West Lothian MCP Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT jobs within the West Lothian region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alfreton Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bodmin Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckingham Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Clevedon Colchester Cornwall Corsham Coulsdon Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Daresbury Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenford Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Havant Haverhill Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Melksham Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tilbury Tonbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Whitstable Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	45
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching permanent IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	15.22 %	3.846 %
Salaries quoted	4	2
Average minimum salary	£20,375	£36,000
Average salary	£20,875	£43,000
% change on same period last year	-51.45 %
Average maximum salary	£21,375	£50,000
UK excluding London average salary	£28,738	£28,881
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Qualifications West Lothian
Matching permanent IT job ads	46	52
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.022 %
Salaries quoted	33	37
Average minimum salary	£29,793	£30,895
Average salary	£32,717	£36,055
% change on same period last year	-9.25 %
Average maximum salary	£35,641	£41,215
UK excluding London average salary	£37,889	£38,388
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
MCP Scotland

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the West Lothian region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MCP across the West Lothian region.

MCP
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the West Lothian region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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 West Lothian region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Livingston	+5	7	£20,875	-51.45 %

MCP Scotland

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (54.55 %) Windows 3 5 (45.45 %) Health 3 5 (45.45 %) Pensions 3 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 4 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 5 3 (27.27 %) Firewall 5 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (27.27 %) SLA 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 5 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 5 3 (27.27 %) CRM 5 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server

5 3 (27.27 %) Degree 5 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (27.27 %) Dynamics CRM 6 2 (18.18 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (18.18 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (18.18 %) System Testing 6 2 (18.18 %) Time Management 6 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 6 2 (18.18 %) MCAD 6 2 (18.18 %) MCSD 6 2 (18.18 %) C# 6 2 (18.18 %) HTML 6 2 (18.18 %) .NET 6 2 (18.18 %) ASP.NET

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the West Lothian 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 2 (18.18 %) HTML 1 2 (18.18 %) .NET 1 2 (18.18 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 1 2 (18.18 %) XML 1 2 (18.18 %) .NET Framework	Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) Dynamics CRM	Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) Firewall 2 1 (9.091 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2000 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 5 (45.45 %) Health 1 5 (45.45 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 6 (54.55 %) Analyst 2 4 (36.36 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (27.27 %) Systems Administrator 3 3 (27.27 %) Administrator 4 2 (18.18 %) Desktop Support Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) C# Developer 4 2 (18.18 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Desktop Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Service Analyst 4 2 (18.18 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (18.18 %) Developer 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Support 5 1 (9.091 %) Senior Server Engineer 5 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Support Analyst 5 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) CRM 2 2 (18.18 %) Unit Testing 2 2 (18.18 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (18.18 %) System Testing 2 2 (18.18 %) Time Management 3 1 (9.091 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) C#	Qualifications 1 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (27.27 %) Degree 2 3 (27.27 %) MCSA 3 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 3 2 (18.18 %) MCAD 3 2 (18.18 %) MCSD 4 1 (9.091 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (27.27 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) Netcool
Vendors 1 5 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) IBM