Microsoft Certification Contracts in the North East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 24 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 North East 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 31 36 37
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 3 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 1.071% 2.227% 1.831%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.357% 6.875% 8.511%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 4
Average daily rate £300 £250 £312
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -19.87%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -27.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-6.45% -11.42%
All Qualifications
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 56 160 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 20.00% 32.39% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 82 35
Average daily rate £313 £330 £324
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.30% +1.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £244 £209 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £483 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 5
Average hourly rate £10.13 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.35% +20.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 North East region.

North East Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
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 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Durham +4 3 £300 -
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 3 (42.86%) OCP
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
2 3 (42.86%) MS Office
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) MCP
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Solaris
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) MCDBA
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle Application Server
2 3 (42.86%) Statistics
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
4 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
4 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) WebLogic
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) DBA
1 3 (42.86%) Service Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server DBA
1 3 (42.86%) Service Desk Analyst
1 3 (42.86%) SQL DBA
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Statistics
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Solaris
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) OCP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Certification
1 3 (42.86%) MCP
1 3 (42.86%) MCDBA
2 2 (28.57%) A+ Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCNA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) DameWare
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
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