The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD 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 MCPD over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 56 59 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing MCPD 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.333% 0.147% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.149% 0.546% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £350 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £320 £275
% change year-on-year
+31.09% +16.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
174 183 142
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 29.00% 26.99% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 75 71
Average daily rate £323 £275 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £140 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 16
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 £9.46
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £15.15 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCPD
Buckinghamshire

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCPD Daily Rate Trend

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) MCAD
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) MVVM
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCPD 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 MCPD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CESG
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Web Development
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) CRM
2 2 (66.67%) MVVM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) MCP
1 3 (100.00%) MCAD
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (100.00%) MCITP
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
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