The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 60 61 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -22
Contract jobs citing MCSE 3 5 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.408% 0.621% 3.905%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.796% 3.106% 22.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 24
Average daily rate - £244 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £19.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.12% -2.50%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
167 161 167
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.72% 20.00% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 77 58
Average daily rate £345 £330 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% +24.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £182 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £511 £454 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 6
Average hourly rate £40.00 £29.00 £12.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.93% +127.45%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Knutsford - 1 - -
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 10 (90.91%) ITIL
2 10 (90.91%) Windows
3 9 (81.82%) MCITP
3 9 (81.82%) Incident Management
4 8 (72.73%) Lotus Notes
4 8 (72.73%) Windows XP
4 8 (72.73%) HP
4 8 (72.73%) Lotus
4 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
5 7 (63.64%) MS Excel
5 7 (63.64%) OpenView
5 7 (63.64%) MS Visio
5 7 (63.64%) ISO 9000
5 7 (63.64%) MCP
5 7 (63.64%) MS Project
5 7 (63.64%) MS Office
5 7 (63.64%) MS PowerPoint
5 7 (63.64%) MCDST
5 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (63.64%) ServiceCenter
5 7 (63.64%) BS25999
5 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
5 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
6 4 (36.36%) LiveLink
7 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
7 3 (27.27%) Migration
7 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (72.73%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (36.36%) LiveLink
3 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
4 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 5.5
5 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MS Excel
1 7 (63.64%) MS Visio
1 7 (63.64%) MS Project
1 7 (63.64%) MS Office
1 7 (63.64%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
1 2 (18.18%) DNS
1 2 (18.18%) SMTP
2 1 (9.091%) NAS
2 1 (9.091%) DHCP
2 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MSI
General
1 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 2 (18.18%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Support Analyst
1 8 (72.73%) Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
2 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Messaging Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Blackberry
2 2 (18.18%) Clustering
3 1 (9.091%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (90.91%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows XP
2 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) ITIL
2 9 (81.82%) Incident Management
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Capacity Management
5 1 (9.091%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (9.091%) Software Distribution
5 1 (9.091%) Load Balancing
5 1 (9.091%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 1 (9.091%) Perl
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) VB
2 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (81.82%) MCITP
3 7 (63.64%) MCP
3 7 (63.64%) MCDST
3 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
4 2 (18.18%) MCSA
4 2 (18.18%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) ISO 9000
1 7 (63.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (63.64%) BS25999
System Software
1 10 (90.91%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) OpenView
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceCenter
2 1 (9.091%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (9.091%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Microsoft
2 8 (72.73%) HP
2 8 (72.73%) Lotus
3 1 (9.091%) IronPort
3 1 (9.091%) Symantec