Hampshire MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Hampshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Spalding Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	112
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	17	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.023 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	5.965 %	4.651 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£263
Average daily rate	£247	£288
% change on same period last year	-14.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£262	£313
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£206
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.11	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£20.97	£18.75
% change on same period last year	+11.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.83	£20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Qualifications Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	285	301
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.380 %	0.305 %
Daily rates quoted	65	69
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£294
Average daily rate	£354	£307
% change on same period last year	+15.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	65	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.49	£27.87
Average hourly rate	£28.43	£29.79
% change on same period last year	-4.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.36	£31.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCP South East

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Basingstoke	+21	3	-	-
Farnborough	-	2	£350	-
Havant	-	2	-	-
Portsmouth	-1	1	-	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 24 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 19 (79.17 %) Windows 3 16 (66.67 %) MCSE 4 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory 5 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP 6 8 (33.33 %) MS Office 6 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 6 8 (33.33 %) Windows NT 7 6 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 8 5 (20.83 %) MOM 8 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 9 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 9 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 9 4 (16.67 %) Migration 9 4 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003

10 3 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (12.50 %) Blackberry 10 3 (12.50 %) MCSA 10 3 (12.50 %) LAN 10 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 10 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 11 2 (8.333 %) HP 11 2 (8.333 %) WAN 11 2 (8.333 %) DHCP 11 2 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 11 2 (8.333 %) VPN 11 2 (8.333 %) DNS 11 2 (8.333 %) SQL 11 2 (8.333 %) IIS 11 2 (8.333 %) Remedy

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.167 %) .NET 1 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (8.333 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (12.50 %) LAN 2 2 (8.333 %) WAN 2 2 (8.333 %) DHCP 2 2 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (8.333 %) VPN 2 2 (8.333 %) DNS 3 1 (4.167 %) SAN 3 1 (4.167 %) Internet 3 1 (4.167 %) Ethernet 3 1 (4.167 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (8.333 %) Back Office 1 2 (8.333 %) Government 1 2 (8.333 %) Legal 2 1 (4.167 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 7 (29.17 %) Analyst 2 6 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (20.83 %) Desktop Engineer 4 4 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (16.67 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (12.50 %) Network Support Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Network Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 3 (12.50 %) Technical Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 3 (12.50 %) Network Support 5 3 (12.50 %) Technical Services Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Server Support 6 2 (8.333 %) Support Technician 6 2 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (4.167 %) Technical Support 7 1 (4.167 %) Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (12.50 %) Blackberry 2 1 (4.167 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 19 (79.17 %) Windows 2 9 (37.50 %) Windows XP 3 8 (33.33 %) Windows NT 4 4 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (25.00 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (16.67 %) Migration 3 3 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 4 1 (4.167 %) Service Management 4 1 (4.167 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 2 (8.333 %) SQL 2 1 (4.167 %) C#	Qualifications 1 24 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (66.67 %) MCSE 3 3 (12.50 %) MCSA 4 2 (8.333 %) Degree 5 1 (4.167 %) MCAD 5 1 (4.167 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA 1 1 (4.167 %) BS7799	System Software 1 10 (41.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (8.333 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 5 (20.83 %) MOM	Vendors 1 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 3 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 2 (8.333 %) VERITAS 3 2 (8.333 %) Remedy 3 2 (8.333 %) HP 4 1 (4.167 %) Dell 4 1 (4.167 %) Cisco 4 1 (4.167 %) BT 4 1 (4.167 %) Tandberg