The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Guildford 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 25 20 15
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 2 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 4.478% 1.613% 8.392%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.65% 9.091% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 4
Average daily rate £225 - £298
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 - £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 - £340
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £263
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £18.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.56%
All Qualifications
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
51 22 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 25.37% 17.74% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 10 9
Average daily rate £325 £335 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £240 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £472 £438 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 £18.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+200.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
Microsoft Certification
Surrey

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Guildford Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Guildford Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Guildford Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 7 (70.00%) MCSE
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (30.00%) Migration
3 3 (30.00%) Games
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (30.00%) MCITP
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (30.00%) Velocity
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (30.00%) IBM Notes
3 3 (30.00%) Lotus
3 3 (30.00%) MCSA
3 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (30.00%) OLAP
3 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
3 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Windows Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (30.00%) MapReduce

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) Velocity
1 3 (30.00%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) IBM Notes
1 3 (30.00%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (30.00%) Hadoop
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (30.00%) OLAP
1 3 (30.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (30.00%) Big Data
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Business Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Leader
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
1 7 (70.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Migration
1 3 (30.00%) Scrum
1 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Business Analytics
1 3 (30.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) MCSE
2 3 (30.00%) MCITP
2 3 (30.00%) MCSA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (30.00%) Lotus
2 1 (10.00%) Altiris
2 1 (10.00%) Symantec
2 1 (10.00%) Dell
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