Knutsford MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Knutsford region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Ives Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£217	£188
% change on same period last year	+15.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.19	£18.04
% change on same period last year	-15.81 %
Qualifications Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	1	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£275
Average daily rate	-	£275
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
MCP Cheshire

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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