The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 Yorkshire 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 Certification
Rank - 18 21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 0 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire - 4.819% 5.660%
As % of the Qualifications category - 21.62% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 4
Average daily rate - £356 £373
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £260
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
Average hourly rate - £18.25 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +55.31%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -3.03%
All Qualifications
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
23 37 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 15.03% 22.29% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 21 18
Average daily rate £300 £363 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.24% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £200 £209
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £410 £380
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
Average hourly rate £97.75 £16.50 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+492.42% +40.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
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Job
Vacancies
Harrogate - - - -
Middlesbrough - - - -
York - - - - 1
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Subversion
2 3 (75.00%) Ajax
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (75.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (75.00%) Web Development
2 3 (75.00%) JSON
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
2 3 (75.00%) jQuery
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) CSS3
2 3 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) HTML
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) XML

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 3 (75.00%) Ajax
1 3 (75.00%) JSON
1 3 (75.00%) WCF
1 3 (75.00%) LINQ
1 3 (75.00%) jQuery
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
1 3 (75.00%) CSS3
1 3 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
1 3 (75.00%) HTML
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) CSS
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) XML
1 3 (75.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Subversion
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) W3C
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Web Development
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft