The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 360 375 411
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +36
Contract jobs citing MCTS 25 31 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.116% 0.116% 0.083%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.787% 0.826% 0.626%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 15
Average daily rate £400 £369 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.47% +5.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £339 £228 £315
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36% +46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.98 £22.00 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £22.80 £15.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3177 3754 4151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.71% 14.02% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1897 2243 2392
Average daily rate £421 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.94% -
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 120 114 143
Average hourly rate £23.20 £21.25 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.17% +2.65%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.50 £13.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.63 £37.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCTS across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London MCTS Daily Rate Histogram

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +12 4 £380 -1.93%
Chiswick - 1 - -
MCTS
England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 50 (65.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (61.84%) Microsoft
3 39 (51.32%) SQL Server
4 37 (48.68%) MCP
5 34 (44.74%) Windows
6 28 (36.84%) MCITP
7 26 (34.21%) .NET
8 24 (31.58%) Active Directory
9 23 (30.26%) SQL Server 2008
10 19 (25.00%) SQL
10 19 (25.00%) C#
10 19 (25.00%) MCSD
11 18 (23.68%) SharePoint
12 17 (22.37%) MCAD
12 17 (22.37%) VMware
13 15 (19.74%) Citrix
13 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2008
13 15 (19.74%) Windows 7
14 13 (17.11%) SharePoint 2010
14 13 (17.11%) Cisco
14 13 (17.11%) Windows Server 2003
15 12 (15.79%) MS Exchange
15 12 (15.79%) MCSA
15 12 (15.79%) MS Office
15 12 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
16 11 (14.47%) ASP.NET
17 10 (13.16%) VB.NET
17 10 (13.16%) Windows XP
17 10 (13.16%) SQL Server 2005
17 10 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (34.21%) .NET
2 11 (14.47%) ASP.NET
3 9 (11.84%) WCF
4 8 (10.53%) .NET Framework
5 6 (7.895%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (6.579%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (6.579%) WinForms
7 4 (5.263%) XML
7 4 (5.263%) CSS
7 4 (5.263%) HTML
8 3 (3.947%) NHibernate
8 3 (3.947%) Web Services
8 3 (3.947%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (3.947%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 2 (2.632%) Castle Windsor
9 2 (2.632%) XSLT
9 2 (2.632%) XHTML
9 2 (2.632%) Application Packaging
9 2 (2.632%) MonoRail
10 1 (1.316%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 18 (23.68%) SharePoint
2 13 (17.11%) SharePoint 2010
3 12 (15.79%) MS Exchange
3 12 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
4 8 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
5 7 (9.211%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (6.579%) IIS
6 5 (6.579%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2000
7 4 (5.263%) SharePoint Server
8 3 (3.947%) Lync
9 1 (1.316%) MS Project Server
9 1 (1.316%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 12 (15.79%) MS Office
2 8 (10.53%) MS Excel
3 3 (3.947%) InfoPath
4 1 (1.316%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.316%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (9.211%) DHCP
1 7 (9.211%) DNS
2 6 (7.895%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.579%) VPN
4 4 (5.263%) VoIP
4 4 (5.263%) NAS
4 4 (5.263%) Internet
5 3 (3.947%) Firewall
6 2 (2.632%) Wireless
6 2 (2.632%) Unified Communications
6 2 (2.632%) LAN
6 2 (2.632%) SAN
7 1 (1.316%) PBX
7 1 (1.316%) LDAP
7 1 (1.316%) ADSL
7 1 (1.316%) WAN
7 1 (1.316%) SMTP
7 1 (1.316%) SSL
7 1 (1.316%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (51.32%) SQL Server
2 23 (30.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (13.16%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (7.895%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (7.895%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
6 3 (3.947%) DTS
7 2 (2.632%) EDRMS
7 2 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (2.632%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (1.316%) PerformancePoint
8 1 (1.316%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (11.84%) NUnit
1 9 (11.84%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (9.211%) Visual Studio
3 6 (7.895%) CruiseControl
4 3 (3.947%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (1.316%) Moq
General
1 9 (11.84%) Finance
2 3 (3.947%) Banking
2 3 (3.947%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.316%) Law
Job Titles
1 28 (36.84%) Developer
2 17 (22.37%) .NET Developer
3 9 (11.84%) DBA
4 8 (10.53%) SQL Developer
5 7 (9.211%) 2nd Line Support
6 6 (7.895%) Administrator
6 6 (7.895%) Consultant
6 6 (7.895%) SQL Server Developer
7 5 (6.579%) VB.NET Developer
7 5 (6.579%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.579%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (5.263%) SQL DBA
8 4 (5.263%) Support Engineer
8 4 (5.263%) SharePoint Developer
8 4 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (3.947%) SharePoint Administrator
10 2 (2.632%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.632%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 2 (2.632%) Microsoft Developer
10 2 (2.632%) Senior SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.211%) Tandem
1 7 (9.211%) iPad
2 6 (7.895%) Computer Science
2 6 (7.895%) iPhone
3 3 (3.947%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.632%) Replication
4 2 (2.632%) Visualisation
4 2 (2.632%) N-Tier
4 2 (2.632%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.316%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.316%) EqualLogic
5 1 (1.316%) Clustering
5 1 (1.316%) Handset
5 1 (1.316%) Statistics
5 1 (1.316%) Mathematics
5 1 (1.316%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 34 (44.74%) Windows
2 15 (19.74%) Windows Server 2008
2 15 (19.74%) Windows 7
3 13 (17.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (13.16%) Windows XP
5 5 (6.579%) Windows Vista
6 4 (5.263%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (5.263%) Windows 2000
7 3 (3.947%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (2.632%) Windows 8
9 1 (1.316%) Windows Phone
9 1 (1.316%) Linux
9 1 (1.316%) Mac OS
9 1 (1.316%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (11.84%) TDD
2 8 (10.53%) Migration
3 7 (9.211%) ITIL
4 6 (7.895%) OO
4 6 (7.895%) RUP
4 6 (7.895%) Capacity Planning
4 6 (7.895%) Waterfall
5 5 (6.579%) Web Application Development
5 5 (6.579%) Asset Management
5 5 (6.579%) ETL
5 5 (6.579%) MVC
6 4 (5.263%) Workflow
7 3 (3.947%) Service Delivery
7 3 (3.947%) Scrum
8 2 (2.632%) Data Migration
8 2 (2.632%) Database Tuning
8 2 (2.632%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.632%) UML
8 2 (2.632%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (2.632%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 19 (25.00%) C#
1 19 (25.00%) SQL
2 10 (13.16%) VB.NET
3 9 (11.84%) T-SQL
4 5 (6.579%) VB
4 5 (6.579%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.947%) Perl
6 2 (2.632%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.316%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 50 (65.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 37 (48.68%) MCP
3 28 (36.84%) MCITP
4 19 (25.00%) MCSD
5 17 (22.37%) MCAD
6 12 (15.79%) MCSA
7 9 (11.84%) MCSE
8 7 (9.211%) Degree
9 6 (7.895%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (7.895%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 6 (7.895%) CCNA
10 5 (6.579%) MCDST
11 4 (5.263%) CCA
11 4 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
11 4 (5.263%) CCEA
11 4 (5.263%) CCNP
12 3 (3.947%) MCDBA
12 3 (3.947%) Microsoft Certified Master
13 2 (2.632%) MCPD
13 2 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.632%) SLA
2 1 (1.316%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (31.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (6.579%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (5.263%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (3.947%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.632%) Hyper-V
6 2 (2.632%) XenApp
7 1 (1.316%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 6 (7.895%) SCCM
2 3 (3.947%) BMC PATROL
2 3 (3.947%) BMC Performance Manager
3 1 (1.316%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.316%) DameWare
3 1 (1.316%) WSUS
3 1 (1.316%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 47 (61.84%) Microsoft
2 17 (22.37%) VMware
3 15 (19.74%) Citrix
4 13 (17.11%) Cisco
5 6 (7.895%) Oracle
6 3 (3.947%) BMC
6 3 (3.947%) NetApp
7 2 (2.632%) Business Objects
7 2 (2.632%) JBoss
7 2 (2.632%) HP
7 2 (2.632%) Tableau
7 2 (2.632%) Apple
7 2 (2.632%) Altiris
7 2 (2.632%) LANDesk
8 1 (1.316%) DataCore
8 1 (1.316%) Red Gate
8 1 (1.316%) Symantec
8 1 (1.316%) Remedy
8 1 (1.316%) EMC
8 1 (1.316%) Siemens
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