The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 23 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 South Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 57 47 68
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +21
Permanent jobs citing MCP 15 34 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 2.101% 3.613% 0.825%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.732% 14.53% 3.535%
Number of salaries quoted 14 30 5
Average salary £24,000 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.42% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
South Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
194 234 198
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 27.17% 24.87% 23.35%
Number of salaries quoted 163 190 144
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,600 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,200 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Yorkshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Sheffield +1 10 £37,500 +7.14%
Rotherham - 2 £20,000 -
Doncaster -12 1 £35,000 -
MCP
Yorkshire

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 41 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (58.54%) C#
2 24 (58.54%) .NET
2 24 (58.54%) SQL Server
2 24 (58.54%) ASP.NET
2 24 (58.54%) MCSD
2 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 24 (58.54%) MVC
2 24 (58.54%) MCTS
3 23 (56.10%) WCF
3 23 (56.10%) TDD
3 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
3 23 (56.10%) Web Application Development
3 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 23 (56.10%) MCAD
4 21 (51.22%) Windows
5 18 (43.90%) Tandem
6 16 (39.02%) Ninject
6 16 (39.02%) Dependency Injection
7 15 (36.59%) WPF
8 14 (34.15%) MCSE
9 12 (29.27%) Domain-Driven Design
9 12 (29.27%) KnockoutJS
9 12 (29.27%) Node.js
10 11 (26.83%) Castle Windsor
10 11 (26.83%) Rhino Mocks
10 11 (26.83%) Razor View Engine
10 11 (26.83%) NUnit
10 11 (26.83%) Retail
10 11 (26.83%) Scrum

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 24 (58.54%) .NET
1 24 (58.54%) ASP.NET
2 23 (56.10%) WCF
2 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
2 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 16 (39.02%) Ninject
4 15 (36.59%) WPF
5 12 (29.27%) KnockoutJS
5 12 (29.27%) Node.js
6 11 (26.83%) Castle Windsor
6 11 (26.83%) Razor View Engine
7 7 (17.07%) NHibernate
7 7 (17.07%) MonoRail
8 4 (9.756%) WinForms
8 4 (9.756%) Spring.NET
8 4 (9.756%) Unity DI Container
9 1 (2.439%) jQuery
9 1 (2.439%) CSS
9 1 (2.439%) Web Services
9 1 (2.439%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.439%) Magento
2 1 (2.439%) Joomla!
2 1 (2.439%) Apache
2 1 (2.439%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Office
2 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.317%) Firewall
1 3 (7.317%) LAN
2 2 (4.878%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.439%) SAN
3 1 (2.439%) Internet
3 1 (2.439%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (58.54%) SQL Server
2 8 (19.51%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (2.439%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (26.83%) Rhino Mocks
1 11 (26.83%) NUnit
2 4 (9.756%) MSTest
2 4 (9.756%) Moq
General
1 11 (26.83%) Retail
2 1 (2.439%) Marketing
2 1 (2.439%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.439%) Games
Job Titles
1 24 (58.54%) Developer
1 24 (58.54%) .NET Developer
2 6 (14.63%) Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Server Support
2 6 (14.63%) Support Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Windows Server Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Server Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Server Support Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Windows Support Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) IT Support
3 5 (12.20%) Support Analyst
4 3 (7.317%) IT Support Analyst
4 3 (7.317%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (4.878%) Desktop Support
6 1 (2.439%) 1st Line Support Analyst
6 1 (2.439%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (2.439%) Desktop Technician
6 1 (2.439%) Junior .NET Developer
6 1 (2.439%) Network Administrator
6 1 (2.439%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (43.90%) Tandem
2 4 (9.756%) Inversion of Control
3 3 (7.317%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.878%) Blackberry
4 2 (4.878%) IVR
5 1 (2.439%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 21 (51.22%) Windows
2 8 (19.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (17.07%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (12.20%) Windows 7
4 5 (12.20%) Windows XP
5 3 (7.317%) Windows Vista
5 3 (7.317%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) MVC
2 23 (56.10%) TDD
2 23 (56.10%) Web Application Development
3 16 (39.02%) Dependency Injection
4 12 (29.27%) Domain-Driven Design
5 11 (26.83%) Scrum
6 5 (12.20%) Change Management
7 4 (9.756%) Kanban
7 4 (9.756%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (9.756%) MVVM
8 3 (7.317%) Service Management
8 3 (7.317%) ITIL
9 1 (2.439%) Infrastructure Management
9 1 (2.439%) Unit Testing
9 1 (2.439%) QMS
9 1 (2.439%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (2.439%) Data Analysis
9 1 (2.439%) Quality Management
9 1 (2.439%) Service Delivery
9 1 (2.439%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 24 (58.54%) C#
2 1 (2.439%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.439%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 24 (58.54%) MCSD
2 24 (58.54%) MCTS
3 23 (56.10%) MCAD
4 14 (34.15%) MCSE
5 6 (14.63%) MCITP
6 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
7 3 (7.317%) MCDST
7 3 (7.317%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (7.317%) CCNA
7 3 (7.317%) MCSA
8 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.07%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.756%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (9.756%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.439%) vSphere
3 1 (2.439%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (7.317%) SCOM
1 3 (7.317%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (4.878%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (58.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (21.95%) VMware
3 8 (19.51%) HP
4 5 (12.20%) IBM
5 3 (7.317%) Symantec
5 3 (7.317%) Sophos
5 3 (7.317%) Apple
5 3 (7.317%) Avaya
5 3 (7.317%) Cisco
6 2 (4.878%) McAfee
6 2 (4.878%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.439%) Dell