MCSA 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 MCSA 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 MCSA 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 Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 186 214 232
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +18
Contract jobs citing MCSA 17 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.266% 0.051% 0.133%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.809% 0.372% 1.075%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
Average daily rate £400 - £260
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 - £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 - £264
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £228 £319
% change year-on-year
-0.87% -28.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
Average hourly rate £11.00 £22.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £15.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-22.58% -8.82%
Search 15 MCSA 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%
MCSA
London

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London MCSA Daily Rate Histogram

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (87.50%) Windows
3 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 16 (66.67%) MCP
5 13 (54.17%) MCSE
5 13 (54.17%) ITIL
5 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2003
6 12 (50.00%) Citrix
6 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (45.83%) Windows 7
8 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 10 (41.67%) VMware
9 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
9 9 (37.50%) Cisco
9 9 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (37.50%) MCITP
10 8 (33.33%) Windows XP
11 7 (29.17%) Service Delivery
11 7 (29.17%) VoIP
11 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
11 7 (29.17%) MCTS
12 6 (25.00%) MCDST
12 6 (25.00%) Law
12 6 (25.00%) DNS
12 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
12 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
12 6 (25.00%) MS Office
12 6 (25.00%) Service Management
12 6 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (20.83%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) VoIP
1 7 (29.17%) TCP/IP
2 6 (25.00%) DNS
3 5 (20.83%) VPN
3 5 (20.83%) DHCP
4 3 (12.50%) PBX
5 2 (8.333%) NetScaler
5 2 (8.333%) Unified Communications
5 2 (8.333%) WAN
5 2 (8.333%) LAN
6 1 (4.167%) Firewall
6 1 (4.167%) Wireless
6 1 (4.167%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.167%) MySQL
General
1 6 (25.00%) Law
2 5 (20.83%) Telecoms
2 5 (20.83%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Back Office
3 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (20.83%) Desktop Support
3 4 (16.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 4 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Junior
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Junior Systems Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (8.333%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.167%) Network Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Services Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (4.167%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Statistics
2 2 (8.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) Replication
3 1 (4.167%) PDA
3 1 (4.167%) iPad
3 1 (4.167%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 13 (54.17%) Windows Server 2003
3 12 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (45.83%) Windows 7
5 8 (33.33%) Windows XP
6 5 (20.83%) Windows Vista
7 4 (16.67%) HPUX
7 4 (16.67%) Mac OS X
8 1 (4.167%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Service Delivery
3 6 (25.00%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Risk Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Information Assurance
4 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Change Control
5 3 (12.50%) Service Desk Management
6 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (4.167%) CRM
7 1 (4.167%) ITIL V3
7 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (8.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (66.67%) MCP
3 13 (54.17%) MCSE
4 9 (37.50%) MCITP
5 7 (29.17%) MCTS
6 6 (25.00%) MCDST
7 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (20.83%) CCNA
7 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
8 4 (16.67%) DV Cleared
8 4 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (8.333%) CISSP
10 1 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (4.167%) MCT
10 1 (4.167%) CCA
10 1 (4.167%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (4.167%) Degree
10 1 (4.167%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (16.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.167%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (4.167%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.167%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) Citrix
3 10 (41.67%) VMware
4 9 (37.50%) Cisco
5 5 (20.83%) HP
6 4 (16.67%) IBM
6 4 (16.67%) Apple
7 3 (12.50%) Symantec
7 3 (12.50%) Oracle
7 3 (12.50%) Juniper
8 1 (4.167%) Avaya
8 1 (4.167%) Dell
Junior Systems Engineer, London, 3 month contract to perm
City of London
Junior Systems Engineer/Support skill set will include some of the following: Windows server, database deployment experience (SQL or Oracle) and cisco networkingEssential skills-Experienced providing field based/...
eChoice Consulting
Rate: £10 - 12 per hour + bens and overtime
Posted: 8 May 2013
Remote Monitoring Systems Engineer
City of London
About your personal attributes:Collaborative working and willing to share knowledge and experienceCustomer focused with excellent rapport building skills - able to comfortably communicate with clients face to face,...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
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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