The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA 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 of England 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 Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 106 104 118
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +14
Contract jobs citing MCSA 10 27 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.459% 0.906% 0.459%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.604% 4.865% 2.850%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 5
Average daily rate £174 £118 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.87% -50.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £233 £338
% change year-on-year
-3.01% -31.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-22.58% -11.42%
All Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
384 555 421
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.64% 18.62% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 279 149
Average daily rate £325 £313 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +11.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £128 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 62 76
Average hourly rate £25.00 £34.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.00% +37.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.79 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £47.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the East of England 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
Hertfordshire - 4 - -
Cambridgeshire +15 3 - -
Essex -14 2 £174 +57.95%
Bedfordshire 0 1 - -
MCSA
England

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) MCSE
3 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (50.00%) MS Office
5 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (40.00%) MCP
5 4 (40.00%) Welsh Language
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) Cisco
6 3 (30.00%) Adobe
6 3 (30.00%) Acrobat
6 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
6 3 (30.00%) Remedy
6 3 (30.00%) UNIX
6 3 (30.00%) VPN
6 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
7 2 (20.00%) ITIL
7 2 (20.00%) Citrix
7 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) Danish Language
7 2 (20.00%) French Language
7 2 (20.00%) German Language
7 2 (20.00%) Hebrew Language
7 2 (20.00%) Swedish Language
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
8 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (10.00%) Clustering
8 1 (10.00%) Local Government

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (50.00%) MS Office
2 3 (30.00%) Acrobat
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Welsh Language
2 2 (20.00%) Danish Language
2 2 (20.00%) French Language
2 2 (20.00%) German Language
2 2 (20.00%) Hebrew Language
2 2 (20.00%) Swedish Language
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) UNIX
2 3 (30.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) ITIL
1 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) MCSE
3 4 (40.00%) MCP
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 3 (30.00%) Adobe
3 3 (30.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (30.00%) Remedy
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) VMware
5 1 (10.00%) LANDesk
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) McAfee