Colchester Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Colchester region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	11
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	57.14 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£100
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£268	£258
% change on same period last year	+3.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.39	£20.62
% change on same period last year	-5.92 %
Qualifications Colchester
Matching contract IT job ads	7	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£100
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.63	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.25	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Microsoft Certification Essex

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Microsoft Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Colchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Colchester region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Colchester region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Colchester region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 3 (42.86 %) IIS 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Office 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSA 1 3 (42.86 %) SharePoint 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (42.86 %) LAN 1 3 (42.86 %) WAN 1 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 1 3 (42.86 %) Shell Script 1 3 (42.86 %) VB 1 3 (42.86 %) Incident Management

1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 3 (42.86 %) Problem Management 2 1 (14.29 %) C# 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 2 1 (14.29 %) Pensions 2 1 (14.29 %) Insurance 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 1 (14.29 %) E-business 2 1 (14.29 %) Finance 2 1 (14.29 %) WinForms 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester 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 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (14.29 %) .NET 1 1 (14.29 %) WinForms 1 1 (14.29 %) WebServices 1 1 (14.29 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (42.86 %) IIS 1 3 (42.86 %) SharePoint 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Exchange 1 3 (42.86 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) LAN 1 3 (42.86 %) WAN 1 3 (42.86 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Pensions 1 1 (14.29 %) Insurance 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Analyst 1 3 (42.86 %) Support Analyst 1 3 (42.86 %) 1st Line Support 1 3 (42.86 %) 3rd Line Support 1 3 (42.86 %) Helpdesk Support 1 3 (42.86 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) C# Developer	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 1 3 (42.86 %) Incident Management 1 3 (42.86 %) Problem Management 2 1 (14.29 %) E-business 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Intelligence 2 1 (14.29 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) Shell Script 1 3 (42.86 %) VB 2 1 (14.29 %) C#	Qualifications 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSE 1 3 (42.86 %) MCSA 2 1 (14.29 %) MCP 2 1 (14.29 %) MCSD
System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 2 1 (14.29 %) Microsoft