Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 18 March 2010 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.

LinkMicrosoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location
3 months to
18 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank190158154
Rank change year-on-year
Down-32Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads91110942532
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.065 %1.288 %1.241 %
As % of the Qualifications category5.137 %5.479 %5.792 %
Salaries quoted82910052277
Average salary£30,000£30,000£27,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+11.11 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£21,000£20,500£19,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£50,000£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£29,000£29,000£25,000
% change year-on-year
-+16.00 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
177351996643713
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK20.73 %23.51 %21.43 %
Salaries quoted148091669936438
Average salary£40,000£37,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£24,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£60,000£62,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.140 %-

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 18 March 2010 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 18 March 2010. 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
EnglandDown-35892£30,000-
LondonDown-70334£37,500+7.14 %
South EastDown-16226£35,000+18.64 %
City of LondonUp+67197£40,000+25.98 %
East of EnglandUp+2695£36,500+4.28 %
HertfordshireUp+4057£32,500-5.10 %
East MidlandsUp+354£22,500-6.25 %
YorkshireUp+350£22,500-25.00 %
BerkshireDown-2647£40,000+23.07 %
West MidlandsUp+143£21,500-28.33 %
SurreyDown-4043£32,500+4.83 %
North WestDown-439£24,077-16.97 %
South WestDown-3139£29,500+18.00 %
West YorkshireUp+730£25,500-15.00 %
BuckinghamshireDown-429£32,500+41.30 %
HampshireUp+1928£29,000-
KentDown-224£35,000+3.70 %
EssexUp+3523£40,000+6.66 %
NorthamptonshireUp+1023£22,500-9.09 %
OxfordshireUp+1122£25,000-16.66 %
LeedsDown-820£27,000-29.42 %
South YorkshireUp+3318£22,500-40.00 %
NorthamptonUp+1218£21,000-22.93 %
ManchesterDown-1018£24,077-28.66 %
ScotlandUp+1315£27,500+5.76 %
WiltshireDown-414£23,267+6.03 %
Milton KeynesUp+713£40,000+100.00 %
CheshireUp+613£30,000+11.11 %
LeicestershireUp+1912£23,000+43.75 %
WatfordUp+1812£30,750+61.84 %

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, 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.

11767 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
2963 (54.50 %)Windows
3782 (44.26 %)Microsoft
4735 (41.60 %)SQL Server
5612 (34.63 %).NET
6606 (34.30 %)MCSE
7576 (32.60 %)C#
8553 (31.30 %)MCSD
9549 (31.07 %)MCTS
10532 (30.11 %)MCAD
11483 (27.33 %)Active Directory
12482 (27.28 %)Windows Server 2003
13476 (26.94 %)ASP.NET
14381 (21.56 %)XML
15361 (20.43 %)MS Exchange
16360 (20.37 %)SQL Server 2005
16360 (20.37 %)SQL Server 2008
17357 (20.20 %)MS Excel
18348 (19.69 %)WCF
19342 (19.35 %)MS Office
20317 (17.94 %)WPF
21292 (16.53 %)TDD
22282 (15.96 %)SQL
23272 (15.39 %)NHibernate
24268 (15.17 %)Windows XP
25265 (15.00 %)AJAX
26263 (14.88 %)TCP/IP
27248 (14.04 %)MCSA
28241 (13.64 %)NUnit
29238 (13.47 %)MVC

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 March 2010, 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
1612 (34.63 %).NET
2476 (26.94 %)ASP.NET
3381 (21.56 %)XML
4348 (19.69 %)WCF
5317 (17.94 %)WPF
6272 (15.39 %)NHibernate
7265 (15.00 %)AJAX
8213 (12.05 %)MonoRail
9205 (11.60 %)HTML
10174 (9.847 %)WinForms
11145 (8.206 %)CSS
1298 (5.546 %)Silverlight
1362 (3.509 %)Web Services
1446 (2.603 %).NET Framework
1525 (1.415 %)XHTML
1621 (1.188 %)jQuery
1716 (0.905 %)ASP
1815 (0.849 %)LINQ
1912 (0.679 %)WF
2011 (0.623 %)ASP.NET 2.0
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1361 (20.43 %)MS Exchange
2185 (10.47 %)Exchange Server 2003
3165 (9.338 %)SharePoint
4119 (6.735 %)Exchange Server 2007
589 (5.037 %)IIS
683 (4.697 %)SharePoint Server 2007
763 (3.565 %)BizTalk Server
830 (1.698 %)Lotus Notes
923 (1.302 %)CMS
923 (1.302 %)Exchange Server 2000
1021 (1.188 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1116 (0.905 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1213 (0.736 %)EPiServer
1310 (0.566 %)Apache
149 (0.509 %)Sitecore CMS
158 (0.453 %)Immediacy CMS
158 (0.453 %)Office Communications Server
165 (0.283 %)Exchange Server 5.5
174 (0.226 %)Zimbra
183 (0.170 %)LiveLink
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1357 (20.20 %)MS Excel
2342 (19.35 %)MS Office
317 (0.962 %)MS PowerPoint
47 (0.396 %)MS Visio
56 (0.340 %)InfoPath
63 (0.170 %)MS Project
72 (0.113 %)Acrobat
72 (0.113 %)Photoshop
72 (0.113 %)Spreadsheet
81 (0.057 %)QuarkXPress
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (0.566 %)Microsoft CRM
27 (0.396 %)Dynamics CRM
34 (0.226 %)Dynamics AX
42 (0.113 %)SoftGrid
42 (0.113 %)Applix TM1
51 (0.057 %)Navision
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1263 (14.88 %)TCP/IP
2198 (11.21 %)Firewall
3169 (9.564 %)LAN
4164 (9.281 %)DNS
5161 (9.111 %)WAN
6132 (7.470 %)Internet
7110 (6.225 %)VPN
8101 (5.716 %)DHCP
974 (4.188 %)SAN
1062 (3.509 %)VoIP
1136 (2.037 %)Broadband
1231 (1.754 %)Wireless
1325 (1.415 %)FTP
1424 (1.358 %)SMTP
1523 (1.302 %)Network Security
1619 (1.075 %)MPLS
1718 (1.019 %)NAS
1815 (0.849 %)ADSL
1914 (0.792 %)VLAN
2013 (0.736 %)OSPF
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1735 (41.60 %)SQL Server
2360 (20.37 %)SQL Server 2005
2360 (20.37 %)SQL Server 2008
357 (3.226 %)SQL Server 2000
425 (1.415 %)SQL Server Integration Services
520 (1.132 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
611 (0.623 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
611 (0.623 %)Oracle 8/8i
710 (0.566 %)Oracle 10g
710 (0.566 %)Crystal Reports
89 (0.509 %)ETL
98 (0.453 %)MS Access
107 (0.396 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
107 (0.396 %)DTS
107 (0.396 %)MySQL
116 (0.340 %)Datawarehouse
125 (0.283 %)Oracle 11g
125 (0.283 %)Oracle Reports
125 (0.283 %)DB2
133 (0.170 %)PerformancePoint
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1241 (13.64 %)NUnit
2120 (6.791 %)Subversion
329 (1.641 %)Visual Studio
45 (0.283 %)TestDirector
54 (0.226 %)Dreamweaver
63 (0.170 %)Oracle APEX
71 (0.057 %)Ant
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1222 (12.56 %)Finance
2171 (9.677 %)Banking
387 (4.924 %)Telecoms
475 (4.244 %)Pensions
556 (3.169 %)Health
655 (3.113 %)Government
751 (2.886 %)Investment Banking
846 (2.603 %)Music
944 (2.490 %)Education
1041 (2.320 %)Retail
1139 (2.207 %)Insurance
1234 (1.924 %)Games
1328 (1.585 %)Marketing
1414 (0.792 %)Music Industry
1512 (0.679 %)Manufacturing
1512 (0.679 %)Law
1611 (0.623 %)Front Office
1710 (0.566 %)Back Office
1710 (0.566 %)Legal
186 (0.340 %)Pharmaceutical
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1543 (30.73 %)Developer
2385 (21.79 %).NET Developer
3314 (17.77 %)Analyst
4222 (12.56 %)Support Engineer
5221 (12.51 %)Support Analyst
6217 (12.28 %)C# Developer
7141 (7.980 %)ASP.NET Developer
8122 (6.904 %)IT Support
9117 (6.621 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
10115 (6.508 %)Desktop Support
11109 (6.169 %)Consultant
12105 (5.942 %)2nd Line Support
13102 (5.772 %)Technical Support
1468 (3.848 %)Administrator
1565 (3.679 %)Helpdesk Support
1662 (3.509 %)Systems Engineer
1757 (3.226 %)Desktop Engineer
1856 (3.169 %)Technical Engineer
1955 (3.113 %)WinForms Developer
2054 (3.056 %)Service Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
174 (4.188 %)Tandem
264 (3.622 %)Blackberry
329 (1.641 %)Computer Science
329 (1.641 %)Derivative
424 (1.358 %)Social Network
519 (1.075 %)Mathematics
519 (1.075 %)Clustering
618 (1.019 %)Replication
618 (1.019 %)Management Information System
717 (0.962 %)Spanish Language
717 (0.962 %)Fixed Income
816 (0.905 %)French Language
915 (0.849 %)Fat Client
915 (0.849 %)German Language
915 (0.849 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
915 (0.849 %)Thin Client
1014 (0.792 %)DTV
1112 (0.679 %)PDA
1112 (0.679 %)Physics
1211 (0.623 %)Chemistry
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1963 (54.50 %)Windows
2482 (27.28 %)Windows Server 2003
3268 (15.17 %)Windows XP
4181 (10.24 %)Windows Server 2008
5164 (9.281 %)Windows 2000
6154 (8.715 %)Windows Vista
789 (5.037 %)Windows 2000 Server
880 (4.527 %)Linux
947 (2.660 %)UNIX
1044 (2.490 %)Windows 7
1120 (1.132 %)Red Hat Linux
1218 (1.019 %)Mac OS X
1218 (1.019 %)Windows NT
1315 (0.849 %)AIX
1414 (0.792 %)Mac OS
1510 (0.566 %)Solaris
167 (0.396 %)Windows Mobile
175 (0.283 %)NetWare
184 (0.226 %)zOS
184 (0.226 %)Windows CE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1292 (16.53 %)TDD
2238 (13.47 %)MVC
3226 (12.79 %)Scrum
4201 (11.38 %)ITIL
597 (5.490 %)Extreme Programming
663 (3.565 %)OO
760 (3.396 %)Business Intelligence
852 (2.943 %)E-Commerce
946 (2.603 %)Project Management
1045 (2.547 %)CRM
1143 (2.434 %)Asset Management
1232 (1.811 %)PRINCE2
1331 (1.754 %)Service Delivery
1428 (1.585 %)Disaster Recovery
1524 (1.358 %)Migration
1619 (1.075 %)ERP
1718 (1.019 %)OOD
1718 (1.019 %)Workflow
1817 (0.962 %)OOA/OOD
1916 (0.905 %)Investment Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1576 (32.60 %)C#
2282 (15.96 %)SQL
3203 (11.49 %)JavaScript
4127 (7.187 %)T-SQL
586 (4.867 %)VB.NET
670 (3.962 %)VB
748 (2.716 %)C
847 (2.660 %)C++
933 (1.868 %)VBScript
1016 (0.905 %)Java
1113 (0.736 %)PowerShell
1211 (0.623 %)PL/SQL
1211 (0.623 %)VBA
1310 (0.566 %)VB6
146 (0.340 %)PHP
155 (0.283 %)OCaml
164 (0.226 %)Perl
164 (0.226 %)Ruby
173 (0.170 %)XPath
181 (0.057 %)Python
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11767 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
2606 (34.30 %)MCSE
3553 (31.30 %)MCSD
4549 (31.07 %)MCTS
5532 (30.11 %)MCAD
6248 (14.04 %)MCSA
7199 (11.26 %)Cisco Certification
8187 (10.58 %)CCNA
9158 (8.942 %)Degree
1095 (5.376 %)MCDST
1194 (5.320 %)A+ Certification
1264 (3.622 %)MCITP
1361 (3.452 %)MOS
1451 (2.886 %)Network+ Certification
1546 (2.603 %)Citrix Certification
1638 (2.151 %)Security Cleared
1736 (2.037 %)CCA
1835 (1.981 %)CCNP
1835 (1.981 %)MCT
1923 (1.302 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1128 (7.244 %)SLA
211 (0.623 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
39 (0.509 %)HL7
47 (0.396 %)QA
56 (0.340 %)ISO27001
63 (0.170 %)BS15000
63 (0.170 %)BS7799
71 (0.057 %)COBIT
71 (0.057 %)PCI DSS
71 (0.057 %)ISO9001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1483 (27.33 %)Active Directory
295 (5.376 %)VMware Infrastructure
343 (2.434 %)Terminal Services
429 (1.641 %)VMware ESX
528 (1.585 %)ISA Server
618 (1.019 %)Citrix Presentation Server
717 (0.962 %)XenApp
717 (0.962 %)Hyper-V
814 (0.792 %)vSphere
98 (0.453 %)MetaFrame
105 (0.283 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
105 (0.283 %)VMware Server
105 (0.283 %)XenDesktop
114 (0.226 %)VMware Workstation
114 (0.226 %)Samba
123 (0.170 %)Oracle RAC
123 (0.170 %)Oracle RMAN
131 (0.057 %)WebMarshal
131 (0.057 %)Xen
131 (0.057 %)NDS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
129 (1.641 %)SCCM
214 (0.792 %)Backup Exec
313 (0.736 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
412 (0.679 %)WSUS
511 (0.623 %)AssetCenter
69 (0.509 %)SCOM
69 (0.509 %)OpenView
78 (0.453 %)McAfee ePO
87 (0.396 %)Tivoli
87 (0.396 %)ARCserve
96 (0.340 %)Norton AntiVirus
105 (0.283 %)HP Quality Center
114 (0.226 %)NetBackup
123 (0.170 %)Data Guard
123 (0.170 %)Tivoli Monitoring
123 (0.170 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
123 (0.170 %)OpenView Configuration Management
132 (0.113 %)MOM
132 (0.113 %)Cisco IPCC
132 (0.113 %)SCVMM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1782 (44.26 %)Microsoft
2198 (11.21 %)Citrix
3166 (9.394 %)Cisco
4157 (8.885 %)VMware
5108 (6.112 %)HP
687 (4.924 %)Remedy
766 (3.735 %)Oracle
843 (2.434 %)IBM
942 (2.377 %)Avaya
1033 (1.868 %)Lotus
1132 (1.811 %)Symantec
1230 (1.698 %)Apple
1230 (1.698 %)Dell
1323 (1.302 %)Altiris
1323 (1.302 %)McAfee
1323 (1.302 %)Red Hat
1421 (1.188 %)EMC
1514 (0.792 %)Novell
1514 (0.792 %)Veritas
1613 (0.736 %)Adobe