The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE 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 Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 100 117 87
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -30
Contract jobs citing MCSE 20 18 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.835% 0.572% 1.411%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.460% 2.378% 5.915%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 10 22
Average daily rate £342 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £268 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £29.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
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%
MCSE
South East

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Berkshire MCSE Daily Rate Histogram

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE 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 +19 11 £380 -5.00%
Slough -10 3 £438 +118.75%
Bracknell - 3 £300 -
MCSE
South East

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 30 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (93.33%) Windows
3 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
4 21 (70.00%) Active Directory
5 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 15 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
7 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
8 9 (30.00%) CCNA
8 9 (30.00%) IIS
8 9 (30.00%) SQL
8 9 (30.00%) MCP
9 8 (26.67%) Windows XP
9 8 (26.67%) Citrix
10 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2007
10 7 (23.33%) SCOM
10 7 (23.33%) SAN
10 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
10 7 (23.33%) MS Excel
10 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
10 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2010
11 6 (20.00%) VB
11 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
11 6 (20.00%) Blackberry
11 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
11 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
12 5 (16.67%) MCITP
12 5 (16.67%) Remedy
13 4 (13.33%) Internet
13 4 (13.33%) CCA

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 9 (30.00%) IIS
2 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
2 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
3 4 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 7 (23.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (23.33%) SAN
2 4 (13.33%) Internet
2 4 (13.33%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) VLAN
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
3 3 (10.00%) LDAP
4 2 (6.667%) SSL
4 2 (6.667%) LAN
4 2 (6.667%) WAN
4 2 (6.667%) Wireshark
5 1 (3.333%) NAS
5 1 (3.333%) DHCP
5 1 (3.333%) Kerberos
5 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.333%) VPN
5 1 (3.333%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Banking
2 1 (3.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Analyst
1 8 (26.67%) Server Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Support Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (20.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Windows Support Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 3 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Server Support Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Server Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Windows Server Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Server Support
7 2 (6.667%) Network Support Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Network Engineer
7 2 (6.667%) Network Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (10.00%) PKI
3 2 (6.667%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.667%) Replication
3 2 (6.667%) Clustering
3 2 (6.667%) FMCG
3 2 (6.667%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.333%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 28 (93.33%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 15 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (26.67%) Windows XP
5 7 (23.33%) Windows 7
6 4 (13.33%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (13.33%) Windows Vista
7 2 (6.667%) UNIX
7 2 (6.667%) Windows 2000
8 1 (3.333%) Windows 8
8 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (3.333%) CentOS
8 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (13.33%) ITIL
2 3 (10.00%) Time Management
2 3 (10.00%) Identity Management
3 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
3 2 (6.667%) PLM
3 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Architecture
3 2 (6.667%) Change Control
4 1 (3.333%) Software Deployment
4 1 (3.333%) Software Distribution
4 1 (3.333%) Investment Management
4 1 (3.333%) User Experience Design
4 1 (3.333%) Service Delivery
4 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.333%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 9 (30.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) VB
4 1 (3.333%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (30.00%) CCNA
3 9 (30.00%) MCP
4 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (16.67%) MCITP
6 4 (13.33%) CCA
6 4 (13.33%) Citrix Certification
6 4 (13.33%) MCSD
6 4 (13.33%) Degree
7 3 (10.00%) HNC
8 2 (6.667%) DV Cleared
9 1 (3.333%) MCDST
9 1 (3.333%) CCNP
9 1 (3.333%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (70.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) XenApp
3 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.667%) ISA Server
4 2 (6.667%) MetaFrame
4 2 (6.667%) NFS
4 2 (6.667%) Xen
4 2 (6.667%) UAG
5 1 (3.333%) Shibboleth
5 1 (3.333%) XenServer
5 1 (3.333%) DFS Replication
5 1 (3.333%) NLBS
5 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (3.333%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (23.33%) SCOM
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
3 3 (10.00%) MOM
3 3 (10.00%) MIIS
4 2 (6.667%) MIMEsweeper
4 2 (6.667%) Backup Exec
4 2 (6.667%) WSUS
5 1 (3.333%) Opalis
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Citrix
3 5 (16.67%) Remedy
4 3 (10.00%) CA
5 2 (6.667%) Symantec
5 2 (6.667%) VMware
6 1 (3.333%) ProCurve
6 1 (3.333%) HP
6 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
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