The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP 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 Milton Keynes 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 IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank - 62 57
Contract jobs citing MCITP 0 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes - 0.138% 0.168%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.606% 0.735%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £310 £263
% change year-on-year
-27.41% +18.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -20.45%
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
164 165 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 31.97% 22.70% 22.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 91 65 70
Average daily rate £286 £251 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.27% -22.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 9
Average hourly rate £14.96 £16.75 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.68% +34.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £15.00 £9.42
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCITP
Buckinghamshire

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCITP across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCITP across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes MCITP Hourly Rate Trend

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
3 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) MCDST
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Statistics
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) MCPD
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Team System
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Help Desk Support
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Applications Developer
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Windows NT
3 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (25.00%) Web Development
1 1 (25.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) VB
1 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (25.00%) VB6
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) MCAD
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (25.00%) MCDST
1 1 (25.00%) MCPD
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (25.00%) XenApp
1 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (25.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) VMware