The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 18 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 Warwickshire region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 55 66 62
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -4
Permanent jobs citing MCP 25 11 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 3.133% 1.444% 0.821%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.29% 8.029% 2.976%
Number of salaries quoted 25 11 5
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Qualifications
Warwickshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
243 137 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warwickshire 30.45% 17.98% 27.59%
Number of salaries quoted 210 110 149
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £27,350 £23,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
West Midlands

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Warwickshire MCP Salary Histogram

MCP
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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Rugby +14 8 £27,000 +20.00%
Warwick -2 8 £27,500 -21.42% 4
Leamington Spa - 6 £26,000 -
Stratford-upon-Avon -9 3 £19,000 -52.50%
Nuneaton - 3 £37,000 -
Southam - 2 £30,250 -
MCP
West Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 31 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
2 22 (70.97%) Windows
3 17 (54.84%) MCSE
4 14 (45.16%) MS Exchange
5 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
5 11 (35.48%) MS Office
5 11 (35.48%) VMware
5 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (32.26%) MCTS
6 10 (32.26%) MCSA
7 9 (29.03%) TCP/IP
7 9 (29.03%) Citrix
7 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (29.03%) MCITP
7 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (25.81%) Hyper-V
8 8 (25.81%) Degree
8 8 (25.81%) Firewall
8 8 (25.81%) Cisco
9 7 (22.58%) IIS
9 7 (22.58%) Blackberry
9 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
9 7 (22.58%) Android
10 6 (19.35%) Cyber Security
10 6 (19.35%) Office 365
10 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
10 6 (19.35%) Identity Management
10 6 (19.35%) Finance
10 6 (19.35%) Apple

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warwickshire 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 4 (12.90%) .NET
1 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET
1 4 (12.90%) Ajax
1 4 (12.90%) NHibernate
1 4 (12.90%) WCF
1 4 (12.90%) LINQ
1 4 (12.90%) MonoRail
1 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (12.90%) Castle Windsor
1 4 (12.90%) Razor View Engine
1 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (6.452%) Application Packaging
3 1 (3.226%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 14 (45.16%) MS Exchange
2 7 (22.58%) IIS
3 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (3.226%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (35.48%) MS Office
2 6 (19.35%) Office 365
3 5 (16.13%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) TCP/IP
2 8 (25.81%) Firewall
3 6 (19.35%) VPN
4 4 (12.90%) LAN
4 4 (12.90%) SAN
5 2 (6.452%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.452%) NAS
5 2 (6.452%) WAN
5 2 (6.452%) DHCP
5 2 (6.452%) FTP
5 2 (6.452%) DNS
6 1 (3.226%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (19.35%) SQL Server
2 4 (12.90%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) NUnit
1 4 (12.90%) Subversion
1 4 (12.90%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 6 (19.35%) Finance
2 3 (9.677%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.452%) Back Office
3 2 (6.452%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 6 (19.35%) Administrator
1 6 (19.35%) Support Manager
2 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Server Administrator
2 4 (12.90%) Support Engineer
2 4 (12.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) .NET Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Developer
2 4 (12.90%) Analyst
2 4 (12.90%) Support Analyst
3 3 (9.677%) 1st Line Support
3 3 (9.677%) Desktop Support
3 3 (9.677%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (9.677%) 1st Line Support Engineer
3 3 (9.677%) IT Support
4 2 (6.452%) Senior Server Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Server Engineer
4 2 (6.452%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (3.226%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 7 (22.58%) Blackberry
2 6 (19.35%) Biometrics
2 6 (19.35%) Smartcard
2 6 (19.35%) Computer Science
3 4 (12.90%) Social Network
4 2 (6.452%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.226%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 22 (70.97%) Windows
2 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (29.03%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
3 7 (22.58%) Android
4 5 (16.13%) Windows XP
5 4 (12.90%) Linux
6 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (19.35%) Identity Management
1 6 (19.35%) Cyber Security
2 4 (12.90%) Web Application Development
2 4 (12.90%) MVC
2 4 (12.90%) Scrum
2 4 (12.90%) TDD
2 4 (12.90%) OO
3 3 (9.677%) Migration
4 2 (6.452%) Benchmarking
4 2 (6.452%) Problem Management
4 2 (6.452%) Capacity Management
5 1 (3.226%) ITIL
5 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (3.226%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) C#
1 4 (12.90%) PowerShell
2 3 (9.677%) VBScript
2 3 (9.677%) VB
3 2 (6.452%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (54.84%) MCSE
3 10 (32.26%) MCSA
3 10 (32.26%) MCTS
4 9 (29.03%) MCITP
5 8 (25.81%) Degree
6 4 (12.90%) MCAD
6 4 (12.90%) MCSD
7 3 (9.677%) CCNP
7 3 (9.677%) CCNA
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (6.452%) A+ Certification
9 1 (3.226%) MCDST
9 1 (3.226%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) VMware Infrastructure
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 8 (25.81%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.677%) XenApp
3 3 (9.677%) XenDesktop
4 2 (6.452%) ISA Server
4 2 (6.452%) VMware ESX
5 1 (3.226%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (16.13%) SCCM
2 2 (6.452%) SCOM
2 2 (6.452%) HP SIM
2 2 (6.452%) MOM
2 2 (6.452%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (6.452%) NetBackup
2 2 (6.452%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (70.97%) Microsoft
2 11 (35.48%) VMware
3 9 (29.03%) Citrix
4 8 (25.81%) Cisco
5 6 (19.35%) Apple
6 4 (12.90%) IBM
6 4 (12.90%) HP
6 4 (12.90%) Dell
7 3 (9.677%) Avaya
8 2 (6.452%) EMC
8 2 (6.452%) Symantec
8 2 (6.452%) ProCurve
8 2 (6.452%) Riverbed
9 1 (3.226%) LANDesk
Warwick
Focussed on C#.Net Development, this role involves working in an Agile (Scrum) environment on both internal and external systems using WPF, WCF, ASP.Net, MSSQL, MVC & MVVM...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: Up to £22,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Warwickshire, Midlands, West Midlands
Focused on C#.Net Development, this role involves working in an Agile (Scrum) environment on both internal and external systems using WPF, WCF, ASP.Net, MSSQL, MVC & MVVM...
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Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum
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Warwick, West Midlands
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OPUS
Salary: GBP18000 to GBP22000 per annum + Benefits: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
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Salary: £18000 to £22000 per annum - Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
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Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + training + certifications
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