The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 17 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 Bradford 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing MCITP 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £310 £263
% change year-on-year
-27.41% +18.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -20.45%
All Qualifications
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
19 13 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 12.03% 8.176% 18.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 2
Average daily rate £250 £365 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.50% +12.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £175.00 £32.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+438.46% +58.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCITP
West Yorkshire

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MCSE
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (33.33%) MCTS
3 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) CCA
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (33.33%) MCSA
3 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) .NET

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (33.33%) MCTS
2 1 (33.33%) MCSA
2 1 (33.33%) CCA
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) HP