Berkshire MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Spalding Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	130
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	23	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	6.609 %	6.509 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£358
Average daily rate	£253	£375
% change on same period last year	-32.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£257	£392
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£206
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.20	£21.41
Average hourly rate	£12.55	£22.38
% change on same period last year	-43.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.90	£23.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Qualifications Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	348	507
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.464 %	0.513 %
Daily rates quoted	94	146
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£325
Average daily rate	£379	£336
% change on same period last year	+12.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£347
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.77	£27.56
Average hourly rate	£16.71	£29.07
% change on same period last year	-42.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.64	£30.58
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCP South East

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Reading	+9	15	£300	-20.00 %
Maidenhead	+21	4	-	-
Slough	-6	1	£160	-
Newbury	-	1	-	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited MCP.

1 38 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 29 (76.32 %) Windows 3 17 (44.74 %) MCSE 4 15 (39.47 %) Active Directory 5 10 (26.32 %) HP 5 10 (26.32 %) Microsoft 5 10 (26.32 %) ITIL 6 9 (23.68 %) VPN 6 9 (23.68 %) SLA 7 8 (21.05 %) .NET 8 7 (18.42 %) MS Office 8 7 (18.42 %) C# 8 7 (18.42 %) Blackberry 9 6 (15.79 %) Wireless 9 6 (15.79 %) MCSA

9 6 (15.79 %) Altiris 9 6 (15.79 %) SC Cleared 9 6 (15.79 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 5 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 5 (13.16 %) C++ 10 5 (13.16 %) Citrix 10 5 (13.16 %) Clustering 11 4 (10.53 %) DNS 11 4 (10.53 %) VERITAS 11 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 11 4 (10.53 %) LDAP 11 4 (10.53 %) Windows NT 11 4 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 11 4 (10.53 %) WAN

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (21.05 %) .NET 2 4 (10.53 %) .NET Framework 3 3 (7.895 %) HTML 3 3 (7.895 %) ASP.NET 4 2 (5.263 %) CSS 4 2 (5.263 %) ADSI 4 2 (5.263 %) ASP 5 1 (2.632 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 5 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 5 (13.16 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (5.263 %) Site Server 3 2 (5.263 %) GroupWise 3 2 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (2.632 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (2.632 %) IIS 4 1 (2.632 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 7 (18.42 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.632 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (23.68 %) VPN 2 6 (15.79 %) Wireless 3 4 (10.53 %) DNS 3 4 (10.53 %) LDAP 3 4 (10.53 %) WAN 4 3 (7.895 %) DHCP 4 3 (7.895 %) LAN 4 3 (7.895 %) SAN 4 3 (7.895 %) X.500 5 2 (5.263 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (2.632 %) WLAN 6 1 (2.632 %) Internet 6 1 (2.632 %) MPLS 6 1 (2.632 %) X.400 6 1 (2.632 %) Firewall 6 1 (2.632 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.632 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) MSI 1 1 (2.632 %) InstallShield
General 1 2 (5.263 %) Government 1 2 (5.263 %) Law 2 1 (2.632 %) Electronics	Job Titles 1 9 (23.68 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (21.05 %) Desktop Support 3 7 (18.42 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 7 (18.42 %) Desktop Engineer 4 6 (15.79 %) 1st Line Support 5 5 (13.16 %) Analyst 6 4 (10.53 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (10.53 %) Technical Support 7 3 (7.895 %) Support Technician 7 3 (7.895 %) Developer 7 3 (7.895 %) Senior Desktop Engineer 7 3 (7.895 %) Senior Desktop Support 7 3 (7.895 %) Senior Desktop Support Engineer 7 3 (7.895 %) Senior Support Engineer 8 2 (5.263 %) ASP Developer 8 2 (5.263 %) Support Specialist 8 2 (5.263 %) Consultant 8 2 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (5.263 %) Senior Analyst 8 2 (5.263 %) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (18.42 %) Blackberry 2 5 (13.16 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.632 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.632 %) Replication 3 1 (2.632 %) CLARiiON	Operating Systems 1 29 (76.32 %) Windows 2 4 (10.53 %) Windows NT 3 3 (7.895 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (5.263 %) UNIX 4 2 (5.263 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (2.632 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (26.32 %) ITIL 2 6 (15.79 %) SC Cleared 2 6 (15.79 %) Security Cleared 3 4 (10.53 %) DV Cleared 4 2 (5.263 %) Service Management 4 2 (5.263 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (5.263 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (5.263 %) Migration 5 1 (2.632 %) Asset Management 5 1 (2.632 %) Computer Security 5 1 (2.632 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 7 (18.42 %) C# 2 5 (13.16 %) C++ 3 2 (5.263 %) JavaScript 4 1 (2.632 %) SQL 4 1 (2.632 %) VB.NET 4 1 (2.632 %) C
Qualifications 1 38 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (44.74 %) MCSE 3 6 (15.79 %) MCSA 4 3 (7.895 %) MOS 4 3 (7.895 %) MCDST 5 2 (5.263 %) MCAD 5 2 (5.263 %) MCSD 5 2 (5.263 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (2.632 %) HNC 6 1 (2.632 %) CCNA 6 1 (2.632 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (23.68 %) SLA
System Software 1 15 (39.47 %) Active Directory 2 2 (5.263 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.632 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.632 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (2.632 %) ISA Server 3 1 (2.632 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 1 (2.632 %) MOM 1 1 (2.632 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (2.632 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (2.632 %) EMC Navisphere
Vendors 1 10 (26.32 %) Microsoft 1 10 (26.32 %) HP 2 6 (15.79 %) Altiris 3 5 (13.16 %) Citrix 4 4 (10.53 %) VERITAS 5 3 (7.895 %) Cisco 5 3 (7.895 %) Compaq 6 2 (5.263 %) Novell 6 2 (5.263 %) Siemens 6 2 (5.263 %) Fujitsu Siemens 6 2 (5.263 %) VMware 7 1 (2.632 %) Lotus 7 1 (2.632 %) Symantec 7 1 (2.632 %) Remedy 7 1 (2.632 %) IBM 7 1 (2.632 %) EMC 7 1 (2.632 %) Intel