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

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 184 137 177
Rank change year-on-year
-47 +40
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 223 367 330
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.030% 1.362% 1.062%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.037% 9.610% 8.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 169 166
Average daily rate £380 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £175 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 35 55
Average hourly rate £21.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.88 £13.00 £14.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £26.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-6.45% -11.42%
Search 154 Microsoft Certification jobs in London
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 3169 3819 4114
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.63% 14.18% 13.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1876 2288 2374
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 121 119 141
Average hourly rate £22.50 £20.00 £20.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -3.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.30 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £79.00 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 24 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 -9 80 £363 +17.01%
Croydon +11 5 £128 -78.75%
Docklands, London -10 3 £275 +25.00%
Harrow - 2 - -
Hammersmith +2 1 - -
Hounslow -4 1 £450 +91.48%
Wembley -4 1 - -
Twickenham - 1 £250 -
Chiswick - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 343 (71.76%) Windows
2 333 (69.67%) Microsoft
3 282 (59.00%) MCSE
4 213 (44.56%) Active Directory
5 164 (34.31%) ITIL
6 157 (32.85%) Citrix
7 139 (29.08%) Windows Server 2008
8 135 (28.24%) MCP
8 135 (28.24%) VMware
9 130 (27.20%) MS Exchange
10 126 (26.36%) Windows Server 2003
11 111 (23.22%) Windows 7
12 109 (22.80%) SQL Server
13 95 (19.87%) Windows XP
13 95 (19.87%) Cisco
14 94 (19.67%) MS Excel
15 91 (19.04%) VMware Infrastructure
16 90 (18.83%) MS Office
17 88 (18.41%) SQL
18 86 (17.99%) Finance
19 84 (17.57%) MCITP
20 80 (16.74%) Cisco Certification
21 77 (16.11%) DNS
22 74 (15.48%) CCNA
23 71 (14.85%) MCSA
24 69 (14.44%) WAN
24 69 (14.44%) Blackberry
25 68 (14.23%) SCCM
26 67 (14.02%) LAN
27 64 (13.39%) HP

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 31 (6.485%) .NET
2 22 (4.603%) Middleware
3 18 (3.766%) HTML
4 9 (1.883%) WCF
5 8 (1.674%) .NET Framework
5 8 (1.674%) Application Packaging
6 7 (1.464%) ASP.NET
7 6 (1.255%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (1.255%) COM
8 5 (1.046%) WinForms
9 4 (0.837%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (0.837%) Web Services
9 4 (0.837%) XML
10 3 (0.628%) MDX
10 3 (0.628%) ASP
11 2 (0.418%) MonoRail
11 2 (0.418%) Castle Windsor
11 2 (0.418%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (0.418%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (0.418%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 130 (27.20%) MS Exchange
2 57 (11.92%) Exchange Server 2010
3 56 (11.72%) Exchange Server 2007
4 46 (9.623%) Exchange Server 2003
5 35 (7.322%) SharePoint
5 35 (7.322%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 24 (5.021%) IIS
7 18 (3.766%) Lotus Notes
8 8 (1.674%) SharePoint 2010
8 8 (1.674%) Apache
9 7 (1.464%) Office Communications Server
10 6 (1.255%) Exchange Server 2000
11 5 (1.046%) Lotus Domino
11 5 (1.046%) Lync
12 3 (0.628%) Live Communications Server
12 3 (0.628%) SharePoint Server
12 3 (0.628%) WebLogic
12 3 (0.628%) Tomcat
13 2 (0.418%) Site Server
13 2 (0.418%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 94 (19.67%) MS Excel
2 90 (18.83%) MS Office
3 6 (1.255%) Office 365
4 5 (1.046%) MS Project
5 4 (0.837%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.628%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (0.628%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.418%) PowerPivot
8 1 (0.209%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 6 (1.255%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.837%) 3000 Xtra
2 4 (0.837%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.628%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (0.418%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.209%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.209%) Infor M3
Communications & Networking
1 77 (16.11%) DNS
2 69 (14.44%) WAN
3 67 (14.02%) LAN
4 57 (11.92%) DHCP
5 55 (11.51%) SAN
6 50 (10.46%) Internet
7 47 (9.833%) TCP/IP
8 35 (7.322%) Cisco ASA
8 35 (7.322%) Firewall
9 31 (6.485%) VPN
10 26 (5.439%) Intranet
11 15 (3.138%) VoIP
12 12 (2.510%) NetScaler
12 12 (2.510%) SSL
12 12 (2.510%) Cisco IOS
13 11 (2.301%) Ethernet
13 11 (2.301%) Cisco PIX
14 10 (2.092%) SMTP
15 9 (1.883%) EIGRP
15 9 (1.883%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (22.80%) SQL Server
2 52 (10.88%) SQL Server 2008
3 31 (6.485%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 29 (6.067%) SQL Server 2005
5 26 (5.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 21 (4.393%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 15 (3.138%) OLAP
7 15 (3.138%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (2.301%) MySQL
9 9 (1.883%) SQL Server 2012
10 8 (1.674%) Oracle 8/8i
11 7 (1.464%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 5 (1.046%) DTS
12 5 (1.046%) Data Mining
12 5 (1.046%) OLTP
13 4 (0.837%) SQL Server 2000
13 4 (0.837%) Oracle 11g
14 3 (0.628%) Oracle Discoverer
14 3 (0.628%) RDBMS
14 3 (0.628%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (2.092%) NUnit
2 9 (1.883%) Visual Studio
3 8 (1.674%) CruiseControl
4 7 (1.464%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (0.837%) MSI
6 3 (0.628%) InstallShield
7 2 (0.418%) Rhino Mocks
7 2 (0.418%) Fiddler
7 2 (0.418%) MSBuild
7 2 (0.418%) WinRunner
7 2 (0.418%) QuickTest Pro
7 2 (0.418%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.418%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.418%) Bugzilla
7 2 (0.418%) Selenium
8 1 (0.209%) Subversion
8 1 (0.209%) MorphX
8 1 (0.209%) JIRA
8 1 (0.209%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.209%) SpecFlow
General
1 86 (17.99%) Finance
2 54 (11.30%) Banking
3 24 (5.021%) Telecoms
4 22 (4.603%) Law
5 17 (3.556%) Back Office
5 17 (3.556%) Investment Banking
6 14 (2.929%) Front Office
7 12 (2.510%) Legal
8 6 (1.255%) Marketing
9 5 (1.046%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.046%) Retail
10 4 (0.837%) Advertising
10 4 (0.837%) Publishing
11 2 (0.418%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.418%) Games
11 2 (0.418%) French Language
11 2 (0.418%) German Language
11 2 (0.418%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.209%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.209%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (17.57%) Analyst
2 53 (11.09%) Administrator
3 52 (10.88%) Support Engineer
4 40 (8.368%) 3rd Line Support
4 40 (8.368%) Support Analyst
5 37 (7.741%) Consultant
6 34 (7.113%) Developer
7 31 (6.485%) Systems Administrator
8 29 (6.067%) 2nd Line Support
9 26 (5.439%) Desktop Support
10 25 (5.230%) IT Support
11 24 (5.021%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 21 (4.393%) .NET Developer
13 19 (3.975%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 16 (3.347%) Architect
15 14 (2.929%) Citrix Engineer
16 13 (2.720%) Desktop Analyst
16 13 (2.720%) Desktop Engineer
17 12 (2.510%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
17 12 (2.510%) Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 69 (14.44%) Blackberry
2 26 (5.439%) Clustering
3 16 (3.347%) Fat Client
3 16 (3.347%) Thin Client
4 11 (2.301%) Replication
4 11 (2.301%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.301%) iPad
5 9 (1.883%) iPhone
6 8 (1.674%) Statistics
7 7 (1.464%) Computer Science
7 7 (1.464%) Tandem
7 7 (1.464%) Firmware
7 7 (1.464%) EqualLogic
8 6 (1.255%) N-Tier
8 6 (1.255%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.046%) PMI
9 5 (1.046%) Kindle
10 4 (0.837%) Visualisation
10 4 (0.837%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.837%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 343 (71.76%) Windows
2 139 (29.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 126 (26.36%) Windows Server 2003
4 111 (23.22%) Windows 7
5 95 (19.87%) Windows XP
6 56 (11.72%) Linux
7 31 (6.485%) Mac OS X
8 19 (3.975%) Windows 2000
9 17 (3.556%) UNIX
10 14 (2.929%) Windows Vista
11 10 (2.092%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (1.883%) Windows Server 2012
13 8 (1.674%) Windows 2000 Server
13 8 (1.674%) SUSE
14 7 (1.464%) Solaris
15 6 (1.255%) HPUX
16 4 (0.837%) Windows 8
17 3 (0.628%) AIX
17 3 (0.628%) Windows NT
18 1 (0.209%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (34.31%) ITIL
2 51 (10.67%) PRINCE2
3 49 (10.25%) Service Management
4 42 (8.787%) Migration
5 41 (8.577%) Project Management
6 34 (7.113%) Problem Management
7 32 (6.695%) Service Delivery
8 31 (6.485%) Disaster Recovery
9 28 (5.858%) Incident Management
10 27 (5.649%) Change Management
11 24 (5.021%) Business Intelligence
12 22 (4.603%) Change Control
13 17 (3.556%) Release Management
14 15 (3.138%) Business Analysis
15 13 (2.720%) Software Deployment
16 12 (2.510%) ETL
17 11 (2.301%) Capacity Planning
18 10 (2.092%) Data Protection
18 10 (2.092%) Capacity Management
18 10 (2.092%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 88 (18.41%) SQL
2 41 (8.577%) PowerShell
3 25 (5.230%) C#
4 17 (3.556%) T-SQL
5 16 (3.347%) VB
6 13 (2.720%) C
7 7 (1.464%) VB.NET
7 7 (1.464%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.046%) PHP
8 5 (1.046%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.628%) Perl
9 3 (0.628%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.628%) VBA
10 2 (0.418%) Bash shell
10 2 (0.418%) Java
11 1 (0.209%) Korn
11 1 (0.209%) X++
11 1 (0.209%) Jython
11 1 (0.209%) VBScript
11 1 (0.209%) Python
Qualifications
1 282 (59.00%) MCSE
2 135 (28.24%) MCP
3 84 (17.57%) MCITP
4 80 (16.74%) Cisco Certification
5 74 (15.48%) CCNA
6 71 (14.85%) MCSA
7 48 (10.04%) Citrix Certification
7 48 (10.04%) MCTS
8 41 (8.577%) Degree
8 41 (8.577%) CCA
9 35 (7.322%) Security Cleared
10 28 (5.858%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 27 (5.649%) MCDST
12 24 (5.021%) CCEA
13 23 (4.812%) MCSD
13 23 (4.812%) SC Cleared
14 22 (4.603%) CCNP
15 18 (3.766%) MCAD
16 16 (3.347%) MCT
17 13 (2.720%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (9.414%) SLA
2 8 (1.674%) ISO 9001
3 6 (1.255%) COBIT
4 3 (0.628%) QA
4 3 (0.628%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.418%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.418%) HIPAA
5 2 (0.418%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.209%) BS7799
System Software
1 213 (44.56%) Active Directory
2 91 (19.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 46 (9.623%) XenApp
4 33 (6.904%) VMware ESX
5 27 (5.649%) XenDesktop
6 23 (4.812%) vSphere
7 22 (4.603%) Hyper-V
8 18 (3.766%) Microsoft App-V
9 17 (3.556%) VMware ESXi
10 8 (1.674%) XenServer
10 8 (1.674%) Terminal Services
11 6 (1.255%) UAG
12 5 (1.046%) Oracle RAC
12 5 (1.046%) IAG
13 4 (0.837%) vCloud
13 4 (0.837%) ISA Server
13 4 (0.837%) Terminal Server
13 4 (0.837%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 3 (0.628%) VMware Server
15 2 (0.418%) Nmap
Systems Management
1 68 (14.23%) SCCM
2 36 (7.531%) SCOM
3 29 (6.067%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 20 (4.184%) Backup Exec
5 13 (2.720%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 12 (2.510%) BladeLogic
7 9 (1.883%) WSUS
8 8 (1.674%) Control-M
8 8 (1.674%) WMI
9 7 (1.464%) Tivoli
9 7 (1.464%) MAILsweeper
9 7 (1.464%) HP SIM
9 7 (1.464%) Sysprep
10 6 (1.255%) Cisco CUCM
10 6 (1.255%) McAfee ePO
10 6 (1.255%) MOM
11 5 (1.046%) Norton AntiVirus
11 5 (1.046%) SCVMM
12 4 (0.837%) Legato
13 3 (0.628%) DameWare
Vendors
1 333 (69.67%) Microsoft
2 157 (32.85%) Citrix
3 135 (28.24%) VMware
4 95 (19.87%) Cisco
5 64 (13.39%) HP
6 37 (7.741%) Oracle
7 34 (7.113%) Symantec
8 32 (6.695%) Altiris
9 30 (6.276%) Dell
10 21 (4.393%) Red Hat
11 20 (4.184%) Lotus
12 19 (3.975%) IBM
13 18 (3.766%) AppSense
14 17 (3.556%) EMC
15 15 (3.138%) Apple
16 12 (2.510%) NetApp
17 11 (2.301%) McAfee
18 9 (1.883%) Reuters
18 9 (1.883%) Bloomberg
18 9 (1.883%) F5
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