The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 24 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 Sheffield region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 47 48 56
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Permanent jobs citing MCP 10 15 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.908% 2.443% 1.043%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.407% 10.34% 4.348%
Number of salaries quoted 9 15 4
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
135 145 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 25.76% 23.62% 24.00%
Number of salaries quoted 117 140 110
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £22,750
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South Yorkshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Sheffield MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 27 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (62.96%) C#
2 17 (62.96%) .NET
2 17 (62.96%) SQL Server
2 17 (62.96%) ASP.NET
2 17 (62.96%) MCSD
2 17 (62.96%) MVC
2 17 (62.96%) MCTS
3 16 (59.26%) TDD
3 16 (59.26%) WCF
3 16 (59.26%) ASP.NET MVC
3 16 (59.26%) Dependency Injection
3 16 (59.26%) Ninject
3 16 (59.26%) Web Application Development
3 16 (59.26%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 16 (59.26%) MCAD
4 15 (55.56%) WPF
5 14 (51.85%) Windows
6 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
6 12 (44.44%) KnockoutJS
6 12 (44.44%) Domain-Driven Design
6 12 (44.44%) Node.js
7 11 (40.74%) Retail
7 11 (40.74%) Tandem
8 9 (33.33%) VMware
8 9 (33.33%) MCSE
9 8 (29.63%) Windows Server 2008
10 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (22.22%) HP
12 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 17 (62.96%) .NET
1 17 (62.96%) ASP.NET
2 16 (59.26%) WCF
2 16 (59.26%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (59.26%) Ninject
2 16 (59.26%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 15 (55.56%) WPF
4 12 (44.44%) KnockoutJS
4 12 (44.44%) Node.js
5 4 (14.81%) WinForms
5 4 (14.81%) Spring.NET
5 4 (14.81%) Castle Windsor
5 4 (14.81%) Unity DI Container
5 4 (14.81%) Razor View Engine
6 1 (3.704%) CSS
6 1 (3.704%) Web Services
6 1 (3.704%) XML
6 1 (3.704%) HTML
6 1 (3.704%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.704%) Apache
1 1 (3.704%) IIS
1 1 (3.704%) Joomla!
1 1 (3.704%) Magento
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Office
2 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (3.704%) Internet
2 1 (3.704%) SNMP
2 1 (3.704%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (62.96%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.704%) MySQL
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) NUnit
1 4 (14.81%) MSTest
1 4 (14.81%) Rhino Mocks
1 4 (14.81%) Moq
General
1 11 (40.74%) Retail
2 1 (3.704%) Games
2 1 (3.704%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (62.96%) Developer
1 17 (62.96%) .NET Developer
2 6 (22.22%) Server Support
2 6 (22.22%) Support Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Server Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Server Support Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Support Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Windows Server Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) IT Support
3 3 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (7.407%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.704%) Junior
5 1 (3.704%) Support Technician
5 1 (3.704%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Junior .NET Developer
5 1 (3.704%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (40.74%) Tandem
2 4 (14.81%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (11.11%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.704%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 14 (51.85%) Windows
2 8 (29.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 3 (11.11%) Windows Vista
4 3 (11.11%) Mac OS X
4 3 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (62.96%) MVC
2 16 (59.26%) TDD
2 16 (59.26%) Dependency Injection
2 16 (59.26%) Web Application Development
3 12 (44.44%) Domain-Driven Design
4 5 (18.52%) Change Management
5 4 (14.81%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (14.81%) Kanban
5 4 (14.81%) Scrum
5 4 (14.81%) MVVM
6 1 (3.704%) Service Management
6 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
6 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.704%) CRM
6 1 (3.704%) ITIL
6 1 (3.704%) Unit Testing
6 1 (3.704%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.704%) QMS
6 1 (3.704%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (62.96%) C#
2 1 (3.704%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.704%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (62.96%) MCSD
2 17 (62.96%) MCTS
3 16 (59.26%) MCAD
4 9 (33.33%) MCSE
5 5 (18.52%) Security Cleared
6 3 (11.11%) MCDST
6 3 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (11.11%) CCNA
6 3 (11.11%) MCSA
7 1 (3.704%) MCITP
7 1 (3.704%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (14.81%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.704%) Terminal Services
3 1 (3.704%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (3.704%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 9 (33.33%) VMware
3 6 (22.22%) HP
4 5 (18.52%) IBM
5 3 (11.11%) Apple
5 3 (11.11%) Symantec
5 3 (11.11%) Sophos
6 1 (3.704%) Cisco
6 1 (3.704%) Dell