The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 19 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 5 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.049% 0.897% -
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 16.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £263
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.56%
All Qualifications
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
20 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 12.20% 5.381% 5.310%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 6
Average daily rate £280 £280 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -37.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
Microsoft Certification
West Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 Halifax region.

Halifax 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 Halifax 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 4 (80.00%) MCSE
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESX
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
2 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) MCAD

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
1 1 (20.00%) Ninject
1 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
1 1 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
1 1 (20.00%) Spring.NET
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) WAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) NUnit
1 1 (20.00%) MSTest
1 1 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (20.00%) Moq
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) TDD
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Kanban
1 1 (20.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (20.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) MCSE
1 4 (80.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) MCITP
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) MCAD
3 1 (20.00%) MCSD
3 1 (20.00%) MCTS
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
Halifax, Yorkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £300 - £350 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013