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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 44 35 43
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +8
Permanent jobs citing MCP 22 21 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 5.598% 5.866% 0.353%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.64% 17.50% 1.389%
Number of salaries quoted 19 21 1
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +77.77%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
112 120 72
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 28.50% 33.52% 25.44%
Number of salaries quoted 95 101 56
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £33,329
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £61,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Leicestershire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Leicester MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 49 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
3 29 (59.18%) Microsoft
4 27 (55.10%) Windows
5 26 (53.06%) MCTS
5 26 (53.06%) Windows Server 2008
6 25 (51.02%) MS Exchange
7 23 (46.94%) Windows Server 2003
8 19 (38.78%) VMware
9 17 (34.69%) IIS
9 17 (34.69%) VMware Infrastructure
10 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
11 15 (30.61%) vSphere
11 15 (30.61%) Capacity Management
12 14 (28.57%) Rhino Mocks
12 14 (28.57%) Moq
12 14 (28.57%) Kanban
12 14 (28.57%) TDD
12 14 (28.57%) NUnit
12 14 (28.57%) WPF
12 14 (28.57%) MCAD
12 14 (28.57%) MCSD
12 14 (28.57%) C#
12 14 (28.57%) .NET
12 14 (28.57%) Scrum
13 13 (26.53%) Back Office
13 13 (26.53%) Telecoms
13 13 (26.53%) C++
13 13 (26.53%) Broadband
13 13 (26.53%) Music

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 14 (28.57%) WPF
1 14 (28.57%) .NET
2 13 (26.53%) Spring.NET
2 13 (26.53%) Castle Windsor
2 13 (26.53%) Ninject
2 13 (26.53%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (2.041%) Spring
3 1 (2.041%) NHibernate
3 1 (2.041%) Velocity
3 1 (2.041%) WCF
3 1 (2.041%) LINQ
3 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (2.041%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.041%) WinForms
3 1 (2.041%) Hibernate
3 1 (2.041%) HTML
3 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.041%) JSP
Application Platforms
1 25 (51.02%) MS Exchange
2 17 (34.69%) IIS
3 12 (24.49%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (12.24%) SharePoint
6 5 (10.20%) SharePoint 2010
6 5 (10.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) MS Excel
2 6 (12.24%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (26.53%) Broadband
2 11 (22.45%) TCP/IP
3 8 (16.33%) Firewall
4 7 (14.29%) FTP
5 6 (12.24%) SAN
6 1 (2.041%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (73.47%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (10.20%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (28.57%) Rhino Mocks
1 14 (28.57%) Moq
1 14 (28.57%) NUnit
2 13 (26.53%) MSTest
3 1 (2.041%) GitHub
General
1 13 (26.53%) Back Office
1 13 (26.53%) Telecoms
1 13 (26.53%) Music
2 7 (14.29%) Marketing
3 2 (4.082%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (36.73%) Support Engineer
2 15 (30.61%) IT Support
3 14 (28.57%) Developer
3 14 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 12 (24.49%) Senior IT Support
4 12 (24.49%) IT Support Engineer
4 12 (24.49%) Senior Support Engineer
5 9 (18.37%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (14.29%) Support Analyst
6 7 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
6 7 (14.29%) Analyst
7 6 (12.24%) VMware Engineer
8 5 (10.20%) Systems Support
8 5 (10.20%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (8.163%) Server Administrator
9 4 (8.163%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 4 (8.163%) Administrator
9 4 (8.163%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
10 3 (6.122%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.53%) Inversion of Control
2 10 (20.41%) Management Information System
3 9 (18.37%) Clustering
4 1 (2.041%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 27 (55.10%) Windows
2 26 (53.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (46.94%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (24.49%) Windows XP
5 9 (18.37%) Windows 7
6 7 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
7 6 (12.24%) Windows Vista
7 6 (12.24%) Windows 2000
8 5 (10.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.61%) Capacity Management
2 14 (28.57%) Kanban
2 14 (28.57%) TDD
2 14 (28.57%) Scrum
3 13 (26.53%) Continuous Integration
3 13 (26.53%) MVVM
3 13 (26.53%) Dependency Injection
4 9 (18.37%) Change Management
4 9 (18.37%) Capacity Planning
4 9 (18.37%) Change Control
5 6 (12.24%) Problem Management
5 6 (12.24%) Direct Marketing
5 6 (12.24%) ITIL
5 6 (12.24%) Information Security
6 3 (6.122%) Service Management
7 1 (2.041%) Web Application Development
7 1 (2.041%) BDD
7 1 (2.041%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 14 (28.57%) C#
2 13 (26.53%) C++
3 9 (18.37%) VBScript
4 5 (10.20%) SQL
5 4 (8.163%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.041%) VB
6 1 (2.041%) Java
6 1 (2.041%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (53.06%) MCTS
3 14 (28.57%) MCAD
3 14 (28.57%) MCSD
4 9 (18.37%) MCSE
5 6 (12.24%) MCITP
6 5 (10.20%) Degree
7 2 (4.082%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (2.041%) MCSA
System Software
1 17 (34.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (32.65%) Active Directory
3 15 (30.61%) vSphere
4 4 (8.163%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (18.37%) SCOM
2 5 (10.20%) SCCM
3 2 (4.082%) Backup Exec
4 1 (2.041%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 29 (59.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (38.78%) VMware
3 7 (14.29%) Symantec
4 6 (12.24%) HP
4 6 (12.24%) NetApp
4 6 (12.24%) SAP
5 4 (8.163%) Citrix
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Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: £17,000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013