The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Reading region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 59 78 56
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -22
Contract jobs citing MCSE 11 6 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.317% 0.538% 2.783%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.392% 1.760% 7.713%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 20
Average daily rate £380 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +19.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £365 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
204 341 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.43% 30.58% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 122 136
Average daily rate £425 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.18% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £222 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 11
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSE
Berkshire

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 16 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 15 (93.75%) Windows
3 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
5 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (56.25%) IIS
6 9 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (50.00%) MCP
8 5 (31.25%) Remedy
8 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
9 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
9 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
9 4 (25.00%) Windows Vista
9 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
9 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
9 4 (25.00%) MCSD
9 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
9 4 (25.00%) CCA
9 4 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
9 4 (25.00%) DNS
9 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
10 3 (18.75%) LDAP
10 3 (18.75%) Citrix
10 3 (18.75%) HNC
10 3 (18.75%) SQL
10 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
10 3 (18.75%) MIIS
10 3 (18.75%) PKI

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) IIS
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) DNS
2 3 (18.75%) LDAP
3 2 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 2 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.250%) VPN
4 1 (6.250%) SAN
4 1 (6.250%) ADSL
4 1 (6.250%) DHCP
4 1 (6.250%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.250%) VLAN
4 1 (6.250%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (6.250%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) Server Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Support Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Server Support
4 1 (6.250%) Support Technician
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Server Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Messaging Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Server Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Citrix Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Citrix Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (18.75%) PKI
3 2 (12.50%) Thin Client
3 2 (12.50%) Fat Client
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
4 1 (6.250%) Replication
4 1 (6.250%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (31.25%) Windows 7
5 4 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
5 4 (25.00%) Windows Vista
6 2 (12.50%) UNIX
6 2 (12.50%) Windows 2000
7 1 (6.250%) Linux
7 1 (6.250%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Identity Management
1 3 (18.75%) Time Management
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL
2 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
2 1 (6.250%) PLM
2 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (6.250%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (50.00%) MCP
3 4 (25.00%) MCSD
3 4 (25.00%) CCA
3 4 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (18.75%) HNC
5 2 (12.50%) Degree
6 1 (6.250%) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
1 1 (6.250%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) MetaFrame
2 2 (12.50%) NFS
3 1 (6.250%) NLBS
3 1 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (6.250%) XenApp
3 1 (6.250%) XenServer
3 1 (6.250%) DFS Replication
3 1 (6.250%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 3 (18.75%) MIIS
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (31.25%) Remedy
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
4 2 (12.50%) VMware
5 1 (6.250%) HP
5 1 (6.250%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.250%) ProCurve
Reading, Thames Valley
You will be responsible for providing both on-site and remote administration of Microsoft Windows Servers, Citrix Provisioning, Citrix XenApp, XenServer, and a multitude of proprietary applications... Required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 25 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Strong experience with Microsoft Server 2003. *Ideally have knowledge with Microsoft Server 2008R2 *Troubleshooting, publishing, and supporting applications in a Citrix XenApp environment... *Experience with Active Directory. *Experience...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Powershell scripting etc.), you will already have experience of supporting Exchange deployments and dealing with critical situations relating to Microsoft Exchange...
Nationwide People Ltd
Rate: £400 - 500 Per Day Ltd Co
Posted: 22 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Microsoft certified, MCSE or MCTIP preferred Team player, Outstanding Documentation and presentation capabilities, Motivated and autonomous, Lead and direct consultants on implementations, QA and peer review of deliverables.
Sanderson
Posted: 23 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Support Engineer-Exchange Engineer-Technical Support-Exchange 2010-Exchange 2007-Server-Office365My client, A globally known company is seeking a Technical Support Engineer who has strong background using...
Rate: £375 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013