MCP Contracts in Merseyside
 
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 Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 27 38 30
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Contract jobs citing MCP 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.435% 0.385% 0.389%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.762% 1.961% 2.857%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £213 £175
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £155.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £16.18
% change year-on-year
-12.06% -10.39%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 63 51 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 30.14% 19.62% 13.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 15
Average daily rate £400 £313 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.62% +25.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £268 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 8
Average hourly rate - £15.50 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCP
North West

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 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
Liverpool +8 3 - -
MCP
North West

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (60.00%) C
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) MCAD
2 3 (60.00%) MCSD
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (60.00%) Games
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) NUnit
2 3 (60.00%) MCTS
2 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (60.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (60.00%) 3D Modelling
2 3 (60.00%) HTML5
2 3 (60.00%) Game Development
2 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Internet
3 2 (40.00%) MS Office
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) LAN
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 Development
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (60.00%) WCF
1 3 (60.00%) HTML5
1 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) LAN
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
2 1 (20.00%) SAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
2 1 (20.00%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) NUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (60.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Games Developer
1 3 (60.00%) C++ Developer
1 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (60.00%) C++/C# Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Gameplay Developer
1 3 (60.00%) C++ Games Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (20.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (20.00%) Thin Client
2 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
1 3 (60.00%) Kanban
1 3 (60.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (60.00%) Game Development
1 3 (60.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (20.00%) Service Desk Management
2 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) C++
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (60.00%) MCAD
2 3 (60.00%) MCSD
2 3 (60.00%) MCTS
3 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cisco
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Symantec
2 1 (20.00%) Wyse
2 1 (20.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) NETGEAR
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) Dell
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