The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCPD over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 191 - 164
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 2 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.047% - 0.248%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.189% - 0.956%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 10
Average salary £27,500 - £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.21% +2.94%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1056 918 1046
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 24.75% 24.60% 25.95%
Number of salaries quoted 907 759 929
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,250 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCPD
North West

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCPD across the Manchester region.

Manchester MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wigan - 2 £27,500 -
MCPD
North West

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (60.00%) Marketing
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) CMS
3 3 (60.00%) LINQ
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) Umbraco
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) UML
4 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (60.00%) LINQ
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) WCF
5 1 (20.00%) WPF
5 1 (20.00%) WF
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) XSLT
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) CMS
1 3 (60.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Azure
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) CruiseControl
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (20.00%) MSBuild
General
1 3 (60.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Mid-Level C# Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Mid-Level C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) CRM Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (40.00%) OO
4 1 (20.00%) RUP
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Unified Process
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) MSF
4 1 (20.00%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) XPath
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
2 2 (40.00%) MCAD
2 2 (40.00%) MCSD
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
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