The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 17 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 Crawley 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 23 34 21
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 0.667% 0.380% 3.390%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.250% 5.000% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £450 - £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.75 £15.50 £17.75
% change year-on-year
-4.83% -12.67%
All Qualifications
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
16 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 10.67% 7.605% 17.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 5
Average daily rate £338 £225 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -22.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
Average hourly rate £38.00 £33.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.43% +11.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
Microsoft Certification
West Sussex

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crawley 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 Crawley region.

Crawley Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 Crawley region.

Crawley Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) XML

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Architect
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSD
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Symantec
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee