Hertfordshire Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	62	59
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	8	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	6.897 %	17.37 %
Daily rates quoted	1	11
Average minimum daily rate	£120	£280
Average daily rate	£120	£287
% change on same period last year	-58.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£120	£294
UK excluding London average daily rate	£268	£258
% change on same period last year	+3.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.67	£17.30
Average hourly rate	£19.83	£18.45
% change on same period last year	+7.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£19.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.39	£20.62
% change on same period last year	-5.92 %
Qualifications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	116	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.183 %	0.228 %
Daily rates quoted	39	78
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£343
Average daily rate	£329	£361
% change on same period last year	-8.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.31	£29.22
Average hourly rate	£28.48	£30.74
% change on same period last year	-7.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.65	£32.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Microsoft Certification 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.

Microsoft Certification
Demand Trend

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

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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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 21 November 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
Stevenage	0	2	-	-
St Albans	+8	1	-	-

Microsoft Certification East of England

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 16 (84.21 %) Windows 2 11 (57.89 %) MCSE 3 9 (47.37 %) Microsoft 3 9 (47.37 %) Active Directory 4 8 (42.11 %) Windows XP 5 7 (36.84 %) MCP 5 7 (36.84 %) Windows Server 2003 6 5 (26.32 %) Citrix 6 5 (26.32 %) SQL Server 7 4 (21.05 %) .NET 7 4 (21.05 %) Cisco 8 3 (15.79 %) HP 8 3 (15.79 %) VB 8 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 8 3 (15.79 %) HTML

8 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 8 3 (15.79 %) MCSD 8 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (15.79 %) XML 8 3 (15.79 %) Migration 8 3 (15.79 %) VMware 9 2 (10.53 %) Telecoms 9 2 (10.53 %) Altiris 9 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 9 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server Integration Services 9 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (10.53 %) Network Security 9 2 (10.53 %) ERD 9 2 (10.53 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 Server

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, 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 4 (21.05 %) .NET 2 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (15.79 %) XML 2 3 (15.79 %) HTML 3 1 (5.263 %) WinForms 3 1 (5.263 %) WCF 3 1 (5.263 %) WPF 3 1 (5.263 %) WF 3 1 (5.263 %) WebServices 3 1 (5.263 %) MFC 3 1 (5.263 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (5.263 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 1 (5.263 %) IIS
Applications 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (10.53 %) LAN 1 2 (10.53 %) WAN 1 2 (10.53 %) Network Security 2 1 (5.263 %) VPN 2 1 (5.263 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (26.32 %) SQL Server 2 2 (10.53 %) DTS 2 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 1 (5.263 %) MS Access	General 1 2 (10.53 %) Pharmaceutical 1 2 (10.53 %) Telecoms 2 1 (5.263 %) Education 2 1 (5.263 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 5 (26.32 %) Developer 2 3 (15.79 %) Web Developer 3 2 (10.53 %) Analyst 3 2 (10.53 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) 3rd Line Support 4 1 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (5.263 %) Administrator 4 1 (5.263 %) Technical Support Analyst 4 1 (5.263 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (5.263 %) C# Developer 4 1 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 4 1 (5.263 %) Technical Analyst 4 1 (5.263 %) Desktop Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Team Leader 4 1 (5.263 %) Hardware Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Installations Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Technical Team Leader 4 1 (5.263 %) Rollout Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Systems Support Engineer 4 1 (5.263 %) Infrastructure Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.263 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 16 (84.21 %) Windows 2 8 (42.11 %) Windows XP 3 7 (36.84 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (10.53 %) UNIX 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows NT 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (15.79 %) Migration 2 2 (10.53 %) ERD 3 1 (5.263 %) Incident Management 3 1 (5.263 %) ITIL 3 1 (5.263 %) RAD 3 1 (5.263 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (15.79 %) JavaScript 1 3 (15.79 %) VB 1 3 (15.79 %) VB.NET 2 2 (10.53 %) DHTML 2 2 (10.53 %) VBScript 2 2 (10.53 %) SQL 3 1 (5.263 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (5.263 %) C# 3 1 (5.263 %) C++	Qualifications 1 11 (57.89 %) MCSE 2 7 (36.84 %) MCP 3 3 (15.79 %) MCSD 4 2 (10.53 %) MCAD 4 2 (10.53 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (5.263 %) CCEA 5 1 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (5.263 %) CNE 5 1 (5.263 %) Novell Certification 5 1 (5.263 %) Degree 5 1 (5.263 %) MCDBA 5 1 (5.263 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.263 %) GxP	System Software 1 9 (47.37 %) Active Directory 2 2 (10.53 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (5.263 %) NDS 3 1 (5.263 %) ISA Server 3 1 (5.263 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (5.263 %) MOM 1 1 (5.263 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (5.263 %) ARCserve 1 1 (5.263 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 9 (47.37 %) Microsoft 2 5 (26.32 %) Citrix 3 4 (21.05 %) Cisco 4 3 (15.79 %) HP 4 3 (15.79 %) VMware 5 2 (10.53 %) Compaq 5 2 (10.53 %) Altiris 6 1 (5.263 %) Softricity 6 1 (5.263 %) Novell 6 1 (5.263 %) VERITAS 6 1 (5.263 %) Remedy 6 1 (5.263 %) Sophos