The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP 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 Professional (MCP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank154208177
Rank change year-on-year
Up+54Down-31
Matching permanent IT job ads197114171199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.634 %1.156 %1.256 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.888 %4.409 %5.185 %
Number of salaries quoted184913201036
Average salary£37,500£35,000£32,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14 %+6.87 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,500£22,000£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£52,500£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£30,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94 %+13.33 %
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 %

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP Demand Trend

MCP
Salary Trend

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

MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

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

MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCP 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+451858£37,500+7.14 %
LondonUp+16642£40,000-
South EastUp+38580£37,250+14.61 %
East of EnglandUp+19185£40,000+6.66 %
SurreyUp+2173£37,500+19.04 %
BerkshireUp+47138£37,500+7.14 %
North WestUp+41113£32,500+35.41 %
East MidlandsUp+19110£35,000+27.27 %
City of LondonUp+32102£40,000+30.08 %
YorkshireUp+2790£33,163+21.69 %
BuckinghamshireUp+6188£27,000-15.62 %
South WestDown-2165£40,000+14.28 %
HampshireUp+2662£40,000+48.14 %
ManchesterUp+3060£33,000+46.66 %
CambridgeshireUp+3259£37,500-
Milton KeynesUp+4754£30,000-20.00 %
ScotlandUp+3254£35,000-12.50 %
West MidlandsDown-1351£35,000+16.66 %
West YorkshireUp+848£30,000+25.00 %
HertfordshireUp+1045£50,000+33.33 %
KentUp+1344£35,000-6.66 %
CambridgeUp+4042£40,000-
LeedsUp+1538£30,000-11.76 %
EssexDown-1838£42,500+21.42 %
South YorkshireUp+2136£35,000-30.00 %
CheshireUp+536£31,500+5.00 %
NottinghamshireUp+2234£31,000+29.16 %
LeicestershireUp+2032£35,000+33.33 %
NottinghamUp+2830£29,250+19.38 %
East SussexUp+330£35,000-

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

13900 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
22392 (61.33 %)SQL Server
32186 (56.05 %).NET
42064 (52.92 %)MCTS
51974 (50.62 %)MCSD
61973 (50.59 %)C#
71966 (50.41 %)Microsoft
81963 (50.33 %)Windows
91938 (49.69 %)MCAD
101847 (47.36 %)TDD
111843 (47.26 %)ASP.NET
121803 (46.23 %)SQL Server 2008
131680 (43.08 %)WCF
141636 (41.95 %)MVC
151618 (41.49 %)ASP.NET MVC
161615 (41.41 %)Web Application Development
171562 (40.05 %)NUnit
181554 (39.85 %)Rhino Mocks
191458 (37.38 %)NHibernate
201455 (37.31 %)Scrum
211084 (27.79 %)BDD
221075 (27.56 %)Castle Windsor
231055 (27.05 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
241015 (26.03 %)Razor View Engine
25945 (24.23 %)Kanban
26923 (23.67 %)MCSE
27856 (21.95 %)LINQ
28833 (21.36 %)WPF
29812 (20.82 %)Active Directory
30663 (17.00 %)MS Excel

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12186 (56.05 %).NET
21843 (47.26 %)ASP.NET
31680 (43.08 %)WCF
41618 (41.49 %)ASP.NET MVC
51458 (37.38 %)NHibernate
61075 (27.56 %)Castle Windsor
71055 (27.05 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
81015 (26.03 %)Razor View Engine
9856 (21.95 %)LINQ
10833 (21.36 %)WPF
11626 (16.05 %)MonoRail
12554 (14.21 %)WinForms
13410 (10.51 %)Ajax
14337 (8.641 %)Lucene
15330 (8.462 %)HTML
16293 (7.513 %)Silverlight
17277 (7.103 %)CSS
18245 (6.282 %).NET Framework
19152 (3.897 %)XML
20113 (2.897 %)Spring.NET
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1602 (15.44 %)MS Exchange
2397 (10.18 %)SharePoint
3271 (6.949 %)Exchange Server 2003
4264 (6.769 %)Exchange Server 2007
5246 (6.308 %)Exchange Server 2010
6193 (4.949 %)SharePoint Server
7158 (4.051 %)IIS
8114 (2.923 %)SharePoint 2010
9101 (2.590 %)BizTalk Server
1097 (2.487 %)CMS
1190 (2.308 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1285 (2.179 %)Lotus Notes
1340 (1.026 %)Sitecore CMS
1340 (1.026 %)Umbraco
1434 (0.872 %)Immediacy CMS
1434 (0.872 %)DotNetNuke
1434 (0.872 %)Kentico
1434 (0.872 %)Sitefinity
1530 (0.769 %)Office Communications Server
1627 (0.692 %)Lync
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1663 (17.00 %)MS Excel
2478 (12.26 %)MS Office
346 (1.179 %)MS Visio
424 (0.615 %)MS PowerPoint
515 (0.385 %)Office 365
613 (0.333 %)Spreadsheet
710 (0.256 %)MS Project
86 (0.154 %)Google Apps
94 (0.103 %)Acrobat
103 (0.077 %)Final Cut Pro
112 (0.051 %)SmartSuite
112 (0.051 %)InfoPath
112 (0.051 %)SPSS
121 (0.026 %)Photoshop
121 (0.026 %)3ds Max
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
124 (0.615 %)Dynamics CRM
28 (0.205 %)Dynamics NAV
36 (0.154 %)Prophet
36 (0.154 %)BusinessWorks
36 (0.154 %)TIBCO iProcess
45 (0.128 %)Dynamics AX
45 (0.128 %)Exchequer
54 (0.103 %)Tridion
54 (0.103 %)Remedy ITSM
54 (0.103 %)Line 50
63 (0.077 %)Line 500
63 (0.077 %)Dynamics GP
72 (0.051 %)Changepoint
72 (0.051 %)WebTrends
72 (0.051 %)Oracle 11i
72 (0.051 %)assyst
72 (0.051 %)Remedy AR System
72 (0.051 %)Oracle EBS R12
81 (0.026 %)Epicor iScala
81 (0.026 %)BPCS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1384 (9.846 %)TCP/IP
2363 (9.308 %)Internet
3321 (8.231 %)Firewall
4303 (7.769 %)LAN
5299 (7.667 %)DNS
6261 (6.692 %)WAN
7233 (5.974 %)VPN
8213 (5.462 %)DHCP
9168 (4.308 %)SAN
1097 (2.487 %)VoIP
1191 (2.333 %)Broadband
1247 (1.205 %)NAS
1346 (1.179 %)FTP
1442 (1.077 %)Network Security
1442 (1.077 %)Wireless
1541 (1.051 %)VLAN
1637 (0.949 %)SMTP
1735 (0.897 %)iSCSI
1833 (0.846 %)Wi-Fi
1931 (0.795 %)IP Telephony
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12392 (61.33 %)SQL Server
21803 (46.23 %)SQL Server 2008
3175 (4.487 %)SQL Server 2005
489 (2.282 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
560 (1.538 %)SQL Server Integration Services
645 (1.154 %)SQL Server 2000
743 (1.103 %)RDBMS
837 (0.949 %)Oracle 11g
935 (0.897 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1034 (0.872 %)Oracle 10g
1127 (0.692 %)MySQL
1127 (0.692 %)Oracle 8/8i
1222 (0.564 %)Crystal Reports
1318 (0.462 %)Data Warehouse
1417 (0.436 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1511 (0.282 %)DB2
1610 (0.256 %)MS Access
178 (0.205 %)GIS
178 (0.205 %)MongoDB
178 (0.205 %)NoSQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11562 (40.05 %)NUnit
21554 (39.85 %)Rhino Mocks
3583 (14.95 %)Moq
4435 (11.15 %)Subversion
5228 (5.846 %)Selenium
5228 (5.846 %)Cucumber
6113 (2.897 %)MSTest
775 (1.923 %)Visual Studio
840 (1.026 %)Team Foundation Server
925 (0.641 %)Oracle Forms
1012 (0.308 %)VSS/SourceSafe
118 (0.205 %)MSBuild
127 (0.179 %)InterDev
127 (0.179 %)Eclipse
135 (0.128 %)Synon
144 (0.103 %)ERwin
144 (0.103 %)Ant
153 (0.077 %)Maven
162 (0.051 %)CruiseControl
162 (0.051 %)NCover
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1641 (16.44 %)Finance
2287 (7.359 %)Music
3284 (7.282 %)Games
4222 (5.692 %)Banking
5208 (5.333 %)Retail
6134 (3.436 %)Telecoms
778 (2.000 %)Music Industry
853 (1.359 %)Legal
951 (1.308 %)Back Office
1044 (1.128 %)Investment Banking
1143 (1.103 %)Law
1232 (0.821 %)Marketing
1331 (0.795 %)Manufacturing
1427 (0.692 %)Advertising
1526 (0.667 %)French Language
1619 (0.487 %)German Language
1716 (0.410 %)Financial Institution
1814 (0.359 %)Publishing
1910 (0.256 %)Front Office
207 (0.179 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12091 (53.62 %)Developer
21799 (46.13 %).NET Developer
3542 (13.90 %)Analyst
4488 (12.51 %)C# Developer
5403 (10.33 %)C# .NET Developer
6402 (10.31 %)ASP.NET Developer
7378 (9.692 %)Support Engineer
8355 (9.103 %)Support Analyst
9312 (8.000 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
10236 (6.051 %)2nd Line Support
11198 (5.077 %)Technical Support
12174 (4.462 %)Consultant
13172 (4.410 %)IT Support
14151 (3.872 %)Junior
15138 (3.538 %)Junior Developer
15138 (3.538 %)Junior .NET Developer
16131 (3.359 %)Desktop Support
17123 (3.154 %)Graduate
18100 (2.564 %)VB.NET Developer
1999 (2.538 %)Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1334 (8.564 %)Tandem
2181 (4.641 %)Blackberry
3115 (2.949 %)Computer Science
4113 (2.897 %)Inversion of Control
5105 (2.692 %)Client/Server
692 (2.359 %)Social Network
783 (2.128 %)Clustering
851 (1.308 %)Mathematics
947 (1.205 %)iPhone
1044 (1.128 %)Management Information System
1137 (0.949 %)Replication
1235 (0.897 %)EPoS
1333 (0.846 %)Video Conferencing
1431 (0.795 %)DTV
1529 (0.744 %)Cloud Computing
1623 (0.590 %)iPad
1718 (0.462 %)SWIFT
1817 (0.436 %)Fat Client
1817 (0.436 %)N-Tier
1817 (0.436 %)Thin Client
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11963 (50.33 %)Windows
2608 (15.59 %)Windows Server 2003
3577 (14.79 %)Windows Server 2008
4559 (14.33 %)Windows XP
5325 (8.333 %)Windows 7
6240 (6.154 %)Windows Vista
7207 (5.308 %)Linux
8104 (2.667 %)UNIX
986 (2.205 %)Windows 2000
986 (2.205 %)Windows 2000 Server
1049 (1.256 %)Mac OS X
1140 (1.026 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1140 (1.026 %)Mac OS
1228 (0.718 %)Windows NT
1324 (0.615 %)Solaris
1415 (0.385 %)AIX
1513 (0.333 %)Mac OS X Server
167 (0.179 %)SUSE
174 (0.103 %)NetWare
174 (0.103 %)CentOS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11847 (47.36 %)TDD
21636 (41.95 %)MVC
31615 (41.41 %)Web Application Development
41455 (37.31 %)Scrum
51084 (27.79 %)BDD
6945 (24.23 %)Kanban
7494 (12.67 %)ITIL
8480 (12.31 %)OO
9344 (8.821 %)Scrum-ban
10278 (7.128 %)Domain-Driven Design
11276 (7.077 %)CQRS
12274 (7.026 %)Business Intelligence
13217 (5.564 %)MVVM
14157 (4.026 %)Agile Software Development
15135 (3.462 %)Disaster Recovery
16134 (3.436 %)Incident Management
17127 (3.256 %)Service Delivery
17127 (3.256 %)E-Commerce
18120 (3.077 %)Continuous Integration
19113 (2.897 %)Dependency Injection
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11973 (50.59 %)C#
2627 (16.08 %)SQL
3478 (12.26 %)VB.NET
4439 (11.26 %)VB
5310 (7.949 %)JavaScript
6194 (4.974 %)T-SQL
782 (2.103 %)C
851 (1.308 %)VBScript
950 (1.282 %)C++
1042 (1.077 %)Java
1129 (0.744 %)PowerShell
1217 (0.436 %)XPath
1217 (0.436 %)VBA
1315 (0.385 %)Python
1410 (0.256 %)VB6
159 (0.231 %)PL/SQL
168 (0.205 %)PHP
176 (0.154 %)Perl
176 (0.154 %)Ruby
176 (0.154 %)Groovy
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
13900 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
22064 (52.92 %)MCTS
31974 (50.62 %)MCSD
41938 (49.69 %)MCAD
5923 (23.67 %)MCSE
6423 (10.85 %)MCSA
7419 (10.74 %)MCITP
8417 (10.69 %)Degree
9340 (8.718 %)Cisco Certification
10317 (8.128 %)CCNA
11170 (4.359 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12122 (3.128 %)MCDST
1384 (2.154 %)Citrix Certification
1483 (2.128 %)A+ Certification
1556 (1.436 %)CCA
1648 (1.231 %)JNCIA
1746 (1.179 %)CISSP
1843 (1.103 %)MCDBA
1940 (1.026 %)Network+ Certification
2039 (1.000 %)CCEA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1183 (4.692 %)SLA
222 (0.564 %)ISO 9001
319 (0.487 %)ISO/IEC 27001
410 (0.256 %)WAI
55 (0.128 %)PCI DSS
64 (0.103 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
73 (0.077 %)ISO 9000
82 (0.051 %)Data Quality
82 (0.051 %)QA
91 (0.026 %)TickIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1812 (20.82 %)Active Directory
2370 (9.487 %)VMware Infrastructure
3171 (4.385 %)XenApp
4139 (3.564 %)VMware ESX
5120 (3.077 %)vSphere
698 (2.513 %)Hyper-V
796 (2.462 %)Terminal Services
876 (1.949 %)XenDesktop
942 (1.077 %)XenServer
1030 (0.769 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1120 (0.513 %)MetaFrame
1217 (0.436 %)Terminal Server
1314 (0.359 %)ISA Server
1413 (0.333 %)Xen
1413 (0.333 %)VMware ESXi
1512 (0.308 %)VMware Server
1512 (0.308 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
168 (0.205 %)NFS
168 (0.205 %)UAG
177 (0.179 %)vCloud
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1105 (2.692 %)SCCM
2102 (2.615 %)Backup Exec
379 (2.026 %)SCOM
439 (1.000 %)WSUS
537 (0.949 %)NetBackup
630 (0.769 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
630 (0.769 %)Norton AntiVirus
713 (0.333 %)Sysprep
812 (0.308 %)MOM
99 (0.231 %)Tivoli
99 (0.231 %)McAfee ePO
108 (0.205 %)vCenter
108 (0.205 %)ARCserve
117 (0.179 %)EMC NetWorker
117 (0.179 %)Business Desktop Deployment
126 (0.154 %)DameWare
126 (0.154 %)Data Guard
135 (0.128 %)HP SIM
144 (0.103 %)WhatsUp Gold
144 (0.103 %)ServiceCenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11966 (50.41 %)Microsoft
2606 (15.54 %)VMware
3474 (12.15 %)Citrix
4413 (10.59 %)Cisco
5187 (4.795 %)Oracle
6165 (4.231 %)Symantec
7147 (3.769 %)HP
891 (2.333 %)Lotus
984 (2.154 %)Dell
1067 (1.718 %)Apple
1164 (1.641 %)Juniper
1261 (1.564 %)CheckPoint
1356 (1.436 %)Red Hat
1449 (1.256 %)EMC
1547 (1.205 %)Adobe
1645 (1.154 %)McAfee
1744 (1.128 %)Avaya
1843 (1.103 %)NetApp
1942 (1.077 %)IBM
2040 (1.026 %)Sitecore