Scotland MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Scotland 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 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Ives Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	103
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching contract IT job ads	29	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.041 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	12.03 %	6.723 %
Daily rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum daily rate	£383	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£417	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£210	£184
% change on same period last year	+13.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.19	£18.27
Average hourly rate	£15.22	£18.97
% change on same period last year	-19.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.25	£19.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.14	£18.12
% change on same period last year	-16.43 %
Qualifications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	241	357
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.343 %	0.369 %
Daily rates quoted	56	80
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£288
Average daily rate	£314	£304
% change on same period last year	+3.39 %
Average maximum daily rate	£330	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.45	£17.11
Average hourly rate	£23.37	£18.08
% change on same period last year	+29.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.30	£19.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.24	£26.09
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
MCP UK

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 Scotland 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Glasgow	+20	20	£400	-
Aberdeen	+8	3	-	-
Edinburgh	+17	1	-	-
South Lanarkshire	-	1	-	-

MCP UK

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 48 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 31 (64.58 %) Microsoft 3 24 (50.00 %) Windows 4 23 (47.92 %) MCSE 5 19 (39.58 %) Windows XP 6 17 (35.42 %) Oracle 7 16 (33.33 %) Active Directory 8 13 (27.08 %) Novell 9 12 (25.00 %) Finance 10 10 (20.83 %) Service Management 10 10 (20.83 %) CNA 10 10 (20.83 %) Novell Certification 10 10 (20.83 %) Client/Server 10 10 (20.83 %) MCDST 11 9 (18.75 %) Citrix

12 8 (16.67 %) NetWare 12 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 12 8 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 12 8 (16.67 %) MBCS 13 7 (14.58 %) Oracle 10g 13 7 (14.58 %) Lotus 14 6 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 14 6 (12.50 %) Remedy 14 6 (12.50 %) HP 14 6 (12.50 %) Altiris 15 5 (10.42 %) Degree 15 5 (10.42 %) Windows Server 2003 15 5 (10.42 %) MS Excel 15 5 (10.42 %) Lotus Notes 15 5 (10.42 %) ITIL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 4 (8.333 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 5 (10.42 %) Lotus Notes 2 4 (8.333 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle BPEL 3 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 5 (10.42 %) MS Excel 3 2 (4.167 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 3 (6.250 %) Oracle Financials 1 3 (6.250 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.167 %) LAN 1 2 (4.167 %) WAN 1 2 (4.167 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (14.58 %) Oracle 10g 2 4 (8.333 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 4 2 (4.167 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 3 (6.250 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.083 %) JDeveloper	General 1 12 (25.00 %) Finance 2 3 (6.250 %) Health 3 2 (4.167 %) Banking 3 2 (4.167 %) Insurance 3 2 (4.167 %) Education 3 2 (4.167 %) Pharmaceutical 3 2 (4.167 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.083 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 12 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 9 (18.75 %) Service Analyst 3 8 (16.67 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 7 (14.58 %) 2nd Line Support 5 5 (10.42 %) Systems Designer 5 5 (10.42 %) Support Engineer 5 5 (10.42 %) Deployment Engineer 6 4 (8.333 %) Support Analyst 6 4 (8.333 %) Consultant 6 4 (8.333 %) Systems Engineer 7 3 (6.250 %) Support Consultant 7 3 (6.250 %) Desktop Engineer 7 3 (6.250 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 8 2 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 8 2 (4.167 %) Technical Support 9 1 (2.083 %) 1st Line Support 9 1 (2.083 %) 3rd Line Support 9 1 (2.083 %) Systems Support 9 1 (2.083 %) Support Technician 9 1 (2.083 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 10 (20.83 %) Client/Server 2 2 (4.167 %) Blackberry 2 2 (4.167 %) PDA 2 2 (4.167 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (2.083 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 24 (50.00 %) Windows 2 19 (39.58 %) Windows XP 3 8 (16.67 %) NetWare 3 8 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (10.42 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (6.250 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (2.083 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.83 %) Service Management 2 5 (10.42 %) ITIL 3 4 (8.333 %) Quality Management 3 4 (8.333 %) BPEL 4 3 (6.250 %) CRM 5 2 (4.167 %) Financial Modelling 5 2 (4.167 %) Asset Management 6 1 (2.083 %) Change Management 6 1 (2.083 %) RDF 6 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.167 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (4.167 %) SQL 2 1 (2.083 %) Java	Qualifications 1 48 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 23 (47.92 %) MCSE 3 10 (20.83 %) CNA 3 10 (20.83 %) Novell Certification 3 10 (20.83 %) MCDST 4 8 (16.67 %) MBCS 5 5 (10.42 %) Degree 6 2 (4.167 %) CCNA 6 2 (4.167 %) Cisco Certification 7 1 (2.083 %) MCSA 7 1 (2.083 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) QA	System Software 1 16 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.167 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 6 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 31 (64.58 %) Microsoft 2 17 (35.42 %) Oracle 3 13 (27.08 %) Novell 4 9 (18.75 %) Citrix 5 7 (14.58 %) Lotus 6 6 (12.50 %) Remedy 6 6 (12.50 %) Altiris 6 6 (12.50 %) HP 7 3 (6.250 %) Dell 7 3 (6.250 %) IBM 8 2 (4.167 %) Cisco 8 2 (4.167 %) Adobe