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MCSD Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 47 MCSD job vacancies in London

The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 382 407 444
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +37
Contract jobs citing MCSD 10 6 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.043% 0.023% 0.035%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.297% 0.157% 0.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 6
Average daily rate £418 £369 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.22% +5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £364 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £374 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £410 £331 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.90% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 3372 3832 4119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.62% 14.39% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2016 2331 2405
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 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 111 139
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 £12.25 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.00 £41.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCSD
England

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MCSD Daily Rate Trend

MCSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London MCSD Hourly Rate Trend

MCSD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD within the London region over the 3 months to 18 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 +6 1 £375 +1.69% 2
Westminster - - - -
Beckenham - - - -
Bromley - - - -
MCSD
England

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 20 (95.24%) SQL Server
3 18 (85.71%) Microsoft
4 17 (80.95%) .NET
5 15 (71.43%) MCTS
6 14 (66.67%) MCAD
7 13 (61.90%) MCP
8 10 (47.62%) C#
8 10 (47.62%) SQL
8 10 (47.62%) SQL Server 2008
9 9 (42.86%) T-SQL
10 8 (38.10%) Windows
10 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET
10 8 (38.10%) Tandem
11 7 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (33.33%) MVC
12 6 (28.57%) WCF
13 5 (23.81%) WinForms
13 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
13 5 (23.81%) CSS
13 5 (23.81%) MCSE
13 5 (23.81%) VB
13 5 (23.81%) VB.NET
13 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
14 4 (19.05%) Oracle
14 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
14 4 (19.05%) OO
14 4 (19.05%) TDD
14 4 (19.05%) Ajax
14 4 (19.05%) Web Application Development

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (80.95%) .NET
2 8 (38.10%) ASP.NET
3 7 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (28.57%) WCF
5 5 (23.81%) CSS
5 5 (23.81%) WinForms
6 4 (19.05%) Ajax
7 3 (14.29%) Web Services
7 3 (14.29%) DOM
7 3 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 3 (14.29%) REST
7 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (9.524%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (9.524%) Castle Windsor
8 2 (9.524%) HTML
8 2 (9.524%) WPF
8 2 (9.524%) MonoRail
8 2 (9.524%) NHibernate
8 2 (9.524%) ASP
9 1 (4.762%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) IIS
1 3 (14.29%) CMS
1 3 (14.29%) Umbraco
2 2 (9.524%) WebLogic
2 2 (9.524%) Site Server
2 2 (9.524%) Apache
3 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.762%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Excel
1 2 (9.524%) PowerPivot
2 1 (4.762%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (95.24%) SQL Server
2 10 (47.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (4.762%) RDBMS
6 1 (4.762%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (4.762%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Visual Studio
2 3 (14.29%) NUnit
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) Subversion
2 3 (14.29%) WATIR
3 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (9.524%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (9.524%) CruiseControl
4 1 (4.762%) MSBuild
General
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Retail
2 2 (9.524%) Marketing
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (76.19%) Developer
2 14 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 6 (28.57%) SQL Developer
3 6 (28.57%) SQL Server Developer
4 5 (23.81%) VB.NET Developer
5 3 (14.29%) Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (9.524%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (9.524%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Configuration Manager
7 1 (4.762%) Release Manager
7 1 (4.762%) C# Developer
7 1 (4.762%) Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Build Manager
7 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Business Intelligence Architect
7 1 (4.762%) Microsoft BI Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Business Consultant
7 1 (4.762%) Business Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Tandem
2 2 (9.524%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.762%) iPhone
3 1 (4.762%) Visualisation
3 1 (4.762%) Open Source
3 1 (4.762%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
2 2 (9.524%) Solaris
2 2 (9.524%) Windows 2000
2 2 (9.524%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) MVC
2 5 (23.81%) Asset Management
3 4 (19.05%) Web Application Development
3 4 (19.05%) TDD
3 4 (19.05%) OO
4 3 (14.29%) UML
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 2 (9.524%) MVVM
5 2 (9.524%) ITIL
5 2 (9.524%) Scrum
5 2 (9.524%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (9.524%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.762%) Regression Testing
6 1 (4.762%) OOP
6 1 (4.762%) RUP
6 1 (4.762%) Data Modelling
6 1 (4.762%) OOD
6 1 (4.762%) Waterfall
6 1 (4.762%) BDD
6 1 (4.762%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) SQL
1 10 (47.62%) C#
2 9 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 5 (23.81%) VB
3 5 (23.81%) VB.NET
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 3 (14.29%) Ada
4 3 (14.29%) Ruby
5 1 (4.762%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.762%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (71.43%) MCTS
3 14 (66.67%) MCAD
4 13 (61.90%) MCP
5 5 (23.81%) MCSE
6 3 (14.29%) Degree
7 2 (9.524%) MCITP
7 2 (9.524%) MCDBA
7 2 (9.524%) CCNA
7 2 (9.524%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Section 508
2 1 (4.762%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Oracle
3 2 (9.524%) Cisco
3 2 (9.524%) Sun
3 2 (9.524%) HP
4 1 (4.762%) VMware
4 1 (4.762%) Tableau
4 1 (4.762%) IBM
4 1 (4.762%) Business Objects
4 1 (4.762%) SAP
Senior .Net Developer
City, London
MCSE, MCSD, MCTS) Expert-level knowledge of the latest version of the following tech stack: .Net 3.5 or 4.0,C#,Visual Studio 2008/2010,ASP.NET...
Ortolan Group
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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