Lancashire Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Lancashire 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certification
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	32	41
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.887 %	2.830 %
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	£260	£273
% change on same period last year	-4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£14.00
Average hourly rate	-	£16.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.53	£20.26
% change on same period last year	-3.60 %
Qualifications Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	53	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.106 %	0.133 %
Daily rates quoted	8	22
Average minimum daily rate	£365	£360
Average daily rate	£394	£387
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£423	£413
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£364
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.13	£23.13
Average hourly rate	£30.78	£25.63
% change on same period last year	+20.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.44	£28.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.27	£27.12
% change on same period last year	+4.26 %
Microsoft Certification North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Microsoft Certification
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) BizTalk Server 2 2 (66.67 %) Blog 3 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 1 (33.33 %) SAP 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office 1 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 1 2 (66.67 %) Architect 1 2 (66.67 %) BizTalk Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Project Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (66.67 %) Blog	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows XP
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Lotus 2 1 (33.33 %) SAP