The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP 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 North West 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 IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank 106 125 118
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -7
Contract jobs citing MCITP 11 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.461% 0.296% 0.232%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.326% 1.447% 1.687%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
Average daily rate £226 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £315 £306
% change year-on-year
-28.57% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 4
Average hourly rate £15.25 £22.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-30.68% -24.13%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.15 £22.00 £25.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.40 £22.00 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £17.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-10.29% -32.00%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
473 622 415
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.82% 20.47% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 308 209
Average daily rate £350 £375 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +26.05%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £528 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 29 43
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -18.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.85 £12.40 £15.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £22.75 £38.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCITP
England

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCITP across the North West region.

North West MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCITP across the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North West MCITP Daily Rate Histogram

MCITP
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCITP across the North West region.

North West MCITP Hourly Rate Trend

MCITP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCITP within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester +2 4 - - 5
Cheshire - 3 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £90 - 1
Merseyside - - - -
MCITP
England

MCITP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 20 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 19 (79.17%) ITIL
4 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
5 15 (62.50%) MCSE
6 12 (50.00%) MCP
6 12 (50.00%) Incident Management
7 11 (45.83%) MCDST
7 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2008
7 11 (45.83%) MS Excel
7 11 (45.83%) Windows XP
8 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (37.50%) MS Office
9 9 (37.50%) HP
9 9 (37.50%) MS Exchange
9 9 (37.50%) MCTS
9 9 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
10 8 (33.33%) Migration
11 7 (29.17%) Lotus
11 7 (29.17%) ISO 9000
11 7 (29.17%) OpenView
11 7 (29.17%) MS Project
11 7 (29.17%) MS Visio
11 7 (29.17%) IBM Notes
11 7 (29.17%) BS25999
11 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
11 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
11 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (4.167%) COM
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 9 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (29.17%) IBM Notes
2 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (29.17%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (16.67%) IIS
3 4 (16.67%) LiveLink
3 4 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (45.83%) MS Excel
2 9 (37.50%) MS Office
3 7 (29.17%) MS Project
3 7 (29.17%) MS Visio
3 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 6 (25.00%) SMTP
2 5 (20.83%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.83%) DNS
3 4 (16.67%) NAS
3 4 (16.67%) SAN
4 1 (4.167%) MPLS
4 1 (4.167%) DHCP
4 1 (4.167%) HTTP
4 1 (4.167%) ADSL
4 1 (4.167%) LAN
4 1 (4.167%) WAN
General
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 8 (33.33%) Support Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Messaging Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) Exchange Engineer
5 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
7 2 (8.333%) Designer
7 2 (8.333%) Technical Designer
7 2 (8.333%) Applications Support
7 2 (8.333%) Architect
7 2 (8.333%) Technical Architect
8 1 (4.167%) Consultant
8 1 (4.167%) Network Engineer
8 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (4.167%) Service Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) Help Desk Analyst
8 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
8 1 (4.167%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Blackberry
1 6 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (45.83%) Windows XP
3 10 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
5 4 (16.67%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) ITIL
2 12 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 8 (33.33%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Load Balancing
5 3 (12.50%) Capacity Management
6 2 (8.333%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (16.67%) Perl
2 4 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (62.50%) MCSE
3 12 (50.00%) MCP
4 11 (45.83%) MCDST
5 9 (37.50%) MCTS
6 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
6 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
7 6 (25.00%) MCSA
8 2 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (8.333%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (8.333%) CCNP
9 1 (4.167%) CCNA
9 1 (4.167%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) ISO 9000
1 7 (29.17%) BS25999
1 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) Postfix
3 3 (12.50%) XenApp
3 3 (12.50%) XenDesktop
4 2 (8.333%) vSphere
5 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (29.17%) OpenView
1 7 (29.17%) ServiceCenter
2 4 (16.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (16.67%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (12.50%) SCCM
4 1 (4.167%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (37.50%) HP
3 7 (29.17%) Lotus
4 4 (16.67%) IronPort
4 4 (16.67%) Symantec
5 3 (12.50%) VMware
5 3 (12.50%) Citrix
6 2 (8.333%) Cisco
6 2 (8.333%) Remedy
7 1 (4.167%) McAfee
7 1 (4.167%) Juniper
7 1 (4.167%) AppSense
7 1 (4.167%) Twitter
Manchester, North West
My client is a prestigious IT Service provider based in Manchester. There are big projects coming up in the next few months as they grow. They are looking...
ITHR
Posted: 6 June 2013
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