The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS 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 MCTS 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 54 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MCTS 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.499% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.807% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £425 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £275 £293
% change year-on-year
+16.36% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -51.11%
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%
MCTS
Buckinghamshire

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) SMTP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) Lync
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
2 3 (75.00%) JMS
2 3 (75.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (75.00%) StorageTek
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) JMS
1 3 (75.00%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SMTP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (25.00%) ICMP
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (75.00%) Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) Thin Client
3 2 (50.00%) Fat Client
4 1 (25.00%) PKI
4 1 (25.00%) CESG
4 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Information Assurance
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCSP
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) ISEB
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 3 (75.00%) OpenView
2 1 (25.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) SCOM
2 1 (25.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) StorageTek
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Sun