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

The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 145 170 177
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +7
Contract jobs citing MCSE 56 50 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.886% 0.640% 0.610%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.889% 4.695% 4.966%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 24
Average daily rate £350 £275 £304
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -9.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £160 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £713 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+8.72% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 16
Average hourly rate £135.00 £19.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+610.52% -8.21%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £19.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.40%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 951 1065 1188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 15.05% 13.64% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 639 755
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 48 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £17.85 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+132.49% -15.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.90 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.50 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCSE
London

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London MCSE Daily Rate Histogram

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London MCSE Hourly Rate Histogram

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 93 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 80 (86.02%) Windows
3 48 (51.61%) ITIL
4 47 (50.54%) Microsoft
5 45 (48.39%) Active Directory
5 45 (48.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 41 (44.09%) Windows Server 2003
7 39 (41.94%) Citrix
8 38 (40.86%) MS Exchange
9 35 (37.63%) Windows 7
10 32 (34.41%) Windows XP
11 28 (30.11%) Blackberry
11 28 (30.11%) VMware
12 27 (29.03%) SLA
13 26 (27.96%) Cisco
13 26 (27.96%) WAN
13 26 (27.96%) Service Management
14 25 (26.88%) LAN
14 25 (26.88%) CCNA
14 25 (26.88%) Cisco Certification
15 21 (22.58%) Internet
15 21 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
15 21 (22.58%) Exchange Server 2007
16 20 (21.51%) Project Management
17 19 (20.43%) PRINCE2
18 18 (19.35%) MCITP
19 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
19 17 (18.28%) Cisco ASA
19 17 (18.28%) MCP
19 17 (18.28%) MS Office

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 16 (17.20%) HTML
2 1 (1.075%) .NET
2 1 (1.075%) ASP
2 1 (1.075%) COM
2 1 (1.075%) Web Services
2 1 (1.075%) XML
2 1 (1.075%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.075%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 38 (40.86%) MS Exchange
2 21 (22.58%) Exchange Server 2007
3 9 (9.677%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 9 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (7.527%) IIS
5 6 (6.452%) SharePoint
5 6 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2003
6 5 (5.376%) Lotus Notes
7 3 (3.226%) Lotus Domino
7 3 (3.226%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (1.075%) Lync
8 1 (1.075%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 17 (18.28%) MS Office
2 15 (16.13%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.151%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.075%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.226%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (27.96%) WAN
2 25 (26.88%) LAN
3 21 (22.58%) Internet
4 17 (18.28%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (17.20%) Intranet
6 11 (11.83%) SAN
6 11 (11.83%) DNS
7 9 (9.677%) DHCP
8 8 (8.602%) TCP/IP
8 8 (8.602%) VPN
8 8 (8.602%) SMTP
8 8 (8.602%) Firewall
9 4 (4.301%) LDAP
10 3 (3.226%) Broadband
10 3 (3.226%) HTTPS
10 3 (3.226%) FTP
10 3 (3.226%) HTTP
10 3 (3.226%) 3G
10 3 (3.226%) NNTP
11 2 (2.151%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.226%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (3.226%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (2.151%) MySQL
3 2 (2.151%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.075%) Ingres
4 1 (1.075%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.075%) dBASE
Development Applications
1 2 (2.151%) Fiddler
2 1 (1.075%) WiX
2 1 (1.075%) MSBuild
2 1 (1.075%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (1.075%) MSI
2 1 (1.075%) NUnit
2 1 (1.075%) CruiseControl
2 1 (1.075%) Subversion
General
1 15 (16.13%) Finance
2 11 (11.83%) Banking
3 5 (5.376%) Back Office
3 5 (5.376%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.301%) Law
5 2 (2.151%) Legal
5 2 (2.151%) Publishing
5 2 (2.151%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.075%) Games
Job Titles
1 15 (16.13%) Analyst
2 14 (15.05%) Administrator
3 13 (13.98%) Systems Administrator
4 11 (11.83%) 3rd Line Support
5 8 (8.602%) Support Engineer
6 7 (7.527%) 2nd Line Support
6 7 (7.527%) Consultant
6 7 (7.527%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 6 (6.452%) Messaging Consultant
7 6 (6.452%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.452%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (5.376%) Systems Analyst
8 5 (5.376%) Exchange Consultant
8 5 (5.376%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 4 (4.301%) Desktop Analyst
9 4 (4.301%) Desktop Engineer
10 3 (3.226%) Senior Systems Administrator
10 3 (3.226%) Architect
10 3 (3.226%) Desktop Support
10 3 (3.226%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 28 (30.11%) Blackberry
2 6 (6.452%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.376%) Statistics
4 3 (3.226%) PMI
5 2 (2.151%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.151%) Replication
5 2 (2.151%) Clustering
5 2 (2.151%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.075%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.075%) Data Extraction
6 1 (1.075%) iPad
6 1 (1.075%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.075%) Kindle
6 1 (1.075%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.075%) PDA
6 1 (1.075%) Derivative
6 1 (1.075%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.075%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.075%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.075%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 80 (86.02%) Windows
2 45 (48.39%) Windows Server 2008
3 41 (44.09%) Windows Server 2003
4 35 (37.63%) Windows 7
5 32 (34.41%) Windows XP
6 11 (11.83%) Linux
7 7 (7.527%) Mac OS X
8 5 (5.376%) HPUX
8 5 (5.376%) UNIX
9 4 (4.301%) Windows Vista
10 2 (2.151%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (2.151%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (2.151%) Solaris
10 2 (2.151%) Windows 2000
11 1 (1.075%) AIX
11 1 (1.075%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (51.61%) ITIL
2 26 (27.96%) Service Management
3 20 (21.51%) Project Management
4 19 (20.43%) PRINCE2
5 15 (16.13%) Business Analysis
6 8 (8.602%) Service Delivery
6 8 (8.602%) Change Control
7 7 (7.527%) Incident Management
7 7 (7.527%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (7.527%) Migration
8 6 (6.452%) ITSM
9 5 (5.376%) Data Management
9 5 (5.376%) Change Management
9 5 (5.376%) Risk Analysis
9 5 (5.376%) Information Assurance
10 4 (4.301%) E-Commerce
11 3 (3.226%) Problem Management
11 3 (3.226%) Capacity Planning
11 3 (3.226%) Data Protection
12 2 (2.151%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.20%) SQL
2 8 (8.602%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.301%) VB
4 3 (3.226%) C
5 2 (2.151%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.075%) VBA
6 1 (1.075%) C#
6 1 (1.075%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.075%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 93 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (26.88%) CCNA
2 25 (26.88%) Cisco Certification
3 18 (19.35%) MCITP
4 17 (18.28%) Security Cleared
4 17 (18.28%) MCP
5 12 (12.90%) MCSA
6 9 (9.677%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 9 (9.677%) SC Cleared
7 7 (7.527%) Degree
7 7 (7.527%) Citrix Certification
8 5 (5.376%) CCA
8 5 (5.376%) DV Cleared
9 4 (4.301%) CCEA
10 3 (3.226%) PMI Certification
10 3 (3.226%) CCIA
10 3 (3.226%) MCDST
11 2 (2.151%) MCTS
11 2 (2.151%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.151%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (29.03%) SLA
2 3 (3.226%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.226%) COBIT
3 1 (1.075%) QA
3 1 (1.075%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.075%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.075%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 45 (48.39%) Active Directory
2 21 (22.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (9.677%) XenApp
3 9 (9.677%) vSphere
4 7 (7.527%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (7.527%) VMware ESX
5 6 (6.452%) XenDesktop
6 5 (5.376%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.226%) XenServer
7 3 (3.226%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (2.151%) ISA Server
8 2 (2.151%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.075%) Terminal Server
9 1 (1.075%) Terminal Services
9 1 (1.075%) Snort
9 1 (1.075%) Nmap
9 1 (1.075%) vCloud
9 1 (1.075%) IAG
9 1 (1.075%) UAG
Systems Management
1 10 (10.75%) SCCM
2 9 (9.677%) SCOM
3 5 (5.376%) MAILsweeper
3 5 (5.376%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (3.226%) Backup Exec
4 3 (3.226%) WSUS
4 3 (3.226%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (3.226%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (2.151%) Norton AntiVirus
5 2 (2.151%) Legato
5 2 (2.151%) Tivoli
5 2 (2.151%) HP SIM
6 1 (1.075%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (1.075%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 47 (50.54%) Microsoft
2 39 (41.94%) Citrix
3 28 (30.11%) VMware
4 26 (27.96%) Cisco
5 13 (13.98%) HP
6 9 (9.677%) Dell
6 9 (9.677%) Symantec
7 8 (8.602%) Oracle
8 7 (7.527%) IBM
9 6 (6.452%) EMC
9 6 (6.452%) Lotus
9 6 (6.452%) Apple
9 6 (6.452%) AppSense
10 5 (5.376%) McAfee
11 4 (4.301%) Sun
12 3 (3.226%) Compaq
12 3 (3.226%) Red Hat
12 3 (3.226%) Remedy
12 3 (3.226%) Reuters
12 3 (3.226%) Bloomberg
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