Oxfordshire Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester Cirencester City of London Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Coleraine County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horley Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Spalding Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	23	16
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	28	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.056 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	24.35 %	45.68 %
Daily rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£302
Average daily rate	£358	£316
% change on same period last year	+13.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£396	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£258	£272
% change on same period last year	-5.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.36	£21.30
Average hourly rate	£26.59	£23.42
% change on same period last year	+13.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.82	£25.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.09	£20.18
% change on same period last year	-5.40 %
Qualifications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	115	81
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.232 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	35	15
Average minimum daily rate	£317	£306
Average daily rate	£339	£318
% change on same period last year	+6.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£363
% change on same period last year	-3.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.84	£20.33
Average hourly rate	£28.25	£22.33
% change on same period last year	+26.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.66	£24.32
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£26.87
% change on same period last year	+4.86 %
Microsoft Certification 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.

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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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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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 Oxfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. 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	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
Oxford	-3	10	£363	+15.03 %
Abingdon	-1	5	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 42 (67.74 %) Microsoft 2 41 (66.13 %) MCSE 3 37 (59.68 %) Windows 4 26 (41.94 %) Windows Server 2003 5 25 (40.32 %) MCP 6 22 (35.48 %) Active Directory 7 19 (30.65 %) ITIL 8 14 (22.58 %) Windows 2000 9 11 (17.74 %) Cisco Certification 9 11 (17.74 %) .NET 9 11 (17.74 %) Degree 10 10 (16.13 %) SQL Server 11 9 (14.52 %) SQL 11 9 (14.52 %) HND 11 9 (14.52 %) MS Excel

11 9 (14.52 %) DNS 11 9 (14.52 %) SQL Server 2005 12 8 (12.90 %) Service Management 13 7 (11.29 %) DHCP 13 7 (11.29 %) Windows XP 13 7 (11.29 %) SharePoint 13 7 (11.29 %) MCSD 13 7 (11.29 %) ASP.NET 14 6 (9.677 %) VB.NET 14 6 (9.677 %) HTML 14 6 (9.677 %) JavaScript 14 6 (9.677 %) LAN 14 6 (9.677 %) CCNA 14 6 (9.677 %) Cisco 14 6 (9.677 %) SQL Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 11 (17.74 %) .NET 2 7 (11.29 %) ASP.NET 3 6 (9.677 %) HTML 4 5 (8.065 %) CSS 5 3 (4.839 %) WebServices 5 3 (4.839 %) XML 6 2 (3.226 %) WinForms 6 2 (3.226 %) WCF 6 2 (3.226 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 1 (1.613 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.613 %) MDX 7 1 (1.613 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 7 (11.29 %) SharePoint 2 5 (8.065 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (4.839 %) BizTalk Server 3 3 (4.839 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (1.613 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (1.613 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (1.613 %) Office Communications Server 4 1 (1.613 %) Commerce Server 4 1 (1.613 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 9 (14.52 %) MS Excel 2 4 (6.452 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.613 %) Axapta 1 1 (1.613 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 9 (14.52 %) DNS 2 7 (11.29 %) DHCP 3 6 (9.677 %) LAN 4 5 (8.065 %) WAN 4 5 (8.065 %) SAN 5 4 (6.452 %) IP Telephony 5 4 (6.452 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.613 %) VPN 6 1 (1.613 %) Network Security 6 1 (1.613 %) ADSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (16.13 %) SQL Server 2 9 (14.52 %) SQL Server 2005 3 6 (9.677 %) SQL Server 2000 4 4 (6.452 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 1 (1.613 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (1.613 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (1.613 %) PerformancePoint
Development Applications 1 3 (4.839 %) Visual Studio	General 1 5 (8.065 %) Pharmaceutical 2 3 (4.839 %) Finance 3 2 (3.226 %) Government 3 2 (3.226 %) Local Government 4 1 (1.613 %) Automotive 4 1 (1.613 %) Back Office 4 1 (1.613 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (16.13 %) Developer 1 10 (16.13 %) Support Engineer 1 10 (16.13 %) 3rd Line Support 2 8 (12.90 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 7 (11.29 %) .NET Developer 4 4 (6.452 %) Systems Engineer 5 3 (4.839 %) Trainer 5 3 (4.839 %) Consultant 5 3 (4.839 %) Deskside Support 6 2 (3.226 %) Project Engineer 6 2 (3.226 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (3.226 %) C# Developer 6 2 (3.226 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 2 (3.226 %) VB.NET Developer 6 2 (3.226 %) Team Leader 6 2 (3.226 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (3.226 %) Desktop Support 6 2 (3.226 %) Support Technician 6 2 (3.226 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (3.226 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.226 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.613 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.613 %) Tandem
Operating Systems 1 37 (59.68 %) Windows 2 26 (41.94 %) Windows Server 2003 3 14 (22.58 %) Windows 2000 4 7 (11.29 %) Windows XP 5 5 (8.065 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 2 (3.226 %) Linux 7 1 (1.613 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.613 %) HPUX 7 1 (1.613 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (30.65 %) ITIL 2 8 (12.90 %) Service Management 3 4 (6.452 %) Web Development 4 2 (3.226 %) Incident Management 4 2 (3.226 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (1.613 %) CRM 5 1 (1.613 %) ERP 5 1 (1.613 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (1.613 %) Project Management 5 1 (1.613 %) E-Procurement 5 1 (1.613 %) Validation 5 1 (1.613 %) Content Management 5 1 (1.613 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 9 (14.52 %) SQL 2 6 (9.677 %) VB.NET 2 6 (9.677 %) JavaScript 3 4 (6.452 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (6.452 %) C 4 3 (4.839 %) C# 5 1 (1.613 %) VB 5 1 (1.613 %) X++	Qualifications 1 41 (66.13 %) MCSE 2 25 (40.32 %) MCP 3 11 (17.74 %) Cisco Certification 3 11 (17.74 %) Degree 4 9 (14.52 %) HND 5 7 (11.29 %) MCSD 6 6 (9.677 %) CCNA 7 5 (8.065 %) MCAD 8 4 (6.452 %) MCTS 9 3 (4.839 %) MCDBA 9 3 (4.839 %) MCT 10 2 (3.226 %) MCSA 10 2 (3.226 %) ITIL Certification 10 2 (3.226 %) Security Cleared 11 1 (1.613 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 11 1 (1.613 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 1 (1.613 %) SC Cleared 11 1 (1.613 %) CCIE
System Software 1 22 (35.48 %) Active Directory 2 3 (4.839 %) Hyper-V 3 2 (3.226 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (3.226 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.613 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 1 (1.613 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 42 (67.74 %) Microsoft 2 6 (9.677 %) Cisco 3 4 (6.452 %) Citrix 3 4 (6.452 %) Red Hat 3 4 (6.452 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.226 %) VMware 4 2 (3.226 %) IBM 5 1 (1.613 %) HP 5 1 (1.613 %) Dell 5 1 (1.613 %) Sophos 5 1 (1.613 %) Epicor 5 1 (1.613 %) VERITAS