Leeds MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Leeds region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	56	54
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	22	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	12.43 %	12.50 %
Daily rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum daily rate	£252	£392
Average daily rate	£263	£397
% change on same period last year	-33.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£275	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£294
% change on same period last year	-7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.00	£11.67
Average hourly rate	£20.05	£13.50
% change on same period last year	+48.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.10	£15.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.94	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Qualifications Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	177	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.236 %	0.138 %
Daily rates quoted	43	28
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£348
Average daily rate	£314	£358
% change on same period last year	-12.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.45	£16.36
Average hourly rate	£20.24	£17.77
% change on same period last year	+13.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.02	£19.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCSE West Yorkshire

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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (86.67 %) Windows 3 21 (70.00 %) Microsoft 4 13 (43.33 %) Windows XP 4 13 (43.33 %) SQL 5 12 (40.00 %) MS Exchange 5 12 (40.00 %) VMware 6 11 (36.67 %) ITIL 7 10 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 9 (30.00 %) VMware ESX 8 9 (30.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 9 (30.00 %) Active Directory 8 9 (30.00 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 9 (30.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 9 (30.00 %) Symantec

9 8 (26.67 %) MS Office 9 8 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 9 8 (26.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 2005 10 7 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 10 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 10 7 (23.33 %) WAN 10 7 (23.33 %) Windows Server 2003 11 6 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 12 5 (16.67 %) Internet 12 5 (16.67 %) Clustering 13 4 (13.33 %) Network Load Balancing 13 4 (13.33 %) Firewall 13 4 (13.33 %) SAN 13 4 (13.33 %) MPLS

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (6.667 %) .NET 1 2 (6.667 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.333 %) ODBC	Application Platforms 1 12 (40.00 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (30.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 8 (26.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 4 (13.33 %) SharePoint 5 2 (6.667 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (26.67 %) MS Office 2 3 (10.00 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (23.33 %) WAN 2 5 (16.67 %) Internet 3 4 (13.33 %) MPLS 3 4 (13.33 %) Firewall 3 4 (13.33 %) VPN 3 4 (13.33 %) SAN 4 1 (3.333 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 1 7 (23.33 %) SQL Server 2005 2 6 (20.00 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server 7	Job Titles 1 9 (30.00 %) 3rd Line Support 2 8 (26.67 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (16.67 %) Technical Consultant 3 5 (16.67 %) Consultant 4 4 (13.33 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (13.33 %) Senior Systems Engineer 4 4 (13.33 %) Project Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Project Consultant 5 2 (6.667 %) Technical Support 5 2 (6.667 %) Desktop Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support Consultant 6 1 (3.333 %) Support Specialist 6 1 (3.333 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 6 1 (3.333 %) Server Support Specialist 6 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Server Support 6 1 (3.333 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 5 (16.67 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 26 (86.67 %) Windows 2 13 (43.33 %) Windows XP 3 8 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (23.33 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (10.00 %) UNIX 6 2 (6.667 %) NetWare 6 2 (6.667 %) Windows NT 7 1 (3.333 %) Linux 7 1 (3.333 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (36.67 %) ITIL 2 7 (23.33 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (13.33 %) Network Load Balancing 4 2 (6.667 %) PRINCE 5 1 (3.333 %) Project Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Migration 5 1 (3.333 %) Project Planning 5 1 (3.333 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (3.333 %) Time Management 5 1 (3.333 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 13 (43.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 3 (10.00 %) MCDST 3 3 (10.00 %) MCP 4 2 (6.667 %) MCSA 4 2 (6.667 %) MCDBA 4 2 (6.667 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (3.333 %) CCNA	System Software 1 10 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 9 (30.00 %) VMware ESX 2 9 (30.00 %) Active Directory 3 1 (3.333 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 9 (30.00 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 9 (30.00 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (6.667 %) OpenView 3 1 (3.333 %) OVIS	Vendors 1 21 (70.00 %) Microsoft 2 12 (40.00 %) VMware 3 9 (30.00 %) Symantec 4 3 (10.00 %) Citrix 5 2 (6.667 %) HP 6 1 (3.333 %) Interwoven 6 1 (3.333 %) Cisco