The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 20 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 45 50 21
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -29
Permanent jobs citing MCP 10 5 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 2.525% 1.193% 8.125%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.99% 3.205% 20.21%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 39
Average salary £22,000 £45,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.11% +63.63%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.40% +5.71%
All Qualifications
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
91 156 193
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 22.98% 37.23% 40.21%
Number of salaries quoted 84 156 186
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% +21.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £37,500 £53,850
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Northamptonshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (86.49%) Windows
3 21 (56.76%) MS Office
4 20 (54.05%) Microsoft
4 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 17 (45.95%) Windows Server 2008
6 14 (37.84%) WCF
6 14 (37.84%) C#
6 14 (37.84%) .NET
6 14 (37.84%) MCAD
6 14 (37.84%) MCSD
7 13 (35.14%) SQL Server
7 13 (35.14%) WPF
7 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
8 12 (32.43%) TDD
8 12 (32.43%) MCTS
8 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (32.43%) Dependency Injection
8 12 (32.43%) Ninject
8 12 (32.43%) Web Application Development
8 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 12 (32.43%) MVC
8 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET
9 11 (29.73%) Citrix
9 11 (29.73%) SLA
9 11 (29.73%) WinForms
9 11 (29.73%) Scrum
9 11 (29.73%) VMware
9 11 (29.73%) Castle Windsor
9 11 (29.73%) Unity DI Container

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 14 (37.84%) WCF
1 14 (37.84%) .NET
2 13 (35.14%) WPF
3 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET MVC
3 12 (32.43%) Ninject
3 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 12 (32.43%) ASP.NET
4 11 (29.73%) WinForms
4 11 (29.73%) Castle Windsor
4 11 (29.73%) Unity DI Container
4 11 (29.73%) Razor View Engine
4 11 (29.73%) Spring.NET
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.703%) Node.js
6 1 (2.703%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.03%) Exchange Server 2003
1 10 (27.03%) MS Exchange
2 6 (16.22%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 21 (56.76%) MS Office
2 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) IP Telephony
2 9 (24.32%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.108%) LAN
3 3 (8.108%) WAN
4 1 (2.703%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 11 (29.73%) MSTest
1 11 (29.73%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (29.73%) Moq
1 11 (29.73%) NUnit
2 2 (5.405%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (2.703%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.703%) Games
Job Titles
1 18 (48.65%) Analyst
2 13 (35.14%) Developer
3 12 (32.43%) .NET Developer
4 11 (29.73%) Service Desk Analyst
4 11 (29.73%) Service Analyst
5 10 (27.03%) 2nd Line Support
6 8 (21.62%) Help Desk Support
7 6 (16.22%) Senior Analyst
7 6 (16.22%) Support Analyst
8 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
8 4 (10.81%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
9 3 (8.108%) Junior .NET Developer
9 3 (8.108%) Graduate Developer
9 3 (8.108%) Senior Technical Support
9 3 (8.108%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (8.108%) Graduate .NET Developer
9 3 (8.108%) Software Analyst
9 3 (8.108%) Help Desk Support Engineer
9 3 (8.108%) Graduate
9 3 (8.108%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (29.73%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (5.405%) Tandem
2 2 (5.405%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.703%) iPhone
3 1 (2.703%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2003
3 17 (45.95%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (27.03%) Windows XP
5 9 (24.32%) Windows Vista
6 7 (18.92%) Windows 7
7 2 (5.405%) UNIX
8 1 (2.703%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.703%) Android
8 1 (2.703%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (32.43%) TDD
1 12 (32.43%) Dependency Injection
1 12 (32.43%) Web Application Development
1 12 (32.43%) MVC
2 11 (29.73%) Scrum
2 11 (29.73%) MVVM
2 11 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
2 11 (29.73%) Kanban
3 4 (10.81%) ITIL
4 2 (5.405%) Configuration Management
4 2 (5.405%) PRINCE2
4 2 (5.405%) RUP
5 1 (2.703%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.703%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (2.703%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (37.84%) C#
2 1 (2.703%) SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (37.84%) MCAD
2 14 (37.84%) MCSD
3 13 (35.14%) Security Cleared
4 12 (32.43%) MCTS
5 10 (27.03%) MCSE
6 9 (24.32%) MCSA
7 7 (18.92%) MCITP
8 6 (16.22%) SC Cleared
9 1 (2.703%) MOS
9 1 (2.703%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (2.703%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (29.73%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.703%) XenApp
1 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.703%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (54.05%) Microsoft
2 11 (29.73%) Citrix
2 11 (29.73%) VMware
3 10 (27.03%) Cisco
4 1 (2.703%) Google
4 1 (2.703%) Red Hat
Northampton, Northamptonshire
Support Engineer - Helpdesk, 1st Line, Windows Server (Graduate) Northamptonshire... IT Support, Helpdesk Support, 1st Line, Windows XP / 7 / 8, Windows Server, Exchange, Active Directory (AD), MCITP, Microsoft, Customer...
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Salary: From £20,000 to £26,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013