MCTS Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 54 65 69
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +4
Contract jobs citing MCTS 7 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.970% 0.248% 0.402%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.268% 1.198% 2.312%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 3
Average daily rate £420 £110 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+281.36% -63.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £110 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £110 £310
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 164 167 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 22.71% 20.67% 17.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 80 59
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 £186 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £511 £451 £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 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) IIS
4 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
4 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
4 5 (55.56%) CSS
4 5 (55.56%) C#
4 5 (55.56%) HTML
4 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
4 5 (55.56%) MCAD
4 5 (55.56%) MCSD
4 5 (55.56%) CRM
4 5 (55.56%) MVC
4 5 (55.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (55.56%) MCPD
4 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
4 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
4 5 (55.56%) WCF
4 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio Team System
4 5 (55.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (44.44%) MCITP
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
5 4 (44.44%) Windows
6 3 (33.33%) Active Directory

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
2 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Framework
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
2 5 (55.56%) WCF
2 5 (55.56%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (55.56%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (66.67%) IIS
2 4 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 4 (44.44%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SMTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
1 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) CRM Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Designer
3 2 (22.22%) Designer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Messaging Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Blackberry
1 2 (22.22%) Clustering
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
1 5 (55.56%) CRM
2 3 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (22.22%) Incident Management
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Capacity Management
4 1 (11.11%) Service Management
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
3 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (55.56%) MCPD
2 5 (55.56%) MCAD
2 5 (55.56%) MCSD
3 4 (44.44%) MCITP
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (22.22%) MCSE
4 2 (22.22%) MCSA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) vSphere
3 1 (11.11%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (11.11%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) IronPort
3 1 (11.11%) Symantec
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