The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 20 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 Bedfordshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 28 28 38
Rank change year-on-year
0 +10
Contract jobs citing MCSA 1 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.498% 3.125% 1.215%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.226% 16.33% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £375 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +59.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £200 £338
% change year-on-year
+13.00% -40.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £15.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-22.58% -6.06%
All Qualifications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
31 49 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 15.42% 19.14% 19.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 26 18
Average daily rate £380 £335 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.43% +8.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £324 £239 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £483 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +32.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
MCSA
East of England

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dunstable - - - -
Luton - - - -
MCSA
East of England

MCSA
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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