The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 19 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 Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 34 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 2 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.005% 1.587% 2.247%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.762% 5.455% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £175 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-36.36% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £260
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -3.03%
All Qualifications
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
42 55 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 21.11% 29.10% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 21
Average daily rate £175 £363 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-51.72% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £212 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £488 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 6
Average hourly rate £39.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Microsoft Certification
Hampshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Basingstoke Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM