MCTS Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank - 85 67
Contract jobs citing MCTS 0 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.228% 0.195%
As % of the Qualifications category - 1.493% 1.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £165 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -42.10%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.75 £33.75
% change year-on-year
- -47.40%
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%
MCTS
North West

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) MCITP
2 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Samba
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) SNMP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) MySQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) SAN

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Trainer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Trainer
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
2 2 (66.67%) A+ Certification
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Samba
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware
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