The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 21 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 51 44 44
Rank change year-on-year
-7 0
Permanent jobs citing MCP 8 9 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 1.629% 1.952% 1.256%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.299% 8.182% 4.630%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 5
Average salary £21,500 £23,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.51% -41.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
127 110 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 25.87% 23.86% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 106 99 90
Average salary £40,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £22,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,600 £40,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Tyne and Wear

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 33 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (78.79%) MVC
2 26 (78.79%) .NET
2 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET
2 26 (78.79%) MCAD
2 26 (78.79%) MCSD
2 26 (78.79%) TDD
2 26 (78.79%) MCTS
2 26 (78.79%) WCF
2 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET MVC
2 26 (78.79%) Web Application Development
2 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 22 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
3 22 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 22 (66.67%) Moq
3 22 (66.67%) Kanban
3 22 (66.67%) NUnit
3 22 (66.67%) C#
3 22 (66.67%) Scrum
4 21 (63.64%) SQL Server
5 17 (51.52%) NHibernate
5 17 (51.52%) SQL Server 2008
5 17 (51.52%) BDD
6 16 (48.48%) Windows
7 14 (42.42%) DTV
7 14 (42.42%) LINQ
8 9 (27.27%) WPF
8 9 (27.27%) WinForms
8 9 (27.27%) Dependency Injection
8 9 (27.27%) Ninject

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 26 (78.79%) .NET
1 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET
1 26 (78.79%) WCF
1 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET MVC
1 26 (78.79%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 22 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
3 17 (51.52%) NHibernate
4 14 (42.42%) LINQ
5 9 (27.27%) WPF
5 9 (27.27%) WinForms
5 9 (27.27%) Ninject
6 8 (24.24%) .NET Framework
7 5 (15.15%) Spring.NET
7 5 (15.15%) Castle Windsor
7 5 (15.15%) Unity DI Container
8 4 (12.12%) Node.js
8 4 (12.12%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) MS Office
2 5 (15.15%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (9.091%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) LAN
1 1 (3.030%) WAN
1 1 (3.030%) DHCP
1 1 (3.030%) TCP/IP
1 1 (3.030%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 17 (51.52%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 22 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 22 (66.67%) Moq
1 22 (66.67%) NUnit
2 5 (15.15%) MSTest
General
1 7 (21.21%) Music
2 3 (9.091%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 26 (78.79%) Developer
1 26 (78.79%) .NET Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Junior
2 8 (24.24%) Graduate
2 8 (24.24%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Junior .NET Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Graduate Developer
2 8 (24.24%) Junior Developer
3 4 (12.12%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (9.091%) IT Support
5 2 (6.061%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.061%) Service Analyst
5 2 (6.061%) Analyst
6 1 (3.030%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (3.030%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (3.030%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (42.42%) DTV
2 8 (24.24%) Computer Science
3 5 (15.15%) Tandem
3 5 (15.15%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (12.12%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (12.12%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 16 (48.48%) Windows
2 4 (12.12%) Windows 8
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (12.12%) Windows XP
2 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.030%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (78.79%) MVC
1 26 (78.79%) TDD
1 26 (78.79%) Web Application Development
2 22 (66.67%) Kanban
2 22 (66.67%) Scrum
3 17 (51.52%) BDD
4 9 (27.27%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (18.18%) ITIL
6 5 (15.15%) CRM
6 5 (15.15%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (15.15%) MVVM
7 4 (12.12%) Domain-Driven Design
8 3 (9.091%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 22 (66.67%) C#
2 4 (12.12%) VB
2 4 (12.12%) VB.NET
3 3 (9.091%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (78.79%) MCAD
2 26 (78.79%) MCSD
2 26 (78.79%) MCTS
3 6 (18.18%) MCSE
4 4 (12.12%) MCDST
5 3 (9.091%) Degree
6 2 (6.061%) MCSA
7 1 (3.030%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.030%) Remedy
2 1 (3.030%) Citrix