The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank - 22 29
Contract jobs citing MCSE 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire - 1.402% 2.155%
As % of the Qualifications category - 8.824% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
All Qualifications
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29 34 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 13.74% 15.89% 9.914%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 8
Average daily rate £331 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.39% +16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 5
Average hourly rate £15.50 £10.13 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.08% -64.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSE
East Midlands

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Citrix
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (80.00%) VBScript
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 4 (80.00%) MCP
2 4 (80.00%) Altiris
2 4 (80.00%) SCOM
2 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
2 4 (80.00%) NetScaler
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (80.00%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Support Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (80.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) VBScript
1 4 (80.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (80.00%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Citrix
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (80.00%) Altiris