MCP Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP 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 Buckinghamshire 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 Professional (MCP)
Rank 50 58 63
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +5
Contract jobs citing MCP 15 17 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.904% 1.673% 1.132%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.042% 8.252% 5.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 5
Average daily rate £220 £154 £142
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% +8.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £213 £175
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £12.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -19.35%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £16.18
% change year-on-year
-12.06% -10.39%
All Qualifications
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 213 206 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 27.03% 20.28% 21.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 84 98
Average daily rate £275 £258 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.79% -26.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 18
Average hourly rate £18.55 £15.75 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.77% -4.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.10 £15.00 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.55 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Milton Keynes +10 13 £325 +103.12%
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 19 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (84.21%) Windows
3 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
4 14 (73.68%) MCSE
5 13 (68.42%) MS Exchange
5 13 (68.42%) ITIL
5 13 (68.42%) VMware
6 12 (63.16%) Citrix
7 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (52.63%) Backup Exec
9 9 (47.37%) Hyper-V
9 9 (47.37%) Service Management
9 9 (47.37%) UNIX
9 9 (47.37%) SQL
10 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
11 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
11 7 (36.84%) Lync
11 7 (36.84%) SAN
11 7 (36.84%) HP
12 6 (31.58%) Linux
12 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
12 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
13 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
13 5 (26.32%) Oracle
13 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
13 5 (26.32%) Service Delivery
14 4 (21.05%) Change Management
14 4 (21.05%) Management Information System

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (15.79%) SOAP
1 3 (15.79%) JMS
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
3 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.263%) CSS
3 1 (5.263%) Web Services
3 1 (5.263%) XML
3 1 (5.263%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.263%) WCF
3 1 (5.263%) WPF
3 1 (5.263%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 13 (68.42%) MS Exchange
2 8 (42.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (36.84%) Lync
4 6 (31.58%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) SAN
2 3 (15.79%) Internet
2 3 (15.79%) Firewall
2 3 (15.79%) iSCSI
2 3 (15.79%) NAS
2 3 (15.79%) SMTP
3 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.263%) LAN
3 1 (5.263%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.263%) NUnit
1 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (10.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Analyst
1 8 (42.11%) Support Analyst
2 5 (26.32%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architect
4 3 (15.79%) Architect
5 2 (10.53%) Developer
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Software Manager
6 1 (5.263%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) .NET Applications Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
1 4 (21.05%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (15.79%) Clustering
2 3 (15.79%) Cryptography
3 2 (10.53%) Thin Client
3 2 (10.53%) Fat Client
4 1 (5.263%) Statistics
4 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (84.21%) Windows
2 15 (78.95%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (47.37%) UNIX
4 6 (31.58%) Linux
5 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (10.53%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (5.263%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) ITIL
2 9 (47.37%) Service Management
3 5 (26.32%) Service Delivery
4 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
5 3 (15.79%) TOGAF
5 3 (15.79%) ITIL V3
6 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
7 1 (5.263%) Web Development
7 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.263%) Data Modelling
7 1 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
7 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) C#
4 1 (5.263%) VB
4 1 (5.263%) VB.NET
4 1 (5.263%) VB6
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (73.68%) MCSE
2 14 (73.68%) Security Cleared
3 8 (42.11%) SC Cleared
4 7 (36.84%) DV Cleared
5 3 (15.79%) MCTS
5 3 (15.79%) CCSP
5 3 (15.79%) CCNA
5 3 (15.79%) ISEB
5 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (10.53%) MCAD
6 2 (10.53%) MCITP
7 1 (5.263%) MCPD
7 1 (5.263%) Degree
7 1 (5.263%) MCDST
7 1 (5.263%) MCSD
7 1 (5.263%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (47.37%) Hyper-V
3 4 (21.05%) vSphere
4 3 (15.79%) XenApp
5 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 10 (52.63%) Backup Exec
2 3 (15.79%) OpenView
2 3 (15.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (5.263%) SCCM
3 1 (5.263%) SCOM
3 1 (5.263%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) Citrix
3 7 (36.84%) HP
4 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
5 5 (26.32%) Oracle
6 4 (21.05%) Compaq
7 3 (15.79%) StorageTek
7 3 (15.79%) Sun
8 2 (10.53%) IBM
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