The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 130 120 143
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +23
Permanent jobs citing MCP 52 63 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.507% 1.629% 0.645%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.370% 4.455% 2.431%
Number of salaries quoted 48 63 23
Average salary £25,000 £40,000 £27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-37.50% +48.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £17,000 £29,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,750 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1190 1414 946
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 34.49% 36.56% 26.54%
Number of salaries quoted 938 1256 824
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £28,300 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Basingstoke +2 23 £27,500 -31.25%
Farnborough -7 7 £17,000 -57.50%
Southampton -2 6 £23,000 -42.50%
Waterlooville - 5 £21,000 -
Winchester -5 4 £27,500 +30.95%
Portsmouth 0 1 £22,000 -48.23%
Eastleigh - 1 £18,500 -
Havant - 1 £40,000 -
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 120 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 78 (65.00%) Windows
3 59 (49.17%) MCSE
4 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
5 49 (40.83%) SQL Server
6 43 (35.83%) Windows Server 2003
6 43 (35.83%) Windows Server 2008
7 39 (32.50%) MCTS
8 38 (31.67%) C#
8 38 (31.67%) .NET
9 36 (30.00%) MVC
9 36 (30.00%) VMware
9 36 (30.00%) TDD
9 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET
9 36 (30.00%) MCAD
9 36 (30.00%) MCSD
9 36 (30.00%) WCF
9 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 36 (30.00%) Web Application Development
9 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 32 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
11 31 (25.83%) SQL
11 31 (25.83%) Scrum
12 30 (25.00%) Windows 7
13 29 (24.17%) Firewall
14 28 (23.33%) Active Directory
14 28 (23.33%) Cisco
15 27 (22.50%) CCNA
15 27 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
15 27 (22.50%) NUnit

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 38 (31.67%) .NET
2 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET
2 36 (30.00%) WCF
2 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 36 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 32 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
4 26 (21.67%) Castle Windsor
5 20 (16.67%) WPF
5 20 (16.67%) WinForms
6 17 (14.17%) Ninject
7 14 (11.67%) NHibernate
8 13 (10.83%) Unity DI Container
8 13 (10.83%) Spring.NET
9 7 (5.833%) LAMP
9 7 (5.833%) LINQ
9 7 (5.833%) MonoRail
10 6 (5.000%) Lucene
11 5 (4.167%) HTML
11 5 (4.167%) XML
12 4 (3.333%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 24 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 14 (11.67%) IIS
2 14 (11.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 14 (11.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (6.667%) SharePoint
3 8 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (3.333%) CMS
5 4 (3.333%) Sitefinity
5 4 (3.333%) Kentico
5 4 (3.333%) DotNetNuke
5 4 (3.333%) Umbraco
5 4 (3.333%) Immediacy CMS
5 4 (3.333%) Sitecore CMS
6 2 (1.667%) Apache
6 2 (1.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.833%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.833%) Lync
Applications
1 25 (20.83%) MS Excel
2 11 (9.167%) MS Office
3 1 (0.833%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (1.667%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.667%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.667%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 29 (24.17%) Firewall
2 24 (20.00%) SAN
3 13 (10.83%) TCP/IP
4 7 (5.833%) Internet
4 7 (5.833%) DNS
5 6 (5.000%) Ethernet
5 6 (5.000%) LAN
6 5 (4.167%) ADSL
6 5 (4.167%) VPN
7 4 (3.333%) IP Telephony
8 3 (2.500%) Broadband
8 3 (2.500%) WAN
9 2 (1.667%) POP3
9 2 (1.667%) SMTP
9 2 (1.667%) FTP
9 2 (1.667%) MPLS
9 2 (1.667%) TELNET
9 2 (1.667%) SSH
9 2 (1.667%) IMAP
9 2 (1.667%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (40.83%) SQL Server
2 25 (20.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 23 (19.17%) MySQL
4 10 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
6 6 (5.000%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (1.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 27 (22.50%) NUnit
1 27 (22.50%) Rhino Mocks
2 14 (11.67%) Moq
3 13 (10.83%) MSTest
4 6 (5.000%) Selenium
4 6 (5.000%) Cucumber
5 1 (0.833%) Subversion
General
1 9 (7.500%) Finance
2 5 (4.167%) Telecoms
3 2 (1.667%) Aerospace
3 2 (1.667%) Games
3 2 (1.667%) Military
3 2 (1.667%) Retail
4 1 (0.833%) Music
4 1 (0.833%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (31.67%) Developer
2 36 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 17 (14.17%) Systems Engineer
4 12 (10.00%) IT Support
5 10 (8.333%) Operations Engineer
6 8 (6.667%) Analyst
6 8 (6.667%) Support Engineer
7 7 (5.833%) Support Technician
7 7 (5.833%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (5.000%) Cisco Engineer
8 6 (5.000%) Server Engineer
8 6 (5.000%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (5.000%) Windows Server Engineer
9 5 (4.167%) Team Leader
9 5 (4.167%) Help Desk Team Lead
9 5 (4.167%) Consultant
10 4 (3.333%) Senior Operations Engineer
11 3 (2.500%) Support Analyst
11 3 (2.500%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 24 (20.00%) SaaS
2 22 (18.33%) Cloud Computing
3 13 (10.83%) Inversion of Control
4 7 (5.833%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (5.000%) Tandem
6 5 (4.167%) Blackberry
7 2 (1.667%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.667%) CESG
7 2 (1.667%) Firmware
7 2 (1.667%) PaaS
7 2 (1.667%) IaaS
8 1 (0.833%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.833%) Streaming Music
8 1 (0.833%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.833%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 78 (65.00%) Windows
2 43 (35.83%) Windows Server 2003
2 43 (35.83%) Windows Server 2008
3 30 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 26 (21.67%) Linux
5 19 (15.83%) Windows XP
6 2 (1.667%) Windows Vista
6 2 (1.667%) Android
6 2 (1.667%) CentOS
6 2 (1.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (30.00%) MVC
1 36 (30.00%) TDD
1 36 (30.00%) Web Application Development
2 31 (25.83%) Scrum
3 24 (20.00%) Kanban
4 22 (18.33%) ITIL
5 20 (16.67%) Project Management
6 17 (14.17%) Dependency Injection
7 14 (11.67%) MVVM
8 13 (10.83%) Continuous Integration
9 12 (10.00%) BDD
10 10 (8.333%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (7.500%) Domain-Driven Design
11 9 (7.500%) Problem Management
12 8 (6.667%) Performance Management
12 8 (6.667%) OO
12 8 (6.667%) Capacity Management
13 6 (5.000%) Scrum-ban
13 6 (5.000%) Load Balancing
14 5 (4.167%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) C#
2 31 (25.83%) SQL
3 19 (15.83%) PowerShell
4 11 (9.167%) VBScript
5 7 (5.833%) Python
5 7 (5.833%) Perl
5 7 (5.833%) PHP
5 7 (5.833%) Bash shell
6 3 (2.500%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.667%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.833%) VB
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 59 (49.17%) MCSE
3 39 (32.50%) MCTS
4 36 (30.00%) MCAD
4 36 (30.00%) MCSD
5 27 (22.50%) CCNA
5 27 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (19.17%) MCITP
7 13 (10.83%) MCSA
8 10 (8.333%) Degree
9 3 (2.500%) Citrix Certification
9 3 (2.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.500%) MCDST
10 2 (1.667%) CISSP
10 2 (1.667%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.667%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.833%) CCAA
11 1 (0.833%) CCENT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.67%) SLA
2 5 (4.167%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 28 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 20 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (7.500%) XenApp
4 5 (4.167%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 4 (3.333%) XenServer
6 2 (1.667%) XenDesktop
6 2 (1.667%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.667%) qmail
6 2 (1.667%) Sendmail
6 2 (1.667%) Terminal Server
7 1 (0.833%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.333%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.667%) SCCM
2 2 (1.667%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.833%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.833%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.833%) SCOM
3 1 (0.833%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 53 (44.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (30.00%) VMware
3 28 (23.33%) Cisco
4 23 (19.17%) Citrix
5 5 (4.167%) Symantec
6 4 (3.333%) Ektron
6 4 (3.333%) Alterian
6 4 (3.333%) EPiServer
6 4 (3.333%) Sitecore
7 3 (2.500%) HP
7 3 (2.500%) Apple
8 2 (1.667%) Oracle
8 2 (1.667%) Intel
8 2 (1.667%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.667%) Veeam
8 2 (1.667%) LANDesk
9 1 (0.833%) SonicWALL
9 1 (0.833%) Kaseya
9 1 (0.833%) Juniper
9 1 (0.833%) Dell
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
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