MCPD Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCPD 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 currently tracked.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 792 780 795
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +15
Permanent jobs citing MCPD 70 119 86
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.065% 0.099% 0.069%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.234% 0.355% 0.264%
Number of salaries quoted 54 104 84
Average salary £35,963 £34,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.23% +6.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £27,500 £28,150
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,463 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+4.17% +7.69%
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All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Salary Trend

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

MCPD Salary Trend

MCPD
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCPD over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

MCPD Salary Histogram

MCPD
Top 24 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads		 Average Salary
Last 3 Months		 Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -21 57 £36,500 +4.28%
London +71 35 £35,750 +10.00%
Scotland -2 11 £32,500 -
East Midlands - 11 £37,500 -
Edinburgh +9 9 £32,500 -
Nottingham - 9 £38,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 9 £38,500 -
City of London +5 6 £31,500 -3.07%
North West 0 4 £27,500 -26.66%
Manchester - 4 £27,500 -
West Midlands -18 3 £48,750 +69.56%
Wigan - 3 £27,500 -
Glasgow -21 2 - -
South East -27 2 £38,750 +38.39%
Coventry - 2 £45,000 -
Leicestershire - 2 £35,425 -
Surrey +5 1 £42,500 +31.78%
Guildford -3 1 £42,500 +14.86%
Gosport -14 1 £35,000 +2.94%
Hampshire -18 1 £35,000 +2.94%
Wales - 1 £35,000 -
South Wales - 1 £35,000 -
Cardiff - 1 £35,000 -
Birmingham - 1 £52,500 -

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 115 (88.46%) .NET
2 108 (83.08%) SQL Server
3 106 (81.54%) MCTS
4 100 (76.92%) C#
5 86 (66.15%) ASP.NET
6 82 (63.08%) SQL
7 78 (60.00%) JavaScript
8 76 (58.46%) Microsoft
8 76 (58.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 63 (48.46%) OO
10 61 (46.92%) Degree
11 56 (43.08%) XML
12 55 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
13 54 (41.54%) .NET Framework
13 54 (41.54%) XSLT
14 51 (39.23%) WCF
15 50 (38.46%) Computer Science
16 49 (37.69%) Windows
17 44 (33.85%) OOA/OOD
17 44 (33.85%) VB.NET
17 44 (33.85%) SQL Server 2005
18 42 (32.31%) Ajax
18 42 (32.31%) jQuery
18 42 (32.31%) WPF
19 39 (30.00%) MVC
20 37 (28.46%) Finance
20 37 (28.46%) CRM
21 36 (27.69%) CMS
22 33 (25.38%) Web Services
23 32 (24.62%) MCP

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 115 (88.46%) .NET
2 86 (66.15%) ASP.NET
3 56 (43.08%) XML
4 54 (41.54%) .NET Framework
4 54 (41.54%) XSLT
5 51 (39.23%) WCF
6 42 (32.31%) Ajax
6 42 (32.31%) jQuery
6 42 (32.31%) WPF
7 33 (25.38%) Web Services
8 29 (22.31%) LINQ to SQL
9 26 (20.00%) CSS
10 22 (16.92%) LINQ
11 20 (15.38%) HTML
12 14 (10.77%) ASP.NET MVC
12 14 (10.77%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 13 (10.00%) WF
14 11 (8.462%) ASP
15 10 (7.692%) WinForms
15 10 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 36 (27.69%) CMS
2 31 (23.85%) SharePoint
3 24 (18.46%) IIS
4 23 (17.69%) BizTalk Server
5 12 (9.231%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (4.615%) MSMQ
6 6 (4.615%) MS Exchange
7 5 (3.846%) Umbraco
7 5 (3.846%) Sitecore CMS
8 4 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (3.077%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (3.077%) Windows Azure
8 4 (3.077%) SharePoint Server
9 3 (2.308%) DotNetNuke
10 2 (1.538%) Commerce Server
10 2 (1.538%) Commerce Server 2007
10 2 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2007
11 1 (0.769%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 29 (22.31%) MS Excel
2 6 (4.615%) InfoPath
3 3 (2.308%) MS Office
4 2 (1.538%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.538%) InDesign
4 2 (1.538%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.769%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (6.154%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.538%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.615%) LAN
1 6 (4.615%) WAN
1 6 (4.615%) TCP/IP
2 4 (3.077%) VPN
2 4 (3.077%) DNS
2 4 (3.077%) DHCP
3 2 (1.538%) Internet
3 2 (1.538%) SAN
3 2 (1.538%) Firewall
3 2 (1.538%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.769%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (83.08%) SQL Server
2 55 (42.31%) SQL Server 2008
3 44 (33.85%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (8.462%) SQL Server 2012
5 10 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (6.923%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (4.615%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (3.077%) NoSQL
8 4 (3.077%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (2.308%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (2.308%) Big Data
9 3 (2.308%) Oracle 8/8i
9 3 (2.308%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 28 (21.54%) Visual Studio
2 25 (19.23%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (12.31%) Subversion
4 9 (6.923%) Visual Studio Team System
4 9 (6.923%) NUnit
5 4 (3.077%) Git (software)
6 3 (2.308%) CruiseControl
6 3 (2.308%) MSBuild
General
1 37 (28.46%) Finance
2 11 (8.462%) Retail
3 4 (3.077%) Aerospace
4 3 (2.308%) Marketing
4 3 (2.308%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 88 (67.69%) Developer
2 61 (46.92%) .NET Developer
3 39 (30.00%) C# Developer
4 37 (28.46%) C# .NET Developer
5 35 (26.92%) ASP.NET Developer
6 32 (24.62%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 26 (20.00%) SQL Developer
8 19 (14.62%) Software Engineer
9 11 (8.462%) Microsoft Developer
10 10 (7.692%) Administrator
11 8 (6.154%) Applications Developer
11 8 (6.154%) Senior Developer
12 7 (5.385%) Web Developer
12 7 (5.385%) Software Developer
12 7 (5.385%) Senior Software Engineer
12 7 (5.385%) VB.NET Developer
13 6 (4.615%) Web Applications Developer
14 5 (3.846%) Server Administrator
14 5 (3.846%) BizTalk Administrator
14 5 (3.846%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 50 (38.46%) Computer Science
2 25 (19.23%) Client/Server
3 21 (16.15%) N-Tier
4 4 (3.077%) Clustering
5 3 (2.308%) SaaS
5 3 (2.308%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.308%) W3C
6 2 (1.538%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.538%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.769%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 49 (37.69%) Windows
2 6 (4.615%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (2.308%) UNIX
4 2 (1.538%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.538%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (48.46%) OO
2 44 (33.85%) OOA/OOD
3 39 (30.00%) MVC
4 37 (28.46%) CRM
5 23 (17.69%) UML
5 23 (17.69%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (14.62%) Continuous Integration
7 13 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 11 (8.462%) Analytics
8 11 (8.462%) Software Engineering
8 11 (8.462%) Scrum
9 9 (6.923%) MSF
9 9 (6.923%) Content Management
9 9 (6.923%) Unified Process
9 9 (6.923%) ITIL
9 9 (6.923%) OOD
9 9 (6.923%) RUP
10 7 (5.385%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (5.385%) Business Analysis
10 7 (5.385%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (76.92%) C#
2 82 (63.08%) SQL
3 78 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 44 (33.85%) VB.NET
5 25 (19.23%) XPath
6 15 (11.54%) T-SQL
7 12 (9.231%) VB
8 5 (3.846%) VBScript
9 4 (3.077%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.308%) Python
10 3 (2.308%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.538%) X++
12 1 (0.769%) VB6
12 1 (0.769%) C
12 1 (0.769%) Java
12 1 (0.769%) C++
Qualifications
1 106 (81.54%) MCTS
2 76 (58.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 61 (46.92%) Degree
4 32 (24.62%) MCP
5 21 (16.15%) MCSD
6 18 (13.85%) MCSE
7 16 (12.31%) MCAD
8 14 (10.77%) SC Cleared
8 14 (10.77%) DV Cleared
8 14 (10.77%) Security Cleared
9 11 (8.462%) MCITP
10 8 (6.154%) MCSA
11 4 (3.077%) MCDBA
12 2 (1.538%) CCNA
12 2 (1.538%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 13 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (9.231%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.538%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.077%) SCCM
2 2 (1.538%) SCOM
Vendors
1 76 (58.46%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.00%) VMware
3 11 (8.462%) Oracle
4 7 (5.385%) Ektron
5 6 (4.615%) HP
5 6 (4.615%) Dell
5 6 (4.615%) Cisco
6 5 (3.846%) Sitecore
7 4 (3.077%) IBM
8 2 (1.538%) Avaya
8 2 (1.538%) Adobe
8 2 (1.538%) Citrix
8 2 (1.538%) Altiris
9 1 (0.769%) Alterian
9 1 (0.769%) EPiServer
Software Developer - C#/MVC
County Durham
Beneficial skills and experience: - Commercial experience with WCF, ASP.NET Web Forms, MS SQL Server Reporting Services, HTML5, CSS3, TFS, and Jira... - Industry recognised qualifications, such as Microsoft...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
Application Developer C#/MVC
County Durham
Requirements analysis... Required skills and experience: - A degree in a relevant discipline - At least 3 years commercial development experience (at least 1-2 years specifically in .NET web...
Catalyst
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Salary flexible depending upon exper
Posted: 21 May 2013
BIZTALK SENIOR ADMINISTRATOR - CENTRAL LONDON
London
WCF,COM+, COM/DCOM, MSMQ , PAL experience. SharePoint experience... Windows Server, IIS and Active Directory experience... Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist - BizTalk 2006 / 2009 (MCTS) Microsoft qualifications MCSE, MCTS...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £47000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Senior Developer (Retail)
Guildford, Surrey
Demonstrable talent coding in at least one major language (C#, Java, J2EE, C, C++) - Experience developing on Windows platform... - Extensive C#/.NET development experience - VB6/VB.NET - MCPD...
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Unspecified Competitive
Posted: 30 April 2013
MS Dynamics CRM Functional Consultant - London
London
MS Dynamics CRM Functional Consultant - London. MS Dynamics CRM Consultant required. My client based in the UK is currently looking for an experienced MS Dynamics CRM Consultant to...
Lawrence Harvey Enterprise
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
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