MCP Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP 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 MCP over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 175 173 215
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +42
Contract jobs citing MCP 28 45 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.439% 0.572% 0.306%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.979% 4.182% 2.481%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 10
Average daily rate £375 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.18% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £147 £275 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £750 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 9
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.65 £15.44 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.35 £19.60 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
Search 14 MCP jobs in the City of London
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 940 1076 1209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.68% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 620 646 767
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 50 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.30% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £28.20 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCP
London

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London MCP Daily Rate Histogram

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 43 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 35 (81.40%) Microsoft
3 32 (74.42%) Windows
4 21 (48.84%) MCSE
5 18 (41.86%) MS Office
6 17 (39.53%) ITIL
7 16 (37.21%) MCSA
7 16 (37.21%) Windows XP
7 16 (37.21%) Citrix
7 16 (37.21%) Windows 7
8 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
9 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2008
10 13 (30.23%) MCTS
11 11 (25.58%) VMware
11 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
12 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
12 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
12 10 (23.26%) MS Exchange
13 9 (20.93%) MS Excel
13 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
13 9 (20.93%) VMware ESXi
14 8 (18.60%) iPad
14 8 (18.60%) SQL Server 2008
14 8 (18.60%) Exchange Server 2007
14 8 (18.60%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
14 8 (18.60%) VPN
15 7 (16.28%) Cisco
15 7 (16.28%) HP
15 7 (16.28%) Service Management

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.95%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 6 (13.95%) WCF
1 6 (13.95%) .NET Framework
1 6 (13.95%) .NET
2 1 (2.326%) HTML
2 1 (2.326%) ASP
2 1 (2.326%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (23.26%) MS Exchange
2 8 (18.60%) Exchange Server 2007
2 8 (18.60%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 7 (16.28%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (9.302%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (4.651%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (2.326%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (41.86%) MS Office
2 9 (20.93%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.326%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) TCP/IP
2 8 (18.60%) VPN
3 6 (13.95%) LAN
3 6 (13.95%) VoIP
4 5 (11.63%) DHCP
4 5 (11.63%) DNS
5 4 (9.302%) WAN
6 2 (4.651%) PBX
6 2 (4.651%) NetScaler
6 2 (4.651%) Unified Communications
7 1 (2.326%) Network Security
7 1 (2.326%) ADSL
7 1 (2.326%) Internet
7 1 (2.326%) SAN
7 1 (2.326%) Firewall
7 1 (2.326%) Wireless
7 1 (2.326%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (20.93%) SQL Server
2 8 (18.60%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.326%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (13.95%) CruiseControl
1 6 (13.95%) NUnit
1 6 (13.95%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (11.63%) Law
2 4 (9.302%) Finance
3 3 (6.977%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.326%) Legal
Job Titles
1 9 (20.93%) Desktop Support
2 8 (18.60%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (13.95%) .NET Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Developer
3 6 (13.95%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 3 (6.977%) Support Analyst
5 3 (6.977%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Desktop Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) C# Developer
6 2 (4.651%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Technical Support
6 2 (4.651%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.651%) Service Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (4.651%) IT Support
7 1 (2.326%) Administrator
7 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) iPad
2 7 (16.28%) iPhone
3 5 (11.63%) Blackberry
3 5 (11.63%) Statistics
4 2 (4.651%) Thin Client
4 2 (4.651%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.326%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (2.326%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.326%) Computer Science
5 1 (2.326%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.326%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.326%) Replication
5 1 (2.326%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.326%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 32 (74.42%) Windows
2 16 (37.21%) Windows XP
2 16 (37.21%) Windows 7
3 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (32.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (16.28%) Windows Vista
5 5 (11.63%) HPUX
5 5 (11.63%) Mac OS X
6 3 (6.977%) Linux
7 2 (4.651%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.326%) UNIX
8 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) ITIL
2 7 (16.28%) Service Management
2 7 (16.28%) Service Delivery
3 6 (13.95%) Waterfall
3 6 (13.95%) TDD
3 6 (13.95%) OO
3 6 (13.95%) RUP
4 5 (11.63%) Data Management
4 5 (11.63%) Risk Analysis
4 5 (11.63%) Information Assurance
5 3 (6.977%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (4.651%) Information Security
6 2 (4.651%) Quality Management
6 2 (4.651%) Service Desk Management
6 2 (4.651%) Change Control
6 2 (4.651%) QMS
7 1 (2.326%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.326%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.326%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (2.326%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.95%) C#
2 4 (9.302%) SQL
3 2 (4.651%) C
3 2 (4.651%) VB
4 1 (2.326%) VBA
4 1 (2.326%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.326%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (48.84%) MCSE
3 16 (37.21%) MCSA
4 13 (30.23%) MCTS
5 11 (25.58%) Security Cleared
6 7 (16.28%) MCDST
7 6 (13.95%) MCITP
7 6 (13.95%) MCAD
7 6 (13.95%) MCSD
8 5 (11.63%) SC Cleared
8 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
9 4 (9.302%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (6.977%) Degree
11 2 (4.651%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (4.651%) CISSP
12 1 (2.326%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (2.326%) CCNA
12 1 (2.326%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.302%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (34.88%) Active Directory
2 10 (23.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (20.93%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (9.302%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.326%) vSphere
5 1 (2.326%) XenApp
5 1 (2.326%) XenDesktop
5 1 (2.326%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 6 (13.95%) SCCM
2 2 (4.651%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.326%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (2.326%) SCOM
3 1 (2.326%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (81.40%) Microsoft
2 16 (37.21%) Citrix
3 11 (25.58%) VMware
4 7 (16.28%) Cisco
4 7 (16.28%) HP
5 5 (11.63%) IBM
5 5 (11.63%) Apple
5 5 (11.63%) Symantec
6 3 (6.977%) Dell
6 3 (6.977%) Juniper
7 2 (4.651%) Websense
7 2 (4.651%) Lotus
7 2 (4.651%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.651%) Oracle
8 1 (2.326%) Polycom
8 1 (2.326%) LANDesk
8 1 (2.326%) Veeam
8 1 (2.326%) Reuters
8 1 (2.326%) Bloomberg
8 1 (2.326%) Brocade
Network & Communications - Network Engineer
City of London
Search terms: - network, engineer, networking, communications, juniper, tcp/ip, lan, wan, unified communications, netscaler, windows, video conference, load balancing Top global law firm requires 2 x Network & Communications...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £450 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
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