Aberdeen MCSE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Aberdeen region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 19 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glasgow Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rugby Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 19 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	26
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	2	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.333 %	15.38 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£277
% change on same period last year	+5.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£37.50	£18.50
% change on same period last year	+102.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.02	£21.97
% change on same period last year	+9.32 %
Qualifications Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	60	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.094 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£392	£247
Average daily rate	£417	£259
% change on same period last year	+61.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£324
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£40.00	£15.06
Average hourly rate	£40.71	£15.69
% change on same period last year	+159.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£41.43	£16.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.44	£25.75
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
MCSE Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MCSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCSE across the Aberdeen region.

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Aberdeen region.

MCSE
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCSE 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited MCSE.

1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Quality Management 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (33.33 %) Altiris 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 3 1 (33.33 %) MCP 3 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server

3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) CNA 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 3 1 (33.33 %) Project Management

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MCSE also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Systems Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Infrastructure Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) NetWare 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Project Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Quality Management	Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) CNA 2 1 (33.33 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 1 (33.33 %) MCP
System Software 1 2 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (33.33 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) Novell 2 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) Altiris 2 1 (33.33 %) Oracle 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft