The first table below looks at the demand for A+ Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited A+ Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CompTIA A+ Certification
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing A+ Certification 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £103 £145 £250
% change year-on-year
-29.31% -42.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.88 £11.50 £11.63
% change year-on-year
+29.34% -1.07%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
66 46 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.41% 17.83% 13.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 20 14
Average daily rate £400 £308 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.08% +23.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £251 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £491 £369
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
Average hourly rate - £15.50 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
A+ Certification
North West

A+ Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside A+ Certification Jobs Demand Trend

A+ Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing A+ Certification across the Merseyside region.

Merseyside A+ Certification Hourly Rate Trend

A+ Certification
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing A+ 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 A+ Certification.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Smartphone
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server

A+ Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing A+ 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 A+ Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware