Glasgow MCSE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Glasgow region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glasgow Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rugby Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	39	49
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	9	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	13.85 %	13.08 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£130
Average daily rate	£179	£130
% change on same period last year	+37.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£183	£130
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£277
% change on same period last year	+5.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.67	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£28.67	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-18.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.67	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.66	£22.05
% change on same period last year	+11.81 %
Qualifications Glasgow
Matching contract IT job ads	65	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.102 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	19	26
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£298
Average daily rate	£276	£307
% change on same period last year	-9.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£283	£315
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.18	£22.80
Average hourly rate	£22.62	£23.60
% change on same period last year	-4.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.06	£24.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
MCSE Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MCSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 22 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (77.27 %) Windows 3 12 (54.55 %) MCP 3 12 (54.55 %) Active Directory 4 11 (50.00 %) Windows XP 5 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft 6 9 (40.91 %) Service Management 7 7 (31.82 %) Finance 7 7 (31.82 %) Citrix 7 7 (31.82 %) CNA 7 7 (31.82 %) Novell Certification 7 7 (31.82 %) Novell 8 6 (27.27 %) Remedy 8 6 (27.27 %) Client/Server 8 6 (27.27 %) NetWare

8 6 (27.27 %) Oracle 9 5 (22.73 %) Lotus Notes 9 5 (22.73 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (22.73 %) Lotus 9 5 (22.73 %) MCDST 9 5 (22.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 4 (18.18 %) Altiris 10 4 (18.18 %) Quality Management 10 4 (18.18 %) OpenView Configuration Management 10 4 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 11 3 (13.64 %) TCP/IP 11 3 (13.64 %) DNS 11 3 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 3 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 2 (9.091 %) Live Communications Server

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (22.73 %) Lotus Notes 1 5 (22.73 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (22.73 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (13.64 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 2 (9.091 %) Live Communications Server 3 2 (9.091 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Office 2 1 (4.545 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (13.64 %) TCP/IP 1 3 (13.64 %) DNS 2 1 (4.545 %) Firewall 2 1 (4.545 %) SAN 2 1 (4.545 %) SMS 2 1 (4.545 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server
General 1 7 (31.82 %) Finance 2 2 (9.091 %) Education	Job Titles 1 9 (40.91 %) Analyst 2 5 (22.73 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 5 (22.73 %) Service Analyst 3 4 (18.18 %) Consultant 4 2 (9.091 %) Messaging Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 2 (9.091 %) Server Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Support Consultant 4 2 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 2 (9.091 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Support Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Technical Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Server Support Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Server Engineer 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows Support Analyst 5 1 (4.545 %) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (27.27 %) Client/Server 2 2 (9.091 %) Blackberry 3 1 (4.545 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 17 (77.27 %) Windows 2 11 (50.00 %) Windows XP 3 6 (27.27 %) NetWare 4 4 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (13.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 6 1 (4.545 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (40.91 %) Service Management 2 4 (18.18 %) Quality Management 3 2 (9.091 %) Migration 4 1 (4.545 %) Disaster Recovery	Qualifications 1 22 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (54.55 %) MCP 3 7 (31.82 %) CNA 3 7 (31.82 %) Novell Certification 4 5 (22.73 %) MCDST 5 1 (4.545 %) MCSA 5 1 (4.545 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 12 (54.55 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.545 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (4.545 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (4.545 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 4 (18.18 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 2 (9.091 %) MAILsweeper 3 1 (4.545 %) MOM 3 1 (4.545 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 10 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 7 (31.82 %) Citrix 2 7 (31.82 %) Novell 3 6 (27.27 %) Remedy 3 6 (27.27 %) Oracle 4 5 (22.73 %) Lotus 5 4 (18.18 %) Altiris 6 2 (9.091 %) Symantec 6 2 (9.091 %) VMware 7 1 (4.545 %) VERITAS 7 1 (4.545 %) HP