The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 78 77 70
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Permanent jobs citing MCP 8 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.959% 1.304% 0.160%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.162% 3.209% 0.513%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 1
Average salary £24,000 £40,000 £46,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% -13.97%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
253 374 195
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 30.34% 40.65% 31.25%
Number of salaries quoted 235 354 185
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £63,500 £61,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Hampshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (53.85%) MCSE
3 5 (38.46%) ISO 9001
3 5 (38.46%) C#
3 5 (38.46%) .NET
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
3 5 (38.46%) MCAD
3 5 (38.46%) MCSD
3 5 (38.46%) MVC
3 5 (38.46%) Scrum
3 5 (38.46%) TDD
3 5 (38.46%) MCTS
3 5 (38.46%) WCF
3 5 (38.46%) Kanban
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (38.46%) Razor View Engine
3 5 (38.46%) Web Application Development
3 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 3 (23.08%) CMS
4 3 (23.08%) CQRS
4 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
4 3 (23.08%) Ektron
4 3 (23.08%) Kentico
4 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 3 (23.08%) Sitefinity
4 3 (23.08%) HTML5
4 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
4 3 (23.08%) EPiServer
4 3 (23.08%) Immediacy CMS
4 3 (23.08%) DotNetNuke

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
1 5 (38.46%) WCF
1 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (38.46%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (23.08%) HTML5
3 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (15.38%) WinForms
3 2 (15.38%) Spring.NET
3 2 (15.38%) WPF
3 2 (15.38%) Castle Windsor
3 2 (15.38%) Ninject
3 2 (15.38%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Kentico
1 3 (23.08%) Sitefinity
1 3 (23.08%) Umbraco
1 3 (23.08%) Immediacy CMS
1 3 (23.08%) DotNetNuke
1 3 (23.08%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (23.08%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) FTP
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
1 2 (15.38%) POP3
1 2 (15.38%) SMTP
1 2 (15.38%) TELNET
1 2 (15.38%) SSH
1 2 (15.38%) IMAP
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) NUnit
1 2 (15.38%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (15.38%) Moq
1 2 (15.38%) MSTest
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Team Leader
1 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Team Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Graduate
2 2 (15.38%) Junior Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Junior
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Junior .NET Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Graduate Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 1 (7.692%) IT Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
1 2 (15.38%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) MVC
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
1 5 (38.46%) TDD
1 5 (38.46%) Kanban
1 5 (38.46%) Web Application Development
2 3 (23.08%) CQRS
2 3 (23.08%) Domain-Driven Design
2 3 (23.08%) BDD
2 3 (23.08%) Content Management
3 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (15.38%) MVVM
3 2 (15.38%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (53.85%) MCSE
3 5 (38.46%) MCAD
3 5 (38.46%) MCSD
3 5 (38.46%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) qmail
1 2 (15.38%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Ektron
1 3 (23.08%) EPiServer
1 3 (23.08%) Sitecore
1 3 (23.08%) Alterian
2 2 (15.38%) Intel
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
Southampton, Hampshire
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, South East
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Southampton, South East
You will have strong knowledge of Windows, Exchange, IIS and LAN/IP... IT Server Support Engineer - Southampton - £20K - £24K - Small Business Server, Windows, Exchange, IIS, LAN, IP.Thank...
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Salary: £20000 - £24000 per annum + 20 days hols + BH, Pension
Posted: 11 May 2013
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Helpdesk Team Leader - Southampton- up to £26K per annum Great opportunity for a Helpdesk Team Lead to join a successful, forward thinking IT service provider... All applications handled...
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