The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCPD over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 501 546 566
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +20
Contract jobs citing MCPD 9 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.022% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.122% 0.129% 0.067%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 6
Average daily rate £420 £450 £248
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.77% +81.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £288 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £513 £356
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £320 £291
% change year-on-year
+31.09% +9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7387 9316 8926
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.77% 17.46% 15.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3919 4936 4342
Average daily rate £377 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.83% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 421 507 608
Average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £43.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCPD
UK

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Daily Rate Trend

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

England MCPD Daily Rate Trend

MCPD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MCPD Hourly Rate Trend

MCPD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
North West - 5 £420 -
London +15 2 - -
South East +24 1 - -
South West +23 1 - -
MCPD
UK

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 22 (88.00%) C#
3 21 (84.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 20 (80.00%) SQL Server
4 20 (80.00%) MCTS
5 19 (76.00%) .NET Framework
5 19 (76.00%) IIS
5 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
6 18 (72.00%) HTML
7 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
7 17 (68.00%) SharePoint
8 15 (60.00%) SQL
8 15 (60.00%) Oracle
9 14 (56.00%) XML
9 14 (56.00%) MCP
10 13 (52.00%) Java
11 12 (48.00%) VB
11 12 (48.00%) VB.NET
11 12 (48.00%) UML
11 12 (48.00%) ASP
12 11 (44.00%) ITIL
12 11 (44.00%) UNIX
12 11 (44.00%) C++
12 11 (44.00%) Ingres
12 11 (44.00%) ISEB
12 11 (44.00%) OpenROAD
12 11 (44.00%) Service Management
12 11 (44.00%) Service Delivery
12 11 (44.00%) ITSM

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (92.00%) .NET
2 19 (76.00%) ASP.NET
2 19 (76.00%) .NET Framework
3 18 (72.00%) HTML
4 14 (56.00%) XML
5 12 (48.00%) ASP
6 7 (28.00%) CSS
7 6 (24.00%) WCF
8 5 (20.00%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
8 5 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 3 (12.00%) WPF
10 2 (8.000%) Web Services
10 2 (8.000%) JMS
10 2 (8.000%) WinForms
11 1 (4.000%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 19 (76.00%) IIS
2 17 (68.00%) SharePoint
3 11 (44.00%) OpenROAD
4 3 (12.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (8.000%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (4.000%) Confluence
6 1 (4.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
1 2 (8.000%) InfoPath
2 1 (4.000%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.000%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (44.00%) Ingres
3 5 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (16.00%) SQLPlus
5 3 (12.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (8.000%) Hadoop
6 2 (8.000%) NoSQL
7 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (4.000%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (4.000%) RDBMS
7 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (4.000%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) NUnit
1 8 (32.00%) Subversion
1 8 (32.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 8 (32.00%) MSTest
1 8 (32.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (28.00%) TeamCity
2 7 (28.00%) CruiseControl
2 7 (28.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (28.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 6 (24.00%) Visual Studio Team System
4 3 (12.00%) JIRA
5 2 (8.000%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (4.000%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (4.000%) Rhino Mocks
6 1 (4.000%) MSBuild
General
1 1 (4.000%) Telecoms
1 1 (4.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 23 (92.00%) Developer
2 11 (44.00%) .NET Developer
2 11 (44.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (36.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (20.00%) CRM Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Analyst Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Analyst
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Support Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Support Analyst
6 3 (12.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 1 (4.000%) SharePoint Consultant
7 1 (4.000%) Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Administrator
7 1 (4.000%) Consultant
7 1 (4.000%) Applications Developer
7 1 (4.000%) SharePoint Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.000%) SaaS
2 1 (4.000%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.000%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 11 (44.00%) UNIX
2 4 (16.00%) Windows
3 2 (8.000%) Linux
4 1 (4.000%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) UML
2 11 (44.00%) Service Management
2 11 (44.00%) Service Delivery
2 11 (44.00%) ITSM
2 11 (44.00%) ITIL
3 8 (32.00%) Unit Testing
4 7 (28.00%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.00%) MVC
5 5 (20.00%) CRM
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.000%) TDD
8 1 (4.000%) Logistics
8 1 (4.000%) Web Development
8 1 (4.000%) Business Continuity
8 1 (4.000%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (4.000%) ERP
8 1 (4.000%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (88.00%) C#
2 17 (68.00%) JavaScript
3 15 (60.00%) SQL
4 13 (52.00%) Java
5 12 (48.00%) VB
5 12 (48.00%) VB.NET
6 11 (44.00%) C++
7 1 (4.000%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.000%) VB6
7 1 (4.000%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (80.00%) MCTS
3 14 (56.00%) MCP
4 11 (44.00%) ISEB
5 7 (28.00%) MCAD
6 6 (24.00%) MCSD
6 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
7 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (12.00%) MCITP
9 2 (8.000%) Degree
9 2 (8.000%) DV Cleared
10 1 (4.000%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (8.000%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (60.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.000%) Atlassian
4 1 (4.000%) Sybase
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