The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 18 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 72 92 93
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +1
Permanent jobs citing MCP 56 13 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.982% 0.890% 1.127%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.349% 2.908% 4.717%
Number of salaries quoted 56 10 20
Average salary £42,500 £28,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+47.82% -23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £24,735 £22,270
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,250 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Qualifications
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
599 447 424
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 31.90% 30.60% 23.90%
Number of salaries quoted 496 409 357
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £25,100 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford +10 28 £42,500 - 2
Bicester +4 12 £45,000 +63.63%
Witney - 9 £45,000 -
Abingdon - 7 £24,000 -
Banbury - 3 £19,000 -
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 85 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 74 (87.06%) SQL Server
3 68 (80.00%) .NET
4 34 (40.00%) C#
5 33 (38.82%) ASP.NET
6 24 (28.24%) MCAD
6 24 (28.24%) MCSD
6 24 (28.24%) MCTS
7 23 (27.06%) WCF
7 23 (27.06%) ASP.NET MVC
7 23 (27.06%) Web Application Development
7 23 (27.06%) TDD
7 23 (27.06%) MVC
8 20 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 20 (23.53%) Node.js
9 19 (22.35%) Windows
10 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
11 16 (18.82%) MS Exchange
11 16 (18.82%) KnockoutJS
11 16 (18.82%) Ninject
11 16 (18.82%) Dependency Injection
11 16 (18.82%) Domain-Driven Design
12 15 (17.65%) SQL Server 2012
13 14 (16.47%) MCSE
14 12 (14.12%) Active Directory
15 11 (12.94%) Games
15 11 (12.94%) TCP/IP
15 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
15 11 (12.94%) Android
15 11 (12.94%) iPhone

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 68 (80.00%) .NET
2 33 (38.82%) ASP.NET
3 23 (27.06%) WCF
3 23 (27.06%) ASP.NET MVC
4 20 (23.53%) Node.js
4 20 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 16 (18.82%) KnockoutJS
5 16 (18.82%) Ninject
6 6 (7.059%) .NET Framework
7 4 (4.706%) REST
7 4 (4.706%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (4.706%) NHibernate
7 4 (4.706%) WPF
8 3 (3.529%) Ajax
8 3 (3.529%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (3.529%) Razor View Engine
9 2 (2.353%) Silverlight
9 2 (2.353%) MonoRail
9 2 (2.353%) WinForms
9 2 (2.353%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 16 (18.82%) MS Exchange
2 8 (9.412%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (7.059%) IIS
4 5 (5.882%) DotNetNuke
4 5 (5.882%) Umbraco
4 5 (5.882%) Immediacy CMS
4 5 (5.882%) Sitecore CMS
4 5 (5.882%) Kentico
4 5 (5.882%) Sitefinity
4 5 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (5.882%) CMS
5 1 (1.176%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.176%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.176%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 8 (9.412%) MS Office
2 5 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) TCP/IP
2 6 (7.059%) DNS
2 6 (7.059%) SAN
2 6 (7.059%) Firewall
2 6 (7.059%) DHCP
3 5 (5.882%) VoIP
3 5 (5.882%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (2.353%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (87.06%) SQL Server
2 15 (17.65%) SQL Server 2012
3 8 (9.412%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (7.059%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (4.706%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.706%) Git (software)
2 3 (3.529%) Rhino Mocks
2 3 (3.529%) NUnit
2 3 (3.529%) Subversion
3 1 (1.176%) Moq
3 1 (1.176%) Oracle Forms
General
1 11 (12.94%) Games
2 8 (9.412%) Finance
3 4 (4.706%) Advertising
4 2 (2.353%) Banking
5 1 (1.176%) Retail
5 1 (1.176%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 68 (80.00%) Developer
2 48 (56.47%) .NET Developer
3 13 (15.29%) Software Developer
4 9 (10.59%) Support Engineer
5 8 (9.412%) IT Support Engineer
5 8 (9.412%) IT Support
6 6 (7.059%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (7.059%) Web Developer
7 5 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 5 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (3.529%) 1st Line Support Engineer
8 3 (3.529%) 1st Line Support
9 2 (2.353%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.353%) C# Developer
10 1 (1.176%) ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (1.176%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 1 (1.176%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) iPhone
1 11 (12.94%) Mobile App
2 9 (10.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.882%) Blackberry
3 5 (5.882%) Streaming Music
4 2 (2.353%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (22.35%) Windows
2 11 (12.94%) Android
3 9 (10.59%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (8.235%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (27.06%) MVC
1 23 (27.06%) TDD
1 23 (27.06%) Web Application Development
2 16 (18.82%) Domain-Driven Design
2 16 (18.82%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (5.882%) BDD
3 5 (5.882%) Content Management
4 3 (3.529%) Asset Management
5 2 (2.353%) ITIL
5 2 (2.353%) MVVM
6 1 (1.176%) OO
6 1 (1.176%) Scrum
6 1 (1.176%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 34 (40.00%) C#
2 9 (10.59%) SQL
3 4 (4.706%) Ruby
4 2 (2.353%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.353%) VBScript
4 2 (2.353%) VB
5 1 (1.176%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 85 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (28.24%) MCAD
2 24 (28.24%) MCSD
2 24 (28.24%) MCTS
3 14 (16.47%) MCSE
4 11 (12.94%) MCITP
5 5 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (5.882%) CCNP
5 5 (5.882%) CCNA
5 5 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.176%) MCSA
6 1 (1.176%) Degree
System Software
1 12 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.059%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.059%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.176%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (21.18%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) Google
3 6 (7.059%) VMware
4 5 (5.882%) Alterian
4 5 (5.882%) Citrix
4 5 (5.882%) Apple
4 5 (5.882%) Cisco
4 5 (5.882%) WatchGuard
4 5 (5.882%) EPiServer
4 5 (5.882%) Sitecore
4 5 (5.882%) Ektron
5 4 (4.706%) Facebook
6 1 (1.176%) Oracle
6 1 (1.176%) Sun
Oxford, Oxfordshire
To be considered for the position, you should hold a relevant qualification, at least 1 years .Net experience and SQL Server experience and ideally an MCP or MCE.
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £20,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
To be considered for the position, you should hold a relevant qualification, at least 2 years .Net experience and SQL Server experience and ideally an MCP or MCE.
Pertemps IT
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013