The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank - 32 41
Contract jobs citing MCSA 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 1.240% 0.328%
As % of the Qualifications category - 6.667% 1.563%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £125 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £200 £338
% change year-on-year
+13.00% -40.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +111.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £15.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-22.58% -6.06%
All Qualifications
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
49 45 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 18.56% 18.60% 20.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 23 42
Average daily rate £285 £250 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.00% -31.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £125 £234
10% offered a daily rate of more than £378 £325 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
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 £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCSA
South East

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCSA across the Kent region.

Kent MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCSA across the Kent region.

Kent MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) Terminal Server
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) LAN
1 3 (100.00%) WLAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) IPsec
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Server Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Wintel Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Dell
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
1 3 (100.00%) VMware