MCP Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP 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 Scotland 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 Professional (MCP)
Rank 92 101 105
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Contract jobs citing MCP 26 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 1.066% 0.338% 0.217%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.388% 2.679% 1.729%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 0
Average daily rate £325 £145 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+124.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+30.95% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
Average hourly rate £13.25 - £19.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.25 - £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.25 - £143.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 407 336 347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.69% 12.63% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 163 136
Average daily rate £350 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.47% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £212 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £429 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 28 20
Average hourly rate £14.75 £27.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.36% +44.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.04 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.85 £37.50 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCP
UK

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Scotland MCP Daily Rate Histogram

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
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 24 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
Glasgow - 11 £250 -
Renfrewshire -2 7 £370 -
Edinburgh +8 4 £121 -30.00%
Aberdeen +2 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £150 -
Highlands - 1 - -
MCP
UK

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 34 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 28 (82.35%) Windows
3 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
4 23 (67.65%) Windows XP
4 23 (67.65%) Windows 7
5 21 (61.76%) MS Excel
6 20 (58.82%) MS Office
7 18 (52.94%) ITIL
8 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
8 13 (38.24%) .NET
8 13 (38.24%) XML
9 12 (35.29%) Service Management
10 10 (29.41%) MCSE
10 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
11 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
11 9 (26.47%) Security Architecture
11 9 (26.47%) Migration
11 9 (26.47%) Cryptography
11 9 (26.47%) .NET Framework
11 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
11 9 (26.47%) C#
11 9 (26.47%) VBScript
11 9 (26.47%) XML Schema
12 8 (23.53%) MCSA
12 8 (23.53%) Taxonomies
12 8 (23.53%) SharePoint Server
12 8 (23.53%) Document Management
13 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
13 7 (20.59%) MS Exchange
13 7 (20.59%) Finance

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 13 (38.24%) .NET
1 13 (38.24%) XML
2 9 (26.47%) .NET Framework
2 9 (26.47%) XML Schema
3 5 (14.71%) ASP.NET
4 4 (11.76%) WCF
4 4 (11.76%) jQuery
4 4 (11.76%) CSS
4 4 (11.76%) HTML
5 3 (8.824%) XSLT
5 3 (8.824%) Ajax
6 2 (5.882%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (23.53%) SharePoint Server
3 7 (20.59%) MS Exchange
4 5 (14.71%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (14.71%) Exchange Server 2003
5 4 (11.76%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (8.824%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (8.824%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (2.941%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 21 (61.76%) MS Excel
2 20 (58.82%) MS Office
3 3 (8.824%) Photoshop
3 3 (8.824%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.824%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Internet
2 4 (11.76%) Intranet
3 2 (5.882%) LAN
3 2 (5.882%) Wireless
4 1 (2.941%) SAN
4 1 (2.941%) SMS
4 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.941%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Dreamweaver
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Manufacturing
3 2 (5.882%) German Language
3 2 (5.882%) Dutch Language
4 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.941%) French Language
Job Titles
1 8 (23.53%) Desktop Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Build Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) Desktop Support
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Build Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Desktop Technician
3 5 (14.71%) Desktop Administrator
3 5 (14.71%) IT Support
3 5 (14.71%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) SharePoint Developer
4 4 (11.76%) IT Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Senior SharePoint Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Senior Developer
4 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 3 (8.824%) Support Technician
5 3 (8.824%) Senior Desktop Support
6 2 (5.882%) Desktop Support Technician
6 2 (5.882%) Desktop Support Administrator
6 2 (5.882%) Technical Support
6 2 (5.882%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (26.47%) Cryptography
2 8 (23.53%) Taxonomies
3 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
4 3 (8.824%) W3C
5 1 (2.941%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.941%) Visualisation
5 1 (2.941%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 28 (82.35%) Windows
2 23 (67.65%) Windows XP
2 23 (67.65%) Windows 7
3 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.941%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (52.94%) ITIL
2 12 (35.29%) Service Management
3 9 (26.47%) Security Architecture
3 9 (26.47%) Migration
4 8 (23.53%) Document Management
5 5 (14.71%) Information Security
6 3 (8.824%) User Experience Design
6 3 (8.824%) Analytics
6 3 (8.824%) Web Analytics
7 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
7 2 (5.882%) Service Delivery
8 1 (2.941%) OpenUP
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) PowerShell
1 9 (26.47%) C#
1 9 (26.47%) VBScript
2 5 (14.71%) VB.NET
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 34 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (29.41%) MCSE
2 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
3 8 (23.53%) MCSA
4 7 (20.59%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.65%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (14.71%) CISSP
7 2 (5.882%) MCDST
8 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (2.941%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.941%) XenApp
3 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (11.76%) SCCM
2 2 (5.882%) SCOM
3 1 (2.941%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (2.941%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Lotus
3 3 (8.824%) Adobe
3 3 (8.824%) VMware
4 2 (5.882%) Cisco
4 2 (5.882%) Remedy
4 2 (5.882%) McAfee
5 1 (2.941%) HP
5 1 (2.941%) Compaq
5 1 (2.941%) Citrix
Level 1 Technician with German Language
Glasgow, Scotland
To provide Windows XP, MS Office, Lotus Notes and industry specific software support and basic user administration as required in order support the user-base... Microsoft Office 2007...
RSG-PLC
Posted: 14 May 2013
Level 1 Technician with German Language
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
To provide Windows XP, MS Office, Lotus Notes and industry specific software support and basic user administration as required in order support the user-base... In-depth knowledge...
Sanderson
Posted: 13 May 2013
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