Oxfordshire MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Kent Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Spalding Staffordshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	45
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	14	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	15.56 %	12.00 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£268	-
Average daily rate	£304	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£340	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£206
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.75	£15.58
Average hourly rate	£22.19	£17.50
% change on same period last year	+26.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.64	£19.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	90	75
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.076 %
Daily rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£325
Average daily rate	£312	£343
% change on same period last year	-9.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.82	£22.22
Average hourly rate	£22.85	£23.77
% change on same period last year	-3.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.87	£25.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCP South East

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Oxford	+3	7	£317	-
Banbury	-	2	£285	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 19 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (68.42 %) Microsoft 3 12 (63.16 %) Windows 4 9 (47.37 %) Active Directory 5 8 (42.11 %) MCSE 5 8 (42.11 %) Cisco Certification 6 6 (31.58 %) MS Excel 6 6 (31.58 %) ITIL 7 5 (26.32 %) MCAD 7 5 (26.32 %) LAN 7 5 (26.32 %) WAN 7 5 (26.32 %) MS Exchange 7 5 (26.32 %) Cisco 7 5 (26.32 %) SAN 8 4 (21.05 %) MCSD

8 4 (21.05 %) XML 8 4 (21.05 %) SQL 8 4 (21.05 %) .NET 8 4 (21.05 %) SQL Server 9 3 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 9 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2005 9 3 (15.79 %) Time Management 9 3 (15.79 %) Oracle 9 3 (15.79 %) Windows 2000 9 3 (15.79 %) TCP/IP 9 3 (15.79 %) Windows NT 9 3 (15.79 %) ISA Server 9 3 (15.79 %) Service Management 9 3 (15.79 %) Service Delivery 9 3 (15.79 %) Red Hat

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 4 (21.05 %) .NET 1 4 (21.05 %) XML 2 2 (10.53 %) WinForms 2 2 (10.53 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (10.53 %) WebServices 2 2 (10.53 %) WCF 3 1 (5.263 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 5 (26.32 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (5.263 %) SharePoint 3 1 (5.263 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 6 (31.58 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 5 (26.32 %) LAN 1 5 (26.32 %) WAN 1 5 (26.32 %) SAN 2 3 (15.79 %) IP Telephony 2 3 (15.79 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (15.79 %) DNS 3 2 (10.53 %) ADSL 3 2 (10.53 %) VPN 3 2 (10.53 %) DHCP 4 1 (5.263 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (21.05 %) SQL Server 2 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (10.53 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 2 (10.53 %) Finance 2 1 (5.263 %) Back Office
Job Titles 1 5 (26.32 %) Developer 1 5 (26.32 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (21.05 %) 2nd Line Support 2 4 (21.05 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (21.05 %) Analyst 3 3 (15.79 %) Network Engineer 3 3 (15.79 %) Systems Engineer 3 3 (15.79 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (15.79 %) Network Support Engineer 3 3 (15.79 %) Network Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Desktop Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) WinForms Developer 4 2 (10.53 %) Desktop Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 1 (5.263 %) Business Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) Wintel Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) Network Specialist 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Developer 5 1 (5.263 %) Cisco Engineer 5 1 (5.263 %) C# Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (10.53 %) Blackberry 1 2 (10.53 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 12 (63.16 %) Windows 2 3 (15.79 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (15.79 %) Windows NT 3 2 (10.53 %) Windows XP 3 2 (10.53 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (31.58 %) ITIL 2 3 (15.79 %) Service Management 2 3 (15.79 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (15.79 %) Time Management 3 2 (10.53 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (5.263 %) CRM 4 1 (5.263 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (5.263 %) ERP 4 1 (5.263 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 4 (21.05 %) SQL 2 2 (10.53 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (10.53 %) VB 2 2 (10.53 %) VB.NET 2 2 (10.53 %) C#	Qualifications 1 19 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (42.11 %) Cisco Certification 2 8 (42.11 %) MCSE 3 5 (26.32 %) MCAD 4 4 (21.05 %) MCSD 5 3 (15.79 %) CCNA 6 2 (10.53 %) Degree 6 2 (10.53 %) HND 6 2 (10.53 %) MCSA 7 1 (5.263 %) MCDBA
System Software 1 9 (47.37 %) Active Directory 2 3 (15.79 %) ISA Server 3 2 (10.53 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (10.53 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 13 (68.42 %) Microsoft 2 5 (26.32 %) Cisco 3 3 (15.79 %) Red Hat 3 3 (15.79 %) Oracle 4 2 (10.53 %) Sophos 4 2 (10.53 %) IBM 4 2 (10.53 %) Citrix 5 1 (5.263 %) Epicor 5 1 (5.263 %) NetApp 5 1 (5.263 %) McAfee Security