The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 20 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 for the West Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 86 89 79
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -10
Permanent jobs citing MCP 25 15 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 1.673% 1.080% 1.769%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.219% 3.472% 6.887%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 24
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £22,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +104.54%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Qualifications
West Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
479 432 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Sussex 32.06% 31.10% 25.69%
Number of salaries quoted 366 356 325
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +21.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £56,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region.

West Sussex MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MCP across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

West Sussex 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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Horsham - 14 £42,500 -
Crawley - 5 £20,000 -
Haywards Heath -5 2 £20,000 -50.00%
Chichester - 1 £27,000 -
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 32 (86.49%) Windows
3 30 (81.08%) Microsoft
4 25 (67.57%) MCTS
5 24 (64.86%) WCF
5 24 (64.86%) TDD
5 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET MVC
5 24 (64.86%) Web Application Development
5 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 24 (64.86%) C#
5 24 (64.86%) .NET
5 24 (64.86%) SQL Server
5 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET
5 24 (64.86%) MCAD
5 24 (64.86%) MCSD
5 24 (64.86%) MVC
6 23 (62.16%) Scrum
6 23 (62.16%) Dependency Injection
6 23 (62.16%) Rhino Mocks
6 23 (62.16%) Moq
6 23 (62.16%) Ninject
6 23 (62.16%) Razor View Engine
6 23 (62.16%) NUnit
6 23 (62.16%) Kanban
7 22 (59.46%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (59.46%) Spring.NET
7 22 (59.46%) WPF
7 22 (59.46%) Castle Windsor
7 22 (59.46%) Inversion of Control
7 22 (59.46%) MSTest

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Sussex 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 24 (64.86%) .NET
1 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET
1 24 (64.86%) WCF
1 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET MVC
1 24 (64.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 23 (62.16%) Ninject
2 23 (62.16%) Razor View Engine
3 22 (59.46%) Spring.NET
3 22 (59.46%) Castle Windsor
3 22 (59.46%) Unity DI Container
3 22 (59.46%) WPF
3 22 (59.46%) WinForms
4 1 (2.703%) NHibernate
4 1 (2.703%) LINQ
4 1 (2.703%) Node.js
4 1 (2.703%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.405%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.703%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.703%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) MS Office
2 5 (13.51%) MS Excel
3 3 (8.108%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.51%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.81%) DHCP
2 4 (10.81%) DNS
3 3 (8.108%) SAN
3 3 (8.108%) Internet
3 3 (8.108%) Firewall
3 3 (8.108%) LAN
3 3 (8.108%) WAN
4 2 (5.405%) VPN
5 1 (2.703%) VoIP
5 1 (2.703%) HTTP
5 1 (2.703%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (64.86%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.703%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 23 (62.16%) NUnit
1 23 (62.16%) Rhino Mocks
1 23 (62.16%) Moq
2 22 (59.46%) MSTest
General
1 1 (2.703%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (2.703%) Finance
1 1 (2.703%) Retail
1 1 (2.703%) Music
Job Titles
1 24 (64.86%) Developer
1 24 (64.86%) .NET Developer
2 4 (10.81%) Support Engineer
3 3 (8.108%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (8.108%) Desktop Support
3 3 (8.108%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (5.405%) Desktop Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) IT Support Technician
4 2 (5.405%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) IT Support
4 2 (5.405%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (5.405%) Desktop Administrator
4 2 (5.405%) Analyst
4 2 (5.405%) Administrator
4 2 (5.405%) Support Technician
5 1 (2.703%) Support Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Junior
5 1 (2.703%) Junior IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 22 (59.46%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (10.81%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.405%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.703%) DTV
4 1 (2.703%) Clustering
4 1 (2.703%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 32 (86.49%) Windows
2 6 (16.22%) Windows XP
2 6 (16.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (13.51%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (8.108%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.405%) Windows 8
5 2 (5.405%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (5.405%) Mac OS
5 2 (5.405%) Mac OS X
5 2 (5.405%) Linux
6 1 (2.703%) UNIX
6 1 (2.703%) HPUX
6 1 (2.703%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.703%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (64.86%) MVC
1 24 (64.86%) TDD
1 24 (64.86%) Web Application Development
2 23 (62.16%) Dependency Injection
2 23 (62.16%) Kanban
2 23 (62.16%) Scrum
3 22 (59.46%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (59.46%) MVVM
4 1 (2.703%) BDD
4 1 (2.703%) Software Deployment
4 1 (2.703%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (2.703%) Business Continuity
4 1 (2.703%) ITIL
4 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
4 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 24 (64.86%) C#
2 2 (5.405%) SQL
2 2 (5.405%) C
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (67.57%) MCTS
3 24 (64.86%) MCAD
3 24 (64.86%) MCSD
4 3 (8.108%) MCSE
4 3 (8.108%) MCITP
5 2 (5.405%) MCSA
5 2 (5.405%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.703%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.703%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.405%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.108%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.703%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.703%) vSphere
3 1 (2.703%) ISA Server
3 1 (2.703%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (5.405%) WSUS
1 2 (5.405%) SCCM
2 1 (2.703%) SCOM
2 1 (2.703%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 30 (81.08%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.108%) VMware
2 3 (8.108%) Avaya
3 2 (5.405%) HP
3 2 (5.405%) Citrix
4 1 (2.703%) Dell
4 1 (2.703%) Altiris
4 1 (2.703%) SonicWALL
4 1 (2.703%) Apple
4 1 (2.703%) Sage
4 1 (2.703%) Remedy
Crawley, South East
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, KnockoutJS, T4 Template, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Node.js,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Horsham, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Worthing, West Sussex
We are recruiting for a number of permanent 1st Line Support/Helpdesk Analyst / IT Service Desk Analyst to work for our leading organisation based in Worthing. They are...
DGH Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013