North East Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the North East region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	47
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	14	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	16.87 %	11.21 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£220
Average daily rate	£363	£220
% change on same period last year	+64.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£280	£265
% change on same period last year	+5.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.56	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£18.91	£19.70
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.26	£23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.28	£22.76
% change on same period last year	-10.88 %
Qualifications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	83	116
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.117 %	0.117 %
Daily rates quoted	21	38
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£295
Average daily rate	£336	£302
% change on same period last year	+11.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£353	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.74	£19.17
Average hourly rate	£18.07	£21.28
% change on same period last year	-15.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.41	£23.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.54	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the North East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the North East region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+12	6	£275	+25.00 %
Durham	-6	4	£450	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 20 (68.97 %) MCSE 2 18 (62.07 %) Windows 3 15 (51.72 %) Microsoft 4 9 (31.03 %) Windows Server 2003 5 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 5 7 (24.14 %) Windows 2000 6 6 (20.69 %) Windows XP 6 6 (20.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 7 5 (17.24 %) Citrix 8 4 (13.79 %) Firewall 8 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 8 4 (13.79 %) SC Cleared 8 4 (13.79 %) Security Cleared 8 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2000 Server

9 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 9 3 (10.34 %) MCP 9 3 (10.34 %) LAN 9 3 (10.34 %) Active Directory 9 3 (10.34 %) HP 10 2 (6.897 %) Cisco 10 2 (6.897 %) VERITAS 10 2 (6.897 %) Lotus 10 2 (6.897 %) A+ Certification 10 2 (6.897 %) Dell 10 2 (6.897 %) Wireless 10 2 (6.897 %) VPN 10 2 (6.897 %) SSL 10 2 (6.897 %) SQL 10 2 (6.897 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 1 (3.448 %) .NET 1 1 (3.448 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 7 (24.14 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (20.69 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.448 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (3.448 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (17.24 %) MS Excel 2 4 (13.79 %) MS Office 3 1 (3.448 %) Photoshop 3 1 (3.448 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Axapta 1 1 (3.448 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 4 (13.79 %) Firewall 2 3 (10.34 %) LAN 3 2 (6.897 %) VPN 3 2 (6.897 %) SSL 3 2 (6.897 %) Wireless 4 1 (3.448 %) SAN 4 1 (3.448 %) Wi-Fi 4 1 (3.448 %) DNS 4 1 (3.448 %) ADSL 4 1 (3.448 %) GSM 4 1 (3.448 %) VoIP 4 1 (3.448 %) WAN 4 1 (3.448 %) IMAP4 4 1 (3.448 %) DHCP 4 1 (3.448 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
General 1 2 (6.897 %) Government 2 1 (3.448 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 7 (24.14 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (17.24 %) Administrator 2 5 (17.24 %) Analyst 3 4 (13.79 %) Systems Administrator 3 4 (13.79 %) Desktop Support 4 3 (10.34 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (10.34 %) Network Support 5 2 (6.897 %) Support Supervisor 5 2 (6.897 %) Network Supervisor 5 2 (6.897 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 2 (6.897 %) Wintel Support 5 2 (6.897 %) Server Analyst 5 2 (6.897 %) Server Support Analyst 5 2 (6.897 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (6.897 %) Server Support 5 2 (6.897 %) 3rd Line Support 5 2 (6.897 %) Desktop Engineer 5 2 (6.897 %) IT Support Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Technical Engineer 6 1 (3.448 %) Field Engineer
Operating Systems 1 18 (62.07 %) Windows 2 9 (31.03 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (24.14 %) Windows 2000 4 6 (20.69 %) Windows XP 5 4 (13.79 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (3.448 %) Windows Mobile 6 1 (3.448 %) Windows NT 6 1 (3.448 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (13.79 %) SC Cleared 1 4 (13.79 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (6.897 %) Load Balancing 2 2 (6.897 %) ITIL 3 1 (3.448 %) ERP 3 1 (3.448 %) Service Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Migration 3 1 (3.448 %) Time Management 3 1 (3.448 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.897 %) SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) X++	Qualifications 1 20 (68.97 %) MCSE 2 3 (10.34 %) MCP 3 2 (6.897 %) A+ Certification 4 1 (3.448 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (3.448 %) MCDST 4 1 (3.448 %) MCSA 4 1 (3.448 %) MCDBA 4 1 (3.448 %) CCNA 4 1 (3.448 %) CCA 4 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.448 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (10.34 %) Active Directory 2 2 (6.897 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (3.448 %) VMware Server 3 1 (3.448 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 15 (51.72 %) Microsoft 2 5 (17.24 %) Citrix 3 3 (10.34 %) HP 4 2 (6.897 %) Cisco 4 2 (6.897 %) VERITAS 4 2 (6.897 %) Lotus 4 2 (6.897 %) Dell 5 1 (3.448 %) VMware 5 1 (3.448 %) IBM 5 1 (3.448 %) Adobe 5 1 (3.448 %) Sun 5 1 (3.448 %) Compaq 5 1 (3.448 %) CommVault 5 1 (3.448 %) Hitachi