The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 24 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 Docklands, 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 28 30 55
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +25
Contract jobs citing MCSE 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.170% 0.474% 0.332%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.696% 2.326% 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £313 £220 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.04% -32.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
All Qualifications
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
23 43 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 13.45% 20.38% 9.784%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 20
Average daily rate £388 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.21% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £598 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +73.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSE
London

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCSE across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Compaq
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) CCA
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) WinRunner
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (100.00%) MOM
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) MSI

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) WinRunner
1 2 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) MSI
1 2 (100.00%) InstallShield
1 2 (100.00%) Bugzilla
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Windows NT
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Vista
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Software Distribution
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) CCA
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenServer
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 2 (100.00%) MOM
1 2 (100.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
1 2 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Compaq
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) SolarWinds