East Midlands MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the East Midlands 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Ives Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	64	81
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	25	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	11.42 %	7.905 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£310
Average daily rate	£300	£310
% change on same period last year	-3.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£223	£190
% change on same period last year	+17.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.20	£18.80
Average hourly rate	£12.00	£19.40
% change on same period last year	-38.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.80	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.34	£18.66
% change on same period last year	-17.75 %
Qualifications East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	219	253
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.306 %	0.254 %
Daily rates quoted	57	53
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£327
Average daily rate	£341	£342
% change on same period last year	-0.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.59	£24.69
Average hourly rate	£17.15	£25.38
% change on same period last year	-32.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.71	£26.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
MCP England

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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 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
Nottinghamshire	+16	18	-	-
Derbyshire	-10	6	£350	+12.90 %
Leicestershire	+18	4	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	1	£250	-

MCP England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 56 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 45 (80.36 %) Windows 3 27 (48.21 %) MCSE 3 27 (48.21 %) Microsoft 4 21 (37.50 %) Active Directory 5 20 (35.71 %) Windows Server 2003 6 19 (33.93 %) Citrix 7 16 (28.57 %) Windows XP 8 12 (21.43 %) HP 8 12 (21.43 %) Cisco 8 12 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 9 11 (19.64 %) MS Exchange 9 11 (19.64 %) MS Office 9 11 (19.64 %) CCNA

9 11 (19.64 %) Cisco Certification 10 10 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 9 (16.07 %) VPN 12 8 (14.29 %) HND 12 8 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 7 (12.50 %) Degree 13 7 (12.50 %) Fat Client 13 7 (12.50 %) Thin Client 14 6 (10.71 %) VMware 14 6 (10.71 %) VMware Infrastructure 15 4 (7.143 %) MCDST 15 4 (7.143 %) Finance 15 4 (7.143 %) Novell 15 4 (7.143 %) LAN 15 4 (7.143 %) WAN

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 Development 1 2 (3.571 %) .NET 1 2 (3.571 %) WinForms 1 2 (3.571 %) WMI 2 1 (1.786 %) WPF 2 1 (1.786 %) ADO.NET 2 1 (1.786 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (1.786 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 11 (19.64 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 8 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.786 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.786 %) IIS
Applications 1 11 (19.64 %) MS Office 2 4 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 9 (16.07 %) VPN 2 4 (7.143 %) LAN 2 4 (7.143 %) WAN 3 3 (5.357 %) DHCP 3 3 (5.357 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (5.357 %) DNS 3 3 (5.357 %) Wireless 4 1 (1.786 %) SAN 4 1 (1.786 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.357 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.786 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (3.571 %) MSI
General 1 4 (7.143 %) Finance 2 1 (1.786 %) Law 2 1 (1.786 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 24 (42.86 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (23.21 %) Analyst 3 12 (21.43 %) Support Analyst 4 8 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 4 8 (14.29 %) Desktop Support 5 7 (12.50 %) 2nd Line Support 6 6 (10.71 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 6 (10.71 %) Desktop Engineer 7 5 (8.929 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 8 4 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 4 (7.143 %) Systems Engineer 9 3 (5.357 %) Technical Support 9 3 (5.357 %) Technical Analyst 9 3 (5.357 %) Technical Support Analyst 10 2 (3.571 %) Desktop Support Analyst 10 2 (3.571 %) Developer 10 2 (3.571 %) IT Support Analyst 10 2 (3.571 %) Rollout Engineer 10 2 (3.571 %) Desktop Analyst 10 2 (3.571 %) WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (12.50 %) Thin Client 1 7 (12.50 %) Fat Client 2 3 (5.357 %) Blackberry 3 2 (3.571 %) NHS 4 1 (1.786 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 45 (80.36 %) Windows 2 20 (35.71 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (28.57 %) Windows XP 4 12 (21.43 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 11 (19.64 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (3.571 %) Windows NT 7 1 (1.786 %) Linux 7 1 (1.786 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.357 %) Migration 2 2 (3.571 %) Business Desktop Deployment 3 1 (1.786 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 3 (5.357 %) SQL 2 2 (3.571 %) VBScript 2 2 (3.571 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.786 %) VB.NET 3 1 (1.786 %) C# 3 1 (1.786 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 56 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 27 (48.21 %) MCSE 3 11 (19.64 %) CCNA 3 11 (19.64 %) Cisco Certification 4 8 (14.29 %) HND 5 7 (12.50 %) Degree 6 4 (7.143 %) MCDST 6 4 (7.143 %) MCSA 7 3 (5.357 %) Citrix Certification 8 2 (3.571 %) MCAD 8 2 (3.571 %) MCSD 8 2 (3.571 %) A+ Certification 9 1 (1.786 %) MCTS 9 1 (1.786 %) MCITP 9 1 (1.786 %) MCPD 9 1 (1.786 %) MCT 9 1 (1.786 %) CCNP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) SLA
System Software 1 21 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 6 (10.71 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.786 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 3 (5.357 %) WSUS 2 2 (3.571 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 27 (48.21 %) Microsoft 2 19 (33.93 %) Citrix 3 12 (21.43 %) HP 3 12 (21.43 %) Cisco 4 6 (10.71 %) VMware 5 4 (7.143 %) Novell 6 3 (5.357 %) ProCurve 7 2 (3.571 %) VERITAS 8 1 (1.786 %) Symantec 8 1 (1.786 %) Remedy