The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 140 98 128
Rank change year-on-year
-42 +30
Permanent jobs citing MCP 14 55 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.439% 1.571% 0.819%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.552% 5.041% 2.713%
Number of salaries quoted 12 51 26
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
902 1091 1032
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 28.27% 31.17% 30.18%
Number of salaries quoted 516 789 767
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
UK

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow -28 9 £40,000 +3.22%
Aberdeen -8 4 £40,000 +81.81%
MCP
UK

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 53 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (58.49%) SQL Server
3 28 (52.83%) Windows
4 27 (50.94%) .NET
5 26 (49.06%) C#
5 26 (49.06%) ASP.NET
5 26 (49.06%) WCF
6 25 (47.17%) MCTS
7 24 (45.28%) MVC
7 24 (45.28%) ASP.NET MVC
8 21 (39.62%) TDD
8 21 (39.62%) MCAD
8 21 (39.62%) MCSD
8 21 (39.62%) Web Application Development
8 21 (39.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
9 20 (37.74%) Music
10 19 (35.85%) Scrum
11 16 (30.19%) NUnit
11 16 (30.19%) Razor View Engine
11 16 (30.19%) Rhino Mocks
11 16 (30.19%) Moq
11 16 (30.19%) Kanban
12 15 (28.30%) BDD
12 15 (28.30%) Music Industry
12 15 (28.30%) NHibernate
13 13 (24.53%) MCSE
14 11 (20.75%) ITIL
14 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
15 10 (18.87%) Active Directory

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 27 (50.94%) .NET
2 26 (49.06%) ASP.NET
2 26 (49.06%) WCF
3 24 (45.28%) ASP.NET MVC
4 21 (39.62%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 16 (30.19%) Razor View Engine
6 15 (28.30%) NHibernate
7 9 (16.98%) WinForms
7 9 (16.98%) WPF
8 6 (11.32%) Ninject
9 5 (9.434%) jQuery
9 5 (9.434%) Node.js
9 5 (9.434%) KnockoutJS
10 3 (5.660%) .NET Framework
10 3 (5.660%) HTML
10 3 (5.660%) LINQ
10 3 (5.660%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 2 (3.774%) CSS
11 2 (3.774%) XML
12 1 (1.887%) Spring.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.434%) MS Exchange
1 5 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (7.547%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.547%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (3.774%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (3.774%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.887%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (1.887%) Lync
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MS Excel
2 6 (11.32%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) TCP/IP
2 7 (13.21%) DNS
2 7 (13.21%) DHCP
3 6 (11.32%) SAN
4 5 (9.434%) LAN
5 4 (7.547%) Network Security
6 2 (3.774%) VoIP
6 2 (3.774%) WLAN
6 2 (3.774%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (58.49%) SQL Server
2 11 (20.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (13.21%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (9.434%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (5.660%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.887%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.887%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (1.887%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 16 (30.19%) NUnit
1 16 (30.19%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (30.19%) Moq
2 1 (1.887%) MSTest
General
1 20 (37.74%) Music
2 15 (28.30%) Music Industry
3 3 (5.660%) Legal
4 2 (3.774%) Back Office
5 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.887%) Finance
5 1 (1.887%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.887%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.887%) French Language
Job Titles
1 27 (50.94%) Developer
2 23 (43.40%) .NET Developer
3 8 (15.09%) Analyst
4 7 (13.21%) Desktop Support
5 6 (11.32%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Security Manager
6 4 (7.547%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (7.547%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) Service Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) Support Analyst
6 4 (7.547%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.660%) Systems Support
7 3 (5.660%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.660%) Server Support
7 3 (5.660%) 2nd Line Support
7 3 (5.660%) Administrator
7 3 (5.660%) Software Developer
7 3 (5.660%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.660%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.434%) Streaming Music
1 5 (9.434%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.774%) EqualLogic
2 2 (3.774%) Fat Client
2 2 (3.774%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.887%) PDA
3 1 (1.887%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 28 (52.83%) Windows
2 6 (11.32%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.547%) Linux
3 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (5.660%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.774%) Windows XP
6 1 (1.887%) Windows NT
6 1 (1.887%) UNIX
6 1 (1.887%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (45.28%) MVC
2 21 (39.62%) TDD
2 21 (39.62%) Web Application Development
3 19 (35.85%) Scrum
4 16 (30.19%) Kanban
5 15 (28.30%) BDD
6 11 (20.75%) ITIL
7 6 (11.32%) Dependency Injection
8 5 (9.434%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (7.547%) Information Governance
9 4 (7.547%) Problem Management
9 4 (7.547%) SAP Security
9 4 (7.547%) PRINCE2
9 4 (7.547%) Business Development
9 4 (7.547%) Information Security
10 2 (3.774%) Network Management
10 2 (3.774%) Network Architecture
10 2 (3.774%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (3.774%) Demand Management
10 2 (3.774%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 26 (49.06%) C#
2 5 (9.434%) JavaScript
3 2 (3.774%) SQL
3 2 (3.774%) VBA
4 1 (1.887%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 53 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (47.17%) MCTS
3 21 (39.62%) MCAD
3 21 (39.62%) MCSD
4 13 (24.53%) MCSE
5 9 (16.98%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (15.09%) A+ Certification
6 8 (15.09%) CCNA
7 6 (11.32%) MCSA
8 5 (9.434%) MCDST
9 4 (7.547%) SC Cleared
9 4 (7.547%) DV Cleared
9 4 (7.547%) Security Cleared
9 4 (7.547%) Degree
9 4 (7.547%) CCDA
9 4 (7.547%) CISSP
9 4 (7.547%) Security+ Certification
9 4 (7.547%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (7.547%) CISA
9 4 (7.547%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.547%) PCI DSS
1 4 (7.547%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (18.87%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.660%) Terminal Server
4 2 (3.774%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.774%) vSphere
4 2 (3.774%) VMware ESX
5 1 (1.887%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (3.774%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (37.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) VMware
3 7 (13.21%) Cisco
4 4 (7.547%) SAP
4 4 (7.547%) Juniper
5 3 (5.660%) Citrix
6 2 (3.774%) CommVault
6 2 (3.774%) Symantec
6 2 (3.774%) HP
6 2 (3.774%) Dell
6 2 (3.774%) EMC
7 1 (1.887%) Avaya
7 1 (1.887%) Veritas
7 1 (1.887%) Lotus
7 1 (1.887%) Oracle
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