Cheshire MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Cheshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	51
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	12	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	11.11 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£362	-
Average daily rate	£392	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£423	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£285	£282
% change on same period last year	+1.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£25.00
Average hourly rate	-	£27.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.61	£22.37
% change on same period last year	+10.01 %
Qualifications Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	120	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.159 %	0.083 %
Daily rates quoted	45	15
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£375
Average daily rate	£307	£399
% change on same period last year	-23.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.24	£25.38
Average hourly rate	£23.58	£27.18
% change on same period last year	-13.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.93	£28.99
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.90	£25.48
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCSE North West

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 Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Cheshire region.

MCSE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MCSE within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 18 July 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
Knutsford	-	7	£392	-

MCSE North West

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 15 (93.75 %) Windows 3 12 (75.00 %) Active Directory 3 12 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 10 (62.50 %) SQL 5 9 (56.25 %) WAN 5 9 (56.25 %) SAN 5 9 (56.25 %) LAN 5 9 (56.25 %) Citrix 6 7 (43.75 %) IIS 7 6 (37.50 %) COM+ 7 6 (37.50 %) DCOM 7 6 (37.50 %) POP3 7 6 (37.50 %) SMTP 7 6 (37.50 %) VMware

8 5 (31.25 %) Finance 8 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 8 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 9 4 (25.00 %) HP 9 4 (25.00 %) Dell 9 4 (25.00 %) Windows NT 10 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 10 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 10 3 (18.75 %) Change Management 11 2 (12.50 %) Backup Exec 11 2 (12.50 %) Banking 11 2 (12.50 %) Altiris 11 2 (12.50 %) Statistics 11 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, 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 6 (37.50 %) COM+ 1 6 (37.50 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 7 (43.75 %) IIS 2 2 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 9 (56.25 %) LAN 1 9 (56.25 %) WAN 1 9 (56.25 %) SAN 2 6 (37.50 %) POP3 2 6 (37.50 %) SMTP 3 2 (12.50 %) Ethernet 3 2 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (6.250 %) SMS 4 1 (6.250 %) ADSL 4 1 (6.250 %) Broadband
General 1 5 (31.25 %) Finance 2 2 (12.50 %) Banking 3 1 (6.250 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 4 (25.00 %) Development Specialist 2 4 (25.00 %) Server Specialist 2 4 (25.00 %) Server Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Team Leader 4 1 (6.250 %) Technical Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Team Leader 4 1 (6.250 %) Delivery Manager 4 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Team Leader 4 1 (6.250 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist 4 1 (6.250 %) Systems Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Statistics 2 1 (6.250 %) Computer Science 2 1 (6.250 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 15 (93.75 %) Windows 2 12 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows NT 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows XP 5 2 (12.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (31.25 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Change Management 3 1 (6.250 %) Migration 3 1 (6.250 %) Incident Management 3 1 (6.250 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 10 (62.50 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) C
Qualifications 1 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (12.50 %) MCP 3 1 (6.250 %) CCNA 3 1 (6.250 %) CCA 3 1 (6.250 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (6.250 %) Degree	System Software 1 12 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (12.50 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 9 (56.25 %) Citrix 2 6 (37.50 %) VMware 3 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 4 4 (25.00 %) HP 4 4 (25.00 %) Dell 5 2 (12.50 %) Altiris 5 2 (12.50 %) Lotus 6 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 6 1 (6.250 %) Peregrine