MCSE Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 104 108 62
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -46
Contract jobs citing MCSE 15 28 74
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.647% 0.882% 2.458%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.341% 4.094% 15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 21 48
Average daily rate £251 £300 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.50% +17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £155 £179
10% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £313 £267
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+8.72% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 8
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -27.27%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £19.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.40%
All Qualifications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 449 684 476
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 19.38% 21.54% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 340 211
Average daily rate £350 £370 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% +39.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £511 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 26 45
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £22.73
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -12.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.33 £14.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £30.25 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West MCSE Daily Rate Histogram

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Manchester +9 7 £275 -8.33%
Cheshire +6 3 - -
Cumbria - 2 £236 -
MCSE
England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 30 (93.75%) Windows
3 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
4 19 (59.38%) ITIL
5 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
5 15 (46.88%) MCITP
5 15 (46.88%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (37.50%) Windows 7
7 11 (34.38%) MCDST
7 11 (34.38%) HP
7 11 (34.38%) MCP
7 11 (34.38%) MS Exchange
7 11 (34.38%) Windows XP
8 10 (31.25%) MS Office
8 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
9 9 (28.13%) MS Excel
9 9 (28.13%) Incident Management
10 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
10 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
10 8 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
10 8 (25.00%) MCSA
10 8 (25.00%) Lotus
11 7 (21.88%) OpenView
11 7 (21.88%) MS Visio
11 7 (21.88%) ISO 9000
11 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
11 7 (21.88%) MS Project
11 7 (21.88%) SQL
11 7 (21.88%) Migration
11 7 (21.88%) ServiceCenter

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (9.375%) .NET
2 1 (3.125%) COM
2 1 (3.125%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (34.38%) MS Exchange
2 8 (25.00%) Lotus Notes
3 7 (21.88%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (15.63%) SharePoint
6 4 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (12.50%) LiveLink
7 3 (9.375%) IIS
8 1 (3.125%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 10 (31.25%) MS Office
2 9 (28.13%) MS Excel
3 7 (21.88%) MS Visio
3 7 (21.88%) MS PowerPoint
3 7 (21.88%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 7 (21.88%) TCP/IP
2 6 (18.75%) DNS
3 5 (15.63%) SAN
3 5 (15.63%) SNMP
4 4 (12.50%) NAS
4 4 (12.50%) SMTP
5 2 (6.250%) DHCP
6 1 (3.125%) HTTP
6 1 (3.125%) ADSL
6 1 (3.125%) LAN
6 1 (3.125%) WAN
6 1 (3.125%) MPLS
6 1 (3.125%) Firewall
6 1 (3.125%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.125%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MSI
2 1 (3.125%) InstallShield
General
1 4 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Banking
2 3 (9.375%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (28.13%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 7 (21.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 4 (12.50%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (12.50%) Consultant
6 3 (9.375%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (9.375%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (9.375%) Support Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) Administrator
6 3 (9.375%) Windows Systems Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) Messaging Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (9.375%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 3 (9.375%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Windows Administrator
7 2 (6.250%) Migration Engineer
8 1 (3.125%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Blackberry
2 4 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.125%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 30 (93.75%) Windows
2 15 (46.88%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (37.50%) Windows 7
4 11 (34.38%) Windows XP
5 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.125%) Windows Vista
6 1 (3.125%) Linux
6 1 (3.125%) Windows NT
6 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.125%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) ITIL
2 9 (28.13%) Incident Management
3 7 (21.88%) Migration
4 5 (15.63%) Network Management
5 3 (9.375%) Load Balancing
6 2 (6.250%) Capacity Management
6 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.250%) Project Management
6 2 (6.250%) PRINCE2
7 1 (3.125%) CRM
7 1 (3.125%) PRINCE
7 1 (3.125%) Service Management
7 1 (3.125%) Business Continuity
7 1 (3.125%) Information Management
7 1 (3.125%) Software Distribution
7 1 (3.125%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.125%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (21.88%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 3 (9.375%) Perl
3 3 (9.375%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.125%) VB
Qualifications
1 32 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (46.88%) MCITP
3 11 (34.38%) MCDST
3 11 (34.38%) MCP
4 8 (25.00%) MCSA
4 8 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 8 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (15.63%) MCTS
6 5 (15.63%) CCNA
7 1 (3.125%) CCDP
7 1 (3.125%) CCA
7 1 (3.125%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (3.125%) CCEA
7 1 (3.125%) CCNP
7 1 (3.125%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.88%) ISO 9000
1 7 (21.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (21.88%) BS25999
System Software
1 15 (46.88%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.375%) Postfix
3 2 (6.250%) vSphere
3 2 (6.250%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.125%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.125%) XenApp
4 1 (3.125%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.125%) Samba
4 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (3.125%) VMware Server
4 1 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) OpenView
1 7 (21.88%) ServiceCenter
2 3 (9.375%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (9.375%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 3 (9.375%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (3.125%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.125%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (3.125%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) HP
3 8 (25.00%) Lotus
4 6 (18.75%) VMware
5 5 (15.63%) Cisco
6 4 (12.50%) Symantec
7 3 (9.375%) IronPort
7 3 (9.375%) Sage
8 2 (6.250%) Citrix
9 1 (3.125%) Juniper
9 1 (3.125%) Novell
9 1 (3.125%) Oracle
9 1 (3.125%) EMC
9 1 (3.125%) Twitter
9 1 (3.125%) Brocade
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