The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank237314451
Rank change year-on-year
Up+77Up+137
Matching permanent IT job ads1287881333
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.067 %0.718 %0.349 %
As % of the Qualifications category3.845 %2.741 %1.440 %
Number of salaries quoted1111732290
Average salary£40,000£37,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66 %-6.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,500£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£35,000£37,500
% change year-on-year
+14.28 %-6.66 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334753214123123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.76 %26.21 %24.22 %
Number of salaries quoted284762683119147
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-1.20 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

MCITP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCITP Demand Trend

MCITP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK.

MCITP Salary Trend

MCITP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCITP over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

MCITP Salary Histogram

MCITP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+691198£40,000+6.66 %
LondonUp+42470£40,250+0.62 %
South EastUp+28318£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonUp+26110£40,500-10.00 %
SurreyDown-798£41,500-
West MidlandsUp+4391£45,000+30.43 %
North WestUp+2490£34,000+13.33 %
YorkshireUp+3069£41,250+17.85 %
East MidlandsUp+2365£35,000+11.11 %
East of EnglandUp+2659£35,000+14.75 %
BirminghamUp+3258£43,750+45.83 %
HampshireUp+1154£42,500+41.66 %
West YorkshireUp+2351£41,250+39.83 %
BerkshireUp+651£41,250-8.33 %
LeedsUp+2247£41,250+17.85 %
ManchesterDown-1338£30,000-
CheshireUp+1736£34,000-15.00 %
SouthamptonUp+136£42,500+34.92 %
MiddlesexUp+2132£40,000-11.11 %
NottinghamshireUp+2831£35,000-26.31 %
ScotlandUp+2829£43,250+1.76 %
NottinghamUp+2029£35,000-26.31 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1529£28,750-11.53 %
South WestDown-3627£32,500-7.14 %
HertfordshireUp+3326£46,250+26.71 %
MidlandsUp+1325£45,000-
StainesDown-521£43,000+3.61 %
South WalesUp+719£42,500+54.54 %
WalesUp+519£42,500+54.54 %
ReadingDown-419£50,000+11.11 %

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

11990 (79.09 %)Windows
21681 (66.81 %)Microsoft Certification
31669 (66.34 %)Microsoft
41377 (54.73 %)VMware
51342 (53.34 %)MCSE
61231 (48.93 %)Active Directory
71159 (46.07 %)Windows Server 2008
81088 (43.24 %)MS Exchange
9988 (39.27 %)VMware Infrastructure
10937 (37.24 %)Citrix
11926 (36.80 %)Windows Server 2003
12860 (34.18 %)MS Excel
13706 (28.06 %)Exchange Server 2010
14676 (26.87 %)SQL Server
15665 (26.43 %)Exchange Server 2007
16649 (25.79 %)Cisco
17629 (25.00 %)SQL
18559 (22.22 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19553 (21.98 %)SAN
20521 (20.71 %)ITIL
21514 (20.43 %)MCTS
22511 (20.31 %)Cisco Certification
23497 (19.75 %)Hyper-V
24440 (17.49 %)TCP/IP
25438 (17.41 %)MCSA
26423 (16.81 %)DNS
27419 (16.65 %)MCP
27419 (16.65 %)Firewall
28415 (16.49 %)XenApp
29410 (16.30 %)HP

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
194 (3.736 %).NET
246 (1.828 %)HTML
340 (1.590 %)ASP.NET
438 (1.510 %)Forefront TMG
535 (1.391 %)XML
623 (0.914 %)COM
719 (0.755 %)Web Services
818 (0.715 %)ASP
915 (0.596 %)Application Packaging
1014 (0.556 %)WSH
1014 (0.556 %)CSS
1014 (0.556 %)Regular Expression
1113 (0.517 %)Software Packaging
1113 (0.517 %)Silverlight
1212 (0.477 %)WCF
1212 (0.477 %)ODBC
1311 (0.437 %)Ajax
1410 (0.397 %).NET Framework
1410 (0.397 %)WPF
157 (0.278 %)CAML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11088 (43.24 %)MS Exchange
2706 (28.06 %)Exchange Server 2010
3665 (26.43 %)Exchange Server 2007
4381 (15.14 %)Exchange Server 2003
5308 (12.24 %)SharePoint
6216 (8.585 %)IIS
7125 (4.968 %)Lync
8112 (4.452 %)SharePoint 2010
9110 (4.372 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1056 (2.226 %)Office Communications Server
1146 (1.828 %)Apache
1238 (1.510 %)SharePoint Server
1330 (1.192 %)Exchange Server 2000
1330 (1.192 %)Lotus Notes
1414 (0.556 %)Site Server
1512 (0.477 %)SAS
168 (0.318 %)Lotus Domino
177 (0.278 %)Moodle
184 (0.159 %)GroupWise
192 (0.079 %)Tomcat
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1860 (34.18 %)MS Excel
2252 (10.02 %)MS Office
362 (2.464 %)MS Visio
436 (1.431 %)Office 365
521 (0.835 %)InfoPath
618 (0.715 %)Google Apps
79 (0.358 %)MS Project
86 (0.238 %)MS PowerPoint
93 (0.119 %)PowerPivot
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
128 (1.113 %)Dynamics CRM
29 (0.358 %)Dynamics NAV
34 (0.159 %)Summit
42 (0.079 %)SalesLogix
42 (0.079 %)SoftGrid
51 (0.040 %)SAP R/3
51 (0.040 %)Dynamics AX
51 (0.040 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
51 (0.040 %)Sage 200
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1553 (21.98 %)SAN
2440 (17.49 %)TCP/IP
3423 (16.81 %)DNS
4419 (16.65 %)Firewall
5336 (13.35 %)DHCP
6268 (10.65 %)LAN
7255 (10.14 %)WAN
8227 (9.022 %)VPN
9134 (5.326 %)Internet
10115 (4.571 %)VoIP
1198 (3.895 %)VLAN
1291 (3.617 %)NAS
1377 (3.060 %)Wireless
1474 (2.941 %)NetScaler
1562 (2.464 %)Network Security
1660 (2.385 %)Cisco ASA
1751 (2.027 %)Unified Communications
1847 (1.868 %)ADSL
1942 (1.669 %)iSCSI
2036 (1.431 %)Fibre Channel
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1676 (26.87 %)SQL Server
2270 (10.73 %)SQL Server 2008
3220 (8.744 %)SQL Server 2005
4131 (5.207 %)SQL Server Integration Services
5127 (5.048 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
672 (2.862 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
769 (2.742 %)Data Warehouse
853 (2.107 %)SQL Server 2000
934 (1.351 %)ETL
1032 (1.272 %)DTS
1126 (1.033 %)MySQL
1225 (0.994 %)Oracle 8/8i
1323 (0.914 %)OLTP
1323 (0.914 %)RDBMS
1421 (0.835 %)Crystal Reports
1519 (0.755 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1618 (0.715 %)OLAP
1618 (0.715 %)VLDB
1713 (0.517 %)PerformancePoint
1811 (0.437 %)DB2
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
127 (1.073 %)Team Foundation Server
214 (0.556 %)Visual Studio
39 (0.358 %)MSI
45 (0.199 %)VSS/SourceSafe
52 (0.079 %)AdminStudio
52 (0.079 %)Wise Package Studio
61 (0.040 %)Ant
61 (0.040 %)InstallShield
61 (0.040 %)WinRunner
61 (0.040 %)TestDirector
61 (0.040 %)QuickTest Pro
61 (0.040 %)ERwin
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1304 (12.08 %)Finance
252 (2.067 %)Telecoms
342 (1.669 %)Banking
436 (1.431 %)Retail
436 (1.431 %)Legal
527 (1.073 %)Marketing
626 (1.033 %)Advertising
724 (0.954 %)Law
822 (0.874 %)Back Office
914 (0.556 %)French Language
1013 (0.517 %)Games
1112 (0.477 %)Manufacturing
1211 (0.437 %)Publishing
138 (0.318 %)Investment Banking
145 (0.199 %)Electronics
154 (0.159 %)Financial Institution
154 (0.159 %)Local Government
163 (0.119 %)Billing
172 (0.079 %)German Language
181 (0.040 %)General Ledger
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1466 (18.52 %)Consultant
2413 (16.41 %)Support Engineer
3330 (13.12 %)Analyst
4203 (8.068 %)Administrator
5185 (7.353 %)Technical Consultant
6181 (7.194 %)Infrastructure Engineer
7171 (6.797 %)Support Analyst
8154 (6.121 %)3rd Line Support
9137 (5.445 %)IT Support
10135 (5.366 %)DBA
11125 (4.968 %)2nd Line Support
12122 (4.849 %)Technical Support
13120 (4.769 %)SQL DBA
14105 (4.173 %)Systems Engineer
15100 (3.975 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1696 (3.816 %)Architect
1786 (3.418 %)Technical Engineer
1885 (3.378 %)Infrastructure Consultant
1984 (3.339 %)Systems Administrator
2083 (3.299 %)IT Support Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1209 (8.307 %)Clustering
2176 (6.995 %)Blackberry
389 (3.537 %)Replication
465 (2.583 %)Computer Science
563 (2.504 %)EqualLogic
642 (1.669 %)CLARiiON
738 (1.510 %)Cloud Computing
836 (1.431 %)Management Information System
930 (1.192 %)iPhone
1022 (0.874 %)Client/Server
1120 (0.795 %)Thin Client
1120 (0.795 %)Fat Client
1120 (0.795 %)Video Conferencing
1218 (0.715 %)PDA
1312 (0.477 %)SaaS
1312 (0.477 %)Kindle
1411 (0.437 %)Hedge funds
1411 (0.437 %)Biometrics
1510 (0.397 %)Mathematics
169 (0.358 %)Statistics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11990 (79.09 %)Windows
21159 (46.07 %)Windows Server 2008
3926 (36.80 %)Windows Server 2003
4367 (14.59 %)Windows XP
5306 (12.16 %)Windows 7
6223 (8.863 %)Linux
7181 (7.194 %)Windows Vista
8116 (4.610 %)UNIX
974 (2.941 %)Windows 2000
1063 (2.504 %)Windows 2000 Server
1131 (1.232 %)Mac OS X
1223 (0.914 %)Mac OS
1319 (0.755 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1416 (0.636 %)Windows Mobile
1513 (0.517 %)Solaris
1611 (0.437 %)Android
179 (0.358 %)Windows CE
188 (0.318 %)AIX
188 (0.318 %)Debian
194 (0.159 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1521 (20.71 %)ITIL
2156 (6.200 %)Service Delivery
3150 (5.962 %)Disaster Recovery
4129 (5.127 %)Migration
5113 (4.491 %)Project Management
684 (3.339 %)Business Intelligence
775 (2.981 %)Incident Management
869 (2.742 %)CRM
967 (2.663 %)Service Management
1054 (2.146 %)Load Balancing
1147 (1.868 %)Business Continuity
1239 (1.550 %)E-Commerce
1239 (1.550 %)Capacity Planning
1338 (1.510 %)Change Management
1434 (1.351 %)Problem Management
1533 (1.312 %)PRINCE2
1631 (1.232 %)Configuration Management
1729 (1.153 %)Data Modelling
1729 (1.153 %)Network Management
1826 (1.033 %)ERP
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1629 (25.00 %)SQL
2116 (4.610 %)T-SQL
387 (3.458 %)VBScript
486 (3.418 %)PowerShell
566 (2.623 %)C
566 (2.623 %)C#
639 (1.550 %)Java
731 (1.232 %)VB
830 (1.192 %)JavaScript
927 (1.073 %)Perl
1016 (0.636 %)C++
1113 (0.517 %)VBA
1212 (0.477 %)VB.NET
137 (0.278 %)Python
146 (0.238 %)Delphi
155 (0.199 %)PHP
155 (0.199 %)Shell Script
164 (0.159 %)PL/SQL
172 (0.079 %)Korn
172 (0.079 %)KiXtart
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11681 (66.81 %)Microsoft Certification
21342 (53.34 %)MCSE
3559 (22.22 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4514 (20.43 %)MCTS
5511 (20.31 %)Cisco Certification
6438 (17.41 %)MCSA
7419 (16.65 %)MCP
8406 (16.14 %)Citrix Certification
9405 (16.10 %)CCNA
10333 (13.24 %)CCA
11248 (9.857 %)Degree
12150 (5.962 %)CCEE
13136 (5.405 %)CCNP
14116 (4.610 %)CCEA
15103 (4.094 %)Security Cleared
1693 (3.696 %)CCIA
1791 (3.617 %)MCDBA
1885 (3.378 %)MCDST
1984 (3.339 %)SC Cleared
2078 (3.100 %)NCIE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
185 (3.378 %)SLA
235 (1.391 %)ISO/IEC 27001
327 (1.073 %)QA
425 (0.994 %)PCI DSS
511 (0.437 %)Data Quality
610 (0.397 %)ISO 9001
76 (0.238 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
82 (0.079 %)ISO 9000
91 (0.040 %)BS7799
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11231 (48.93 %)Active Directory
2988 (39.27 %)VMware Infrastructure
3497 (19.75 %)Hyper-V
4415 (16.49 %)XenApp
5401 (15.94 %)vSphere
6251 (9.976 %)XenDesktop
7207 (8.227 %)XenServer
8186 (7.393 %)VMware ESX
9102 (4.054 %)Terminal Services
1081 (3.219 %)VMware ESXi
1154 (2.146 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1247 (1.868 %)Xen
1338 (1.510 %)VMware Server
1437 (1.471 %)vCloud
1534 (1.351 %)ISA Server
1629 (1.153 %)UAG
1716 (0.636 %)MetaFrame
1815 (0.596 %)Terminal Server
1910 (0.397 %)NFS
207 (0.278 %)IAG
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1230 (9.141 %)SCCM
2174 (6.916 %)SCOM
3123 (4.889 %)Backup Exec
460 (2.385 %)vCenter
549 (1.948 %)Norton AntiVirus
642 (1.669 %)WSUS
642 (1.669 %)SCVMM
731 (1.232 %)NetBackup
830 (1.192 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
917 (0.676 %)MOM
917 (0.676 %)SolarWinds Orion
1016 (0.636 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1111 (0.437 %)Tivoli
1210 (0.397 %)McAfee ePO
138 (0.318 %)Business Desktop Deployment
147 (0.278 %)ARCserve
147 (0.278 %)Sysprep
156 (0.238 %)WMI
165 (0.199 %)HP Data Protector
165 (0.199 %)MIIS
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11669 (66.34 %)Microsoft
21377 (54.73 %)VMware
3937 (37.24 %)Citrix
4649 (25.79 %)Cisco
5410 (16.30 %)HP
6201 (7.989 %)NetApp
7199 (7.909 %)Symantec
8152 (6.041 %)EMC
9143 (5.684 %)Dell
1089 (3.537 %)CheckPoint
1188 (3.498 %)Juniper
1283 (3.299 %)IBM
1375 (2.981 %)Oracle
1375 (2.981 %)Apple
1474 (2.941 %)3PAR
1565 (2.583 %)Avaya
1653 (2.107 %)Altiris
1750 (1.987 %)AppSense
1837 (1.471 %)Mitel
1935 (1.391 %)Red Hat