Hertfordshire MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill 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 Thame Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	86
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	5	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	3.226 %	3.057 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£183	£225
% change on same period last year	-18.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.67	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£18.67	£17.67
% change on same period last year	+5.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.67	£18.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.55	£18.37
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
Qualifications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	155	229
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.204 %	0.239 %
Daily rates quoted	75	70
Average minimum daily rate	£385	£325
Average daily rate	£410	£354
% change on same period last year	+15.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.96	£22.32
Average hourly rate	£27.29	£23.39
% change on same period last year	+16.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.63	£24.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
MCP East of England

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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MCP within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 8 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
Welwyn Garden City	-	2	-	-

MCP East of England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (81.25 %) Windows 3 8 (50.00 %) Microsoft 4 5 (31.25 %) ISA Server 4 5 (31.25 %) Solaris 4 5 (31.25 %) Linux 4 5 (31.25 %) JBoss 4 5 (31.25 %) Tomcat 4 5 (31.25 %) TCP/IP 4 5 (31.25 %) SQL 4 5 (31.25 %) WebLogic 4 5 (31.25 %) IIS 4 5 (31.25 %) J2EE 4 5 (31.25 %) WebSphere 5 4 (25.00 %) MS Office

5 4 (25.00 %) Windows XP 5 4 (25.00 %) Unix 5 4 (25.00 %) Red Hat 5 4 (25.00 %) Security Management 6 3 (18.75 %) LAMP 6 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 6 3 (18.75 %) HP 6 3 (18.75 %) Apache 6 3 (18.75 %) DNS 6 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 6 3 (18.75 %) MOS 7 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 7 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel 7 2 (12.50 %) Dell 7 2 (12.50 %) A+ Certification

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (31.25 %) J2EE 1 5 (31.25 %) WebSphere 2 3 (18.75 %) LAMP 3 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (6.250 %) XML 3 1 (6.250 %) .NET 3 1 (6.250 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (31.25 %) JBoss 1 5 (31.25 %) Tomcat 1 5 (31.25 %) WebLogic 1 5 (31.25 %) IIS 2 3 (18.75 %) Apache 3 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (31.25 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (18.75 %) DNS 3 1 (6.250 %) WINS 3 1 (6.250 %) LAN 3 1 (6.250 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) MySQL 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 1 (6.250 %) Back Office 1 1 (6.250 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 8 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (31.25 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (25.00 %) Linux Support 3 4 (25.00 %) Desktop Engineer 3 4 (25.00 %) Desktop Support 3 4 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (25.00 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 3 (18.75 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (18.75 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 3 (18.75 %) UNIX Support 5 2 (12.50 %) Implementation Engineer 5 2 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (6.250 %) Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Web Developer 6 1 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (6.250 %) Server Support 6 1 (6.250 %) Support Technician 6 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 6 1 (6.250 %) Telephony Engineer 6 1 (6.250 %) Helpdesk Support	Operating Systems 1 13 (81.25 %) Windows 2 5 (31.25 %) Solaris 2 5 (31.25 %) Linux 3 4 (25.00 %) Windows XP 3 4 (25.00 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Security Management 2 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) RAD	Programming Languages 1 5 (31.25 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) VBScript 2 1 (6.250 %) VB 2 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET 2 1 (6.250 %) DHTML 2 1 (6.250 %) JavaScript 2 1 (6.250 %) Perl 2 1 (6.250 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 16 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (18.75 %) MOS 3 2 (12.50 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (6.250 %) MCSE 4 1 (6.250 %) MCSA 4 1 (6.250 %) MCAD 4 1 (6.250 %) MCSD	System Software 1 5 (31.25 %) ISA Server 2 3 (18.75 %) Active Directory 3 1 (6.250 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (6.250 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 8 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (25.00 %) Red Hat 3 3 (18.75 %) HP 4 2 (12.50 %) Dell 5 1 (6.250 %) Avaya 5 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS 5 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 5 1 (6.250 %) Sun 5 1 (6.250 %) Symantec 5 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 5 1 (6.250 %) IBM