The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Cheltenham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheltenham 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 14 46 22
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -24
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 5.263% 0.830% 0.990%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.38% 1.075% 2.222%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
Average daily rate £375 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Cheltenham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
26 186 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheltenham 34.21% 77.18% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 105 17
Average daily rate £375 £450 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +34.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £395 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £575 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 8
Average hourly rate £40.00 £36.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.58% +4.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
Gloucestershire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheltenham Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheltenham Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) MCAD
2 2 (50.00%) MCSD
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) MSI

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheltenham 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 Development
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (50.00%) CRM Developer
1 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) OO
1 2 (50.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCAD
1 2 (50.00%) MCSD
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) VMware