Derbyshire MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Derbyshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cobham Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Spalding St Ives Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Witham Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	33
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	21.21 %	22.50 %
Daily rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum daily rate	£75	£123
Average daily rate	£78	£126
% change on same period last year	-38.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£80	£129
UK excluding London average daily rate	£172	£208
% change on same period last year	-17.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.75	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£12.10
% change on same period last year	+32.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.25	£12.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.29	£16.98
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
Qualifications Derbyshire
Matching contract IT job ads	33	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum daily rate	£135	£220
Average daily rate	£137	£222
% change on same period last year	-38.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£139	£223
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£326
% change on same period last year	+1.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.71	£22.55
Average hourly rate	£22.23	£23.39
% change on same period last year	-4.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.76	£24.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.69	£25.00
% change on same period last year	+2.77 %
MCP East Midlands

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derby	+13	6	£78	-
Buxton	-	1	-	-

MCP East Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (81.82 %) Windows 3 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2000 3 8 (72.73 %) Microsoft 4 6 (54.55 %) MCSE 5 5 (45.45 %) Windows XP 5 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 3 (27.27 %) A+ Certification 7 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 7 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory 8 2 (18.18 %) LAN 8 2 (18.18 %) WAN 8 2 (18.18 %) DHCP 8 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes

8 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 8 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 8 2 (18.18 %) DNS 8 2 (18.18 %) HND 9 1 (9.091 %) MCITP 9 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5 9 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 1 (9.091 %) LANDesk 9 1 (9.091 %) SAN 9 1 (9.091 %) Symantec 9 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry 9 1 (9.091 %) MIMEsweeper 9 1 (9.091 %) NHS 9 1 (9.091 %) Legato 9 1 (9.091 %) ITIL

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Derbyshire region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 1 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (27.27 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (18.18 %) DNS 2 2 (18.18 %) LAN 2 2 (18.18 %) WAN 2 2 (18.18 %) DHCP 3 1 (9.091 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Analyst 1 3 (27.27 %) Support Analyst 1 3 (27.27 %) Technical Support 1 3 (27.27 %) Technical Support Analyst 1 3 (27.27 %) Technical Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Rollout Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Author 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Author 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) NHS 1 1 (9.091 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 9 (81.82 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (45.45 %) Windows XP 3 5 (45.45 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 11 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (54.55 %) MCSE 3 3 (27.27 %) A+ Certification 4 2 (18.18 %) HND 5 1 (9.091 %) MCITP 5 1 (9.091 %) MCSA
System Software 1 3 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Legato 1 1 (9.091 %) MIMEsweeper
Vendors 1 8 (72.73 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 3 1 (9.091 %) Symantec 3 1 (9.091 %) LANDesk 3 1 (9.091 %) HP 3 1 (9.091 %) Citrix