Northern Ireland Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Northern Ireland region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Poole Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	25
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	10	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	38.46 %	14.63 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£125	£100
Average daily rate	£135	£100
% change on same period last year	+35.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£145	£100
UK excluding London average daily rate	£270	£269
% change on same period last year	+0.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.00
Average hourly rate	-	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.47	£23.21
% change on same period last year	-11.81 %
Qualifications Northern Ireland
Matching contract IT job ads	26	41
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.035 %	0.040 %
Daily rates quoted	4	14
Average minimum daily rate	£136	£327
Average daily rate	£150	£347
% change on same period last year	-56.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£164	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£14.00	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-22.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Northern Ireland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Northern Ireland region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Northern Ireland region.

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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 Northern Ireland region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
County Antrim	+1	10	£135	+35.00 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 11 (68.75 %) Windows 1 11 (68.75 %) MCSE 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 2 7 (43.75 %) TCP/IP 3 6 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 3 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory 3 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel 4 5 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 5 4 (25.00 %) Banking 5 4 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 5 4 (25.00 %) Windows XP 5 4 (25.00 %) MCP 5 4 (25.00 %) IIS 6 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server

6 3 (18.75 %) MCSA 6 3 (18.75 %) LAN 6 3 (18.75 %) WAN 6 3 (18.75 %) Finance 6 3 (18.75 %) PDA 6 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 2 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 7 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 7 2 (12.50 %) WMI 7 2 (12.50 %) Migration 7 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 7 2 (12.50 %) A+ Certification 7 2 (12.50 %) HPUX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 2 (12.50 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) IIS 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 2 6 (37.50 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (43.75 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (18.75 %) LAN 2 3 (18.75 %) WAN 3 1 (6.250 %) DHCP 3 1 (6.250 %) DNS 3 1 (6.250 %) MPLS 3 1 (6.250 %) BGP 3 1 (6.250 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 4 (25.00 %) Banking 1 4 (25.00 %) Investment Banking 2 3 (18.75 %) Finance 3 2 (12.50 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Desktop Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Systems Support 2 3 (18.75 %) Support Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Desktop Support Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Server Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Senior Server Engineer 2 3 (18.75 %) Desktop Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) PC Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Wintel Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Consultant 3 2 (12.50 %) PC Support Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) PC Support 3 2 (12.50 %) Migration Engineer 3 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 4 1 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (6.250 %) Network Security Engineer 4 1 (6.250 %) Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) PDA 2 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 11 (68.75 %) Windows 2 6 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (25.00 %) Windows XP 5 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows NT 6 2 (12.50 %) HPUX 7 1 (6.250 %) Linux 7 1 (6.250 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (12.50 %) Migration 2 1 (6.250 %) Problem Management 2 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 2 1 (6.250 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (6.250 %) VBScript 1 1 (6.250 %) VB	Qualifications 1 11 (68.75 %) MCSE 2 4 (25.00 %) MCP 3 3 (18.75 %) MCSA 4 2 (12.50 %) A+ Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) Sun Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) Check Point Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) HPUX Certification 5 1 (6.250 %) SCSA 5 1 (6.250 %) CCSE 5 1 (6.250 %) CCNP 5 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (37.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (6.250 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.250 %) Sun 3 1 (6.250 %) Compaq 3 1 (6.250 %) Dell 3 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 3 1 (6.250 %) CommVault 3 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS 3 1 (6.250 %) CheckPoint