Devon MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Devon 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 1 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 Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely 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 Slough 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 Wiltshire Witham Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£175	£210
% change on same period last year	-16.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.98	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-6.00 %
Qualifications Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	17	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.044 %
Daily rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£344
Average daily rate	£325	£365
% change on same period last year	-11.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£338	£387
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.90	£21.41
Average hourly rate	£22.65	£24.13
% change on same period last year	-6.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.40	£26.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.18	£25.30
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
MCP South West

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 3 (100.00 %) LAN 1 3 (100.00 %) VPN 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) SSL 3 1 (33.33 %) IIS 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) HP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 1 (33.33 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 3 (100.00 %) LAN 1 3 (100.00 %) VPN 2 2 (66.67 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) SSL
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (66.67 %) 3rd Line Support 1 2 (66.67 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 2 1 (33.33 %) Server Specialist	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSE	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) HP