MCP Contracts in Leicestershire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 17 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 Leicestershire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 30 21 35
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +14
Contract jobs citing MCP 1 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.476% 2.347% 0.858%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.000% 15.15% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £213 £175
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 £8.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+82.35% -29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £16.18
% change year-on-year
-12.06% -10.39%
All Qualifications
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 25 33 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 11.90% 15.49% 10.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 5
Average daily rate £331 £350 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.39% +21.73%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 6
Average hourly rate £15.50 £10.13 £20.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.08% -49.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Leicester -9 1 - -
MCP
East Midlands

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) MCSE
3 4 (66.67%) VBScript
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Clustering
3 4 (66.67%) Altiris
3 4 (66.67%) SCOM
3 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (66.67%) vSphere
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
4 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
4 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Peregrine
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) MS Office
4 1 (16.67%) ITIL
4 1 (16.67%) MCSA

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Support
1 4 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) VBScript
1 4 (66.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) MCSA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Altiris
4 1 (16.67%) Peregrine
4 1 (16.67%) Lotus
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