MCP Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 66 69 55
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -14
Contract jobs citing MCP 3 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.403% 0.223% 0.164%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.290% 1.250% 1.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £85 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £213 £175
% change year-on-year
+3.52% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.65 - £9.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £16.17
% change year-on-year
-12.06% -10.30%
All Qualifications
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 131 160 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 17.61% 17.82% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 100 44
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £220 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 11
Average hourly rate £13.58 £12.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.12% -45.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.65 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £50.00 £26.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCP
West Yorkshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 11 (100.00%) Windows
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (81.82%) Windows Server 2003
2 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
4 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
4 5 (45.45%) Blackberry
4 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000
4 5 (45.45%) MS Excel
4 5 (45.45%) GPRS
5 4 (36.36%) ITIL
5 4 (36.36%) Internet
5 4 (36.36%) VMware
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Vista
6 3 (27.27%) Line 500
6 3 (27.27%) Time Management
6 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
6 3 (27.27%) Sage
6 3 (27.27%) ERP
6 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
6 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
6 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
6 3 (27.27%) MS Office
6 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
6 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (18.18%) NHS

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
1 3 (27.27%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (9.091%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) MS Excel
2 3 (27.27%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) GPRS
2 4 (36.36%) Internet
3 1 (9.091%) Firewall
3 1 (9.091%) SSH
3 1 (9.091%) BIG-IP
3 1 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (9.091%) SMTP
3 1 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (9.091%) FTP
3 1 (9.091%) HTTP
3 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
1 3 (27.27%) Crystal Reports
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (9.091%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
2 1 (9.091%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Analyst
1 5 (45.45%) Technical Support
2 4 (36.36%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (36.36%) Blackberry Support
2 4 (36.36%) Technical Advisor
3 3 (27.27%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Support Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Service Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (9.091%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Blackberry
2 2 (18.18%) NHS
3 1 (9.091%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 11 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (81.82%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
4 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) Windows XP
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Vista
7 1 (9.091%) Linux
7 1 (9.091%) CentOS
7 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (9.091%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Network Architecture
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) ERP
3 3 (27.27%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) PHP
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (18.18%) A+ Certification
3 1 (9.091%) MCSE
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) XenServer
2 1 (9.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) VMware
3 3 (27.27%) Sage
4 1 (9.091%) Cisco
4 1 (9.091%) Brocade
4 1 (9.091%) Syncsort
4 1 (9.091%) F5
4 1 (9.091%) Citrix
4 1 (9.091%) Juniper
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
Service Desk Analyst
Leeds, Yorkshire
Essential skills - Active Directory - NHS mail - Knowledge of Windows operating systems- Previous Help Desk experience (Call Logging) - Excellent Communication Skills Any previous experience working in the NHS is...
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Rate: £10.00 - £11.30 per hour
Posted: 11 May 2013
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