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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 65 37 76
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +39
Permanent jobs citing MCP 37 54 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.870% 5.094% 1.058%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.08% 15.93% 3.953%
Number of salaries quoted 36 53 9
Average salary £44,000 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.66% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334 339 253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 25.91% 31.98% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 286 292 218
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £25,530
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Buckinghamshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Milton Keynes MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

1 106 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 101 (95.28%) SQL Server
3 100 (94.34%) C#
3 100 (94.34%) .NET
3 100 (94.34%) MCAD
3 100 (94.34%) MCSD
4 84 (79.25%) NUnit
5 80 (75.47%) TDD
6 76 (71.70%) Scrum
7 69 (65.09%) WCF
8 61 (57.55%) MCTS
8 61 (57.55%) Rhino Mocks
9 60 (56.60%) WPF
10 57 (53.77%) ASP.NET
11 49 (46.23%) Moq
11 49 (46.23%) Kanban
12 43 (40.57%) Microsoft
13 42 (39.62%) WinForms
14 38 (35.85%) Castle Windsor
14 38 (35.85%) OO
15 35 (33.02%) MVC
15 35 (33.02%) Razor View Engine
15 35 (33.02%) Web Application Development
15 35 (33.02%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 35 (33.02%) ASP.NET MVC
15 35 (33.02%) NHibernate
16 32 (30.19%) Windows
17 31 (29.25%) LINQ
18 30 (28.30%) Degree
19 28 (26.42%) .NET Framework

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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
1 100 (94.34%) .NET
2 69 (65.09%) WCF
3 60 (56.60%) WPF
4 57 (53.77%) ASP.NET
5 42 (39.62%) WinForms
6 38 (35.85%) Castle Windsor
7 35 (33.02%) Razor View Engine
7 35 (33.02%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 35 (33.02%) NHibernate
7 35 (33.02%) ASP.NET MVC
8 31 (29.25%) LINQ
9 28 (26.42%) .NET Framework
10 26 (24.53%) Spring.NET
10 26 (24.53%) Unity DI Container
10 26 (24.53%) Ninject
11 12 (11.32%) MonoRail
11 12 (11.32%) Ajax
12 1 (0.943%) Web Services
12 1 (0.943%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.943%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.830%) MS Office
2 2 (1.887%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.887%) VPN
2 1 (0.943%) DNS
2 1 (0.943%) IP Telephony
2 1 (0.943%) LAN
2 1 (0.943%) WAN
2 1 (0.943%) DHCP
2 1 (0.943%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (95.28%) SQL Server
2 28 (26.42%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (6.604%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 84 (79.25%) NUnit
2 61 (57.55%) Rhino Mocks
3 49 (46.23%) Moq
4 28 (26.42%) Visual Studio
5 26 (24.53%) MSTest
6 12 (11.32%) Subversion
General
1 23 (21.70%) Music
1 23 (21.70%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 94 (88.68%) Developer
2 65 (61.32%) .NET Developer
3 56 (52.83%) C# Developer
3 56 (52.83%) C# .NET Developer
4 13 (12.26%) Senior C# Developer
4 13 (12.26%) Senior Developer
4 13 (12.26%) Senior .NET Developer
5 12 (11.32%) Analyst
6 7 (6.604%) Software Developer
6 7 (6.604%) Software Engineer
6 7 (6.604%) Applications Support
6 7 (6.604%) .NET Software Engineer
6 7 (6.604%) C# Software Engineer
6 7 (6.604%) C# Software Developer
6 7 (6.604%) .NET Software Developer
7 6 (5.660%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (5.660%) Support Analyst
7 6 (5.660%) ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (5.660%) Applications Support Analyst
8 5 (4.717%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 26 (24.53%) Inversion of Control
2 12 (11.32%) Social Network
3 11 (10.38%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.19%) Windows
2 3 (2.830%) Windows 7
3 1 (0.943%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (0.943%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (0.943%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (75.47%) TDD
2 76 (71.70%) Scrum
3 49 (46.23%) Kanban
4 38 (35.85%) OO
5 35 (33.02%) MVC
5 35 (33.02%) Web Application Development
6 26 (24.53%) Dependency Injection
6 26 (24.53%) MVVM
6 26 (24.53%) Continuous Integration
6 26 (24.53%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (21.70%) BDD
8 15 (14.15%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (9.434%) Configuration Management
9 10 (9.434%) ITIL
10 8 (7.547%) Change Management
11 4 (3.774%) PRINCE2
11 4 (3.774%) RUP
11 4 (3.774%) Unit Testing
11 4 (3.774%) Incident Management
11 4 (3.774%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 100 (94.34%) C#
2 3 (2.830%) SQL
Qualifications
1 106 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 100 (94.34%) MCAD
2 100 (94.34%) MCSD
3 61 (57.55%) MCTS
4 30 (28.30%) Degree
5 3 (2.830%) MCSE
6 1 (0.943%) MCSA
6 1 (0.943%) CCNA
6 1 (0.943%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.943%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.887%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.887%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.943%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (0.943%) SCCM
Vendors
1 43 (40.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.887%) VMware
2 2 (1.887%) Cisco
3 1 (0.943%) Altiris
3 1 (0.943%) LANDesk
3 1 (0.943%) Citrix
3 1 (0.943%) NetApp
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013