Merseyside MCSE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Rugby Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	42	37
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	4	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	9.756 %	16.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£430
Average daily rate	-	£468
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£505
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£312
% change on same period last year	-6.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.50	£22.50
Average hourly rate	£27.50	£27.00
% change on same period last year	+1.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.50	£31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.24	£24.06
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
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 %
MCSE 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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	-4	3	-	-

MCSE North West

MCSE
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 3 5 (62.50 %) MCP 3 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 4 3 (37.50 %) DNS 5 2 (25.00 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) Migration 6 1 (12.50 %) Home Office 6 1 (12.50 %) Replication 6 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 6 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 6 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (12.50 %) LAN

6 1 (12.50 %) WAN 6 1 (12.50 %) VPN 6 1 (12.50 %) Cisco 6 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 6 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 6 1 (12.50 %) HP 6 1 (12.50 %) Dell 6 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 6 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (12.50 %) Dell Certification 6 1 (12.50 %) NHS 6 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) DNS 2 1 (12.50 %) Network Security 2 1 (12.50 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Systems Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Administrator 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) NHS 1 1 (12.50 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 2 (25.00 %) Windows 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 1 (12.50 %) Migration 1 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared	Qualifications 1 8 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (62.50 %) MCP 3 1 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 1 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) Dell Certification
System Software 1 6 (75.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (12.50 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) HP 2 1 (12.50 %) Dell 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 2 1 (12.50 %) Cisco