The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 44 62 44
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 29 19 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.295% 1.651% 3.360%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.66% 5.556% 9.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 8 16
Average daily rate £380 £338 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.59% +29.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £199 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £260
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +10.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £16.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -3.03%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
229 342 348
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 26.02% 29.71% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 119 131
Average daily rate £425 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £226 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 13
Average hourly rate £18.50 £27.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.72% +71.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.72 £14.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £27.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
Microsoft Certification
Berkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 39 (97.50%) Windows
2 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
3 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
4 24 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 22 (55.00%) MCSE
6 17 (42.50%) MCP
7 16 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (35.00%) Windows 7
9 11 (27.50%) MCSD
9 11 (27.50%) SQL
9 11 (27.50%) Blackberry
9 11 (27.50%) MS Exchange
9 11 (27.50%) DNS
10 10 (25.00%) IIS
10 10 (25.00%) MS Office
10 10 (25.00%) MS Excel
11 9 (22.50%) LDAP
12 8 (20.00%) LAN
12 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 8 (20.00%) Windows XP
12 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
12 8 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
12 8 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
13 7 (17.50%) Software Deployment
13 7 (17.50%) SharePoint Server
13 7 (17.50%) C#
13 7 (17.50%) WAN
13 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
14 6 (15.00%) DTS
14 6 (15.00%) IBM Notes

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 6 (15.00%) .NET
1 6 (15.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (15.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 5 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 5 (12.50%) Web Services
2 5 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (2.500%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 11 (27.50%) MS Exchange
2 10 (25.00%) IIS
3 8 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (17.50%) SharePoint Server
4 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
5 6 (15.00%) IBM Notes
6 5 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (12.50%) MS Project Server
6 5 (12.50%) CM System
7 1 (2.500%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MS Office
1 10 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (12.50%) MS Project
3 1 (2.500%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 11 (27.50%) DNS
2 9 (22.50%) LDAP
3 8 (20.00%) LAN
4 7 (17.50%) WAN
5 6 (15.00%) DHCP
6 5 (12.50%) TCP/IP
7 2 (5.000%) Internet
7 2 (5.000%) VPN
7 2 (5.000%) SAN
7 2 (5.000%) Wireshark
8 1 (2.500%) VLAN
8 1 (2.500%) VPLS
8 1 (2.500%) Wireless
8 1 (2.500%) Firewall
8 1 (2.500%) FTP
8 1 (2.500%) Kerberos
8 1 (2.500%) ADSL
8 1 (2.500%) SSL
8 1 (2.500%) MPLS
8 1 (2.500%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (15.00%) DTS
2 6 (15.00%) OLAP
3 5 (12.50%) IDOL
4 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (10.00%) PVCS
General
1 5 (12.50%) Telecoms
1 5 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 3 (7.500%) Publishing
3 1 (2.500%) French Language
3 1 (2.500%) German Language
3 1 (2.500%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Team Leader
2 6 (15.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 5 (12.50%) Desktop Team Leader
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
4 3 (7.500%) Senior Citrix Specialist
4 3 (7.500%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (7.500%) Microsoft Consultant
4 3 (7.500%) Citrix Specialist
4 3 (7.500%) Development Team Leader
4 3 (7.500%) Server Engineer
4 3 (7.500%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (7.500%) Developer
4 3 (7.500%) Windows Support Engineer
4 3 (7.500%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Support Technician
5 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Messaging Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Blackberry
2 3 (7.500%) PKI
3 2 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.000%) Thin Client
3 2 (5.000%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.500%) Replication
4 1 (2.500%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 39 (97.50%) Windows
2 24 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 16 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (35.00%) Windows 7
5 8 (20.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (10.00%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (10.00%) Windows Vista
7 2 (5.000%) UNIX
7 2 (5.000%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.500%) Linux
8 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.500%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Software Deployment
2 6 (15.00%) Migration
3 5 (12.50%) Release Management
3 5 (12.50%) Web Development
4 4 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (7.500%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (7.500%) Enterprise Architecture
5 3 (7.500%) Unified Process
5 3 (7.500%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (7.500%) Identity Management
5 3 (7.500%) UML
5 3 (7.500%) Time Management
6 1 (2.500%) Incident Management
6 1 (2.500%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (2.500%) ITIL
6 1 (2.500%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.500%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (27.50%) SQL
2 7 (17.50%) C#
3 6 (15.00%) T-SQL
4 5 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.500%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) MCSE
2 17 (42.50%) MCP
3 11 (27.50%) MCSD
4 6 (15.00%) CCA
4 6 (15.00%) Citrix Certification
4 6 (15.00%) MCDST
5 3 (7.500%) HNC
5 3 (7.500%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.000%) MCITP
6 2 (5.000%) Degree
7 1 (2.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (2.500%) MCDBA
7 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.500%) QA
1 1 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.500%) XenApp
2 3 (7.500%) XenServer
2 3 (7.500%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.000%) NFS
3 2 (5.000%) MetaFrame
4 1 (2.500%) NLBS
4 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.500%) vSphere
4 1 (2.500%) Shibboleth
4 1 (2.500%) DFS Replication
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) SCCM
2 3 (7.500%) MIIS
3 2 (5.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Citrix
2 6 (15.00%) Lotus
2 6 (15.00%) VMware
3 5 (12.50%) Meridio
3 5 (12.50%) Remedy
4 2 (5.000%) Cisco
5 1 (2.500%) HP
5 1 (2.500%) Adobe
5 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.500%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.500%) ProCurve
5 1 (2.500%) Riverbed
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