MCTS Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS 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 MCTS over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - 121 121
Contract jobs citing MCTS 0 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - 0.511% 0.155%
As % of the Qualifications category - 2.722% 0.983%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £315
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
All Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 371 551 407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.18% 18.75% 15.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 276 139
Average daily rate £325 £320 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +18.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £130 £80
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 59 77
Average hourly rate £26.25 £35.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.53 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.00 £47.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) MCITP
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VBScript
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) CCA
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus
3 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
General
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Migration Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Rollout Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Thin Client
1 1 (33.33%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCA
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Lotus
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