The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCPD over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing MCPD 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £320 £291
% change year-on-year
+31.09% +9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Qualifications
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
70 43 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 22.88% 16.23% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 23 37
Average daily rate £275 £283 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.65% -22.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £145 £242
10% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £7.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% +282.47%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCPD
South East

MCPD
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) PowerBuilder
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSD
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Sybase
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft