Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Birmingham region.

 Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank---
Matching contract IT job ads000
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham---
As % of the Qualifications category---
Daily rates quoted000
Average daily rate---
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£400£388
% change year-on-year
-20.00 %+3.220 %
Hourly rates quoted000
Average hourly rate---
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.50£27.90£23.50
% change year-on-year
-26.52 %+18.72 %
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3761119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham9.343 %13.47 %12.71 %
Daily rates quoted152144
Average daily rate£300£325£301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.690 %+8.150 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£200£171
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£395£375£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted4318
Average hourly rate£9.00£16.50£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.45 %-45.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
MCTS West MidlandsMCTS
West Midlands

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.

MCTS
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

11 (100.00 %)JavaScript
11 (100.00 %)PL/SQL
11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)VB.NET
11 (100.00 %).NET
11 (100.00 %)Oracle
11 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
11 (100.00 %)CSS
11 (100.00 %)Web Services
11 (100.00 %)XML
11 (100.00 %)XSLT
11 (100.00 %)MCAD
11 (100.00 %)MCSD
11 (100.00 %)XHTML
11 (100.00 %)SOA
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
11 (100.00 %)BEA
11 (100.00 %)Plumtree
11 (100.00 %)Workflow
11 (100.00 %)Finance
11 (100.00 %)Oracle Workflow
11 (100.00 %)AquaLogic
11 (100.00 %)MCPD
11 (100.00 %).NET Framework
11 (100.00 %)WCF
11 (100.00 %)Oracle 11g
11 (100.00 %)WebCenter

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (100.00 %).NET
11 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
11 (100.00 %)CSS
11 (100.00 %)Web Services
11 (100.00 %)XML
11 (100.00 %)XSLT
11 (100.00 %)XHTML
11 (100.00 %).NET Framework
11 (100.00 %)WCF
11 (100.00 %)WebCenter
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11 (100.00 %)Oracle Workflow
11 (100.00 %)AquaLogic
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (100.00 %)Oracle 11g
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11 (100.00 %)Finance
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11 (100.00 %)Analyst
11 (100.00 %)Analyst Programmer
11 (100.00 %)Programmer
11 (100.00 %)Senior Analyst
11 (100.00 %)Senior Analyst Programmer
11 (100.00 %)Senior Programmer
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (100.00 %)SOA
11 (100.00 %)Workflow
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11 (100.00 %)JavaScript
11 (100.00 %)PL/SQL
11 (100.00 %)SQL
11 (100.00 %)VB.NET
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11 (100.00 %)MCAD
11 (100.00 %)MCSD
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
11 (100.00 %)MCPD
Birmingham IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (100.00 %)Oracle
11 (100.00 %)Microsoft
11 (100.00 %)BEA
11 (100.00 %)Plumtree