Leicestershire MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Leicestershire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hull Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell 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 Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	31
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	11.54 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£185	-
Average daily rate	£185	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£185	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£289
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£17.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.78	£22.56
% change on same period last year	+9.80 %
Qualifications Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	42	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.028 %
Daily rates quoted	12	7
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£356
Average daily rate	£286	£379
% change on same period last year	-24.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£403
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.29	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£18.64	£18.25
% change on same period last year	+2.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£19.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
MCSE East Midlands

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 Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 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 Leicestershire region.

MCSE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MCSE within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Loughborough	-	4	£185	-
Leicester	-	3	-	-

MCSE East Midlands

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 5 (71.43 %) Windows 3 4 (57.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (57.14 %) Citrix 4 3 (42.86 %) ProCurve 4 3 (42.86 %) Network Design 4 3 (42.86 %) HP 4 3 (42.86 %) VoIP 4 3 (42.86 %) Education 4 3 (42.86 %) Migration 4 3 (42.86 %) VMware 4 3 (42.86 %) MCSA 5 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 5 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange

6 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (14.29 %) CCNP 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware Server 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 6 1 (14.29 %) Linux 6 1 (14.29 %) SQL 6 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 6 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (14.29 %) Unix 6 1 (14.29 %) SAN

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, 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 (57.14 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (14.29 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) VoIP 2 1 (14.29 %) SAN	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Education
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (14.29 %) Server Support 2 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) Linux 2 1 (14.29 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Migration 1 3 (42.86 %) Network Design 2 1 (14.29 %) ITIL 2 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (42.86 %) MCSA 3 1 (14.29 %) CCNP 3 1 (14.29 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 7 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware ESX 2 1 (14.29 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware Server 2 1 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Citrix 2 3 (42.86 %) VMware 2 3 (42.86 %) ProCurve 2 3 (42.86 %) HP 3 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft