Canary Wharf Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Canary Wharf region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certification
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	41
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	2	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	6.667 %	13.43 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£288
Average daily rate	£400	£306
% change on same period last year	+30.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£325
UK excluding London average daily rate	£265	£260
% change on same period last year	+1.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£24.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.51	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Qualifications Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	30	67
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.073 %
Daily rates quoted	7	37
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£423
Average daily rate	£349	£459
% change on same period last year	-23.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£494
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£11.00
Average hourly rate	£24.00	£13.00
% change on same period last year	+84.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.00	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.73	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+2.29 %
Microsoft Certification London

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.

Microsoft Certification
Demand Trend

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Canary Wharf region.

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Canary Wharf region.

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 3 (100.00 %) MCSE 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 3 1 (33.33 %) OLAP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) DTS 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) CNE 3 1 (33.33 %) Novell Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 3 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry 3 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Finance 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 1 (33.33 %) MCTS

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 1 1 (33.33 %) OLAP 1 1 (33.33 %) DTS 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Architect 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL Developer 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration 1 1 (33.33 %) Business Development 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) MCSE 2 1 (33.33 %) CNE 2 1 (33.33 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 1 (33.33 %) MCTS 2 1 (33.33 %) MCITP	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware ESX
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Remedy 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware