MCTS Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS 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 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 456 476 492
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +16
Contract jobs citing MCTS 58 94 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.137% 0.173% 0.130%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.768% 0.997% 0.827%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 40 33
Average daily rate £400 £323 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+24.03% -7.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £279 £165 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £450 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 8
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.00 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +39.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.98 £15.70 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £26.00 £20.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.75 £33.75
% change year-on-year
- -47.40%
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 7551 9431 8711
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.38% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4003 5008 4250
Average daily rate £375 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £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 429 523 607
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 £43.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCTS
UK

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

England MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCTS across the England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

England MCTS Daily Rate Histogram

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the 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
London +22 24 £400 +14.28%
South West +34 12 £313 -2.34%
North West +8 12 £310 +3.33%
South East +13 6 £413 +65.00%
Yorkshire 0 4 £300 -14.28%
MCTS
UK

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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.

1 101 (66.01%) Microsoft
1 101 (66.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 82 (53.59%) SQL Server
3 73 (47.71%) Windows
4 65 (42.48%) MCITP
5 62 (40.52%) MCP
6 61 (39.87%) .NET
7 49 (32.03%) VMware
7 49 (32.03%) C#
8 47 (30.72%) SharePoint
9 45 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 45 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
10 43 (28.10%) SQL
11 41 (26.80%) IIS
12 39 (25.49%) ASP.NET
12 39 (25.49%) Windows Server 2003
12 39 (25.49%) Active Directory
13 35 (22.88%) MS Exchange
14 30 (19.61%) MCSD
14 30 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
15 29 (18.95%) HTML
16 28 (18.30%) Cisco
16 28 (18.30%) Windows 7
16 28 (18.30%) SharePoint 2010
17 27 (17.65%) MCAD
17 27 (17.65%) ITIL
17 27 (17.65%) MCSE
18 26 (16.99%) MS Excel
18 26 (16.99%) JavaScript
18 26 (16.99%) VB.NET

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 Development
1 61 (39.87%) .NET
2 39 (25.49%) ASP.NET
3 29 (18.95%) HTML
4 25 (16.34%) .NET Framework
5 17 (11.11%) WCF
6 16 (10.46%) CSS
6 16 (10.46%) XML
7 11 (7.190%) ASP
7 11 (7.190%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 7 (4.575%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (3.268%) COM+
9 5 (3.268%) WinForms
9 5 (3.268%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 3 (1.961%) OpenGL
10 3 (1.961%) JMS
10 3 (1.961%) SOAP
10 3 (1.961%) Web Services
10 3 (1.961%) Ajax
10 3 (1.961%) HTML5
10 3 (1.961%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 47 (30.72%) SharePoint
2 41 (26.80%) IIS
3 35 (22.88%) MS Exchange
4 28 (18.30%) SharePoint 2010
5 21 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2010
6 16 (10.46%) Exchange Server 2007
7 14 (9.150%) Exchange Server 2003
8 11 (7.190%) OpenROAD
9 8 (5.229%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 6 (3.922%) Lync
11 5 (3.268%) Windows Azure
12 4 (2.614%) CloudStack
12 4 (2.614%) SharePoint Server
12 4 (2.614%) Exchange Server 2000
12 4 (2.614%) Amazon EC2
12 4 (2.614%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.654%) Lotus Notes
13 1 (0.654%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.654%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 26 (16.99%) MS Excel
2 16 (10.46%) MS Office
3 3 (1.961%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.654%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.654%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 7 (4.575%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.73%) TCP/IP
1 21 (13.73%) SAN
2 20 (13.07%) Firewall
3 17 (11.11%) DNS
3 17 (11.11%) LAN
4 16 (10.46%) WAN
5 13 (8.497%) NAS
6 12 (7.843%) VPN
7 10 (6.536%) Internet
8 9 (5.882%) SMTP
8 9 (5.882%) DHCP
8 9 (5.882%) NetScreen
9 6 (3.922%) VoIP
10 3 (1.961%) VLAN
10 3 (1.961%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.307%) Unified Communications
11 2 (1.307%) Wireless
12 1 (0.654%) ICMP
12 1 (0.654%) SSL
12 1 (0.654%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (53.59%) SQL Server
2 45 (29.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (7.190%) Ingres
3 11 (7.190%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (4.575%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (4.575%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.268%) SQL Server 2012
6 4 (2.614%) SQLPlus
7 3 (1.961%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (1.961%) DTS
7 3 (1.961%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (1.307%) EDRMS
9 1 (0.654%) OLAP
9 1 (0.654%) MySQL
9 1 (0.654%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.654%) PerformancePoint
Development Applications
1 20 (13.07%) NUnit
2 19 (12.42%) Visual Studio
3 18 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
4 13 (8.497%) CruiseControl
5 8 (5.229%) MSTest
5 8 (5.229%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.229%) Subversion
6 7 (4.575%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 7 (4.575%) TeamCity
7 5 (3.268%) Visual Studio Team System
8 4 (2.614%) Rhino Mocks
9 3 (1.961%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.654%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.654%) Moq
General
1 15 (9.804%) Finance
2 6 (3.922%) Publishing
3 4 (2.614%) Banking
4 3 (1.961%) Games
4 3 (1.961%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.307%) Retail
6 1 (0.654%) Front Office
6 1 (0.654%) Back Office
6 1 (0.654%) Law
6 1 (0.654%) German Language
Job Titles
1 58 (37.91%) Developer
2 27 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 18 (11.76%) Architect
4 13 (8.497%) C# Developer
5 10 (6.536%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (5.882%) SharePoint Developer
6 9 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
6 9 (5.882%) Analyst
6 9 (5.882%) Consultant
6 9 (5.882%) DBA
7 8 (5.229%) Network Engineer
7 8 (5.229%) Technical Architect
7 8 (5.229%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (5.229%) SQL Developer
8 7 (4.575%) Microsoft Developer
9 6 (3.922%) SQL Server Developer
9 6 (3.922%) Administrator
9 6 (3.922%) 3rd Line Support
9 6 (3.922%) Desktop Support
10 5 (3.268%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.882%) Clustering
2 8 (5.229%) Tandem
2 8 (5.229%) Blackberry
3 7 (4.575%) iPad
3 7 (4.575%) Computer Science
3 7 (4.575%) Mathematics
4 6 (3.922%) iPhone
5 5 (3.268%) Animation
6 4 (2.614%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.614%) IaaS
6 4 (2.614%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (2.614%) SaaS
6 4 (2.614%) PaaS
6 4 (2.614%) Open Source
6 4 (2.614%) Cryptography
7 3 (1.961%) Thin Client
7 3 (1.961%) N-Tier
7 3 (1.961%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.961%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.307%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 73 (47.71%) Windows
2 45 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
3 39 (25.49%) Windows Server 2003
4 28 (18.30%) Windows 7
5 14 (9.150%) Windows XP
6 13 (8.497%) UNIX
7 7 (4.575%) Windows Vista
8 4 (2.614%) Windows 2000 Server
8 4 (2.614%) Linux
8 4 (2.614%) Windows 2000
9 3 (1.961%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (1.307%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.654%) Windows NT
11 1 (0.654%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.654%) Android
11 1 (0.654%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (17.65%) ITIL
2 15 (9.804%) MVC
3 14 (9.150%) Migration
3 14 (9.150%) Service Management
3 14 (9.150%) Service Delivery
3 14 (9.150%) UML
4 12 (7.843%) ITSM
5 10 (6.536%) Web Application Development
5 10 (6.536%) CRM
6 9 (5.882%) TDD
7 8 (5.229%) Unit Testing
8 7 (4.575%) Continuous Integration
9 6 (3.922%) Waterfall
9 6 (3.922%) Capacity Planning
9 6 (3.922%) Data Management
9 6 (3.922%) Asset Management
9 6 (3.922%) Regression Testing
9 6 (3.922%) Scrum
9 6 (3.922%) RUP
9 6 (3.922%) OO
Programming Languages
1 49 (32.03%) C#
2 43 (28.10%) SQL
3 26 (16.99%) JavaScript
3 26 (16.99%) VB.NET
4 17 (11.11%) VB
5 15 (9.804%) Java
6 14 (9.150%) C++
7 13 (8.497%) PowerShell
8 11 (7.190%) T-SQL
9 7 (4.575%) Perl
10 6 (3.922%) PHP
11 3 (1.961%) C
12 2 (1.307%) VBScript
13 1 (0.654%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.654%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 101 (66.01%) Microsoft Certification
2 65 (42.48%) MCITP
3 62 (40.52%) MCP
4 30 (19.61%) MCSD
5 27 (17.65%) MCAD
5 27 (17.65%) MCSE
6 22 (14.38%) MCSA
7 21 (13.73%) CCNA
7 21 (13.73%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (13.07%) MCPD
9 19 (12.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 14 (9.150%) ISEB
11 9 (5.882%) Security Cleared
12 8 (5.229%) Degree
13 6 (3.922%) SC Cleared
13 6 (3.922%) MCDST
14 5 (3.268%) CCA
14 5 (3.268%) Citrix Certification
15 4 (2.614%) CCEA
15 4 (2.614%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.614%) SLA
2 1 (0.654%) QA
2 1 (0.654%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (25.49%) Active Directory
2 30 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (8.497%) vSphere
4 10 (6.536%) Hyper-V
5 7 (4.575%) XenApp
6 6 (3.922%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (3.268%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (2.614%) Xen
8 4 (2.614%) UAG
8 4 (2.614%) VMware ESX
9 3 (1.961%) Terminal Services
9 3 (1.961%) Postfix
10 1 (0.654%) Samba
10 1 (0.654%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 10 (6.536%) SCCM
2 9 (5.882%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (3.268%) SCOM
4 3 (1.961%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 3 (1.961%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (1.961%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (1.961%) OpenView
4 3 (1.961%) BMC Performance Manager
4 3 (1.961%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (0.654%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.654%) DameWare
5 1 (0.654%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.654%) WSUS
5 1 (0.654%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 101 (66.01%) Microsoft
2 49 (32.03%) VMware
3 28 (18.30%) Cisco
4 26 (16.99%) Citrix
5 22 (14.38%) Oracle
6 10 (6.536%) EMC
7 9 (5.882%) HP
8 4 (2.614%) Google
8 4 (2.614%) Symantec
9 3 (1.961%) StorageTek
9 3 (1.961%) BMC
9 3 (1.961%) NetApp
9 3 (1.961%) Sun
9 3 (1.961%) IronPort
10 2 (1.307%) LANDesk
10 2 (1.307%) Tableau
10 2 (1.307%) Altiris
10 2 (1.307%) Apple
10 2 (1.307%) Business Objects
10 2 (1.307%) JBoss
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