Cambridgeshire MCSE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Rugby Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Asaph Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	66
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	21	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	20.00 %	9.174 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£225	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£225	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£305
% change on same period last year	-5.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£16.61	£23.05
% change on same period last year	-27.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.22	£24.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.21	£24.16
% change on same period last year	-3.93 %
Qualifications Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	105	109
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.149 %	0.110 %
Daily rates quoted	19	15
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£376
Average daily rate	£297	£397
% change on same period last year	-25.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.70	£31.00
Average hourly rate	£21.88	£33.53
% change on same period last year	-34.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.06	£36.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.45	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
MCSE East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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.

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.

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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.

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 7 October 2008.

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 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+20	10	£225	-
Peterborough	+8	3	-	-
Huntingdon	-	1	-	-

MCSE East of England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

1 59 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 41 (69.49 %) Windows 3 34 (57.63 %) MS Exchange 4 29 (49.15 %) Microsoft 5 27 (45.76 %) Windows Server 2003 6 24 (40.68 %) Active Directory 6 24 (40.68 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 22 (37.29 %) DNS 8 16 (27.12 %) LAN 8 16 (27.12 %) WAN 9 14 (23.73 %) Linux 9 14 (23.73 %) SharePoint 9 14 (23.73 %) MCP 9 14 (23.73 %) UNIX 10 13 (22.03 %) MPLS

10 13 (22.03 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 13 (22.03 %) Telecoms 11 10 (16.95 %) Citrix 12 9 (15.25 %) ITIL 12 9 (15.25 %) Windows XP 12 9 (15.25 %) VoIP 12 9 (15.25 %) VMware 13 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 13 8 (13.56 %) Cisco 13 8 (13.56 %) SMS 13 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 13 8 (13.56 %) MS Excel 14 7 (11.86 %) Windows 2000 14 7 (11.86 %) SQL 15 6 (10.17 %) Cisco Certification

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

Application Platforms 1 34 (57.63 %) MS Exchange 2 24 (40.68 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 14 (23.73 %) SharePoint 4 13 (22.03 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (5.085 %) IIS 5 3 (5.085 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 5.5	Applications 1 8 (13.56 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.390 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 22 (37.29 %) DNS 2 16 (27.12 %) LAN 2 16 (27.12 %) WAN 3 13 (22.03 %) MPLS 4 9 (15.25 %) VoIP 5 8 (13.56 %) Firewall 5 8 (13.56 %) SMS 6 5 (8.475 %) DHCP 7 2 (3.390 %) VPN 7 2 (3.390 %) Intranet 7 2 (3.390 %) VLAN 8 1 (1.695 %) Internet 8 1 (1.695 %) ADSL 8 1 (1.695 %) ISDN 8 1 (1.695 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (13.56 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 13 (22.03 %) Telecoms 2 4 (6.780 %) Electronics 3 2 (3.390 %) Education 4 1 (1.695 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (1.695 %) Banking 4 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (1.695 %) Finance 4 1 (1.695 %) Pharmaceutical	Job Titles 1 21 (35.59 %) Analyst 2 18 (30.51 %) 2nd Line Support 3 17 (28.81 %) Support Analyst 4 11 (18.64 %) 3rd Line Support 5 9 (15.25 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 6 7 (11.86 %) Administrator 6 7 (11.86 %) Support Engineer 6 7 (11.86 %) Systems Administrator 7 6 (10.17 %) Windows Administrator 7 6 (10.17 %) Windows Systems Administrator 8 5 (8.475 %) Desktop Support 9 4 (6.780 %) Technical Support 9 4 (6.780 %) Helpdesk Support 10 3 (5.085 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 11 2 (3.390 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 2 (3.390 %) Server Support 11 2 (3.390 %) Support Technician 11 2 (3.390 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 11 2 (3.390 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 11 2 (3.390 %) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.390 %) Mainframe 1 2 (3.390 %) Data Protection Act 2 1 (1.695 %) Video Conferencing	Operating Systems 1 41 (69.49 %) Windows 2 27 (45.76 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (23.73 %) Linux 3 14 (23.73 %) UNIX 4 9 (15.25 %) Windows XP 5 7 (11.86 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (8.475 %) Windows Vista 6 5 (8.475 %) Mac OS X 7 3 (5.085 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 2 (3.390 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (15.25 %) ITIL 2 5 (8.475 %) Change Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 3 2 (3.390 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (3.390 %) Data Protection 3 2 (3.390 %) Incident Management 4 1 (1.695 %) E-Commerce	Programming Languages 1 7 (11.86 %) SQL 2 1 (1.695 %) C
Qualifications 1 59 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (23.73 %) MCP 3 6 (10.17 %) Cisco Certification 3 6 (10.17 %) CCNA 4 5 (8.475 %) MCSA 5 4 (6.780 %) Degree 6 2 (3.390 %) CCNP 6 2 (3.390 %) Network+ Certification 7 1 (1.695 %) A+ Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.695 %) SLA
System Software 1 24 (40.68 %) Active Directory 2 5 (8.475 %) Terminal Server 3 3 (5.085 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (3.390 %) Terminal Services 5 1 (1.695 %) VMware ESX	Systems Management 1 3 (5.085 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (3.390 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 29 (49.15 %) Microsoft 2 10 (16.95 %) Citrix 3 9 (15.25 %) VMware 4 8 (13.56 %) Cisco 5 3 (5.085 %) Remedy 5 3 (5.085 %) Lotus 5 3 (5.085 %) Oracle 6 2 (3.390 %) Capita 7 1 (1.695 %) LANDesk 7 1 (1.695 %) VERITAS