East of England MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the East of England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Spalding Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	109	113
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	38	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	8.696 %	7.449 %
Daily rates quoted	21	16
Average minimum daily rate	£147	£98
Average daily rate	£152	£99
% change on same period last year	+53.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£157	£101
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£206
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.40	£17.64
Average hourly rate	£16.25	£18.48
% change on same period last year	-12.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.10	£19.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Qualifications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	437	537
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.582 %	0.543 %
Daily rates quoted	161	165
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£287
Average daily rate	£306	£305
% change on same period last year	+0.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	85	96
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.06	£24.67
Average hourly rate	£26.22	£26.07
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.38	£27.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
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 of England 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 of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 East of England region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the East of England region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Essex	-3	17	£110	+10.93 %
Cambridgeshire	+10	11	£180	-
Hertfordshire	+7	9	£257	-
Norfolk	-3	1	£188	-
Suffolk	-	1	-	-

MCP England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 80 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 56 (70.00 %) Windows 3 33 (41.25 %) MS Office 4 27 (33.75 %) Microsoft 5 24 (30.00 %) MCSE 6 23 (28.75 %) Windows NT 7 16 (20.00 %) DNS 7 16 (20.00 %) DHCP 8 15 (18.75 %) Active Directory 8 15 (18.75 %) Windows XP 8 15 (18.75 %) MS Exchange 9 14 (17.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 13 (16.25 %) Windows 2000 10 13 (16.25 %) Degree 11 12 (15.00 %) MCSA

12 11 (13.75 %) MS Excel 12 11 (13.75 %) SMS 12 11 (13.75 %) Firewall 13 10 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 14 8 (10.00 %) Cisco 15 7 (8.750 %) LAN 15 7 (8.750 %) Internet 15 7 (8.750 %) Cisco Certification 15 7 (8.750 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 7 (8.750 %) Exchange Server 2003 16 6 (7.500 %) MCDST 16 6 (7.500 %) HP 16 6 (7.500 %) Dell 16 6 (7.500 %) Citrix 16 6 (7.500 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 6 (7.500 %) .NET 1 6 (7.500 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (6.250 %) HTML 3 3 (3.750 %) XML 4 2 (2.500 %) ADO.NET 5 1 (1.250 %) ASP 5 1 (1.250 %) J2EE 5 1 (1.250 %) LAMP 5 1 (1.250 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 15 (18.75 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (8.750 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 7 (8.750 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (5.000 %) IIS 4 3 (3.750 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (2.500 %) SharePoint 6 1 (1.250 %) WebLogic 6 1 (1.250 %) JBoss 6 1 (1.250 %) Lotus Notes 6 1 (1.250 %) Apache 6 1 (1.250 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 33 (41.25 %) MS Office 2 11 (13.75 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 16 (20.00 %) DHCP 1 16 (20.00 %) DNS 2 11 (13.75 %) SMS 2 11 (13.75 %) Firewall 3 10 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 7 (8.750 %) Internet 4 7 (8.750 %) LAN 5 4 (5.000 %) Cisco IOS 6 3 (3.750 %) VPN 6 3 (3.750 %) WLAN 6 3 (3.750 %) WAN 6 3 (3.750 %) ADSL 6 3 (3.750 %) ISDN 7 2 (2.500 %) OSPF 7 2 (2.500 %) VLAN 8 1 (1.250 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2 5 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (3.750 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.500 %) DTS 4 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (1.250 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 2 (2.500 %) Visual Studio
General 1 2 (2.500 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.250 %) Finance 2 1 (1.250 %) Education 2 1 (1.250 %) Government 2 1 (1.250 %) Health 2 1 (1.250 %) Local Government 2 1 (1.250 %) Auditing 2 1 (1.250 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (1.250 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 30 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 2 13 (16.25 %) Analyst 2 13 (16.25 %) Desktop Engineer 3 11 (13.75 %) Desktop Support 3 11 (13.75 %) Server Support 4 10 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Support 4 10 (12.50 %) Server Engineer 4 10 (12.50 %) Network Support 4 10 (12.50 %) Server Support Engineer 5 9 (11.25 %) Network Support Engineer 5 9 (11.25 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 9 (11.25 %) Network Engineer 6 8 (10.00 %) Support Analyst 7 7 (8.750 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 6 (7.500 %) Developer 9 5 (6.250 %) Support Technician 9 5 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 9 5 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 9 5 (6.250 %) Senior Network Engineer 9 5 (6.250 %) Senior Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.250 %) NHS 2 2 (2.500 %) Blackberry 2 2 (2.500 %) Client/Server 2 2 (2.500 %) EPoS 2 2 (2.500 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.250 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (1.250 %) PDA 3 1 (1.250 %) Data Protection Act	Operating Systems 1 56 (70.00 %) Windows 2 23 (28.75 %) Windows NT 3 15 (18.75 %) Windows XP 4 13 (16.25 %) Windows 2000 5 6 (7.500 %) UNIX 6 4 (5.000 %) Linux 7 1 (1.250 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (3.750 %) ITIL 2 2 (2.500 %) ERD 2 2 (2.500 %) Data Protection 2 2 (2.500 %) RAD 2 2 (2.500 %) RUP 2 2 (2.500 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (1.250 %) Security Management 3 1 (1.250 %) Software Testing 3 1 (1.250 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (1.250 %) Time Management 3 1 (1.250 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.250 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (1.250 %) UML	Programming Languages 1 6 (7.500 %) SQL 2 4 (5.000 %) VB 2 4 (5.000 %) VB.NET 2 4 (5.000 %) JavaScript 3 3 (3.750 %) DHTML 3 3 (3.750 %) VBScript 4 2 (2.500 %) C# 4 2 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (1.250 %) Perl 5 1 (1.250 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 80 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 24 (30.00 %) MCSE 3 13 (16.25 %) Degree 4 12 (15.00 %) MCSA 5 7 (8.750 %) Cisco Certification 6 6 (7.500 %) MCDST 7 5 (6.250 %) CCNA 7 5 (6.250 %) MCAD 7 5 (6.250 %) MCSD 8 4 (5.000 %) A+ Certification 9 3 (3.750 %) ECDL 9 3 (3.750 %) MOS 9 3 (3.750 %) CCNP 10 2 (2.500 %) ISEB 10 2 (2.500 %) Citrix Certification 11 1 (1.250 %) CCA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.250 %) QA
System Software 1 15 (18.75 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.750 %) ISA Server 3 2 (2.500 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 14 (17.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (1.250 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 1 (1.250 %) WSUS 2 1 (1.250 %) MOM
Vendors 1 27 (33.75 %) Microsoft 2 8 (10.00 %) Cisco 3 6 (7.500 %) Dell 3 6 (7.500 %) Citrix 3 6 (7.500 %) HP 4 3 (3.750 %) Compaq 5 2 (2.500 %) Remedy 5 2 (2.500 %) Capita 5 2 (2.500 %) IBM 6 1 (1.250 %) Sun 6 1 (1.250 %) Avaya 6 1 (1.250 %) Lotus 6 1 (1.250 %) Red Hat 6 1 (1.250 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.250 %) VMware