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MCP Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 27 MCP job vacancies in the North West

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP 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 MCP over the 3 months to 18 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 114 118 129
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Contract jobs citing MCP 8 16 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.332% 0.525% 0.099%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.670% 2.564% 0.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £90 £285 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.42% +3.63%
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £215 £153
% change year-on-year
+30.23% +40.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £12.50 £11.75 £95.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -87.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £11.15 £47.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £12.35 £143.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 479 624 423
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.88% 20.49% 13.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 305 213
Average daily rate £350 £375 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +28.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £527 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 30 41
Average hourly rate £24.50 £19.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.64% -22.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.74 £12.50 £15.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £22.00 £39.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCP
England

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 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
Cheshire -10 3 - - 7
Merseyside - 3 - - 2
Manchester +11 1 - - 10
Lancashire - 1 £90 - 5
Cumbria - - - - 3
MCP
England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (79.17%) ITIL
3 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
4 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
4 14 (58.33%) Windows
5 13 (54.17%) MCITP
6 12 (50.00%) MCDST
6 12 (50.00%) HP
7 11 (45.83%) Windows XP
8 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
8 10 (41.67%) MCSE
8 10 (41.67%) MS Office
9 9 (37.50%) OpenView
9 9 (37.50%) IBM Notes
9 9 (37.50%) Lotus
9 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
9 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
10 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
10 8 (33.33%) Citrix
11 7 (29.17%) ISO 9000
11 7 (29.17%) MS Visio
11 7 (29.17%) MS Exchange
11 7 (29.17%) MS Project
11 7 (29.17%) ServiceCenter
11 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint
11 7 (29.17%) BS25999
11 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 7 (29.17%) Incident Management
12 6 (25.00%) Problem Management
12 6 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) .NET
1 3 (12.50%) OpenGL
1 3 (12.50%) WCF
1 3 (12.50%) HTML5
1 3 (12.50%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 9 (37.50%) IBM Notes
2 7 (29.17%) MS Exchange
3 6 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (16.67%) LiveLink
5 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (41.67%) MS Office
1 10 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 7 (29.17%) MS Visio
2 7 (29.17%) MS PowerPoint
2 7 (29.17%) MS Project
3 1 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
1 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
2 2 (8.333%) SAN
3 1 (4.167%) Internet
3 1 (4.167%) MPLS
3 1 (4.167%) Firewall
3 1 (4.167%) IP Telephony
3 1 (4.167%) SSH
3 1 (4.167%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (4.167%) VPN
3 1 (4.167%) ADSL
3 1 (4.167%) LAN
3 1 (4.167%) WAN
3 1 (4.167%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) NUnit
1 3 (12.50%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 3 (12.50%) Games
2 2 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Analyst
2 9 (37.50%) Support Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Service Analyst
4 5 (20.83%) Service Desk Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) C++ Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Games Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 3 (12.50%) Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Gameplay Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C++ Games Developer
5 3 (12.50%) C++/C# Developer
6 2 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 2 (8.333%) Applications Support
7 1 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (4.167%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 1 (4.167%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 3 (12.50%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (4.167%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.167%) Clustering
3 1 (4.167%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.167%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (58.33%) Windows
2 11 (45.83%) Windows XP
3 8 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Vista
4 4 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (79.17%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) Incident Management
3 6 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 4 (16.67%) Service Desk Management
5 3 (12.50%) MVC
5 3 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (12.50%) Kanban
5 3 (12.50%) 3D Modelling
5 3 (12.50%) Game Development
5 3 (12.50%) Web Application Development
5 3 (12.50%) Service Management
6 1 (4.167%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (4.167%) Security Management
6 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) C
2 3 (12.50%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) C++
2 3 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (4.167%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (54.17%) MCITP
3 12 (50.00%) MCDST
4 10 (41.67%) MCSE
5 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 9 (37.50%) Security Cleared
6 4 (16.67%) MCTS
7 3 (12.50%) MCAD
7 3 (12.50%) MCSD
8 2 (8.333%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (29.17%) ISO 9000
1 7 (29.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (29.17%) BS25999
2 2 (8.333%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.67%) XenApp
2 4 (16.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (4.167%) vSphere
3 1 (4.167%) VMware Server
3 1 (4.167%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.167%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (37.50%) OpenView
2 7 (29.17%) ServiceCenter
3 3 (12.50%) SCCM
4 2 (8.333%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (4.167%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 12 (50.00%) HP
3 9 (37.50%) Lotus
4 8 (33.33%) Citrix
5 2 (8.333%) VMware
5 2 (8.333%) Remedy
6 1 (4.167%) McAfee
6 1 (4.167%) Wyse
6 1 (4.167%) Dell
6 1 (4.167%) EMC
6 1 (4.167%) AppSense
6 1 (4.167%) Brocade
6 1 (4.167%) NETGEAR
6 1 (4.167%) Oracle
6 1 (4.167%) Cisco
1st/2nd Line Support Role - Manchester - 6 month C
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...
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Posted: 6 June 2013
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