The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 39 29 37
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +8
Contract jobs citing MCSE 8 16 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.990% 3.855% 3.316%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.989% 22.54% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 2
Average daily rate £225 £125 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+80.00% -50.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £112 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £265 £297
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
Average hourly rate £25.00 - £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
All Qualifications
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
89 71 95
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 22.14% 17.11% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 35
Average daily rate £295 £125 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+136.00% -37.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £85 £99 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 22
Average hourly rate £37.75 £41.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.03% +9.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £35.93 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £49.75 £96.00 £80.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSE
East of England

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Witham - 2 £225 -
Chelmsford -13 1 £175 +40.00%
MCSE
East of England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
2 9 (64.29%) Backup Exec
2 9 (64.29%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (42.86%) WAN
4 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 6 (42.86%) Windows
4 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
4 6 (42.86%) Cisco
4 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
5 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (35.71%) SAN
5 5 (35.71%) ITIL
5 5 (35.71%) MCITP
5 5 (35.71%) VMware
5 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
6 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (28.57%) Performance Management
6 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
6 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
6 4 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
6 4 (28.57%) Clustering
6 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
6 4 (28.57%) Migration
6 4 (28.57%) PACS
6 4 (28.57%) SQL

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 9 (64.29%) MS Exchange
1 9 (64.29%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (57.14%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
1 6 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 5 (35.71%) SAN
2 5 (35.71%) iSCSI
3 1 (7.143%) Wireless
3 1 (7.143%) LAN
3 1 (7.143%) DNS
3 1 (7.143%) DHCP
3 1 (7.143%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (7.143%) Back Office
1 1 (7.143%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Consultant
1 4 (28.57%) Migration Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 2 (14.29%) Analyst
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Network Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Server Support
3 1 (7.143%) Network Support
3 1 (7.143%) IT Support
3 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
1 4 (28.57%) PACS
1 4 (28.57%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
3 1 (7.143%) Windows XP
3 1 (7.143%) Windows 2000
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (35.71%) ITIL
2 4 (28.57%) Performance Management
2 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (7.143%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.143%) Network Management
4 1 (7.143%) Change Control
4 1 (7.143%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
1 4 (28.57%) VBScript
1 4 (28.57%) VB
2 1 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (35.71%) MCITP
3 2 (14.29%) CCNA
3 2 (14.29%) MCP
3 2 (14.29%) MCSA
4 1 (7.143%) MCDST
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) Hyper-V
3 4 (28.57%) Forefront TMG
3 4 (28.57%) ISA Server
4 1 (7.143%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (64.29%) Backup Exec
2 1 (7.143%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Cisco
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 5 (35.71%) VMware
3 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 4 (28.57%) ADIC
3 4 (28.57%) CommVault
3 4 (28.57%) Veritas
3 4 (28.57%) HP
3 4 (28.57%) Compaq
3 4 (28.57%) Dell
4 1 (7.143%) LANDesk
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) McAfee
4 1 (7.143%) Juniper
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