The first table below looks at the demand for MCP 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 MCP over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 40 38 42
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs citing MCP 17 26 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 2.829% 3.881% 2.528%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.24% 13.76% 10.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 7
Average daily rate £350 £160 £142
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+118.75% +12.67%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £213 £155
% change year-on-year
+31.76% +37.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 7
Average hourly rate - £12.25 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.08%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £14.50
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
166 189 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 27.62% 28.21% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 80 76
Average daily rate £318 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.45% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £408 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 17
Average hourly rate £22.50 £15.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.37 £11.00 £9.93
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £15.30 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCP
Buckinghamshire

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Milton Keynes MCP Daily Rate Histogram

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (70.83%) Windows
3 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 15 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (58.33%) ITIL
5 12 (50.00%) MCSE
5 12 (50.00%) MS Exchange
6 11 (45.83%) VMware
7 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
7 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
7 10 (41.67%) Citrix
8 9 (37.50%) SQL
8 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
8 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
9 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
9 8 (33.33%) Backup Exec
9 8 (33.33%) UNIX
9 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
10 7 (29.17%) Service Management
10 7 (29.17%) Oracle
10 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
10 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2003
10 7 (29.17%) Lync
11 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
11 6 (25.00%) CRM
11 6 (25.00%) Linux
12 5 (20.83%) HP
12 5 (20.83%) SAN
12 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
13 4 (16.67%) C#

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 3 (12.50%) JMS
2 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) SOAP
2 3 (12.50%) Web Services
2 3 (12.50%) XML
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
3 2 (8.333%) XSL
3 2 (8.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (8.333%) LINQ
4 1 (4.167%) WCF
4 1 (4.167%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 12 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (29.17%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Excel
2 2 (8.333%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) SAN
2 3 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 3 (12.50%) NAS
2 3 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 3 (12.50%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (29.17%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
1 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.167%) NUnit
General
1 4 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Software Manager
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Architect
5 3 (12.50%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Implementation Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) .NET Applications Developer
6 1 (4.167%) WPF Developer
6 1 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.167%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (12.50%) Cryptography
2 3 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (8.333%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.333%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.167%) CESG
4 1 (4.167%) Statistics
4 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 17 (70.83%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (33.33%) UNIX
4 6 (25.00%) Linux
5 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
7 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (4.167%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Service Management
3 6 (25.00%) CRM
4 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (16.67%) Change Management
4 4 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 3 (12.50%) TOGAF
5 3 (12.50%) Migration
5 3 (12.50%) Web Development
5 3 (12.50%) ITIL V3
5 3 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (8.333%) MVC
6 2 (8.333%) MVVM
6 2 (8.333%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.333%) Scrum
7 1 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.167%) Business Continuity
7 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
7 1 (4.167%) Data Migration
7 1 (4.167%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 3 (12.50%) VB
5 2 (8.333%) JavaScript
5 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.333%) VBScript
6 1 (4.167%) VB6
6 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 12 (50.00%) MCSE
4 10 (41.67%) SC Cleared
5 8 (33.33%) DV Cleared
6 4 (16.67%) MCAD
7 3 (12.50%) MCTS
7 3 (12.50%) MCPD
7 3 (12.50%) MCITP
7 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (12.50%) ISEB
7 3 (12.50%) CCSP
7 3 (12.50%) CCNA
8 1 (4.167%) Degree
8 1 (4.167%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (37.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (12.50%) XenApp
3 2 (8.333%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.333%) vSphere
3 2 (8.333%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 8 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 3 (12.50%) OpenView
2 3 (12.50%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.167%) SCCM
3 1 (4.167%) SCOM
3 1 (4.167%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) VMware
2 10 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (41.67%) Citrix
3 7 (29.17%) Oracle
4 5 (20.83%) HP
5 4 (16.67%) IBM
6 3 (12.50%) StorageTek
6 3 (12.50%) Sun
7 2 (8.333%) Compaq
8 1 (4.167%) Remedy
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