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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 48 58 37
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -21
Permanent jobs citing MCP 24 13 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 3.636% 1.704% 4.914%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.22% 4.545% 14.71%
Number of salaries quoted 24 12 40
Average salary £25,000 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-41.17% +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,050 £25,400 £27,050
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
148 286 272
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 22.42% 37.48% 33.42%
Number of salaries quoted 131 262 255
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £33,075
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +8.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £40,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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
Northampton +1 11 £25,000 -44.44%
Corby -8 8 £40,000 +196.29%
Daventry - 3 £19,000 -
Towcester - 2 £35,000 -
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 58 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (72.41%) Microsoft
2 42 (72.41%) Windows
3 36 (62.07%) SQL Server
4 33 (56.90%) C#
4 33 (56.90%) MCAD
4 33 (56.90%) MCSD
4 33 (56.90%) .NET
4 33 (56.90%) WCF
5 31 (53.45%) MVC
5 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET
5 31 (53.45%) TDD
5 31 (53.45%) MCTS
5 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET MVC
5 31 (53.45%) Web Application Development
5 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 30 (51.72%) Castle Windsor
6 30 (51.72%) Razor View Engine
6 30 (51.72%) Rhino Mocks
6 30 (51.72%) NUnit
7 22 (37.93%) WPF
8 21 (36.21%) Dependency Injection
8 21 (36.21%) Ninject
9 20 (34.48%) Inversion of Control
9 20 (34.48%) MSTest
9 20 (34.48%) MVVM
9 20 (34.48%) Moq
9 20 (34.48%) Spring.NET
9 20 (34.48%) Continuous Integration
9 20 (34.48%) Kanban

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 33 (56.90%) .NET
1 33 (56.90%) WCF
2 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET MVC
2 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET
2 31 (53.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 30 (51.72%) Castle Windsor
3 30 (51.72%) Razor View Engine
4 22 (37.93%) WPF
5 21 (36.21%) Ninject
6 20 (34.48%) Unity DI Container
6 20 (34.48%) Spring.NET
6 20 (34.48%) WinForms
7 10 (17.24%) Ajax
7 10 (17.24%) NHibernate
7 10 (17.24%) MonoRail
8 4 (6.897%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.724%) Node.js
9 1 (1.724%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.34%) MS Exchange
2 4 (6.897%) SharePoint
3 3 (5.172%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.724%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 17 (29.31%) MS Office
2 6 (10.34%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (17.24%) IP Telephony
2 4 (6.897%) LAN
2 4 (6.897%) WAN
3 2 (3.448%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.448%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (62.07%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.724%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.724%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 30 (51.72%) NUnit
1 30 (51.72%) Rhino Mocks
2 20 (34.48%) Moq
2 20 (34.48%) MSTest
3 10 (17.24%) Subversion
4 2 (3.448%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (17.24%) Retail
2 4 (6.897%) Finance
3 2 (3.448%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.724%) Law
4 1 (1.724%) Games
4 1 (1.724%) Music
Job Titles
1 32 (55.17%) Developer
2 31 (53.45%) .NET Developer
3 15 (25.86%) Analyst
4 9 (15.52%) 2nd Line Support
5 7 (12.07%) Service Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Support Analyst
5 7 (12.07%) Service Desk Analyst
6 5 (8.621%) Applications Support
7 4 (6.897%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.897%) Support Technician
7 4 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 4 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support Technician
7 4 (6.897%) Applications Support Technician
8 3 (5.172%) IT Support
8 3 (5.172%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.172%) Junior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.172%) Graduate Developer
8 3 (5.172%) Software Analyst
8 3 (5.172%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 3 (5.172%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Inversion of Control
2 6 (10.34%) Computer Science
3 4 (6.897%) Data Extraction
3 4 (6.897%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.448%) Tandem
5 1 (1.724%) iPhone
5 1 (1.724%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 42 (72.41%) Windows
2 13 (22.41%) Windows Server 2003
2 13 (22.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (5.172%) UNIX
3 3 (5.172%) Windows XP
3 3 (5.172%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.448%) Linux
4 2 (3.448%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.448%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.724%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (53.45%) MVC
1 31 (53.45%) TDD
1 31 (53.45%) Web Application Development
2 21 (36.21%) Dependency Injection
3 20 (34.48%) MVVM
3 20 (34.48%) Continuous Integration
3 20 (34.48%) Kanban
3 20 (34.48%) Scrum
4 14 (24.14%) OO
5 5 (8.621%) ITIL
6 4 (6.897%) Document Management
7 2 (3.448%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.448%) RUP
7 2 (3.448%) Configuration Management
8 1 (1.724%) Change Management
8 1 (1.724%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.724%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (56.90%) C#
2 1 (1.724%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (56.90%) MCAD
2 33 (56.90%) MCSD
3 31 (53.45%) MCTS
4 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
4 7 (12.07%) MCSE
5 4 (6.897%) MCITP
5 4 (6.897%) Degree
6 3 (5.172%) SC Cleared
7 2 (3.448%) MCSA
7 2 (3.448%) MOS
7 2 (3.448%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (1.724%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.621%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.448%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.448%) VMware ESX
1 2 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.724%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (1.724%) WSUS
Vendors
1 42 (72.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (20.69%) VMware
3 11 (18.97%) Citrix
4 10 (17.24%) Cisco
5 2 (3.448%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.724%) Google
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