The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 24 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 100 104 118
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +14
Permanent jobs citing MCP 40 46 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.623% 1.826% 1.423%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.215% 6.336% 4.520%
Number of salaries quoted 39 45 45
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,500 £24,098
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
767 726 1062
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 31.12% 28.82% 31.49%
Number of salaries quoted 602 585 881
Average salary £42,500 £41,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
East of England

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Harpenden - 11 £35,000 -
Bishop's Stortford +2 6 £35,000 -12.50%
Watford +11 5 £50,000 +66.66%
Letchworth - 4 £42,500 -
Hemel Hempstead +6 3 £23,000 -11.53%
St Albans -12 3 £65,000 -
Stevenage - 1 £42,500 -
Borehamwood - 1 £32,500 -
MCP
East of England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

1 103 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 74 (71.84%) MCTS
3 60 (58.25%) Windows
4 59 (57.28%) SQL Server
5 58 (56.31%) .NET
5 58 (56.31%) C#
6 56 (54.37%) MCAD
6 56 (54.37%) MCSD
6 56 (54.37%) TDD
7 52 (50.49%) ASP.NET
8 50 (48.54%) MVC
8 50 (48.54%) WCF
8 50 (48.54%) ASP.NET MVC
8 50 (48.54%) Web Application Development
9 42 (40.78%) Rhino Mocks
9 42 (40.78%) Castle Windsor
9 42 (40.78%) Scrum
9 42 (40.78%) NUnit
10 39 (37.86%) Microsoft
11 36 (34.95%) Kanban
12 35 (33.98%) Razor View Engine
12 35 (33.98%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 30 (29.13%) MCSE
14 29 (28.16%) BDD
14 29 (28.16%) SQL Server 2008
15 27 (26.21%) WPF
15 27 (26.21%) MS Excel
15 27 (26.21%) Finance
16 26 (25.24%) MS Exchange
17 21 (20.39%) WinForms

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 58 (56.31%) .NET
2 52 (50.49%) ASP.NET
3 50 (48.54%) WCF
3 50 (48.54%) ASP.NET MVC
4 42 (40.78%) Castle Windsor
5 35 (33.98%) Razor View Engine
5 35 (33.98%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 27 (26.21%) WPF
7 21 (20.39%) WinForms
7 21 (20.39%) NHibernate
7 21 (20.39%) Spring.NET
7 21 (20.39%) Ninject
7 21 (20.39%) Unity DI Container
8 15 (14.56%) LINQ
8 15 (14.56%) Silverlight
8 15 (14.56%) Lucene
9 6 (5.825%) MonoRail
10 3 (2.913%) Web Services
11 2 (1.942%) ASP
11 2 (1.942%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 26 (25.24%) MS Exchange
2 7 (6.796%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (5.825%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (4.854%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (2.913%) Windows Azure
5 3 (2.913%) Amazon AWS
5 3 (2.913%) Exchange Server 2000
5 3 (2.913%) SharePoint
6 2 (1.942%) Lync
7 1 (0.971%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 27 (26.21%) MS Excel
2 11 (10.68%) MS Office
3 3 (2.913%) Office 365
4 2 (1.942%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 18 (17.48%) LAN
2 17 (16.50%) WAN
3 15 (14.56%) VoIP
3 15 (14.56%) DHCP
3 15 (14.56%) DNS
4 14 (13.59%) SAN
4 14 (13.59%) Internet
5 13 (12.62%) VPN
6 11 (10.68%) Firewall
7 10 (9.709%) TCP/IP
8 3 (2.913%) Broadband
9 2 (1.942%) SMTP
9 2 (1.942%) Wi-Fi
9 2 (1.942%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.971%) NAS
10 1 (0.971%) Ethernet
10 1 (0.971%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (57.28%) SQL Server
2 29 (28.16%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (5.825%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (0.971%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 42 (40.78%) Rhino Mocks
1 42 (40.78%) NUnit
2 21 (20.39%) MSTest
2 21 (20.39%) Moq
3 15 (14.56%) Selenium
3 15 (14.56%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.942%) ProC
General
1 27 (26.21%) Finance
2 11 (10.68%) Retail
3 3 (2.913%) Legal
4 2 (1.942%) Law
4 2 (1.942%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 58 (56.31%) Developer
2 56 (54.37%) .NET Developer
3 11 (10.68%) IT Manager
4 10 (9.709%) Support Engineer
5 8 (7.767%) Analyst
5 8 (7.767%) Support Manager
6 7 (6.796%) 2nd Line Support
7 6 (5.825%) 1st Line Support
8 5 (4.854%) Support Specialist
9 4 (3.883%) Service Analyst
9 4 (3.883%) Help Desk Support
9 4 (3.883%) Service Desk Analyst
10 3 (2.913%) IT Support
10 3 (2.913%) Help Desk Support Engineer
10 3 (2.913%) Technical Specialist
10 3 (2.913%) Technical Support Specialist
10 3 (2.913%) Help Desk Engineer
10 3 (2.913%) Exchange Specialist
10 3 (2.913%) Technical Support
11 2 (1.942%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 21 (20.39%) Inversion of Control
2 15 (14.56%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.825%) Tandem
4 5 (4.854%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.942%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.942%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 60 (58.25%) Windows
2 15 (14.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (12.62%) Windows 7
4 11 (10.68%) UNIX
4 11 (10.68%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (7.767%) Windows XP
6 4 (3.883%) Windows Vista
7 3 (2.913%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (54.37%) TDD
2 50 (48.54%) MVC
2 50 (48.54%) Web Application Development
3 42 (40.78%) Scrum
4 36 (34.95%) Kanban
5 29 (28.16%) BDD
6 21 (20.39%) Continuous Integration
6 21 (20.39%) Dependency Injection
6 21 (20.39%) MVVM
7 15 (14.56%) Scrum-ban
7 15 (14.56%) OO
8 14 (13.59%) CQRS
8 14 (13.59%) Domain-Driven Design
9 13 (12.62%) E-Commerce
10 11 (10.68%) ITIL
11 3 (2.913%) PRINCE2
12 2 (1.942%) UML
12 2 (1.942%) Disaster Recovery
12 2 (1.942%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 58 (56.31%) C#
2 10 (9.709%) SQL
3 5 (4.854%) C
4 2 (1.942%) VB
4 2 (1.942%) VB.NET
4 2 (1.942%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.942%) VB6
Qualifications
1 103 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 74 (71.84%) MCTS
3 56 (54.37%) MCAD
3 56 (54.37%) MCSD
4 30 (29.13%) MCSE
5 20 (19.42%) MCITP
6 9 (8.738%) MCSA
7 8 (7.767%) CCNA
7 8 (7.767%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.913%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.913%) Security Cleared
8 3 (2.913%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (2.913%) CCA
8 3 (2.913%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (0.971%) Degree
9 1 (0.971%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.883%) SLA
2 2 (1.942%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (19.42%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (10.68%) VMware Server
3 11 (10.68%) vSphere
4 2 (1.942%) Terminal Server
4 2 (1.942%) VMware ESX
5 1 (0.971%) XenApp
5 1 (0.971%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.913%) SCCM
1 3 (2.913%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (1.942%) MAILsweeper
2 2 (1.942%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.942%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 1 (0.971%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (37.86%) Microsoft
2 18 (17.48%) VMware
3 13 (12.62%) Avaya
4 11 (10.68%) CheckPoint
4 11 (10.68%) Remedy
5 8 (7.767%) Cisco
6 2 (1.942%) Symantec
6 2 (1.942%) Sophos
6 2 (1.942%) Citrix
6 2 (1.942%) Altiris
6 2 (1.942%) Trend Micro
7 1 (0.971%) HP
Bishop's Stortford, South East
.NET Developer, C#, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, .NET 4.5, SQL Server 2012, Agile / SCRUM, TDD, Castle Monorail, Castle Windsor, NHibernate, RhinoMocks, NUnit, Analyst Programmer, Engineer, Architect,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Harpenden, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Microsoft MCP/MCTIP/ MCSE. My client is based in Hemel Hempstead and is one of the UK's leading employers (as voted by Sunday Times) who are looking...
Green Thompson Consulting
Salary: From £18,000 to £24,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Windows Server 2008 R2, Exchange 2007 / 2010, AD, Active Directory, Security, Group Policy This leading national business who operate a number of sites around the UK and a...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits + bonus
Posted: 24 May 2013