Oxfordshire MCP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bexley Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bodmin Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnham Fife Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Wight Kendal Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knaresborough Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Lingfield Liphook Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Matlock Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Ramsgate Reading Ringwood Rochester Romford Rotherham Runcorn Saffron Walden Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tonbridge Torquay Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Whitstable Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	83
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	35	60
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	7.187 %	6.383 %
Salaries quoted	27	53
Average minimum salary	£30,241	£26,389
Average salary	£33,690	£29,222
% change on same period last year	+15.28 %
Average maximum salary	£37,138	£32,056
UK excluding London average salary	£28,614	£28,290
% change on same period last year	+1.14 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	487	940
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.419 %
Salaries quoted	434	853
Average minimum salary	£34,188	£33,488
Average salary	£39,394	£36,492
% change on same period last year	+7.95 %
Average maximum salary	£44,599	£39,495
UK excluding London average salary	£37,946	£37,910
% change on same period last year	+0.09 %
MCP South East

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region.

MCP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	-3	17	£40,231	+45.13 %
Banbury	-	5	£28,400	-
Wallingford	+13	4	£18,500	-
Witney	-	3	-	-
Abingdon	-5	3	£34,667	+21.63 %
Bicester	-	3	-	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 98 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 64 (65.31 %) Microsoft 3 52 (53.06 %) Windows 4 48 (48.98 %) MCSE 5 30 (30.61 %) MS Excel 6 29 (29.59 %) .NET 6 29 (29.59 %) Active Directory 7 28 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 8 27 (27.55 %) MCSD 9 25 (25.51 %) ASP.NET 10 24 (24.49 %) MCSA 10 24 (24.49 %) Windows Server 2003 11 23 (23.47 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 22 (22.45 %) Citrix 12 22 (22.45 %) SQL

13 21 (21.43 %) MCAD 14 19 (19.39 %) SQL Server 14 19 (19.39 %) LAN 14 19 (19.39 %) TCP/IP 14 19 (19.39 %) DNS 15 18 (18.37 %) WAN 15 18 (18.37 %) Windows XP 15 18 (18.37 %) Linux 16 16 (16.33 %) C# 17 15 (15.31 %) Blackberry 18 14 (14.29 %) Backup Exec 18 14 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 18 14 (14.29 %) VB.NET 18 14 (14.29 %) ITIL 18 14 (14.29 %) PRINCE2

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 29 (29.59 %) .NET 2 25 (25.51 %) ASP.NET 3 11 (11.22 %) XML 4 9 (9.184 %) WCF 4 9 (9.184 %) WPF 4 9 (9.184 %) WF 5 8 (8.163 %) HTML 5 8 (8.163 %) WebServices 6 6 (6.122 %) AJAX 6 6 (6.122 %) Silverlight 7 1 (1.020 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (1.020 %) XHTML 7 1 (1.020 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 28 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 23 (23.47 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 14 (14.29 %) SharePoint 4 13 (13.27 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 9 (9.184 %) IIS 6 4 (4.082 %) BizTalk Server 7 3 (3.061 %) Commerce Server 7 3 (3.061 %) Lotus Domino 8 2 (2.041 %) Content Management Server 8 2 (2.041 %) Commerce Server 2007 9 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 1 (1.020 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 1 (1.020 %) CMS 9 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (1.020 %) Apache 9 1 (1.020 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 30 (30.61 %) MS Excel 2 10 (10.20 %) MS Office 3 5 (5.102 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.020 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 19 (19.39 %) LAN 1 19 (19.39 %) TCP/IP 1 19 (19.39 %) DNS 2 18 (18.37 %) WAN 3 14 (14.29 %) VPN 3 14 (14.29 %) DHCP 4 12 (12.24 %) Internet 4 12 (12.24 %) ADSL 5 7 (7.143 %) Firewall 6 4 (4.082 %) SMTP 7 1 (1.020 %) VoIP 7 1 (1.020 %) Ethernet 7 1 (1.020 %) SNMP 7 1 (1.020 %) MPLS 7 1 (1.020 %) SAN 7 1 (1.020 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (19.39 %) SQL Server 2 11 (11.22 %) DTS 3 9 (9.184 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2000 5 5 (5.102 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 5 (5.102 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 5 (5.102 %) ETL 5 5 (5.102 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 5 (5.102 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 6 1 (1.020 %) MySQL
General 1 7 (7.143 %) Retail 2 6 (6.122 %) Auditing 3 4 (4.082 %) Health 4 3 (3.061 %) Publishing 5 2 (2.041 %) Finance 5 2 (2.041 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.020 %) Pensions 6 1 (1.020 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.020 %) Education 6 1 (1.020 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.020 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 27 (27.55 %) Analyst 2 24 (24.49 %) Support Analyst 3 15 (15.31 %) 2nd Line Support 3 15 (15.31 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (15.31 %) Developer 4 10 (10.20 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 9 (9.184 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 9 (9.184 %) Support Engineer 6 8 (8.163 %) Consultant 7 6 (6.122 %) Trainer 7 6 (6.122 %) C# Developer 7 6 (6.122 %) VB.NET Developer 7 6 (6.122 %) Technical Trainer 7 6 (6.122 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 6 (6.122 %) Team Leader 7 6 (6.122 %) Development Team Leader 8 5 (5.102 %) IT Support Engineer 8 5 (5.102 %) Technical Support 8 5 (5.102 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 5 (5.102 %) Business Intelligence Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 15 (15.31 %) Blackberry 2 4 (4.082 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.020 %) Client/Server 3 1 (1.020 %) PMI 3 1 (1.020 %) Replication 3 1 (1.020 %) CLARiiON 3 1 (1.020 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 52 (53.06 %) Windows 2 24 (24.49 %) Windows Server 2003 3 18 (18.37 %) Linux 3 18 (18.37 %) Windows XP 4 13 (13.27 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (6.122 %) NetWare 6 5 (5.102 %) Mac OS X 6 5 (5.102 %) Windows Vista 6 5 (5.102 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (2.041 %) Windows NT 8 1 (1.020 %) Solaris 8 1 (1.020 %) Red Hat Linux 8 1 (1.020 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 1 (1.020 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (14.29 %) ITIL 1 14 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 2 13 (13.27 %) E-Commerce 3 9 (9.184 %) Scrum 3 9 (9.184 %) Extreme Programming 4 5 (5.102 %) Business Intelligence 5 4 (4.082 %) Service Management 6 3 (3.061 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (3.061 %) Risk Assessment 6 3 (3.061 %) TDD 7 2 (2.041 %) Content Management 7 2 (2.041 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.041 %) Web Development 8 1 (1.020 %) Migration 8 1 (1.020 %) CRM 8 1 (1.020 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 22 (22.45 %) SQL 2 16 (16.33 %) C# 3 14 (14.29 %) VB.NET 4 4 (4.082 %) JavaScript 5 3 (3.061 %) Transact-SQL 5 3 (3.061 %) VB 6 2 (2.041 %) Java 7 1 (1.020 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 98 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 48 (48.98 %) MCSE 3 27 (27.55 %) MCSD 4 24 (24.49 %) MCSA 5 21 (21.43 %) MCAD 6 11 (11.22 %) MCTS 7 8 (8.163 %) Cisco Certification 8 7 (7.143 %) MCDST 8 7 (7.143 %) CCNA 8 7 (7.143 %) A+ Certification 9 6 (6.122 %) MCDBA 10 4 (4.082 %) MCT 10 4 (4.082 %) Network+ Certification 10 4 (4.082 %) Degree 11 3 (3.061 %) Novell Certification 12 2 (2.041 %) ITIL Certification 12 2 (2.041 %) CNA 12 2 (2.041 %) CNE 12 2 (2.041 %) Citrix Certification 13 1 (1.020 %) CCEA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.061 %) SLA
System Software 1 29 (29.59 %) Active Directory 2 14 (14.29 %) Terminal Services 2 14 (14.29 %) Backup Exec 3 9 (9.184 %) ISA Server 4 1 (1.020 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (1.020 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (3.061 %) WSUS 2 2 (2.041 %) Unicenter 2 2 (2.041 %) MOM 3 1 (1.020 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (1.020 %) Nagios
Vendors 1 64 (65.31 %) Microsoft 2 22 (22.45 %) Citrix 3 8 (8.163 %) Cisco 4 7 (7.143 %) Novell 5 5 (5.102 %) ProClarity 6 3 (3.061 %) Lotus 6 3 (3.061 %) Dell 7 2 (2.041 %) EMC 7 2 (2.041 %) CA 7 2 (2.041 %) HP 7 2 (2.041 %) Sophos 7 2 (2.041 %) VMware 8 1 (1.020 %) Sun 8 1 (1.020 %) Intel