The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 68 80 60
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -20
Contract jobs citing MCSE 7 8 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.743% 0.609% 0.879%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.512% 3.980% 7.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 5
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £300 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £287 £325 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +8.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-2.63% +2.70%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
127 201 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 13.48% 15.31% 11.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 78 50
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 £147 £181 £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 9 15 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £19.50 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.82% +5.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £18.00 £12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.60 £37.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 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
Altrincham +3 4 £280 -13.84%
Bury - 1 £150 -
Oldham - 1 £150 -
Rochdale - 1 £150 -
Wigan - 1 - -
MCSE
North West

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 5 (62.50%) SNMP
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 5 (62.50%) CCNA
3 5 (62.50%) Network Management
4 4 (50.00%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (37.50%) HP
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (37.50%) ITIL
5 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
6 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (25.00%) MCP
6 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) vSphere
6 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
6 2 (25.00%) MCITP
7 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (12.50%) Firewall
7 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
7 1 (12.50%) Samba
7 1 (12.50%) CLARiiON
7 1 (12.50%) MCTS

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (12.50%) NAS
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) ADSL
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Systems Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Manager
5 1 (12.50%) Server Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Network Management
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (12.50%) Business Continuity
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE
4 1 (12.50%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (62.50%) CCNA
4 2 (25.00%) MCP
4 2 (25.00%) MCITP
5 1 (12.50%) MCTS
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (12.50%) CCNP
5 1 (12.50%) CCDP
5 1 (12.50%) MCSA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) vSphere
1 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (12.50%) Samba
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Server
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 3 (37.50%) HP
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Brocade
4 1 (12.50%) Twitter
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Citrix
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
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