Marlow MCP Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the Marlow region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blandford Forum Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carlisle Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clevedon Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dunstable Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fairford Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Great Yarmouth Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horley Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lymington M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Thurrock Tonbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Wallington Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Wrexham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	32
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	22.73 %	10.42 %
Salaries quoted	5	5
Average minimum salary	£14,000	£36,400
Average salary	£15,500	£36,400
% change on same period last year	-57.41 %
Average maximum salary	£17,000	£36,400
UK excluding London average salary	£28,885	£28,669
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Qualifications Marlow
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	48
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.020 %
Salaries quoted	22	40
Average minimum salary	£26,516	£52,160
Average salary	£29,435	£54,399
% change on same period last year	-45.88 %
Average maximum salary	£32,355	£56,638
UK excluding London average salary	£37,731	£38,242
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
MCP Buckinghamshire

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Marlow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Marlow region.

MCP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Marlow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Marlow 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 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft 3 8 (72.73 %) ITIL 3 8 (72.73 %) Windows XP 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 4 3 (27.27 %) MCSE 5 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (18.18 %) VPN 5 2 (18.18 %) Firewall 6 1 (9.091 %) SAN 6 1 (9.091 %) NetApp 6 1 (9.091 %) SQL 6 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 6 1 (9.091 %) HP

6 1 (9.091 %) EMC

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Marlow 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 Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) SharePoint 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) VPN 1 2 (18.18 %) Firewall 2 1 (9.091 %) SAN
Job Titles 1 10 (90.91 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Storage Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) SAN Consultant 3 1 (9.091 %) Consultant	Operating Systems 1 8 (72.73 %) Windows XP 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (72.73 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (27.27 %) MCSE	Vendors 1 9 (81.82 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) HP 2 1 (9.091 %) EMC 2 1 (9.091 %) NetApp