Oxfordshire MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	47
Rank change on same period last year	+16
Matching contract IT job ads	27	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	9.333 %
Daily rates quoted	4	0
Average minimum daily rate	£238	-
Average daily rate	£269	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£294
% change on same period last year	-7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.25	£16.38
Average hourly rate	£24.93	£18.13
% change on same period last year	+37.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.61	£19.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.94	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
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 %
MCSE 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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MCSE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE 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	+10	13	£269	-
Abingdon	-6	1	-	-
Bicester	-	1	-	-

MCSE South East

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 40 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 26 (65.00 %) Windows 3 23 (57.50 %) Microsoft 4 18 (45.00 %) Active Directory 5 12 (30.00 %) MS Exchange 6 10 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 6 10 (25.00 %) DNS 7 9 (22.50 %) MS Excel 8 8 (20.00 %) MCSA 8 8 (20.00 %) MCP 9 7 (17.50 %) Windows Server 2003 9 7 (17.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 6 (15.00 %) ITIL 10 6 (15.00 %) DHCP 11 5 (12.50 %) TCP/IP

11 5 (12.50 %) Linux 11 5 (12.50 %) CCNA 11 5 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 12 4 (10.00 %) WAN 12 4 (10.00 %) SAN 12 4 (10.00 %) Cisco 12 4 (10.00 %) IIS 12 4 (10.00 %) LAN 12 4 (10.00 %) Windows NT 12 4 (10.00 %) VMware 12 4 (10.00 %) Clustering 12 4 (10.00 %) WSUS 12 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 3 (7.500 %) Degree 13 3 (7.500 %) Windows Vista

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (5.000 %) .NET 1 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.500 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 12 (30.00 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (17.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 4 (10.00 %) IIS 4 2 (5.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 2 (5.000 %) SharePoint 5 1 (2.500 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 9 (22.50 %) MS Excel 2 3 (7.500 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (25.00 %) DNS 2 6 (15.00 %) DHCP 3 5 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 4 (10.00 %) LAN 4 4 (10.00 %) WAN 4 4 (10.00 %) SAN 5 2 (5.000 %) IP Telephony 5 2 (5.000 %) ADSL 5 2 (5.000 %) SMS 5 2 (5.000 %) VPN 6 1 (2.500 %) FTP 6 1 (2.500 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server 7	General 1 1 (2.500 %) Finance 1 1 (2.500 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 7 (17.50 %) Analyst 1 7 (17.50 %) Support Analyst 2 6 (15.00 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (15.00 %) Administrator 2 6 (15.00 %) Systems Administrator 2 6 (15.00 %) Wintel Engineer 3 5 (12.50 %) Network Engineer 3 5 (12.50 %) Trainer 4 4 (10.00 %) Systems Engineer 4 4 (10.00 %) 3rd Line Support 5 3 (7.500 %) 2nd Line Support 5 3 (7.500 %) Network Support Engineer 5 3 (7.500 %) Network Support 5 3 (7.500 %) Server Support 5 3 (7.500 %) Desktop Support 5 3 (7.500 %) IT Manager 5 3 (7.500 %) Support Specialist 6 2 (5.000 %) Applications Support 6 2 (5.000 %) Server Support Specialist 6 2 (5.000 %) Desktop Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.00 %) Clustering 2 3 (7.500 %) Replication 3 2 (5.000 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 26 (65.00 %) Windows 2 10 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 7 (17.50 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (12.50 %) Linux 5 4 (10.00 %) Windows NT 6 3 (7.500 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (2.500 %) UNIX 7 1 (2.500 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (15.00 %) ITIL 2 3 (7.500 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (7.500 %) Time Management 3 2 (5.000 %) Migration 3 2 (5.000 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (5.000 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.500 %) Information Security
Programming Languages 1 2 (5.000 %) SQL 2 1 (2.500 %) C	Qualifications 1 40 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (20.00 %) MCP 2 8 (20.00 %) MCSA 3 5 (12.50 %) CCNA 3 5 (12.50 %) Cisco Certification 4 3 (7.500 %) Degree 5 2 (5.000 %) HND 6 1 (2.500 %) MCT 6 1 (2.500 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (2.500 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.000 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (45.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.500 %) ISA Server 2 3 (7.500 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (5.000 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (5.000 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (5.000 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 4 (10.00 %) WSUS 2 3 (7.500 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (5.000 %) EMC NetWorker 4 1 (2.500 %) MOM	Vendors 1 23 (57.50 %) Microsoft 2 4 (10.00 %) Cisco 2 4 (10.00 %) VMware 3 2 (5.000 %) Altiris 3 2 (5.000 %) SAP 3 2 (5.000 %) IBM 3 2 (5.000 %) Symantec 3 2 (5.000 %) HP 3 2 (5.000 %) EMC 3 2 (5.000 %) Citrix 4 1 (2.500 %) NetApp 4 1 (2.500 %) Lotus 4 1 (2.500 %) Apple 4 1 (2.500 %) McAfee Security