Merseyside MCSD Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD) in IT contracts within the Merseyside region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Location Banbury Berkshire Buckinghamshire Cardiff City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley East of England England Essex Gatwick Hampshire Haslemere Hertfordshire Ipswich London Merseyside Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Slough South East South Wales Southwark St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£362
% change on same period last year	-11.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£39.17
% change on same period last year	-
Qualifications Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	41	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.051 %
Daily rates quoted	10	16
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£298
Average daily rate	£321	£310
% change on same period last year	+3.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£19.41	£23.85
% change on same period last year	-18.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.82	£26.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
MCSD North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MCSD
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCSD across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCSD
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCSD across the Merseyside region.