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

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS 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 MCTS 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 197 216 220
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +4
Contract jobs citing MCTS 4 4 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.063% 0.051% 0.165%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.421% 0.376% 1.347%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
Average daily rate £380 £388 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.93% +10.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £23.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +53.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
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%
MCTS
London

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 17 (65.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
4 15 (57.69%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (50.00%) Windows
5 13 (50.00%) MCP
6 11 (42.31%) VMware
7 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
8 9 (34.62%) .NET
8 9 (34.62%) C#
8 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (34.62%) MCITP
9 8 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
9 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
9 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
9 8 (30.77%) Citrix
10 7 (26.92%) MS Office
10 7 (26.92%) Visual Studio
10 7 (26.92%) MCSA
11 6 (23.08%) MCAD
11 6 (23.08%) MCSD
11 6 (23.08%) RUP
11 6 (23.08%) Windows XP
11 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
11 6 (23.08%) OO
11 6 (23.08%) Cisco
11 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
11 6 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (23.08%) iPad
11 6 (23.08%) Waterfall

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 9 (34.62%) .NET
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Framework
2 6 (23.08%) WCF
2 6 (23.08%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (11.54%) Web Services
4 1 (3.846%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) MS Exchange
1 6 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (19.23%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 5 (19.23%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (15.38%) SharePoint
3 4 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (11.54%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) MS Office
2 3 (11.54%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (19.23%) DHCP
1 5 (19.23%) VPN
1 5 (19.23%) DNS
2 4 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 4 (15.38%) VoIP
3 3 (11.54%) NAS
4 2 (7.692%) Firewall
5 1 (3.846%) Wireless
5 1 (3.846%) VLAN
5 1 (3.846%) ADSL
5 1 (3.846%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 15 (57.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (30.77%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Visual Studio
2 6 (23.08%) NUnit
2 6 (23.08%) CruiseControl
2 6 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 3 (11.54%) Banking
2 3 (11.54%) Investment Banking
3 1 (3.846%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Developer
2 6 (23.08%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (15.38%) Desktop Support
3 4 (15.38%) DBA
4 3 (11.54%) SQL Developer
4 3 (11.54%) SQL DBA
5 2 (7.692%) Server Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) C# Developer
5 2 (7.692%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.846%) Database Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) Senior DBA
6 1 (3.846%) Senior SQL Server DBA
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Database Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Senior SQL DBA
6 1 (3.846%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (3.846%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (3.846%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) iPhone
1 6 (23.08%) iPad
2 3 (11.54%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.846%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.846%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 13 (50.00%) Windows
2 8 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (30.77%) Windows 7
3 6 (23.08%) Windows XP
3 6 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (19.23%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) OO
1 6 (23.08%) RUP
1 6 (23.08%) TDD
1 6 (23.08%) Waterfall
2 4 (15.38%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (11.54%) ITIL
3 3 (11.54%) Workflow
4 2 (7.692%) Service Delivery
4 2 (7.692%) ETL
4 2 (7.692%) Service Desk Management
5 1 (3.846%) Data Transformation
5 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (3.846%) Data Protection
5 1 (3.846%) Data Architecture
5 1 (3.846%) Configuration Management
5 1 (3.846%) CRM
5 1 (3.846%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (34.62%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) Perl
3 3 (11.54%) VB.NET
4 2 (7.692%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.846%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (65.38%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (50.00%) MCP
3 9 (34.62%) MCITP
4 7 (26.92%) MCSA
5 6 (23.08%) MCAD
5 6 (23.08%) MCSD
6 5 (19.23%) MCDST
7 3 (11.54%) Degree
7 3 (11.54%) Microsoft Certified Master
8 2 (7.692%) MCSE
9 1 (3.846%) MCDBA
9 1 (3.846%) CCNA
9 1 (3.846%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.846%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.692%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 9 (34.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.846%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.846%) XenApp
4 1 (3.846%) Terminal Services
4 1 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.54%) BMC PATROL
1 3 (11.54%) BMC Performance Manager
2 2 (7.692%) SCCM
3 1 (3.846%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (42.31%) VMware
3 8 (30.77%) Citrix
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco
5 3 (11.54%) BMC
5 3 (11.54%) NetApp
5 3 (11.54%) Oracle
6 2 (7.692%) Business Objects
6 2 (7.692%) JBoss
7 1 (3.846%) Juniper
7 1 (3.846%) Symantec
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