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

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 34 17 27
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 1 8 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.472% 3.704% 2.174%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.846% 24.24% 21.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £300 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
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 £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 26 33 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 12.26% 15.28% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 6
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%
Microsoft Certification
East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicestershire Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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 -11 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
East Midlands

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 10 (71.43%) Windows
3 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (57.14%) Citrix
4 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (50.00%) VMware
5 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (42.86%) MS Excel
6 6 (42.86%) MCP
7 5 (35.71%) MCSE
7 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
8 4 (28.57%) Change Management
8 4 (28.57%) Clustering
8 4 (28.57%) SCOM
8 4 (28.57%) vSphere
8 4 (28.57%) Altiris
8 4 (28.57%) ITIL
8 4 (28.57%) Windows 2000
8 4 (28.57%) VBScript
8 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
8 4 (28.57%) IIS
8 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
8 4 (28.57%) NetScaler
9 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (21.43%) ITSM
9 3 (21.43%) Migration
10 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
10 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 2 (14.29%) LINQ
10 2 (14.29%) Telerik

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 2 (14.29%) LINQ
1 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (7.143%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (7.143%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) TCP/IP
2 4 (28.57%) NetScaler
3 2 (14.29%) Intranet
4 1 (7.143%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) GIS
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
1 5 (35.71%) Support Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Support
2 4 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Support Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Wintel Support
3 2 (14.29%) Wintel Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Wintel Support Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) ICT Trainer
4 1 (7.143%) Wintel Server Analyst
4 1 (7.143%) Trainer
4 1 (7.143%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.143%) Server Support
4 1 (7.143%) IT Support
4 1 (7.143%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (71.43%) Windows
2 9 (64.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (28.57%) Windows 2000
5 2 (14.29%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Change Management
1 4 (28.57%) ITIL
2 3 (21.43%) Root Cause Analysis
2 3 (21.43%) ITSM
2 3 (21.43%) Migration
3 2 (14.29%) OOP
4 1 (7.143%) Six Sigma
4 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) VBScript
1 4 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) MCP
2 5 (35.71%) MCSE
3 1 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.143%) MCSA
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (92.86%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Citrix
3 7 (50.00%) VMware
4 4 (28.57%) Altiris
5 2 (14.29%) Telerik
5 2 (14.29%) DevExpress
5 2 (14.29%) Remedy
6 1 (7.143%) Peregrine
6 1 (7.143%) Lotus
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