Milton Keynes MCSE Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) in IT contracts within the Milton Keynes region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	31
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	30	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.041 %
As % of the category below	22.39 %	38.32 %
Daily rates quoted	17	12
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£379
Average daily rate	£312	£397
% change on same period last year	-21.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£415
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£299
% change on same period last year	-7.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.26	£26.68
Average hourly rate	£29.98	£28.08
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.69	£29.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.39	£24.30
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Qualifications Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	134	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.181 %	0.107 %
Daily rates quoted	66	35
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£307
Average daily rate	£334	£319
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.43 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	18
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.06	£24.69
Average hourly rate	£30.92	£25.71
% change on same period last year	+20.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.79	£26.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.67	£25.72
% change on same period last year	-4.06 %
MCSE Buckinghamshire

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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 80 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 54 (67.50 %) Windows 3 50 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 4 46 (57.50 %) Novell Certification 5 43 (53.75 %) CNE 6 41 (51.25 %) Windows Server 2003 7 37 (46.25 %) ITIL 8 35 (43.75 %) Cisco 9 34 (42.50 %) SC Cleared 10 32 (40.00 %) HP 11 29 (36.25 %) ITSM 12 28 (35.00 %) OVOW 12 28 (35.00 %) Active Directory 13 27 (33.75 %) OpenView 14 25 (31.25 %) Migration

15 18 (22.50 %) Government 15 18 (22.50 %) SAN 16 17 (21.25 %) SQL 17 16 (20.00 %) Microsoft 17 16 (20.00 %) Telecoms 18 15 (18.75 %) DHCP 18 15 (18.75 %) DNS 18 15 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 19 14 (17.50 %) Windows Vista 20 13 (16.25 %) Windows Server 2008 21 12 (15.00 %) LAN 21 12 (15.00 %) WAN 22 10 (12.50 %) Windows NT 22 10 (12.50 %) Intranet 22 10 (12.50 %) Internet

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (2.500 %) .NET 1 2 (2.500 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 9 (11.25 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 7 (8.750 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (3.750 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 3 (3.750 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (1.250 %) GroupWise 5 1 (1.250 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 3 (3.750 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.500 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 18 (22.50 %) SAN 2 15 (18.75 %) DHCP 2 15 (18.75 %) DNS 3 12 (15.00 %) LAN 3 12 (15.00 %) WAN 4 10 (12.50 %) Intranet 4 10 (12.50 %) Internet 5 6 (7.500 %) Firewall 6 4 (5.000 %) Cisco PIX 7 1 (1.250 %) 3G 7 1 (1.250 %) SMS 7 1 (1.250 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (11.25 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 2 (2.500 %) DTS 2 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 2 (2.500 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.500 %) OLAP	General 1 18 (22.50 %) Government 2 16 (20.00 %) Telecoms 3 6 (7.500 %) Finance 4 3 (3.750 %) Banking 5 2 (2.500 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 17 (21.25 %) Consultant 2 9 (11.25 %) OpenView Specialist 3 6 (7.500 %) Messaging Specialist 3 6 (7.500 %) Analyst 4 5 (6.250 %) SAN Specialist 4 5 (6.250 %) Technical Lead 4 5 (6.250 %) Server Specialist 5 4 (5.000 %) SAN Consultant 5 4 (5.000 %) Technical Consultant 5 4 (5.000 %) Server Engineer 5 4 (5.000 %) Administrator 6 3 (3.750 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (3.750 %) Support Engineer 6 3 (3.750 %) Windows Technical Consultant 6 3 (3.750 %) Problem Analyst 7 2 (2.500 %) Infrastructure Consultant 7 2 (2.500 %) Server Support 7 2 (2.500 %) Database Specialist 7 2 (2.500 %) Messaging Consultant 7 2 (2.500 %) Active Directory Specialist	Miscellaneous 1 2 (2.500 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.250 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 54 (67.50 %) Windows 2 41 (51.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (17.50 %) Windows Vista 5 13 (16.25 %) Windows Server 2008 6 10 (12.50 %) Windows NT 7 4 (5.000 %) Windows XP 8 3 (3.750 %) UNIX 9 2 (2.500 %) NetWare 10 1 (1.250 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 1 (1.250 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 50 (62.50 %) Security Cleared 2 37 (46.25 %) ITIL 3 34 (42.50 %) SC Cleared 4 29 (36.25 %) ITSM 5 25 (31.25 %) Migration 6 9 (11.25 %) Problem Management 7 8 (10.00 %) Data Migration 8 5 (6.250 %) Operations Management 9 3 (3.750 %) Incident Management 9 3 (3.750 %) DV Cleared 10 2 (2.500 %) Business Intelligence 11 1 (1.250 %) Disaster Recovery 11 1 (1.250 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 17 (21.25 %) SQL 2 2 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (2.500 %) C# 3 1 (1.250 %) C	Qualifications 1 80 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 46 (57.50 %) Novell Certification 3 43 (53.75 %) CNE 4 6 (7.500 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 3 (3.750 %) SCSP 5 3 (3.750 %) CNA 6 2 (2.500 %) MCSA 6 2 (2.500 %) MCDBA 7 1 (1.250 %) CCNA 7 1 (1.250 %) Cisco Certification 7 1 (1.250 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (5.000 %) SLA	System Software 1 28 (35.00 %) Active Directory 2 8 (10.00 %) VMware ESX 2 8 (10.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 7 (8.750 %) MailMarshal 4 2 (2.500 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 28 (35.00 %) OVOW 2 27 (33.75 %) OpenView 3 9 (11.25 %) CiscoWorks 3 9 (11.25 %) OVPA 3 9 (11.25 %) OVPI 4 7 (8.750 %) HP Data Protector 5 5 (6.250 %) WSUS 6 3 (3.750 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 3 (3.750 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 35 (43.75 %) Cisco 2 32 (40.00 %) HP 3 16 (20.00 %) Microsoft 4 10 (12.50 %) VMware 5 9 (11.25 %) Symantec 5 9 (11.25 %) Oracle 6 5 (6.250 %) Compaq 7 4 (5.000 %) PlateSpin 8 3 (3.750 %) McAfee Security 8 3 (3.750 %) IBM 9 2 (2.500 %) Sun 9 2 (2.500 %) Novell 9 2 (2.500 %) CheckPoint 9 2 (2.500 %) SurfControl 9 2 (2.500 %) Finjan 10 1 (1.250 %) Citrix