The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 32 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 6 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 2.083% 1.339% 1.717%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.75% 11.54% 11.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £313 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
Average hourly rate £12.84 £10.00 £14.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.40% -32.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.91 £10.00 £10.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.77 £10.00 £19.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -13.88%
All Qualifications
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
32 26 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 11.11% 11.61% 15.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 6
Average daily rate £323 £350 £312
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.85% +12.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £225 £243
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.68 £10.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £22.50 £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
Nottinghamshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) Windows
3 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 6 (42.86%) Windows XP
3 6 (42.86%) MCSE
4 5 (35.71%) MCP
4 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
4 5 (35.71%) C#
4 5 (35.71%) .NET
4 5 (35.71%) Intranet
4 5 (35.71%) jQuery
4 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
5 4 (28.57%) LINQ
5 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 4 (28.57%) Telerik
5 4 (28.57%) Ajax
5 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
6 3 (21.43%) Cisco
6 3 (21.43%) Local Government
6 3 (21.43%) WCF
6 3 (21.43%) MVC
6 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (14.29%) Sitefinity
7 2 (14.29%) Matrix Management
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (14.29%) GIS
7 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (14.29%) DNS

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 5 (35.71%) ASP.NET
1 5 (35.71%) .NET
1 5 (35.71%) jQuery
2 4 (28.57%) LINQ
2 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 4 (28.57%) Ajax
3 3 (21.43%) WCF
3 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (7.143%) CSS
5 1 (7.143%) Web Services
5 1 (7.143%) XSLT
5 1 (7.143%) HTML
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Sitefinity
2 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.143%) Lync
2 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
2 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) Intranet
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.143%) LAN
3 1 (7.143%) VoIP
3 1 (7.143%) WAN
3 1 (7.143%) SAN
3 1 (7.143%) VLAN
3 1 (7.143%) Internet
3 1 (7.143%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 2 (14.29%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
General
1 3 (21.43%) Local Government
2 1 (7.143%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Desktop Support
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) C# Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.143%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 6 (42.86%) Windows XP
3 5 (35.71%) Windows 7
4 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (14.29%) Windows 2000
6 1 (7.143%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) MVC
2 2 (14.29%) Matrix Management
2 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2
3 1 (7.143%) ITIL
3 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C#
2 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) MCSE
2 5 (35.71%) MCP
3 2 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (7.143%) MCITP
System Software
1 6 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) VMware ESX
2 1 (7.143%) ISA Server
2 1 (7.143%) Forefront TMG
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Telerik
3 3 (21.43%) Cisco
4 1 (7.143%) SAP
4 1 (7.143%) HP
4 1 (7.143%) Citrix
4 1 (7.143%) VMware