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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 31 16 25
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +9
Permanent jobs citing MCP 6 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 3.209% 5.691% 0.820%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.11% 15.91% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 1
Average salary £22,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-35.71% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Lincolnshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
54 44 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lincolnshire 28.88% 35.77% 15.57%
Number of salaries quoted 33 42 16
Average salary £28,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.57% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,500 £29,639
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £48,000 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire region.

Lincolnshire MCP Salary Trend

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 Lincolnshire 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
Lincoln - 5 £22,500 -
Scunthorpe -6 1 £33,504 +11.68%
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
3 5 (41.67%) MCAD
3 5 (41.67%) MCSD
3 5 (41.67%) MVC
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
3 5 (41.67%) TDD
3 5 (41.67%) NUnit
3 5 (41.67%) MCTS
3 5 (41.67%) NHibernate
3 5 (41.67%) WCF
3 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (41.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (41.67%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 4 (33.33%) Moq
4 4 (33.33%) BDD
4 4 (33.33%) Kanban
4 4 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (25.00%) Internet
5 3 (25.00%) Music
5 3 (25.00%) Music Industry
5 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (16.67%) SSH
6 2 (16.67%) HTML5

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lincolnshire 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET
2 5 (41.67%) NHibernate
2 5 (41.67%) WCF
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (41.67%) Razor View Engine
2 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) LAMP
4 2 (16.67%) HTML5
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (8.333%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (8.333%) Ajax
5 1 (8.333%) LINQ
5 1 (8.333%) MonoRail
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) SSH
2 2 (16.67%) Broadband
2 2 (16.67%) FTP
2 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (41.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) NUnit
1 5 (41.67%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (33.33%) Moq
3 1 (8.333%) Subversion
General
1 3 (25.00%) Music
1 3 (25.00%) Music Industry
2 1 (8.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Graduate
3 3 (25.00%) Junior
3 3 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (25.00%) Junior Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Junior .NET Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Graduate Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Development Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (16.67%) Development Support Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) UNIX
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) MVC
1 5 (41.67%) Scrum
1 5 (41.67%) TDD
1 5 (41.67%) Web Application Development
2 4 (33.33%) Kanban
2 4 (33.33%) BDD
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) PHP
3 1 (8.333%) VB
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (41.67%) MCTS
2 5 (41.67%) MCAD
2 5 (41.67%) MCSD
3 2 (16.67%) MCSE
3 2 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
Lincoln, East Midlands
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Lincoln, Lincolnshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013