The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 42 37 40
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Permanent jobs citing MCP 12 30 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 3.109% 5.556% 0.697%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.01% 17.24% 3.774%
Number of salaries quoted 12 29 2
Average salary £24,250 £31,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.01% +40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Qualifications
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
109 174 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 28.24% 32.22% 18.47%
Number of salaries quoted 80 152 42
Average salary £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,200 £21,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £49,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Cheshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Warrington MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 52 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (98.08%) MCTS
3 43 (82.69%) Windows
4 40 (76.92%) C#
4 40 (76.92%) .NET
4 40 (76.92%) ASP.NET
4 40 (76.92%) MVC
4 40 (76.92%) WCF
5 37 (71.15%) WPF
6 34 (65.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 34 (65.38%) Web Application Development
6 34 (65.38%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 34 (65.38%) TDD
6 34 (65.38%) MCAD
6 34 (65.38%) MCSD
7 31 (59.62%) NUnit
7 31 (59.62%) WinForms
7 31 (59.62%) Scrum
7 31 (59.62%) Unity DI Container
7 31 (59.62%) Castle Windsor
7 31 (59.62%) Ninject
7 31 (59.62%) Razor View Engine
7 31 (59.62%) Dependency Injection
7 31 (59.62%) Inversion of Control
7 31 (59.62%) MSTest
7 31 (59.62%) MVVM
7 31 (59.62%) Rhino Mocks
7 31 (59.62%) Moq
7 31 (59.62%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (59.62%) Spring.NET

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 40 (76.92%) .NET
1 40 (76.92%) ASP.NET
1 40 (76.92%) WCF
2 37 (71.15%) WPF
3 34 (65.38%) ASP.NET MVC
3 34 (65.38%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 31 (59.62%) WinForms
4 31 (59.62%) Unity DI Container
4 31 (59.62%) Castle Windsor
4 31 (59.62%) Ninject
4 31 (59.62%) Razor View Engine
4 31 (59.62%) Spring.NET
5 25 (48.08%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.54%) XML
6 6 (11.54%) XSLT
7 3 (5.769%) RESTful
7 3 (5.769%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 3 (5.769%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.54%) MS Exchange
1 6 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) MS Office
2 6 (11.54%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.46%) TCP/IP
2 6 (11.54%) VPN
3 4 (7.692%) SAN
3 4 (7.692%) NAS
4 2 (3.846%) DNS
4 2 (3.846%) DHCP
5 1 (1.923%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.769%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (5.769%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (59.62%) NUnit
1 31 (59.62%) MSTest
1 31 (59.62%) Rhino Mocks
1 31 (59.62%) Moq
2 3 (5.769%) Git (software)
General
1 16 (30.77%) Finance
2 3 (5.769%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 34 (65.38%) .NET Developer
1 34 (65.38%) Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Graduate
2 16 (30.77%) Junior Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Junior .NET Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Graduate Developer
2 16 (30.77%) Junior
3 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
3 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.615%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (1.923%) Analyst
7 1 (1.923%) Support Analyst
7 1 (1.923%) Technical Support
7 1 (1.923%) Technical Support Analyst
7 1 (1.923%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 31 (59.62%) Inversion of Control
2 19 (36.54%) Enterprise Software
3 16 (30.77%) Computer Science
4 6 (11.54%) N-Tier
4 6 (11.54%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.923%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.923%) iPhone
5 1 (1.923%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.923%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 43 (82.69%) Windows
2 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
2 12 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 7 (13.46%) Windows XP
5 6 (11.54%) Linux
6 4 (7.692%) Windows NT
7 2 (3.846%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.923%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (76.92%) MVC
2 34 (65.38%) Web Application Development
2 34 (65.38%) TDD
3 31 (59.62%) Scrum
3 31 (59.62%) Dependency Injection
3 31 (59.62%) MVVM
3 31 (59.62%) Continuous Integration
3 31 (59.62%) Kanban
4 15 (28.85%) Agile Software Development
5 14 (26.92%) OO
6 5 (9.615%) ITIL
7 4 (7.692%) PRINCE2
7 4 (7.692%) Change Management
8 3 (5.769%) BDD
9 2 (3.846%) OOP
9 2 (3.846%) OOD
10 1 (1.923%) Performance Management
10 1 (1.923%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 40 (76.92%) C#
2 6 (11.54%) JavaScript
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
2 6 (11.54%) XPath
3 3 (5.769%) Ruby
4 1 (1.923%) C
Qualifications
1 52 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 51 (98.08%) MCTS
3 34 (65.38%) MCAD
3 34 (65.38%) MCSD
4 7 (13.46%) MCITP
4 7 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (13.46%) CCNA
4 7 (13.46%) MCSE
5 6 (11.54%) MCSA
5 6 (11.54%) MCPD
6 4 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 11 (21.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.846%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.923%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 13 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.54%) Citrix
2 6 (11.54%) VMware
3 3 (5.769%) Facebook
3 3 (5.769%) Cisco
4 1 (1.923%) SonicWALL
4 1 (1.923%) Draytek
4 1 (1.923%) Sophos
Warrington, North West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013