Chesterfield Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Chesterfield 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certification
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	10	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	80.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£275	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£269
% change on same period last year	+3.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.09	£22.80
% change on same period last year	-11.87 %
Qualifications Chesterfield
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£199	-
Average daily rate	£217	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£234	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
Microsoft Certification Derbyshire

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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield 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 Chesterfield region.

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chesterfield 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 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) MCSE 2 6 (85.71 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (71.43 %) Active Directory 4 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 5 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 5 3 (42.86 %) MS Excel 5 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 5 3 (42.86 %) LAN 5 3 (42.86 %) WAN 6 2 (28.57 %) DHCP 6 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 6 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (28.57 %) SharePoint 6 2 (28.57 %) MCSA

6 2 (28.57 %) MCP 6 2 (28.57 %) Degree 6 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (14.29 %) SCOM 7 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management 7 1 (14.29 %) MCDST 7 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (14.29 %) Health 7 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup 7 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 7 1 (14.29 %) MOM 7 1 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 1 (14.29 %) ISA Server 7 1 (14.29 %) Remedy 7 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chesterfield 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 1 (14.29 %) .NET 1 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) SharePoint 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (14.29 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) LAN 1 3 (42.86 %) WAN 2 2 (28.57 %) DHCP 2 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Health	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) IT Support Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Support Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) IT Support Manager
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (85.71 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (42.86 %) Windows XP 4 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 1 1 (14.29 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (100.00 %) MCSE 2 2 (28.57 %) MCSA 2 2 (28.57 %) MCP 2 2 (28.57 %) Degree 3 1 (14.29 %) MCDST
System Software 1 5 (71.43 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) ISA Server 2 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 1 (14.29 %) MOM 1 1 (14.29 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (14.29 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) VERITAS 2 1 (14.29 %) Remedy