The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT jobs advertised for the Wigan region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 22 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 Wigan region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank - 36 13
Permanent jobs citing MCP 0 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan - 2.326% 5.556%
As % of the Qualifications category - 7.143% 16.67%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 2
Average salary - £44,000 £18,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +137.83%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
- +2.94%
All Qualifications
Wigan
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27 42 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wigan 35.06% 32.56% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 26 42 11
Average salary £33,000 £43,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.69% +23.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,250 £40,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
MCP
Manchester

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wigan 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 Wigan region.

Wigan MCP Salary Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
2 5 (71.43%) MCAD
2 5 (71.43%) MCSD
2 5 (71.43%) MVC
2 5 (71.43%) Tandem
2 5 (71.43%) TDD
2 5 (71.43%) Retail
2 5 (71.43%) MCTS
2 5 (71.43%) WCF
2 5 (71.43%) WPF
2 5 (71.43%) Domain-Driven Design
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (71.43%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (71.43%) Node.js
2 5 (71.43%) Ninject
2 5 (71.43%) KnockoutJS
2 5 (71.43%) Web Application Development
2 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (28.57%) MCSA
3 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 2 (28.57%) Citrix

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET
1 5 (71.43%) WCF
1 5 (71.43%) WPF
1 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC
1 5 (71.43%) Node.js
1 5 (71.43%) Ninject
1 5 (71.43%) KnockoutJS
1 5 (71.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (71.43%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) MVC
1 5 (71.43%) TDD
1 5 (71.43%) Domain-Driven Design
1 5 (71.43%) Dependency Injection
1 5 (71.43%) Web Application Development
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2
2 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) MCAD
2 5 (71.43%) MCSD
2 5 (71.43%) MCTS
3 2 (28.57%) MCSE
3 2 (28.57%) MCSA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
2 1 (14.29%) VMware