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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 46 61 72
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +11
Permanent jobs citing MCP 51 34 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 4.705% 2.817% 2.038%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.78% 7.710% 6.054%
Number of salaries quoted 51 34 20
Average salary £37,500 £31,000 £23,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.96% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £20,950
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £27,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Nottinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
304 441 446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 28.04% 36.54% 33.66%
Number of salaries quoted 274 361 316
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £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 Nottinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Nottingham +22 51 £37,500 +28.20%
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 87 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 84 (96.55%) MCTS
3 83 (95.40%) .NET
4 79 (90.80%) C#
5 71 (81.61%) MCAD
5 71 (81.61%) MCSD
5 71 (81.61%) TDD
6 70 (80.46%) Scrum
6 70 (80.46%) NUnit
6 70 (80.46%) Rhino Mocks
7 69 (79.31%) ASP.NET MVC
7 69 (79.31%) WCF
7 69 (79.31%) MVC
7 69 (79.31%) ASP.NET
8 68 (78.16%) SQL Server
9 66 (75.86%) Moq
9 66 (75.86%) Kanban
10 57 (65.52%) Web Application Development
10 57 (65.52%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 56 (64.37%) Razor View Engine
11 56 (64.37%) WPF
12 48 (55.17%) Castle Windsor
13 45 (51.72%) Ninject
13 45 (51.72%) Dependency Injection
13 45 (51.72%) Windows
14 44 (50.57%) WinForms
14 44 (50.57%) Inversion of Control
14 44 (50.57%) MSTest
14 44 (50.57%) MVVM
14 44 (50.57%) Continuous Integration

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 83 (95.40%) .NET
2 69 (79.31%) ASP.NET MVC
2 69 (79.31%) WCF
2 69 (79.31%) ASP.NET
3 57 (65.52%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 56 (64.37%) Razor View Engine
4 56 (64.37%) WPF
5 48 (55.17%) Castle Windsor
6 45 (51.72%) Ninject
7 44 (50.57%) WinForms
7 44 (50.57%) Spring.NET
7 44 (50.57%) Unity DI Container
8 38 (43.68%) .NET Framework
9 26 (29.89%) NHibernate
10 12 (13.79%) XML
10 12 (13.79%) XSLT
10 12 (13.79%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 4 (4.598%) LINQ
11 4 (4.598%) MonoRail
11 4 (4.598%) Ajax
Applications
1 1 (1.149%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.598%) Internet
2 1 (1.149%) Firewall
2 1 (1.149%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (78.16%) SQL Server
2 38 (43.68%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (13.79%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 70 (80.46%) NUnit
1 70 (80.46%) Rhino Mocks
2 66 (75.86%) Moq
3 44 (50.57%) MSTest
4 4 (4.598%) Subversion
General
1 15 (17.24%) Finance
2 12 (13.79%) Music
3 11 (12.64%) Music Industry
4 4 (4.598%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (82.76%) Developer
2 71 (81.61%) .NET Developer
3 26 (29.89%) Graduate
3 26 (29.89%) Junior Developer
3 26 (29.89%) Junior
3 26 (29.89%) Junior .NET Developer
3 26 (29.89%) Graduate Developer
3 26 (29.89%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Software Engineer
5 7 (8.046%) Senior Software Engineer
6 1 (1.149%) C# Developer
6 1 (1.149%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (1.149%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (1.149%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (1.149%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (1.149%) Desktop Support
6 1 (1.149%) Analyst
6 1 (1.149%) Support Engineer
6 1 (1.149%) Service Analyst
6 1 (1.149%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 44 (50.57%) Inversion of Control
2 26 (29.89%) Computer Science
3 15 (17.24%) Tandem
4 12 (13.79%) Client/Server
4 12 (13.79%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.149%) Streaming Music
5 1 (1.149%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 45 (51.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (81.61%) TDD
2 70 (80.46%) Scrum
3 69 (79.31%) MVC
4 66 (75.86%) Kanban
5 57 (65.52%) Web Application Development
6 45 (51.72%) Dependency Injection
7 44 (50.57%) MVVM
7 44 (50.57%) Continuous Integration
8 22 (25.29%) BDD
9 14 (16.09%) Agile Software Development
10 12 (13.79%) OO
11 11 (12.64%) Business Intelligence
12 3 (3.448%) ITIL
13 2 (2.299%) Service Delivery
14 1 (1.149%) Domain-Driven Design
14 1 (1.149%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 79 (90.80%) C#
2 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 12 (13.79%) SQL
2 12 (13.79%) XPath
3 5 (5.747%) VB
3 5 (5.747%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 87 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 84 (96.55%) MCTS
3 71 (81.61%) MCAD
3 71 (81.61%) MCSD
4 12 (13.79%) MCPD
5 4 (4.598%) MCSE
6 2 (2.299%) CCNA
6 2 (2.299%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.149%) MCDST
7 1 (1.149%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.149%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.299%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.149%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.149%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (1.149%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.299%) VMware
3 1 (1.149%) Citrix
3 1 (1.149%) Cisco
Nottingham, East Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
NET Developer (C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle Windsor,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
NET Developer (C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle Windsor,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013