Kent Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London Cobham Colchester Coleraine Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horley Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	33	38
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	15	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	29.41 %	20.29 %
Daily rates quoted	9	5
Average minimum daily rate	£221	£178
Average daily rate	£227	£181
% change on same period last year	+25.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£233	£183
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£261
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.50	£21.50
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£23.25
% change on same period last year	-33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.59	£20.03
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Qualifications Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	51	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.082 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum daily rate	£255	£271
Average daily rate	£261	£277
% change on same period last year	-5.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£268	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.38	£19.71
Average hourly rate	£18.48	£21.16
% change on same period last year	-12.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.58	£22.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.13
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
Microsoft Certification South East

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Maidstone	-	3	£274	-
Margate	-	1	-	-
Rochester	-	1	£125	-
Sandwich	-	1	-	-
Chatham	-	1	£200	-
Tunbridge Wells	-3	1	£125	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 19 (86.36 %) MCSE 2 16 (72.73 %) Windows 3 14 (63.64 %) Windows Server 2003 4 9 (40.91 %) Solaris 4 9 (40.91 %) C# 4 9 (40.91 %) VB 4 9 (40.91 %) VBA 4 9 (40.91 %) .NET 4 9 (40.91 %) Oracle 4 9 (40.91 %) Load Balancing 5 7 (31.82 %) MCP 5 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 6 5 (22.73 %) Active Directory 6 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 7 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000

7 4 (18.18 %) Citrix 7 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 8 3 (13.64 %) VMware 9 2 (9.091 %) Clustering 9 2 (9.091 %) Finance 9 2 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 9 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 9 2 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 9 2 (9.091 %) SAN 9 2 (9.091 %) HP 9 2 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (9.091 %) LAN 9 2 (9.091 %) IIS 9 2 (9.091 %) MS Office 9 2 (9.091 %) ASP.NET

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 9 (40.91 %) .NET 2 2 (9.091 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (9.091 %) IIS 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (4.545 %) Documentum
Applications 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Office 1 2 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 1 (4.545 %) MS Visio 2 1 (4.545 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.091 %) LAN 1 2 (9.091 %) SAN 2 1 (4.545 %) Internet 2 1 (4.545 %) HTTP 2 1 (4.545 %) DNS 2 1 (4.545 %) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (22.73 %) SQL Server 2 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (9.091 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (4.545 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 2 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 1 2 (9.091 %) Finance 2 1 (4.545 %) Education 2 1 (4.545 %) Government 2 1 (4.545 %) Legal 2 1 (4.545 %) Banking 2 1 (4.545 %) Retail 2 1 (4.545 %) Local Government
Job Titles 1 8 (36.36 %) DBA 2 7 (31.82 %) Administrator 3 6 (27.27 %) Windows Administrator 4 5 (22.73 %) Windows Systems Administrator 4 5 (22.73 %) Systems Administrator 5 3 (13.64 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (13.64 %) Analyst 5 3 (13.64 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (9.091 %) Server Support 6 2 (9.091 %) Support Technician 6 2 (9.091 %) Server Engineer 6 2 (9.091 %) Server Support Engineer 7 1 (4.545 %) Server Administrator 7 1 (4.545 %) Network Support 7 1 (4.545 %) Field Service Engineer 7 1 (4.545 %) Network Support Analyst 7 1 (4.545 %) Network Consultant 7 1 (4.545 %) Consultant 7 1 (4.545 %) Applications Support 7 1 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 16 (72.73 %) Windows 2 14 (63.64 %) Windows Server 2003 3 9 (40.91 %) Solaris 4 2 (9.091 %) Windows XP 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (40.91 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (9.091 %) ITIL 3 1 (4.545 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (40.91 %) C# 1 9 (40.91 %) VB 1 9 (40.91 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 19 (86.36 %) MCSE 2 7 (31.82 %) MCP 3 2 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 3 2 (9.091 %) MCSA 4 1 (4.545 %) MCDBA 4 1 (4.545 %) CCNA 4 1 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (4.545 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (4.545 %) Dell Certification 4 1 (4.545 %) HP APS
System Software 1 5 (22.73 %) Active Directory 2 1 (4.545 %) Backup Exec	Vendors 1 9 (40.91 %) Oracle 2 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 3 4 (18.18 %) Citrix 4 3 (13.64 %) VMware 5 2 (9.091 %) HP 6 1 (4.545 %) Compaq 6 1 (4.545 %) Dell 6 1 (4.545 %) Ariba 6 1 (4.545 %) Symantec 6 1 (4.545 %) Business Objects 6 1 (4.545 %) Altiris