MCP Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP 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 Manchester 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 Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 74 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing MCP 1 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% 0.310% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.800% 2.020% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £165 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 125 198 126
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.40% 15.33% 12.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 77 52
Average daily rate £299 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.64% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £176 £128
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 9
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £16.35 £15.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £22.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCP
North West

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Manchester 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
Wigan - 1 - -
MCP
North West

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 4 (66.67%) MCSA
4 3 (50.00%) LAN
4 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
4 3 (50.00%) SLA
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) Dell
4 3 (50.00%) Dell Certification
4 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) vSphere
5 2 (33.33%) HP
5 2 (33.33%) SAN
5 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) MCSE
5 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (33.33%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) MySQL
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) Linux

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall
1 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 3 (50.00%) LAN
2 3 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (33.33%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) DHCP
4 1 (16.67%) SNMP
4 1 (16.67%) SSH
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (50.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mathematics
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000
4 1 (16.67%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (66.67%) MCSA
3 3 (50.00%) Dell Certification
4 2 (33.33%) MCSE
5 1 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (16.67%) MCTS
5 1 (16.67%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
3 1 (16.67%) Samba
3 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Dell
4 2 (33.33%) HP
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) EMC
5 1 (16.67%) Brocade
About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Friday 24 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.