Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 120 116 145
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 82 106 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.291% 1.347% 1.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.761% 9.897% 8.245%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 42 42
Average daily rate £351 £311 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.61% -2.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £160 £164
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 23
Average hourly rate £81.75 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+319.23% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £15.56 £14.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £22.50 £27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 936 1071 1225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.74% 13.61% 12.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 644 780
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 48 48 53
Average hourly rate £36.29 £17.87 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+103.13% -14.92%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 121 (77.56%) Windows
2 102 (65.38%) Microsoft
3 99 (63.46%) MCSE
4 65 (41.67%) Active Directory
5 62 (39.74%) ITIL
6 58 (37.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 58 (37.18%) Windows 7
7 51 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
8 50 (32.05%) Citrix
9 49 (31.41%) MS Exchange
10 45 (28.85%) Windows XP
11 43 (27.56%) MCP
12 41 (26.28%) VMware
13 36 (23.08%) MS Office
14 34 (21.79%) Cisco
15 33 (21.15%) MS Excel
16 32 (20.51%) Blackberry
17 30 (19.23%) SQL
17 30 (19.23%) SLA
18 29 (18.59%) LAN
18 29 (18.59%) WAN
19 28 (17.95%) Finance
19 28 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
19 28 (17.95%) MCITP
20 27 (17.31%) Exchange Server 2007
20 27 (17.31%) Service Management
20 27 (17.31%) SQL Server
21 25 (16.03%) Cisco Certification
21 25 (16.03%) CCNA
22 24 (15.38%) MCSA

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (10.26%) HTML
2 8 (5.128%) .NET
3 6 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 6 (3.846%) .NET Framework
3 6 (3.846%) WCF
4 2 (1.282%) COM
4 2 (1.282%) XML
5 1 (0.641%) Web Services
5 1 (0.641%) ASP
5 1 (0.641%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.641%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 49 (31.41%) MS Exchange
2 27 (17.31%) Exchange Server 2007
3 18 (11.54%) Exchange Server 2010
4 16 (10.26%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 11 (7.051%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (5.769%) IIS
7 7 (4.487%) Lotus Notes
8 6 (3.846%) SharePoint
9 4 (2.564%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (2.564%) Lotus Domino
10 1 (0.641%) Apache
10 1 (0.641%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.641%) Exchange Server 5.5
10 1 (0.641%) Lync
Applications
1 36 (23.08%) MS Office
2 33 (21.15%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.923%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.282%) PowerPivot
4 2 (1.282%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.923%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 29 (18.59%) LAN
1 29 (18.59%) WAN
2 22 (14.10%) Internet
3 20 (12.82%) TCP/IP
4 17 (10.90%) DNS
4 17 (10.90%) Cisco ASA
5 16 (10.26%) Intranet
6 15 (9.615%) SAN
7 14 (8.974%) VPN
7 14 (8.974%) DHCP
8 10 (6.410%) Firewall
9 9 (5.769%) SMTP
10 7 (4.487%) VoIP
11 5 (3.205%) LDAP
12 3 (1.923%) NNTP
12 3 (1.923%) 3G
12 3 (1.923%) SSL
12 3 (1.923%) HTTPS
12 3 (1.923%) FTP
12 3 (1.923%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (17.31%) SQL Server
2 21 (13.46%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (7.051%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (5.128%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (5.128%) Oracle 8/8i
5 6 (3.846%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (3.846%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.564%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (2.564%) OLAP
6 4 (2.564%) Data Mining
6 4 (2.564%) OLTP
7 3 (1.923%) Oracle Discoverer
7 3 (1.923%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.923%) MySQL
7 3 (1.923%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (1.923%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (1.282%) Oracle OLAP
8 2 (1.282%) Oracle 10g
8 2 (1.282%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.641%) dBASE
Development Applications
1 8 (5.128%) Visual Studio
2 7 (4.487%) CruiseControl
2 7 (4.487%) NUnit
3 6 (3.846%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.282%) Fiddler
4 2 (1.282%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (0.641%) MSI
5 1 (0.641%) Subversion
5 1 (0.641%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (0.641%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.641%) WiX
5 1 (0.641%) MSBuild
General
1 28 (17.95%) Finance
2 18 (11.54%) Banking
3 9 (5.769%) Law
4 7 (4.487%) Telecoms
5 5 (3.205%) Back Office
6 2 (1.282%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.282%) Legal
6 2 (1.282%) Publishing
7 1 (0.641%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.641%) Games
7 1 (0.641%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.641%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (16.03%) Analyst
2 17 (10.90%) Administrator
3 15 (9.615%) 2nd Line Support
3 15 (9.615%) Systems Administrator
4 13 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 13 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
5 11 (7.051%) Developer
5 11 (7.051%) Desktop Support
6 10 (6.410%) Consultant
7 9 (5.769%) Support Engineer
8 7 (4.487%) Architect
8 7 (4.487%) Systems Engineer
8 7 (4.487%) Messaging Consultant
8 7 (4.487%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 6 (3.846%) Exchange Consultant
9 6 (3.846%) .NET Developer
9 6 (3.846%) Desktop Analyst
10 5 (3.205%) DBA
10 5 (3.205%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (3.205%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (20.51%) Blackberry
2 9 (5.769%) iPad
3 8 (5.128%) Statistics
4 7 (4.487%) iPhone
5 6 (3.846%) Management Information System
6 5 (3.205%) Kindle
7 4 (2.564%) Fat Client
7 4 (2.564%) Thin Client
7 4 (2.564%) Replication
8 3 (1.923%) Clustering
8 3 (1.923%) PMI
9 2 (1.282%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.282%) PDA
9 2 (1.282%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.641%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.641%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 1 (0.641%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.641%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.641%) Podcast
10 1 (0.641%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 121 (77.56%) Windows
2 58 (37.18%) Windows Server 2008
2 58 (37.18%) Windows 7
3 51 (32.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 45 (28.85%) Windows XP
5 18 (11.54%) Linux
6 10 (6.410%) Windows Vista
7 8 (5.128%) Mac OS X
8 6 (3.846%) UNIX
9 5 (3.205%) HPUX
10 4 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (1.923%) Windows 2000
12 2 (1.282%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (1.282%) Solaris
13 1 (0.641%) SUSE
13 1 (0.641%) AIX
13 1 (0.641%) Android
13 1 (0.641%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (39.74%) ITIL
2 27 (17.31%) Service Management
3 21 (13.46%) Project Management
4 20 (12.82%) PRINCE2
5 15 (9.615%) Service Delivery
5 15 (9.615%) Business Analysis
6 10 (6.410%) Change Control
7 9 (5.769%) Migration
8 8 (5.128%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (4.487%) Change Management
9 7 (4.487%) Incident Management
9 7 (4.487%) Waterfall
10 6 (3.846%) OO
10 6 (3.846%) RUP
10 6 (3.846%) Business Intelligence
10 6 (3.846%) TDD
10 6 (3.846%) ITSM
11 5 (3.205%) Data Security
11 5 (3.205%) Data Management
11 5 (3.205%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (19.23%) SQL
2 10 (6.410%) PowerShell
3 7 (4.487%) VB
3 7 (4.487%) C#
4 6 (3.846%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.205%) C
6 3 (1.923%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.282%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.641%) VBA
8 1 (0.641%) VBScript
8 1 (0.641%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.641%) Perl
8 1 (0.641%) PHP
8 1 (0.641%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 99 (63.46%) MCSE
2 43 (27.56%) MCP
3 28 (17.95%) MCITP
4 25 (16.03%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (16.03%) CCNA
5 24 (15.38%) MCSA
6 19 (12.18%) Security Cleared
7 17 (10.90%) MCTS
8 14 (8.974%) Degree
9 9 (5.769%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (5.769%) SC Cleared
10 8 (5.128%) MCDST
10 8 (5.128%) MCSD
11 7 (4.487%) Citrix Certification
12 6 (3.846%) MCAD
12 6 (3.846%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (3.205%) CCA
13 5 (3.205%) MCDBA
13 5 (3.205%) DV Cleared
14 4 (2.564%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (19.23%) SLA
2 8 (5.128%) ISO 9001
3 3 (1.923%) COBIT
4 1 (0.641%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.641%) QA
4 1 (0.641%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.641%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 65 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (7.051%) XenApp
3 11 (7.051%) VMware ESXi
4 10 (6.410%) vSphere
5 8 (5.128%) XenDesktop
6 7 (4.487%) VMware ESX
6 7 (4.487%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.923%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (1.923%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (1.923%) XenServer
8 2 (1.282%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 2 (1.282%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.641%) Snort
9 1 (0.641%) Nmap
9 1 (0.641%) Terminal Server
9 1 (0.641%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.641%) IAG
9 1 (0.641%) UAG
9 1 (0.641%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 20 (12.82%) SCCM
2 10 (6.410%) SCOM
3 6 (3.846%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 6 (3.846%) MAILsweeper
4 4 (2.564%) WSUS
4 4 (2.564%) Backup Exec
5 3 (1.923%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (1.923%) Tivoli
5 3 (1.923%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 3 (1.923%) McAfee ePO
5 3 (1.923%) Sysprep
6 2 (1.282%) HP SIM
6 2 (1.282%) Legato
7 1 (0.641%) HP Data Protector
7 1 (0.641%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 102 (65.38%) Microsoft
2 50 (32.05%) Citrix
3 41 (26.28%) VMware
4 34 (21.79%) Cisco
5 18 (11.54%) HP
6 17 (10.90%) Oracle
7 13 (8.333%) Symantec
8 11 (7.051%) Dell
9 10 (6.410%) IBM
10 8 (5.128%) Lotus
10 8 (5.128%) Apple
11 7 (4.487%) McAfee
11 7 (4.487%) AppSense
12 6 (3.846%) EMC
13 5 (3.205%) Red Hat
14 4 (2.564%) Sun
14 4 (2.564%) Remedy
14 4 (2.564%) Websense
15 3 (1.923%) Clearswift
15 3 (1.923%) Reuters
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