The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 20 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 33 20 34
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +14
Permanent jobs citing MCP 4 13 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 2.174% 9.774% 1.143%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.524% 44.83% 3.333%
Number of salaries quoted 4 13 2
Average salary £65,000 £65,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
42 29 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 22.83% 21.80% 34.29%
Number of salaries quoted 27 21 32
Average salary £50,000 £65,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +44.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,600 £28,000 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Hertfordshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the St Albans region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

St Albans MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (100.00%) MCTS
2 16 (94.12%) MVC
2 16 (94.12%) Finance
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum
2 16 (94.12%) TDD
2 16 (94.12%) NUnit
2 16 (94.12%) Lucene
2 16 (94.12%) NHibernate
2 16 (94.12%) Selenium
2 16 (94.12%) WCF
2 16 (94.12%) Silverlight
2 16 (94.12%) LINQ
2 16 (94.12%) Kanban
2 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (94.12%) Cucumber
2 16 (94.12%) BDD
2 16 (94.12%) MCAD
2 16 (94.12%) MCSD
2 16 (94.12%) C#
2 16 (94.12%) .NET
2 16 (94.12%) SQL Server
2 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET
2 16 (94.12%) OO
2 16 (94.12%) Castle Windsor
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (94.12%) Web Application Development
2 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (94.12%) SQL Server 2008

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 16 (94.12%) .NET
1 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET
1 16 (94.12%) Lucene
1 16 (94.12%) NHibernate
1 16 (94.12%) WCF
1 16 (94.12%) Silverlight
1 16 (94.12%) LINQ
1 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET MVC
1 16 (94.12%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
1 1 (5.882%) Lync
1 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2013
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) DHCP
1 1 (5.882%) DNS
1 1 (5.882%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) SQL Server
1 16 (94.12%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (94.12%) NUnit
1 16 (94.12%) Selenium
1 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (94.12%) Cucumber
General
1 16 (94.12%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
1 16 (94.12%) .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
2 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (94.12%) OO
1 16 (94.12%) MVC
1 16 (94.12%) Scrum
1 16 (94.12%) TDD
1 16 (94.12%) Kanban
1 16 (94.12%) BDD
1 16 (94.12%) Scrum-ban
1 16 (94.12%) Web Application Development
2 1 (5.882%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 16 (94.12%) C#
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (100.00%) MCTS
2 16 (94.12%) MCAD
2 16 (94.12%) MCSD
3 1 (5.882%) MCSE
3 1 (5.882%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft