Portsmouth Microsoft Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Portsmouth 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Buxton Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon 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 Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Romford Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Sandbach Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teddington Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	18
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	14	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	26.42 %	28.57 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£293
Average daily rate	£325	£300
% change on same period last year	+8.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	£266
% change on same period last year	+4.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.50	£16.50
Average hourly rate	£34.50	£18.25
% change on same period last year	+89.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.50	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.07	£22.96
% change on same period last year	-12.57 %
Qualifications Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	53	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£289
Average daily rate	£353	£295
% change on same period last year	+19.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£301
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.32	£28.41
Average hourly rate	£33.60	£29.19
% change on same period last year	+15.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.87	£29.97
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
Microsoft Certification Hampshire

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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

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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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 18 (85.71 %) Windows 1 18 (85.71 %) MCSE 2 16 (76.19 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (71.43 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 13 (61.90 %) SQL 5 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 5 12 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 5 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2000 5 12 (57.14 %) CCNA 5 12 (57.14 %) Cisco Certification 6 11 (52.38 %) Lucent 6 11 (52.38 %) Alcatel 6 11 (52.38 %) MCSA 6 11 (52.38 %) SQL Server 2005 7 10 (47.62 %) SNMP

8 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 8 8 (38.10 %) Citrix 9 6 (28.57 %) Telecoms 9 6 (28.57 %) HP 9 6 (28.57 %) Terminal Server 9 6 (28.57 %) Client/Server 10 5 (23.81 %) Citrix Certification 10 5 (23.81 %) Citrix Presentation Server 11 4 (19.05 %) Fat Client 11 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 11 4 (19.05 %) CCEA 11 4 (19.05 %) Thin Client 12 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 12 3 (14.29 %) MCP 12 3 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 1 (4.762 %) .NET 1 1 (4.762 %) ADO.NET 1 1 (4.762 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 2 (9.524 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 12 (57.14 %) TCP/IP 2 10 (47.62 %) SNMP 3 2 (9.524 %) SAN 4 1 (4.762 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 1 12 (57.14 %) SQL Server 2000 2 11 (52.38 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 6 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 3 (14.29 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (33.33 %) Network Specialist 2 3 (14.29 %) Technical Engineer 2 3 (14.29 %) Network Engineer 3 2 (9.524 %) Support Engineer 3 2 (9.524 %) Network Technician 4 1 (4.762 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support 4 1 (4.762 %) Administrator 4 1 (4.762 %) Field Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Design Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Server Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Field Support Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) Citrix Administrator 4 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (4.762 %) Implementation Engineer 4 1 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (28.57 %) Client/Server 2 4 (19.05 %) Thin Client 2 4 (19.05 %) Fat Client 3 1 (4.762 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 18 (85.71 %) Windows 2 16 (76.19 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (71.43 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 2 (9.524 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (4.762 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (9.524 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.762 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 13 (61.90 %) SQL 2 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET 2 1 (4.762 %) C	Qualifications 1 18 (85.71 %) MCSE 2 12 (57.14 %) CCNA 2 12 (57.14 %) Cisco Certification 3 11 (52.38 %) MCSA 4 5 (23.81 %) Citrix Certification 5 4 (19.05 %) CCEA 6 3 (14.29 %) MCP 7 1 (4.762 %) MCSD 7 1 (4.762 %) CCNP 7 1 (4.762 %) CCA 7 1 (4.762 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) BS7799	System Software 1 8 (38.10 %) Active Directory 2 6 (28.57 %) Terminal Server 3 5 (23.81 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 3 (14.29 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (9.524 %) VMware ESX 5 2 (9.524 %) NetBackup
Vendors 1 11 (52.38 %) Lucent 1 11 (52.38 %) Alcatel 2 8 (38.10 %) Citrix 3 6 (28.57 %) HP 4 3 (14.29 %) Microsoft 4 3 (14.29 %) VMware 5 1 (4.762 %) AppSense 5 1 (4.762 %) Altiris 5 1 (4.762 %) Cisco