The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 22 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 87 59 82
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +23
Permanent jobs citing MCP 9 18 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.763% 2.115% 0.313%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.249% 7.407% 1.210%
Number of salaries quoted 8 18 2
Average salary £40,000 £38,750 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.22% -1.89%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
277 243 248
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 23.47% 28.55% 25.86%
Number of salaries quoted 152 170 193
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,850 £27,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,500 £53,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Scotland

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 22 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
3 15 (68.18%) .NET
3 15 (68.18%) C#
3 15 (68.18%) ASP.NET
3 15 (68.18%) WCF
4 13 (59.09%) NHibernate
4 13 (59.09%) Kanban
4 13 (59.09%) MCTS
4 13 (59.09%) Music
4 13 (59.09%) Music Industry
4 13 (59.09%) Rhino Mocks
4 13 (59.09%) Moq
4 13 (59.09%) BDD
4 13 (59.09%) ASP.NET MVC
4 13 (59.09%) Razor View Engine
4 13 (59.09%) Web Application Development
4 13 (59.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 13 (59.09%) MVC
4 13 (59.09%) Scrum
4 13 (59.09%) TDD
4 13 (59.09%) NUnit
4 13 (59.09%) MCAD
4 13 (59.09%) MCSD
5 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2012
5 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 5 (22.73%) Windows
8 4 (18.18%) MCSE

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 15 (68.18%) .NET
1 15 (68.18%) ASP.NET
1 15 (68.18%) WCF
2 13 (59.09%) NHibernate
2 13 (59.09%) ASP.NET MVC
2 13 (59.09%) Razor View Engine
2 13 (59.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (9.091%) jQuery
3 2 (9.091%) CSS
3 2 (9.091%) XML
3 2 (9.091%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (9.091%) MS Exchange
1 2 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) Intranet
1 2 (9.091%) LAN
1 2 (9.091%) VoIP
1 2 (9.091%) WLAN
1 2 (9.091%) TCP/IP
1 2 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (81.82%) SQL Server
2 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2012
2 7 (31.82%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.545%) RDBMS
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 13 (59.09%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (59.09%) Moq
1 13 (59.09%) NUnit
General
1 13 (59.09%) Music
1 13 (59.09%) Music Industry
2 1 (4.545%) Finance
2 1 (4.545%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (4.545%) French Language
Job Titles
1 15 (68.18%) Developer
2 13 (59.09%) .NET Developer
3 4 (18.18%) Support Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Analyst
4 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
4 3 (13.64%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Web Developer
5 2 (9.091%) SharePoint Developer
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (9.091%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Oracle DBA
6 1 (4.545%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Junior Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Field Support Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Junior Web Developer
6 1 (4.545%) DBA
6 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Fat Client
1 2 (9.091%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.545%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.545%) UNIX
3 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Kanban
1 13 (59.09%) BDD
1 13 (59.09%) Web Application Development
1 13 (59.09%) MVC
1 13 (59.09%) Scrum
1 13 (59.09%) TDD
2 2 (9.091%) Network Management
2 2 (9.091%) Document Management
3 1 (4.545%) ITIL
3 1 (4.545%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.545%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) C#
2 2 (9.091%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.091%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (59.09%) MCTS
2 13 (59.09%) MCAD
2 13 (59.09%) MCSD
3 4 (18.18%) MCSE
4 2 (9.091%) Degree
4 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (9.091%) MCSA
4 2 (9.091%) CCNA
5 1 (4.545%) MCDST
5 1 (4.545%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
2 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.091%) Cisco
2 2 (9.091%) HP
2 2 (9.091%) EMC
2 2 (9.091%) VMware
2 2 (9.091%) CommVault
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle
3 1 (4.545%) Lotus
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