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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 16 8 31
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +23
Permanent jobs citing MCP 8 13 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 9.877% 28.26% 0.847%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.00% 72.22% 3.125%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 1
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% +11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
20 18 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 24.69% 39.13% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 32
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -34.21%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Kent

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) MCAD
2 8 (88.89%) MCSD
2 8 (88.89%) WinForms
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 8 (88.89%) NUnit
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
2 8 (88.89%) MCTS
2 8 (88.89%) VB
2 8 (88.89%) VB.NET
2 8 (88.89%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (88.89%) WPF
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Kanban
2 8 (88.89%) Spring.NET
2 8 (88.89%) Dependency Injection
2 8 (88.89%) Inversion of Control
2 8 (88.89%) MSTest
2 8 (88.89%) MVVM
2 8 (88.89%) Rhino Mocks
2 8 (88.89%) Moq
2 8 (88.89%) Castle Windsor
2 8 (88.89%) Ninject
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server 2012
2 8 (88.89%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (11.11%) XenApp

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 8 (88.89%) WinForms
1 8 (88.89%) .NET
1 8 (88.89%) WPF
1 8 (88.89%) Spring.NET
1 8 (88.89%) Castle Windsor
1 8 (88.89%) Ninject
1 8 (88.89%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) Network Security
1 1 (11.11%) LAN
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) WAN
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
1 1 (11.11%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) NUnit
1 8 (88.89%) MSTest
1 8 (88.89%) Rhino Mocks
1 8 (88.89%) Moq
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) .NET Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
1 8 (88.89%) Scrum
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (88.89%) Kanban
1 8 (88.89%) Dependency Injection
1 8 (88.89%) MVVM
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Security
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) VB
1 8 (88.89%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) MCAD
2 8 (88.89%) MCSD
2 8 (88.89%) MCTS
3 1 (11.11%) MCSE
3 1 (11.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) XenApp
1 1 (11.11%) XenDesktop
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (11.11%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco
1 1 (11.11%) Citrix
1 1 (11.11%) VMware
1 1 (11.11%) Mitel
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