The first table below looks at the demand for MCT in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCT 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 Trainer (MCT)
Rank 497 554 558
Rank change year-on-year
+57 +4
Contract jobs citing MCT 13 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.031% 0.007% 0.025%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.176% 0.043% 0.157%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 9
Average daily rate £250 £413 £235
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.39% +75.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £279 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £547 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate - £413 £235
% change year-on-year
- +75.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
MCT
UK

MCT
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England MCT Jobs Demand Trend

MCT
Daily Rate Trend

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

England MCT Daily Rate Trend

MCT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MCT Hourly Rate Trend

MCT
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCT 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
London - 13 £250 -
MCT
UK

MCT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 9 (50.00%) Windows
4 5 (27.78%) MCSA
5 4 (22.22%) C
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
6 3 (16.67%) Office 365
6 3 (16.67%) Mobile Marketing
6 3 (16.67%) Advertising
6 3 (16.67%) Marketing
6 3 (16.67%) SCCM
6 3 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
6 3 (16.67%) MCDST
6 3 (16.67%) Mac OS X
7 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
7 2 (11.11%) .NET
7 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
7 2 (11.11%) ITIL
7 2 (11.11%) MCP
7 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
8 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (5.556%) SCOM
8 1 (5.556%) SCVMM
8 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
8 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
8 1 (5.556%) Podcast
8 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (5.556%) Replication

MCT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Office 365
2 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (16.67%) Advertising
1 3 (16.67%) Marketing
2 1 (5.556%) Law
2 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Trainer
2 6 (33.33%) IT Trainer
3 4 (22.22%) Analyst
3 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support
4 3 (16.67%) IT Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Trainer
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Support
6 1 (5.556%) Applications Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) SQL DBA
6 1 (5.556%) Training Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) IT Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) NHS
1 1 (5.556%) Replication
1 1 (5.556%) Statistics
1 1 (5.556%) Podcast
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 3 (16.67%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile Commerce
1 3 (16.67%) Mobile Marketing
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) CRM
3 1 (5.556%) SOA
3 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) C
2 1 (5.556%) C#
2 1 (5.556%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.556%) VBScript
2 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (27.78%) MCSA
3 3 (16.67%) MCDST
4 2 (11.11%) MCP
5 1 (5.556%) MCDBA
5 1 (5.556%) MCTS
5 1 (5.556%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (5.556%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft