MCP Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 22 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 East Midlands 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 80 75 76
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing MCP 6 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.475% 0.787% 0.587%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.429% 5.366% 3.292%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £115 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-57.40% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+13.09% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 5
Average hourly rate £13.59 £8.50 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+59.88% -26.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.06 £8.50 £9.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.12 £10.00 £12.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
All Qualifications
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 175 205 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.87% 14.66% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 87 91
Average daily rate £340 £350 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -5.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £276 £200 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 35 26
Average hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -37.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £8.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £56.00 £47.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCP
England

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands MCP Hourly Rate Trend

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 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Nottinghamshire 0 3 - -
Derbyshire +16 2 £115 -
Leicestershire -14 1 - -
MCP
England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (93.33%) Windows
3 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
5 8 (53.33%) MCSE
6 6 (40.00%) MS Excel
6 6 (40.00%) Citrix
6 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (33.33%) Windows XP
7 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
7 5 (33.33%) MS Office
7 5 (33.33%) VMware
7 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (33.33%) Windows 7
7 5 (33.33%) vSphere
8 4 (26.67%) NetScaler
8 4 (26.67%) SCOM
8 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
8 4 (26.67%) Clustering
8 4 (26.67%) Altiris
8 4 (26.67%) VBScript
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (26.67%) IIS
8 4 (26.67%) Change Management
9 3 (20.00%) ITIL
9 3 (20.00%) Local Government
10 2 (13.33%) Matrix Management
10 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
10 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 1 (6.667%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.667%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 4 (26.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (6.667%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (20.00%) Local Government
2 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Support Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Support Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Desktop Support
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Systems Support
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Support Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Desktop Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 14 (93.33%) Windows
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 5 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 2 (13.33%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Change Management
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL
3 2 (13.33%) Matrix Management
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.667%) ITSM
4 1 (6.667%) Migration
4 1 (6.667%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (26.67%) VBScript
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (53.33%) MCSE
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (6.667%) MCSA
4 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
4 1 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (6.667%) MCDST
4 1 (6.667%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (73.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.667%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) SCOM
2 1 (6.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (40.00%) Citrix
3 5 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (26.67%) Altiris
5 1 (6.667%) Peregrine
5 1 (6.667%) Lotus
5 1 (6.667%) Adobe
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