458 %) Music Industry
Job Titles 1 1136 (21.68 %) Developer 2 1053 (20.09 %) Analyst 3 793 (15.13 %) Support Engineer 4 749 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 5 715 (13.64 %) .NET Developer 6 426 (8.128 %) C# Developer 7 339 (6.468 %) 2nd Line Support 8 326 (6.220 %) Desktop Support 9 325 (6.201 %) Technical Support 10 237 (4.522 %) ASP.NET Developer 11 228 (4.350 %) Administrator 12 206 (3.931 %) Helpdesk Support 13 190 (3.625 %) Technical Analyst 14 188 (3.587 %) IT Support Engineer 15 187 (3.568 %) Consultant 16 184 (3.511 %) IT Support Analyst 17 183 (3.492 %) 1st Line Support 18 168 (3.205 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 19 163 (3.110 %) Support Technician 19 163 (3.110 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 168 (3.205 %) Blackberry 2 123 (2.347 %) Tandem 3 109 (2.080 %) Clustering 4 64 (1.221 %) Client/Server 5 41 (0.782 %) EPoS 6 32 (0.611 %) Computer Science 6 32 (0.611 %) German Language 7 30 (0.572 %) Social Network 8 26 (0.496 %) N-Tier 9 25 (0.477 %) NHS 9 25 (0.477 %) DTV 10 22 (0.420 %) Management Information System 11 21 (0.401 %) Replication 12 19 (0.363 %) Video Conferencing 13 17 (0.324 %) Mathematics 13 17 (0.324 %) AS400 14 15 (0.286 %) French Language 15 14 (0.267 %) Fat Client 15 14 (0.267 %) Thin Client 15 14 (0.267 %) W3C
Operating Systems 1 3082 (58.81 %) Windows 2 909 (17.34 %) Windows XP 3 783 (14.94 %) Windows 2000 4 443 (8.453 %) Windows Server 2003 5 308 (5.877 %) Linux 6 306 (5.839 %) Windows NT 7 245 (4.675 %) UNIX 8 43 (0.820 %) Mac OS X 9 41 (0.782 %) Solaris 10 25 (0.477 %) NetWare 11 20 (0.382 %) AIX 12 16 (0.305 %) Windows Mobile 13 14 (0.267 %) Windows Vista 14 5 (0.095 %) MVS 15 4 (0.076 %) Fedora 16 2 (0.038 %) OpenVMS 17 1 (0.019 %) Symbian OS 17 1 (0.019 %) SUSE 17 1 (0.019 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 480 (9.159 %) ITIL 2 295 (5.629 %) Scrum 3 284 (5.419 %) E-Commerce 4 246 (4.694 %) Extreme Programming 5 142 (2.709 %) OO 6 134 (2.557 %) TDD 7 121 (2.309 %) Project Management 8 90 (1.717 %) CRM 9 87 (1.660 %) Web Development 10 78 (1.488 %) Security Cleared 11 75 (1.431 %) UML 12 62 (1.183 %) Asset Management 13 59 (1.126 %) Migration 14 53 (1.011 %) Service Management 15 48 (0.916 %) Disaster Recovery 15 48 (0.916 %) PRINCE2 16 43 (0.820 %) Service Delivery 17 41 (0.782 %) Business Intelligence 17 41 (0.782 %) Incident Management 18 36 (0.687 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 1089 (20.78 %) C# 2 1081 (20.63 %) SQL 3 446 (8.510 %) JavaScript 4 414 (7.899 %) VB.NET 5 289 (5.514 %) Transact-SQL 6 278 (5.304 %) VB 7 103 (1.965 %) C++ 8 87 (1.660 %) C 9 84 (1.603 %) Java 10 56 (1.068 %) VBScript 11 48 (0.916 %) VB6 12 47 (0.897 %) PHP 13 42 (0.801 %) VBA 14 32 (0.611 %) Shell Script 15 26 (0.496 %) PL/SQL 16 23 (0.439 %) Perl 16 23 (0.439 %) ActionScript 17 22 (0.420 %) DHTML 18 18 (0.343 %) Python 19 5 (0.095 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 5241 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2450 (46.75 %) MCSE 3 960 (18.32 %) MCSD 4 954 (18.20 %) MCSA 5 918 (17.52 %) MCAD 6 565 (10.78 %) Degree 7 550 (10.49 %) Cisco Certification 8 512 (9.769 %) CCNA 9 210 (4.007 %) A+ Certification 10 196 (3.740 %) MCDST 11 119 (2.271 %) MCTS 12 104 (1.984 %) CCNP 13 84 (1.603 %) Citrix Certification 14 76 (1.450 %) MCPD 15 73 (1.393 %) CCA 15 73 (1.393 %) MCDBA 16 68 (1.297 %) Network+ Certification 16 68 (1.297 %) MOS 17 60 (1.145 %) HND 18 51 (0.973 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 292 (5.571 %) SLA 2 29 (0.553 %) ISO/IEC 20000 3 27 (0.515 %) ISO9001 4 17 (0.324 %) QA 5 7 (0.134 %) BS7799 6 5 (0.095 %) ISO27001 7 3 (0.057 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 1954 (37.28 %) Active Directory 2 135 (2.576 %) ISA Server 3 128 (2.442 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 72 (1.374 %) Terminal Services 5 66 (1.259 %) Backup Exec 6 51 (0.973 %) MetaFrame 7 44 (0.840 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 39 (0.744 %) Terminal Server 9 36 (0.687 %) VMware ESX 10 34 (0.649 %) NetBackup 11 21 (0.401 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 12 3 (0.057 %) NLBS 13 2 (0.038 %) VMware Server 13 2 (0.038 %) MSMQ 14 1 (0.019 %) VMware Workstation 14 1 (0.019 %) VMware GSX 14 1 (0.019 %) Oracle RAC 14 1 (0.019 %) Novell eDirectory 14 1 (0.019 %) Oracle RMAN 14 1 (0.019 %) PowerConvert
Systems Management 1 87 (1.660 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 52 (0.992 %) MOM 3 38 (0.725 %) MAILsweeper 4 22 (0.420 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 17 (0.324 %) WSUS 6 15 (0.286 %) OpenView 7 10 (0.191 %) Unicenter 8 9 (0.172 %) Legato 8 9 (0.172 %) DameWare 9 7 (0.134 %) ARCserve 10 6 (0.114 %) CiscoWorks 10 6 (0.114 %) Netcool 11 5 (0.095 %) EMC NetWorker 12 4 (0.076 %) OpenView Configuration Management 13 3 (0.057 %) Nagios 14 2 (0.038 %) ZENworks 14 2 (0.038 %) MIMEsweeper 14 2 (0.038 %) BMC Marimba 15 1 (0.019 %) ServiceCenter 15 1 (0.019 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 2732 (52.13 %) Microsoft 2 651 (12.42 %) Cisco 3 633 (12.08 %) Citrix 4 301 (5.743 %) VMware 5 237 (4.522 %) HP 6 143 (2.728 %) Lotus 7 119 (2.271 %) VERITAS 8 95 (1.813 %) Oracle 9 89 (1.698 %) Dell 10 74 (1.412 %) Remedy 11 72 (1.374 %) IBM 12 68 (1.297 %) Novell 13 61 (1.164 %) Symantec 14 53 (1.011 %) Sophos 15 51 (0.973 %) LANDesk 16 50 (0.954 %) Compaq 17 47 (0.897 %) Avaya 17 47 (0.897 %) Mitel 18 44 (0.840 %) CheckPoint 19 43 (0.820 %) Bloomberg