Microsoft Certification Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 50 53 57
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 13 17 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.041% 1.751% 0.793%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.30% 9.827% 5.344%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 2
Average daily rate £150 £244 £110
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% +121.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £16.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 115 173 131
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 18.05% 17.82% 14.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 70 36
Average daily rate £381 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.92% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £176 £105
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 27
Average hourly rate £25.25 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £22.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
East of England

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford - 2 - -
Rickmansworth - 1 £200 -
Microsoft Certification
East of England

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 18 (94.74%) Windows
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
3 8 (42.11%) MS Office
3 8 (42.11%) MCSE
4 7 (36.84%) VMware
5 6 (31.58%) Retail
5 6 (31.58%) Windows 7
6 5 (26.32%) Degree
6 5 (26.32%) Time Management
6 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (26.32%) MCP
7 4 (21.05%) MCSA
7 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
7 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
7 4 (21.05%) SQL
7 4 (21.05%) Welsh Language
8 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
8 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
8 3 (15.79%) MS Project
8 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
8 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
8 3 (15.79%) ITIL
8 3 (15.79%) Lotus Notes
8 3 (15.79%) Lotus
9 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (10.53%) DNS
9 2 (10.53%) SLA

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (5.263%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.79%) Lotus Notes
3 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.263%) Lync
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) MS Office
2 4 (21.05%) MS Excel
3 3 (15.79%) MS Project
3 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (5.263%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) DNS
1 2 (10.53%) LAN
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
1 2 (10.53%) DHCP
2 1 (5.263%) FWSM
2 1 (5.263%) WAAS
2 1 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (5.263%) Network Security
2 1 (5.263%) Firewall
2 1 (5.263%) Wireless
2 1 (5.263%) IPsec
2 1 (5.263%) MPLS
2 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.263%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (31.58%) Retail
2 4 (21.05%) Welsh Language
3 3 (15.79%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Rollout Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Analyst
1 4 (21.05%) Support Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (10.53%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) SCCM Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Thin Client
1 2 (10.53%) Fat Client
2 1 (5.263%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 6 (31.58%) Windows 7
3 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Time Management
2 3 (15.79%) Problem Management
2 3 (15.79%) ITIL
3 2 (10.53%) Programme Office Management
3 2 (10.53%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Release Management
3 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
3 2 (10.53%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Change Control
3 2 (10.53%) Build Automation
3 2 (10.53%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (5.263%) Software Distribution
4 1 (5.263%) Security Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Service Management
4 1 (5.263%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.263%) VBScript
3 1 (5.263%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) MCSE
2 5 (26.32%) Degree
2 5 (26.32%) MCP
3 4 (21.05%) MCSA
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (10.53%) CCNA
4 2 (10.53%) MCITP
5 1 (5.263%) CCEE
5 1 (5.263%) CCSA
5 1 (5.263%) CCSE
5 1 (5.263%) JNCIA
5 1 (5.263%) MCDST
5 1 (5.263%) MCTS
5 1 (5.263%) CCSP
5 1 (5.263%) CCNP
5 1 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.263%) XenApp
3 1 (5.263%) XenServer
3 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
3 1 (5.263%) vSphere
3 1 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (5.263%) ProxySG
3 1 (5.263%) Snort
3 1 (5.263%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 1 (5.263%) SCOM
2 1 (5.263%) SCVMM
2 1 (5.263%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.263%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 7 (36.84%) VMware
3 3 (15.79%) Lotus
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 1 (5.263%) F5
5 1 (5.263%) Aruba
5 1 (5.263%) Riverbed
5 1 (5.263%) Crossbeam
5 1 (5.263%) Wyse
5 1 (5.263%) 3Com
5 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.263%) AppSense
5 1 (5.263%) Blue Coat
5 1 (5.263%) Sourcefire
5 1 (5.263%) SAP
5 1 (5.263%) Oracle
5 1 (5.263%) Avaya
5 1 (5.263%) Juniper
5 1 (5.263%) Apple
5 1 (5.263%) Nortel
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