The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 20 June 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 London 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank 326 273 381
Rank change year-on-year
-53 +108
Contract jobs citing MCITP 60 138 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.259% 0.527% 0.190%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.783% 3.679% 1.440%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 73 31
Average daily rate £363 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.61% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £173 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £458 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £315 £350
% change year-on-year
-28.57% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 11 2
Average hourly rate £19.50 £19.50 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -20.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £16.50 £18.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.25 £22.00 £30.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £17.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year
-10.29% -32.67%
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3366 3751 4166
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.51% 14.31% 13.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2010 2279 2433
Average daily rate £425 £425 £425
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £593 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 107 137
Average hourly rate £22.50 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.00 £41.63 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
MCITP
England

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCITP across the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

London MCITP Daily Rate Histogram

MCITP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London MCITP Hourly Rate Trend

MCITP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCITP across the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

London MCITP Hourly Rate Histogram

MCITP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the London region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +5 24 £413 +28.90% 12
Bromley - 1 - -
Croydon - - - -
Dagenham - - - -
Edgware - - - -
Enfield - - - -
Feltham - - - - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Surbiton - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Docklands, London - - - -
Greenwich - - - -
Wimbledon - - - -
Brentford - - - -
MCITP
England

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 106 (77.94%) Microsoft
2 87 (63.97%) Windows
2 87 (63.97%) Microsoft Certification
3 63 (46.32%) MCSE
4 54 (39.71%) Active Directory
5 53 (38.97%) Citrix
6 49 (36.03%) Windows Server 2008
7 47 (34.56%) VMware
8 42 (30.88%) Cisco
9 41 (30.15%) Windows Server 2003
10 40 (29.41%) MS Excel
11 39 (28.68%) MS Exchange
12 38 (27.94%) VMware Infrastructure
13 33 (24.26%) ITIL
14 31 (22.79%) SQL
15 30 (22.06%) SQL Server
15 30 (22.06%) Firewall
16 29 (21.32%) MCTS
16 29 (21.32%) MCP
17 28 (20.59%) CCNA
17 28 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
18 27 (19.85%) Degree
18 27 (19.85%) Finance
18 27 (19.85%) Exchange Server 2010
19 24 (17.65%) SCCM
19 24 (17.65%) MS Office
19 24 (17.65%) MCSA
20 22 (16.18%) XenApp
21 21 (15.44%) DNS
21 21 (15.44%) Mac OS X

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (2.941%) Application Packaging
1 4 (2.941%) .NET
2 3 (2.206%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 39 (28.68%) MS Exchange
2 27 (19.85%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (13.24%) Exchange Server 2007
4 13 (9.559%) Exchange Server 2003
5 10 (7.353%) SharePoint
6 7 (5.147%) Lync
7 6 (4.412%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 5 (3.676%) IBM Notes
8 5 (3.676%) IIS
8 5 (3.676%) Office Communications Server
8 5 (3.676%) Exchange Server 2000
9 4 (2.941%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (2.206%) Lotus Domino
11 2 (1.471%) SharePoint Server
12 1 (0.735%) Exchange Server 2013
12 1 (0.735%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 40 (29.41%) MS Excel
2 24 (17.65%) MS Office
3 5 (3.676%) Office 365
4 3 (2.206%) InfoPath
5 2 (1.471%) PowerPivot
5 2 (1.471%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.735%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 30 (22.06%) Firewall
2 21 (15.44%) DNS
3 19 (13.97%) SAN
4 16 (11.76%) WAN
4 16 (11.76%) DHCP
5 13 (9.559%) LAN
6 12 (8.824%) Internet
7 11 (8.088%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (7.353%) Cisco IOS
8 10 (7.353%) Cisco PIX
8 10 (7.353%) TCP/IP
9 6 (4.412%) NetScaler
9 6 (4.412%) SSL
9 6 (4.412%) SMTP
10 5 (3.676%) VPN
11 4 (2.941%) NAS
11 4 (2.941%) Wireless
11 4 (2.941%) LDAP
12 3 (2.206%) POP3
12 3 (2.206%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (22.06%) SQL Server
2 12 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (8.088%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (5.147%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.676%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.206%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server 2000
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (2.206%) SQL Server 2012
7 2 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.735%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.735%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.735%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.735%) MySQL
8 1 (0.735%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.735%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.735%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.735%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 14 (10.29%) InstallShield
General
1 27 (19.85%) Finance
2 10 (7.353%) Telecoms
3 7 (5.147%) Banking
4 4 (2.941%) Investment Banking
4 4 (2.941%) Publishing
5 2 (1.471%) German Language
6 1 (0.735%) Back Office
6 1 (0.735%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (13.24%) Support Engineer
2 16 (11.76%) Administrator
3 14 (10.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 14 (10.29%) Analyst
4 13 (9.559%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 10 (7.353%) IT Support
5 10 (7.353%) DBA
6 9 (6.618%) IT Support Engineer
7 8 (5.882%) Architect
8 7 (5.147%) 2nd Line Support
9 6 (4.412%) SQL DBA
9 6 (4.412%) Desktop Support
9 6 (4.412%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.412%) Consultant
9 6 (4.412%) Technical Architect
9 6 (4.412%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.676%) Junior
10 5 (3.676%) Developer
10 5 (3.676%) Messaging Engineer
10 5 (3.676%) Junior Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.088%) Blackberry
2 7 (5.147%) Statistics
3 6 (4.412%) Computer Science
3 6 (4.412%) Replication
4 4 (2.941%) Firmware
5 3 (2.206%) Clustering
5 3 (2.206%) PKI
5 3 (2.206%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.471%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.471%) Fat Client
6 2 (1.471%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.471%) Mathematics
6 2 (1.471%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.471%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.735%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.735%) Handset
7 1 (0.735%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.735%) iPhone
7 1 (0.735%) EqualLogic
7 1 (0.735%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 87 (63.97%) Windows
2 49 (36.03%) Windows Server 2008
3 41 (30.15%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (15.44%) Mac OS X
5 19 (13.97%) Windows XP
5 19 (13.97%) Windows 7
6 7 (5.147%) Linux
6 7 (5.147%) Windows 2000 Server
7 6 (4.412%) HPUX
8 5 (3.676%) Windows 2000
9 4 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (2.206%) Windows Vista
11 2 (1.471%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.735%) UNIX
12 1 (0.735%) Android
12 1 (0.735%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.735%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.735%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (24.26%) ITIL
2 20 (14.71%) Migration
3 10 (7.353%) Service Management
4 9 (6.618%) Service Delivery
5 8 (5.882%) Project Management
6 7 (5.147%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (4.412%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (3.676%) Data Management
8 5 (3.676%) Risk Analysis
8 5 (3.676%) Information Assurance
9 4 (2.941%) Incident Management
9 4 (2.941%) Business Development
10 3 (2.206%) Business Intelligence
10 3 (2.206%) Configuration Management
10 3 (2.206%) Workflow
10 3 (2.206%) Change Management
10 3 (2.206%) Data Protection
11 2 (1.471%) Capacity Management
11 2 (1.471%) Performance Improvement
11 2 (1.471%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 31 (22.79%) SQL
2 10 (7.353%) PowerShell
3 7 (5.147%) C
4 5 (3.676%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.941%) C#
6 3 (2.206%) Perl
6 3 (2.206%) VB.NET
7 1 (0.735%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (63.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 63 (46.32%) MCSE
3 29 (21.32%) MCTS
3 29 (21.32%) MCP
4 28 (20.59%) CCNA
4 28 (20.59%) Cisco Certification
5 27 (19.85%) Degree
6 24 (17.65%) MCSA
7 20 (14.71%) Citrix Certification
8 18 (13.24%) CCA
9 15 (11.03%) CCNP
9 15 (11.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 13 (9.559%) CCEA
11 9 (6.618%) Security Cleared
12 7 (5.147%) MCDST
13 6 (4.412%) DV Cleared
14 5 (3.676%) VCP4
15 4 (2.941%) Microsoft Certified Master
16 3 (2.206%) MCDBA
17 2 (1.471%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.676%) SLA
2 3 (2.206%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 54 (39.71%) Active Directory
2 38 (27.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (16.18%) XenApp
4 19 (13.97%) XenDesktop
5 18 (13.24%) Microsoft App-V
6 15 (11.03%) Hyper-V
7 9 (6.618%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (5.882%) vSphere
9 7 (5.147%) XenServer
10 6 (4.412%) Terminal Services
11 3 (2.206%) ISA Server
11 3 (2.206%) VMware ESX
11 3 (2.206%) Forefront TMG
12 2 (1.471%) Oracle RAC
13 1 (0.735%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.735%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 24 (17.65%) SCCM
2 8 (5.882%) Backup Exec
3 4 (2.941%) HP SIM
3 4 (2.941%) SCOM
4 3 (2.206%) BMC PATROL
4 3 (2.206%) BMC Performance Manager
4 3 (2.206%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (2.206%) McAfee ePO
5 2 (1.471%) WSUS
5 2 (1.471%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 2 (1.471%) DameWare
5 2 (1.471%) Legato
5 2 (1.471%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (0.735%) MOM
6 1 (0.735%) HP Data Protector
6 1 (0.735%) Sysprep
6 1 (0.735%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 106 (77.94%) Microsoft
2 53 (38.97%) Citrix
3 47 (34.56%) VMware
4 42 (30.88%) Cisco
5 16 (11.76%) HP
6 14 (10.29%) Altiris
7 13 (9.559%) Oracle
7 13 (9.559%) AppSense
8 11 (8.088%) IBM
9 8 (5.882%) Apple
9 8 (5.882%) Dell
10 7 (5.147%) NetApp
11 6 (4.412%) Symantec
12 5 (3.676%) Lotus
12 5 (3.676%) Sage
13 4 (2.941%) McAfee
14 3 (2.206%) Juniper
14 3 (2.206%) BMC
15 2 (1.471%) Siemens
15 2 (1.471%) Veritas
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