Midlands Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 job ads that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thame Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	70
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	10	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	7.937 %	5.442 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£290
Average daily rate	£225	£325
% change on same period last year	-30.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£269	£279
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£28.50
Average hourly rate	-	£28.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.07	£23.22
% change on same period last year	-0.63 %
Qualifications Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	126	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.166 %	0.154 %
Daily rates quoted	19	22
Average minimum daily rate	£340	£325
Average daily rate	£358	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£376	£373
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	34
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.00	£28.78
Average hourly rate	£34.15	£29.16
% change on same period last year	+17.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.30	£29.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.71
% change on same period last year	-2.24 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 10 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 8 (50.00 %) MCSE 3 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 3 7 (43.75 %) Windows 4 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel 4 6 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 5 5 (31.25 %) Migration 6 4 (25.00 %) Project Management 6 4 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (25.00 %) SAN 6 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (25.00 %) CCNP 6 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 6 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 7 3 (18.75 %) MCTS

8 2 (12.50 %) Replication 8 2 (12.50 %) Finance 8 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (12.50 %) C# 8 2 (12.50 %) .NET 8 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 8 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 8 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 9 1 (6.250 %) SMTP 9 1 (6.250 %) HTTP 9 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 9 1 (6.250 %) MCSA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Microsoft 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (12.50 %) .NET 1 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (6.250 %) CSS 2 1 (6.250 %) HTML 2 1 (6.250 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 4 (25.00 %) SAN 2 1 (6.250 %) SMTP 2 1 (6.250 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 2 1 (6.250 %) Health 2 1 (6.250 %) Publishing 2 1 (6.250 %) Retail 2 1 (6.250 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Developer 2 4 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 2 4 (25.00 %) Project Manager 2 4 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Technical Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Technical Project Manager 3 3 (18.75 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (18.75 %) Infrastructure Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Report Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) .NET Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) C# Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Trainer 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Desktop Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) SQL Server Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Technical Services Manager 5 1 (6.250 %) Wintel Support 5 1 (6.250 %) Service Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Replication 2 1 (6.250 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows NT 3 1 (6.250 %) Windows XP 3 1 (6.250 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (31.25 %) Migration 2 4 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 1 (6.250 %) Web Development 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) C# 2 1 (6.250 %) DHTML 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 8 (50.00 %) MCSE 2 4 (25.00 %) Cisco Certification 2 4 (25.00 %) CCNP 3 3 (18.75 %) MCTS 4 1 (6.250 %) MCSA 4 1 (6.250 %) MCDBA 4 1 (6.250 %) CCNA 4 1 (6.250 %) CCDA 4 1 (6.250 %) MCP 4 1 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 7 (43.75 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (6.250 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 10 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle