The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP 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 City of London 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 IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank 178 204 234
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +30
Contract jobs citing MCITP 23 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.365% 0.116% 0.122%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.439% 0.848% 0.985%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 7
Average daily rate £359 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.08% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £225 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £310 £263
% change year-on-year
-27.41% +18.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -20.45%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
943 1061 1218
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.98% 13.64% 12.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 639 775
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £573 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 45 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+130.55% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £25.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCITP
London

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCITP across the City of London region.

City of London MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCITP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London MCITP Daily Rate Histogram

MCITP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCITP across the City of London region.

City of London MCITP Hourly Rate Trend

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 39 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 32 (61.54%) Windows
3 28 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 18 (34.62%) MCSE
4 18 (34.62%) MS Excel
5 17 (32.69%) SQL
6 16 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
7 15 (28.85%) ITIL
8 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
9 13 (25.00%) Finance
9 13 (25.00%) VMware
9 13 (25.00%) MS Exchange
9 13 (25.00%) Citrix
9 13 (25.00%) Cisco
9 13 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 13 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 12 (23.08%) Oracle
11 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
11 11 (21.15%) MS Office
11 11 (21.15%) Firewall
11 11 (21.15%) Degree
11 11 (21.15%) Exchange Server 2010
12 10 (19.23%) IBM
13 9 (17.31%) HP
13 9 (17.31%) MCSA
13 9 (17.31%) Service Delivery
13 9 (17.31%) CCNA
13 9 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (17.31%) MCTS
14 8 (15.38%) Statistics

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.692%) .NET
2 3 (5.769%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 13 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 11 (21.15%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (9.615%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (9.615%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 5 (9.615%) SharePoint
5 4 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (5.769%) Lotus Domino
6 3 (5.769%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (5.769%) Lync
Applications
1 18 (34.62%) MS Excel
2 11 (21.15%) MS Office
3 3 (5.769%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.846%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.923%) Office 365
5 1 (1.923%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 11 (21.15%) Firewall
2 6 (11.54%) SSL
2 6 (11.54%) SAN
3 5 (9.615%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.692%) VPN
4 4 (7.692%) DNS
4 4 (7.692%) NAS
5 3 (5.769%) LDAP
5 3 (5.769%) POP3
5 3 (5.769%) SMTP
6 2 (3.846%) LAN
6 2 (3.846%) HTTP
6 2 (3.846%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (1.923%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.923%) PBX
7 1 (1.923%) VoIP
7 1 (1.923%) WAN
7 1 (1.923%) DHCP
7 1 (1.923%) ADSL
7 1 (1.923%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (11.54%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (5.769%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (3.846%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.923%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.923%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.923%) MySQL
6 1 (1.923%) QlikView
6 1 (1.923%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (11.54%) InstallShield
General
1 13 (25.00%) Finance
2 7 (13.46%) Banking
3 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
4 4 (7.692%) Publishing
5 3 (5.769%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.923%) Games
6 1 (1.923%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Systems Engineer
2 6 (11.54%) DBA
2 6 (11.54%) Junior
2 6 (11.54%) Junior Systems Engineer
3 5 (9.615%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 5 (9.615%) Messaging Engineer
4 4 (7.692%) Administrator
4 4 (7.692%) SQL DBA
5 3 (5.769%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.769%) Exchange Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) SQL Developer
6 2 (3.846%) Implementation Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 2 (3.846%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (3.846%) Developer
6 2 (3.846%) Analyst
6 2 (3.846%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (3.846%) Server Engineer
7 1 (1.923%) Infrastructure Manager
7 1 (1.923%) Messaging Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) Statistics
2 7 (13.46%) Blackberry
3 6 (11.54%) Replication
4 4 (7.692%) Computer Science
5 2 (3.846%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.923%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.923%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 32 (61.54%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (13.46%) Linux
4 7 (13.46%) Windows 7
5 6 (11.54%) Mac OS X
6 5 (9.615%) HPUX
7 3 (5.769%) Windows 2000
7 3 (5.769%) Windows XP
8 2 (3.846%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (1.923%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.923%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) ITIL
2 9 (17.31%) Service Delivery
3 6 (11.54%) Service Management
3 6 (11.54%) Migration
4 5 (9.615%) Project Management
4 5 (9.615%) Risk Analysis
4 5 (9.615%) Data Management
4 5 (9.615%) Information Assurance
4 5 (9.615%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (5.769%) Change Management
5 3 (5.769%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (5.769%) Workflow
6 2 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.846%) Change Control
7 1 (1.923%) Capacity Management
7 1 (1.923%) Data Visualisation
7 1 (1.923%) TOGAF
7 1 (1.923%) Operations Management
7 1 (1.923%) Configuration Management
7 1 (1.923%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) SQL
2 5 (9.615%) C
2 5 (9.615%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.692%) C#
3 4 (7.692%) T-SQL
3 4 (7.692%) VB.NET
4 3 (5.769%) Perl
5 2 (3.846%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 28 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (34.62%) MCSE
3 11 (21.15%) Degree
4 9 (17.31%) MCTS
4 9 (17.31%) MCSA
4 9 (17.31%) CCNA
4 9 (17.31%) Cisco Certification
5 7 (13.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (11.54%) MCP
7 5 (9.615%) DV Cleared
7 5 (9.615%) Security Cleared
8 4 (7.692%) MCDST
8 4 (7.692%) MCDBA
9 3 (5.769%) IBM Certification
9 3 (5.769%) Oracle Certification
9 3 (5.769%) Microsoft Certified Master
10 2 (3.846%) MCSD
11 1 (1.923%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.923%) CCNP
11 1 (1.923%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.769%) ISO 9001
1 3 (5.769%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 13 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (13.46%) Microsoft App-V
2 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (9.615%) Hyper-V
4 3 (5.769%) ISA Server
4 3 (5.769%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (5.769%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (3.846%) VMware ESX
5 2 (3.846%) XenApp
6 1 (1.923%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.923%) vSphere
6 1 (1.923%) Terminal Server
6 1 (1.923%) Terminal Services
6 1 (1.923%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 6 (11.54%) SCCM
2 3 (5.769%) BMC Performance Manager
2 3 (5.769%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 3 (5.769%) BMC PATROL
3 2 (3.846%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (3.846%) SCOM
4 1 (1.923%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (1.923%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.923%) WSUS
Vendors
1 39 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (25.00%) Cisco
2 13 (25.00%) Citrix
2 13 (25.00%) VMware
3 12 (23.08%) Oracle
4 10 (19.23%) IBM
5 9 (17.31%) HP
6 6 (11.54%) AppSense
6 6 (11.54%) Altiris
7 5 (9.615%) Dell
7 5 (9.615%) Symantec
8 4 (7.692%) Apple
8 4 (7.692%) NetApp
8 4 (7.692%) Lotus
9 3 (5.769%) BMC
10 2 (3.846%) Sun
11 1 (1.923%) EMC
11 1 (1.923%) Business Objects
11 1 (1.923%) SAP
11 1 (1.923%) Red Hat
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