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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 44 55 49
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -6
Permanent jobs citing MCP 8 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 1.681% 0.577% 1.020%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.791% 1.734% 4.902%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 5
Average salary £47,500 £20,000 £20,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+137.50% -2.43%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
91 173 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 19.12% 33.27% 20.82%
Number of salaries quoted 82 154 93
Average salary £43,250 £39,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.89% +18.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Wiltshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

Swindon MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 25 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (92.00%) C#
2 23 (92.00%) .NET
3 22 (88.00%) ASP.NET
3 22 (88.00%) MVC
3 22 (88.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 19 (76.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 19 (76.00%) TDD
4 19 (76.00%) NUnit
4 19 (76.00%) MCTS
4 19 (76.00%) MCAD
4 19 (76.00%) MCSD
5 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
5 18 (72.00%) WCF
5 18 (72.00%) Razor View Engine
5 18 (72.00%) Web Application Development
5 18 (72.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 13 (52.00%) Moq
6 13 (52.00%) Kanban
6 13 (52.00%) NHibernate
6 13 (52.00%) Scrum
7 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
7 12 (48.00%) Castle Windsor
8 10 (40.00%) Ajax
9 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
10 7 (28.00%) Games
10 7 (28.00%) LINQ
10 7 (28.00%) BDD
10 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2012
10 7 (28.00%) HTML5

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 22 (88.00%) ASP.NET
2 22 (88.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 18 (72.00%) WCF
3 18 (72.00%) Razor View Engine
3 18 (72.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 13 (52.00%) NHibernate
5 12 (48.00%) Castle Windsor
6 10 (40.00%) Ajax
7 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
8 7 (28.00%) LINQ
8 7 (28.00%) HTML5
9 6 (24.00%) Ninject
9 6 (24.00%) MonoRail
9 6 (24.00%) WPF
9 6 (24.00%) WinForms
9 6 (24.00%) Spring.NET
9 6 (24.00%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (16.00%) jQuery
10 4 (16.00%) CSS
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) Internet
1 1 (4.000%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (72.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 19 (76.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 19 (76.00%) NUnit
2 13 (52.00%) Moq
3 6 (24.00%) MSTest
3 6 (24.00%) Subversion
General
1 7 (28.00%) Games
2 6 (24.00%) Retail
3 5 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
1 23 (92.00%) .NET Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Junior Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
2 5 (20.00%) Junior
2 5 (20.00%) Graduate
2 5 (20.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior .NET Web Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Web Developer
3 4 (16.00%) .NET Web Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Senior Web Developer
3 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (8.000%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (20.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (88.00%) MVC
2 19 (76.00%) TDD
3 18 (72.00%) Web Application Development
4 13 (52.00%) Kanban
4 13 (52.00%) Scrum
5 7 (28.00%) BDD
6 6 (24.00%) MVVM
6 6 (24.00%) Dependency Injection
6 6 (24.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (24.00%) OO
7 1 (4.000%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 23 (92.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 4 (16.00%) Java
3 4 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.000%) VB
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (76.00%) MCTS
2 19 (76.00%) MCAD
2 19 (76.00%) MCSD
3 2 (8.000%) MCSE
Vendors
1 12 (48.00%) Microsoft
Swindon, Wiltshire
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Swindon, South West
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Swindon, Wiltshire
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Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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