Microsoft Certification Contracts in Milton Keynes
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 38 37 23
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 16 24 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 3.048% 3.357% 5.528%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.524% 14.72% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 17
Average daily rate £325 £160 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+103.12% -52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £218 £148 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £253 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
Average hourly rate - £12.25 £12.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -0.40%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 168 163 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 32.00% 22.80% 23.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 61 69
Average daily rate £288 £238 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.05% -26.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £113 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £423 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 9
Average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £12.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.26% +23.45%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.18 £13.50 £9.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £50.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
Buckinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 27 (93.10%) Windows
2 23 (79.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (68.97%) MCSE
4 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
4 17 (58.62%) VMware
5 15 (51.72%) MCP
6 14 (48.28%) ITIL
6 14 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
7 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
8 12 (41.38%) MS Exchange
8 12 (41.38%) Citrix
8 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
9 10 (34.48%) SAN
10 9 (31.03%) Windows NT
10 9 (31.03%) UNIX
10 9 (31.03%) MS Excel
10 9 (31.03%) SQL
10 9 (31.03%) Hyper-V
11 8 (27.59%) Backup Exec
11 8 (27.59%) NAS
11 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
11 8 (27.59%) Degree
11 8 (27.59%) Windows 2000
11 8 (27.59%) Broadband
11 8 (27.59%) Intel
11 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
12 7 (24.14%) HP
12 7 (24.14%) Clustering
12 7 (24.14%) Service Management
12 7 (24.14%) Lync

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (10.34%) JMS
1 3 (10.34%) SOAP
2 1 (3.448%) HTML
2 1 (3.448%) .NET
2 1 (3.448%) Web Services
2 1 (3.448%) XML
2 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.448%) CSS
2 1 (3.448%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 12 (41.38%) MS Exchange
2 7 (24.14%) Lync
3 6 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (20.69%) SharePoint
4 3 (10.34%) Lotus Notes
5 2 (6.897%) IIS
5 2 (6.897%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (3.448%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (31.03%) MS Excel
2 4 (13.79%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) SAN
2 8 (27.59%) NAS
2 8 (27.59%) Broadband
3 3 (10.34%) 3G
3 3 (10.34%) Internet
3 3 (10.34%) TCP/IP
3 3 (10.34%) VPN
3 3 (10.34%) SMTP
3 3 (10.34%) Firewall
3 3 (10.34%) iSCSI
3 3 (10.34%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (3.448%) DDNS
4 1 (3.448%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (13.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.448%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (6.897%) Retail
1 2 (6.897%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Analyst
2 9 (31.03%) Support Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (13.79%) Administrator
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Administrator
4 4 (13.79%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (10.34%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 2 (6.897%) Wintel Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.897%) Wintel Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (6.897%) Software Manager
7 1 (3.448%) Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Implementation Engineer
7 1 (3.448%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (24.14%) Clustering
2 4 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (13.79%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.34%) Mathematics
3 3 (10.34%) PDA
3 3 (10.34%) Cryptography
4 2 (6.897%) Fat Client
4 2 (6.897%) Firmware
4 2 (6.897%) Thin Client
4 2 (6.897%) Mainframe
5 1 (3.448%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 27 (93.10%) Windows
2 23 (79.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (41.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (31.03%) Windows NT
4 9 (31.03%) UNIX
5 8 (27.59%) Windows 2000
6 6 (20.69%) Linux
7 5 (17.24%) Windows 7
8 4 (13.79%) Windows 2000 Server
8 4 (13.79%) Windows XP
9 3 (10.34%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (48.28%) ITIL
2 7 (24.14%) Service Management
3 6 (20.69%) Change Management
4 4 (13.79%) CRM
5 3 (10.34%) Service Delivery
5 3 (10.34%) TOGAF
5 3 (10.34%) ITIL V3
6 2 (6.897%) Asset Management
6 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.897%) Incident Management
7 1 (3.448%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
7 1 (3.448%) Web Development
7 1 (3.448%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 9 (31.03%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.448%) C#
3 1 (3.448%) VB
3 1 (3.448%) VB.NET
3 1 (3.448%) VB6
Qualifications
1 20 (68.97%) MCSE
2 15 (51.72%) MCP
3 13 (44.83%) Security Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) SC Cleared
4 8 (27.59%) Degree
5 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared
6 3 (10.34%) CCSP
6 3 (10.34%) CCNA
6 3 (10.34%) ISEB
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (10.34%) MCTS
7 1 (3.448%) MCAD
7 1 (3.448%) MCPD
7 1 (3.448%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (48.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (31.03%) Hyper-V
3 8 (27.59%) Active Directory
4 5 (17.24%) VMware ESX
5 3 (10.34%) XenApp
6 2 (6.897%) vSphere
6 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 2 (6.897%) ISA Server
6 2 (6.897%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) Backup Exec
2 4 (13.79%) SCOM
3 3 (10.34%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (10.34%) OpenView
4 2 (6.897%) BladeLogic
5 1 (3.448%) SCCM
5 1 (3.448%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
1 17 (58.62%) VMware
2 12 (41.38%) Citrix
3 8 (27.59%) Intel
4 7 (24.14%) HP
5 5 (17.24%) Oracle
6 4 (13.79%) IBM
7 3 (10.34%) Remedy
7 3 (10.34%) StorageTek
7 3 (10.34%) Lotus
7 3 (10.34%) Sun
7 3 (10.34%) SAP
8 2 (6.897%) Compaq
9 1 (3.448%) Cisco
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