Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 19 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 Cambridgeshire region.

 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank354262
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7Up+20
Matching contract IT job ads8813
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire1.923 %1.566 %1.155 %
As % of the Qualifications category10.39 %9.412 %10.32 %
Daily rates quoted122
Average daily rate£313£283£255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.61 %+10.78 %
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£278£300
% change year-on-year
-0.900 %-7.500 %
Hourly rates quoted524
Average hourly rate£22.00£19.50£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82 %-2.500 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.80£19.50£15.10
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£26.50£21.90£22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£21.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-18.60 %+7.500 %
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7785126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire18.51 %16.63 %11.19 %
Daily rates quoted202532
Average daily rate£313£240£338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.20 %-28.88 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£150£206£160
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£350£415
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted191218
Average hourly rate£22.00£20.00£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.50£15.80£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£34.50£34.00£35.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
MCSE East of EnglandMCSE
East of England

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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cambridgeshire MCSE Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Cambridgeshire MCSE Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
CambridgeDown-35--
MCSE East of EnglandMCSE
East of England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

112 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
29 (75.00 %)Microsoft
38 (66.67 %)Active Directory
38 (66.67 %)Windows
47 (58.33 %)Windows Server 2003
55 (41.67 %)HP
64 (33.33 %)SAN
64 (33.33 %)VB
64 (33.33 %)SQL Server
73 (25.00 %)Firewall
73 (25.00 %)VMware
73 (25.00 %)ITIL
73 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
73 (25.00 %)DHCP
73 (25.00 %)SQL
73 (25.00 %)Cisco
73 (25.00 %)DNS
73 (25.00 %)Windows Server 2008
73 (25.00 %)Windows 2000 Server
82 (16.67 %)Cloud Computing
82 (16.67 %)Amazon EC2
82 (16.67 %)ISO27001
82 (16.67 %)HP Data Protector
82 (16.67 %)PowerShell
82 (16.67 %)Citrix
82 (16.67 %)Avaya
82 (16.67 %)VPN
82 (16.67 %)MCSA
82 (16.67 %)IIS
82 (16.67 %)Finance

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (25.00 %)MS Exchange
22 (16.67 %)IIS
22 (16.67 %)Exchange Server 2003
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (8.333 %)MS Office
11 (8.333 %)MS Excel
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (33.33 %)SAN
23 (25.00 %)Firewall
23 (25.00 %)DHCP
23 (25.00 %)DNS
32 (16.67 %)VPN
41 (8.333 %)Intranet
41 (8.333 %)Internet
41 (8.333 %)IPsec
41 (8.333 %)VoIP
41 (8.333 %)TCP/IP
41 (8.333 %)SSL
41 (8.333 %)Network Security
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (33.33 %)SQL Server
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (8.333 %)LoadRunner
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (16.67 %)Finance
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14 (33.33 %)Analyst
22 (16.67 %)Virtualisation Consultant
22 (16.67 %)Service Analyst
22 (16.67 %)Server Engineer
22 (16.67 %)Support Engineer
22 (16.67 %)Consultant
31 (8.333 %)Tester
31 (8.333 %)Systems Engineer
31 (8.333 %)Systems Support
31 (8.333 %)Helpdesk Analyst
31 (8.333 %)3rd Line Support
31 (8.333 %)Test Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Manual Test Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Helpdesk Engineer
31 (8.333 %)Systems Support Engineer
31 (8.333 %)Windows Server Engineer
31 (8.333 %)Technical Services Analyst
31 (8.333 %)Manual Tester
31 (8.333 %)Helpdesk Support
31 (8.333 %)Technical Analyst
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (16.67 %)Cloud Computing
12 (16.67 %)Amazon EC2
21 (8.333 %)Clustering
21 (8.333 %)N-Tier
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18 (66.67 %)Windows
27 (58.33 %)Windows Server 2003
33 (25.00 %)Windows Server 2008
33 (25.00 %)Windows 2000 Server
41 (8.333 %)Windows 2000
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13 (25.00 %)ITIL
22 (16.67 %)Configuration Management
31 (8.333 %)Project Management
31 (8.333 %)Migration
31 (8.333 %)Change Management
31 (8.333 %)Manual Testing
31 (8.333 %)V-Model
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (33.33 %)VB
23 (25.00 %)SQL
32 (16.67 %)PowerShell
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
112 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
22 (16.67 %)MCSA
31 (8.333 %)CEH
31 (8.333 %)MCP
31 (8.333 %)ISEB
31 (8.333 %)ITIL Certification
31 (8.333 %)CCA
31 (8.333 %)Citrix Certification
31 (8.333 %)Cisco Certification
31 (8.333 %)CCNA
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
12 (16.67 %)ISO27001
21 (8.333 %)PCI DSS
21 (8.333 %)QA
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
18 (66.67 %)Active Directory
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (16.67 %)HP Data Protector
21 (8.333 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
Cambridgeshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
19 (75.00 %)Microsoft
25 (41.67 %)HP
33 (25.00 %)VMware
33 (25.00 %)Cisco
42 (16.67 %)Citrix
42 (16.67 %)Avaya
42 (16.67 %)NetApp
42 (16.67 %)CheckPoint