The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 24 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 Berkshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 108 117 117
Rank change year-on-year
+9 0
Contract jobs citing MCP 12 18 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.501% 0.572% 0.403%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.076% 2.378% 1.690%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 4
Average daily rate £400 £285 £229
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.35% +24.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £213 £132
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £305 £341
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £12.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -21.87%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
578 757 710
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 24.13% 24.07% 23.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 282 242
Average daily rate £375 £333 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.78% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 15 41
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.00 £21.66
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% -16.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £12.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £47.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire MCP Daily Rate Histogram

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below 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 24 May 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
Reading +16 10 £400 +70.21%
Slough - 1 - -
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 20 (100.00%) Windows
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
3 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (55.00%) Blackberry
3 11 (55.00%) Windows 7
4 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (50.00%) Windows XP
5 9 (45.00%) MCSE
6 8 (40.00%) MCDST
7 7 (35.00%) WAN
8 6 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
8 6 (30.00%) LAN
8 6 (30.00%) Lotus
8 6 (30.00%) Software Deployment
9 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
9 5 (25.00%) Remedy
9 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
9 5 (25.00%) Aerospace
9 5 (25.00%) IIS
9 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
10 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
10 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
10 4 (20.00%) MS Office
10 4 (20.00%) MCSD
10 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
10 4 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
10 4 (20.00%) Windows Vista

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 2 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.000%) .NET
2 1 (5.000%) CSS
2 1 (5.000%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 5 (25.00%) IIS
2 5 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (20.00%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.000%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) WAN
2 6 (30.00%) LAN
3 4 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (10.00%) Internet
4 2 (10.00%) LDAP
4 2 (10.00%) VPN
4 2 (10.00%) Wireshark
5 1 (5.000%) VPLS
5 1 (5.000%) DNS
5 1 (5.000%) SSL
5 1 (5.000%) DHCP
5 1 (5.000%) FTP
5 1 (5.000%) Kerberos
5 1 (5.000%) Firewall
5 1 (5.000%) Wireless
5 1 (5.000%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 5 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 5 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.000%) French Language
2 1 (5.000%) German Language
2 1 (5.000%) Back Office
2 1 (5.000%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) Analyst
1 6 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Desktop Team Leader
2 5 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 3 (15.00%) Server Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.000%) Messaging Specialist
5 1 (5.000%) Desktop Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Help Desk Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Server Analyst
5 1 (5.000%) Exchange Specialist
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.000%) Active Directory Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.00%) PKI
3 2 (10.00%) Statistics
4 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.000%) PDA
4 1 (5.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 20 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (55.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 11 (55.00%) Windows 7
3 10 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 4 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Software Deployment
2 3 (15.00%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.000%) WAN Optimisation
3 1 (5.000%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.000%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (45.00%) MCSE
3 8 (40.00%) MCDST
4 4 (20.00%) MCSD
5 2 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (5.000%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 13 (65.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) DFS Replication
2 1 (5.000%) vSphere
2 1 (5.000%) Shibboleth
2 1 (5.000%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) MIIS
Vendors
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (30.00%) Lotus
3 5 (25.00%) Remedy
4 2 (10.00%) VMware
5 1 (5.000%) Riverbed
5 1 (5.000%) Cisco
5 1 (5.000%) Citrix
5 1 (5.000%) Adobe
5 1 (5.000%) CheckPoint
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