Reading MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Reading 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	57	66
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	15	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	14.02 %	5.109 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£350
Average daily rate	£300	£375
% change on same period last year	-20.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£200	£206
% change on same period last year	-2.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.86	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£12.57	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-30.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.29	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.51	£19.05
% change on same period last year	-8.07 %
Qualifications Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	107	137
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.143 %	0.139 %
Daily rates quoted	32	47
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£289
Average daily rate	£385	£302
% change on same period last year	+27.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£403	£316
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.90	£23.28
Average hourly rate	£15.29	£24.76
% change on same period last year	-38.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.68	£26.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCP Berkshire

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 MCP across the Reading 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 MCP across the Reading 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 Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 14 (73.68 %) Windows 3 10 (52.63 %) ITIL 4 8 (42.11 %) VPN 5 6 (31.58 %) Blackberry 5 6 (31.58 %) Wireless 5 6 (31.58 %) SLA 5 6 (31.58 %) HP 5 6 (31.58 %) MCSE 5 6 (31.58 %) Altiris 6 5 (26.32 %) MCSA 7 4 (21.05 %) Microsoft 8 3 (15.79 %) Active Directory 8 3 (15.79 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (15.79 %) VERITAS

8 3 (15.79 %) HTML 8 3 (15.79 %) .NET 8 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server 8 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 8 3 (15.79 %) MCDST 9 2 (10.53 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (10.53 %) MOS 9 2 (10.53 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (10.53 %) Security Cleared 9 2 (10.53 %) CSS 9 2 (10.53 %) C# 9 2 (10.53 %) ASP 9 2 (10.53 %) JavaScript 9 2 (10.53 %) MCAD 9 2 (10.53 %) MCSD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 3 (15.79 %) HTML 1 3 (15.79 %) .NET 1 3 (15.79 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (10.53 %) CSS 2 2 (10.53 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (10.53 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.263 %) Lotus Notes 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (5.263 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 8 (42.11 %) VPN 2 6 (31.58 %) Wireless 3 2 (10.53 %) DNS 3 2 (10.53 %) LAN 3 2 (10.53 %) WAN 3 2 (10.53 %) DHCP 4 1 (5.263 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (15.79 %) SQL Server	General 1 2 (10.53 %) Law 2 1 (5.263 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (36.84 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (31.58 %) Desktop Support 2 6 (31.58 %) Desktop Support Engineer 2 6 (31.58 %) Desktop Engineer 3 4 (21.05 %) 1st Line Support 4 3 (15.79 %) Support Technician 4 3 (15.79 %) Developer 4 3 (15.79 %) Senior Support Engineer 4 3 (15.79 %) Senior Desktop Engineer 4 3 (15.79 %) Senior Desktop Support 4 3 (15.79 %) Senior Desktop Support Engineer 5 2 (10.53 %) IT Support Technician 5 2 (10.53 %) ASP Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Team Leader 6 1 (5.263 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (5.263 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Analyst 6 1 (5.263 %) Web Developer 6 1 (5.263 %) Server Support 6 1 (5.263 %) 3rd Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 6 (31.58 %) Blackberry 2 2 (10.53 %) Clustering 3 1 (5.263 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 14 (73.68 %) Windows 2 3 (15.79 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (5.263 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (52.63 %) ITIL 2 2 (10.53 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (10.53 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (10.53 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (10.53 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (10.53 %) Migration 3 1 (5.263 %) Asset Management 3 1 (5.263 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 2 (10.53 %) C# 1 2 (10.53 %) JavaScript 2 1 (5.263 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 19 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (31.58 %) MCSE 3 5 (26.32 %) MCSA 4 3 (15.79 %) MCDST 5 2 (10.53 %) MOS 5 2 (10.53 %) MCAD 5 2 (10.53 %) MCSD 6 1 (5.263 %) CCNA 6 1 (5.263 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (5.263 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (5.263 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (31.58 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (15.79 %) Active Directory 2 2 (10.53 %) NetBackup 3 1 (5.263 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (5.263 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 1 (5.263 %) OpenView Configuration Management 1 1 (5.263 %) Norton AntiVirus 1 1 (5.263 %) EMC Navisphere	Vendors 1 6 (31.58 %) HP 1 6 (31.58 %) Altiris 2 4 (21.05 %) Microsoft 3 3 (15.79 %) VERITAS 4 2 (10.53 %) Cisco 4 2 (10.53 %) VMware 5 1 (5.263 %) EMC 5 1 (5.263 %) Lotus 5 1 (5.263 %) Symantec 5 1 (5.263 %) Remedy