Midlands MCSA Contracts

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

Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Location Aylesbury Belfast Belper Berkshire Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chatham Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Derbyshire Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Feltham Hampshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Loughborough Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Sandbach Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	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	£230	£141
% change on same period last year	+62.88 %
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	£19.11	£17.23
% change on same period last year	+10.89 %
Qualifications Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	88	139
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.124 %	0.141 %
Daily rates quoted	19	39
Average minimum daily rate	£412	£308
Average daily rate	£425	£315
% change on same period last year	+34.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£439	£322
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£27.16
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£28.57
% change on same period last year	-47.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£29.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.36	£25.96
% change on same period last year	-2.33 %
MCSA England

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.

MCSA
Demand Trend

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

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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