The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 22 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 Renfrewshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 14 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 8 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 12.90% 8.571% -
As % of the Qualifications category 13.33% 9.677% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
Average daily rate £370 £270 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.03% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
60 31 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 96.77% 88.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 54 19 0
Average daily rate £365 £405 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.87% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
Scotland

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire 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 Renfrewshire region.

Renfrewshire Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 Renfrewshire region.

Renfrewshire Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
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 Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. 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
(Click each for more statistics)
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
Erskine - 8 £370 -
Microsoft Certification
Scotland

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (58.33%) Cryptography
3 7 (58.33%) Windows XP
3 7 (58.33%) XML Schema
3 7 (58.33%) VBScript
3 7 (58.33%) .NET
3 7 (58.33%) XML
3 7 (58.33%) MCP
3 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
3 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
3 7 (58.33%) Windows 7
3 7 (58.33%) Security Architecture
4 6 (50.00%) Taxonomies
4 6 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
4 6 (50.00%) Document Management
5 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
5 5 (41.67%) MS Office
5 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
6 4 (33.33%) SaaS
6 4 (33.33%) PKI
6 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
6 4 (33.33%) ERP
6 4 (33.33%) MCSE
6 4 (33.33%) LDAP
6 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
6 4 (33.33%) Migration
6 4 (33.33%) Smartcard

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Renfrewshire 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 7 (58.33%) XML Schema
1 7 (58.33%) .NET
1 7 (58.33%) XML
1 7 (58.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (41.67%) MS Office
1 5 (41.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) LDAP
2 1 (8.333%) SSL
2 1 (8.333%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (41.67%) Telecoms
2 4 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Desktop Engineer
1 7 (58.33%) Build Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 5 (41.67%) Senior Build Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Cryptography
2 6 (50.00%) Taxonomies
3 4 (33.33%) SaaS
3 4 (33.33%) PKI
3 4 (33.33%) Smartcard
4 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
5 1 (8.333%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 7 (58.33%) Windows XP
2 7 (58.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Security Architecture
2 6 (50.00%) Document Management
3 4 (33.33%) ERP
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 3 (25.00%) Information Security
5 1 (8.333%) Workflow
5 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) VBScript
1 7 (58.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (91.67%) SC Cleared
3 7 (58.33%) MCP
4 4 (33.33%) MCSE
5 3 (25.00%) CISSP
6 1 (8.333%) MCSA
System Software
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) CA
2 1 (8.333%) VMware