Leicestershire Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	32
Rank change on same period last year	+18
Matching contract IT job ads	18	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	39.13 %	10.81 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£185	£200
Average daily rate	£185	£225
% change on same period last year	-17.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£185	£250
UK excluding London average daily rate	£263	£271
% change on same period last year	-2.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£18.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.67	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.16	£22.97
% change on same period last year	-7.88 %
Qualifications Leicestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	46	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.037 %
Daily rates quoted	12	10
Average minimum daily rate	£240	£350
Average daily rate	£247	£364
% change on same period last year	-32.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£254	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.22	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£18.80	£24.00
% change on same period last year	-21.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.39	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
Microsoft Certification 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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 20 August 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	+9	3	-	-
Lutterworth	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 18 (94.74 %) Windows 2 16 (84.21 %) Active Directory 3 12 (63.16 %) Citrix 4 11 (57.89 %) MCSE 5 10 (52.63 %) Microsoft 6 8 (42.11 %) MCP 7 7 (36.84 %) Migration 7 7 (36.84 %) Fat Client 7 7 (36.84 %) ProCurve 7 7 (36.84 %) Thin Client 7 7 (36.84 %) HP 8 6 (31.58 %) MS Exchange 9 5 (26.32 %) Windows Server 2003 10 4 (21.05 %) VoIP 10 4 (21.05 %) MCSA

10 4 (21.05 %) HP AIS 10 4 (21.05 %) Wireless 10 4 (21.05 %) Education 10 4 (21.05 %) Network Design 10 4 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 3 (15.79 %) VMware 11 3 (15.79 %) Windows XP 11 3 (15.79 %) SQL 11 3 (15.79 %) UNIX 11 3 (15.79 %) Citrix Certification 12 2 (10.53 %) Cisco Certification 12 2 (10.53 %) ITIL 12 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 12 2 (10.53 %) SLA 12 2 (10.53 %) VMware Server

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, 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 Platforms 1 6 (31.58 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (21.05 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (21.05 %) VoIP 1 4 (21.05 %) Wireless 2 1 (5.263 %) SAN	General 1 4 (21.05 %) Education
Job Titles 1 8 (42.11 %) 3rd Line Support 2 5 (26.32 %) Systems Engineer 3 4 (21.05 %) Support Engineer 3 4 (21.05 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 4 (21.05 %) Citrix Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Server Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (5.263 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Senior Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Technical Manager 5 1 (5.263 %) Desktop Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Helpdesk Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Service Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 7 (36.84 %) Fat Client 1 7 (36.84 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 18 (94.74 %) Windows 2 5 (26.32 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (15.79 %) Windows XP 3 3 (15.79 %) UNIX 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (5.263 %) Windows NT 5 1 (5.263 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (36.84 %) Migration 2 4 (21.05 %) Network Design 3 2 (10.53 %) ITIL 4 1 (5.263 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 3 (15.79 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 11 (57.89 %) MCSE 2 8 (42.11 %) MCP 3 4 (21.05 %) MCSA 3 4 (21.05 %) HP AIS 4 3 (15.79 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (10.53 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (5.263 %) CCNP 6 1 (5.263 %) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (10.53 %) SLA	System Software 1 16 (84.21 %) Active Directory 2 2 (10.53 %) VMware Server
Vendors 1 12 (63.16 %) Citrix 2 10 (52.63 %) Microsoft 3 7 (36.84 %) ProCurve 3 7 (36.84 %) HP 4 3 (15.79 %) VMware