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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 44 68 71
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCP 12 14 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.691% 2.077% 0.215%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.53% 6.140% 0.794%
Number of salaries quoted 12 13 1
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £80,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 228 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 25.56% 33.83% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 91 185 105
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £49,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
North West

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Merseyside MCP Salary Histogram

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 Merseyside 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
Liverpool +20 9 £37,500 -
Wirral - 3 £40,000 -
MCP
North West

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 26 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (80.77%) MCTS
3 20 (76.92%) WCF
3 20 (76.92%) TDD
3 20 (76.92%) MVC
3 20 (76.92%) C#
3 20 (76.92%) .NET
3 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET
3 20 (76.92%) MCAD
3 20 (76.92%) MCSD
3 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET MVC
3 20 (76.92%) Web Application Development
3 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 19 (73.08%) Razor View Engine
4 19 (73.08%) SQL Server
5 18 (69.23%) OO
6 12 (46.15%) VB
6 12 (46.15%) VB.NET
6 12 (46.15%) Domain-Driven Design
7 11 (42.31%) BDD
7 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2012
7 11 (42.31%) CQRS
7 11 (42.31%) Internet
8 10 (38.46%) Windows
9 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
9 8 (30.77%) NUnit
9 8 (30.77%) Rhino Mocks
9 8 (30.77%) Castle Windsor
10 6 (23.08%) Ninject
10 6 (23.08%) Dependency Injection

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 20 (76.92%) .NET
1 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET
1 20 (76.92%) WCF
1 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET MVC
1 20 (76.92%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 19 (73.08%) Razor View Engine
3 8 (30.77%) Castle Windsor
4 6 (23.08%) Ninject
4 6 (23.08%) WPF
5 5 (19.23%) WinForms
5 5 (19.23%) Unity DI Container
5 5 (19.23%) Spring.NET
6 3 (11.54%) Ajax
6 3 (11.54%) NHibernate
6 3 (11.54%) MonoRail
7 1 (3.846%) Node.js
7 1 (3.846%) .NET Framework
7 1 (3.846%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) MS Exchange
1 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.846%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Office
2 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (42.31%) Internet
2 2 (7.692%) DNS
2 2 (7.692%) DHCP
2 2 (7.692%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.846%) VPN
3 1 (3.846%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.846%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (73.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (30.77%) NUnit
1 8 (30.77%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (19.23%) Moq
2 5 (19.23%) MSTest
3 3 (11.54%) Subversion
General
1 6 (23.08%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (76.92%) .NET Developer
1 20 (76.92%) Developer
2 2 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (3.846%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) Graduate
3 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support
3 1 (3.846%) Junior
3 1 (3.846%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) Junior Developer
3 1 (3.846%) Junior .NET Developer
3 1 (3.846%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (3.846%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 1 (3.846%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (3.846%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (19.23%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (7.692%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 10 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
3 3 (11.54%) Windows XP
4 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) MVC
1 20 (76.92%) TDD
1 20 (76.92%) Web Application Development
2 18 (69.23%) OO
3 12 (46.15%) Domain-Driven Design
4 11 (42.31%) BDD
4 11 (42.31%) CQRS
5 6 (23.08%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (19.23%) MVVM
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (19.23%) Kanban
6 5 (19.23%) Scrum
7 3 (11.54%) ITIL
8 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
9 1 (3.846%) Change Management
9 1 (3.846%) ITSM
9 1 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
9 1 (3.846%) Service Management
9 1 (3.846%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 20 (76.92%) C#
2 12 (46.15%) VB
2 12 (46.15%) VB.NET
3 1 (3.846%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (80.77%) MCTS
3 20 (76.92%) MCAD
3 20 (76.92%) MCSD
4 3 (11.54%) MCITP
5 2 (7.692%) MCSE
5 2 (7.692%) MCSA
5 2 (7.692%) CCNA
5 2 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (3.846%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (11.54%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) Backup Exec
1 1 (3.846%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.692%) VMware
3 1 (3.846%) Citrix
3 1 (3.846%) Symantec
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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