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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank - 10 7
Permanent jobs citing MCP 0 7 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth - 28.00% 9.091%
As % of the Qualifications category - 46.67% 20.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 1
Average salary - £35,000 £17,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +105.88%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
Tamworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
12 15 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tamworth 46.15% 60.00% 45.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 5
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,800 £34,000 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £34,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
Staffordshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tamworth 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 Tamworth region.

Tamworth MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) NUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
1 5 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum-ban
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) NHibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Lucene
2 4 (80.00%) VB
2 4 (80.00%) VB.NET

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tamworth 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 5 (100.00%) Castle Windsor
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 4 (80.00%) HTML5
2 4 (80.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) NHibernate
2 4 (80.00%) Lucene
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) Spring.NET
3 1 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (20.00%) Ninject
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) NUnit
1 5 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) MSTest
3 1 (20.00%) Moq
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (20.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) MVC
1 5 (100.00%) TDD
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) Kanban
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum-ban
2 4 (80.00%) Web Application Development
2 4 (80.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) MVVM
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) VB
1 4 (80.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) MCAD
1 5 (100.00%) MCSD
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft