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

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 115 99 110
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +11
Contract jobs citing MCTS 5 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.205% 0.227% 0.143%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.225% 1.796% 1.153%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 1
Average daily rate £323 £275 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.27% -21.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
All Qualifications
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 408 334 347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 16.73% 12.61% 12.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 248 160 132
Average daily rate £348 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.92% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £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 12 27 22
Average hourly rate £15.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.81% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £12.32 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.55 £35.70 £175.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCTS
UK

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 -23 3 £300 +9.09%
Renfrewshire - 2 £345 -
MCTS
UK

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2000
2 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 5 (62.50%) Change Management
2 5 (62.50%) Workflow
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) SLA
2 5 (62.50%) Clustering
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (62.50%) Load Balancing
2 5 (62.50%) Performance Management
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) XenApp
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
3 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (37.50%) MCITP
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (37.50%) MCSE
3 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 3 (37.50%) CommVault
4 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (25.00%) Altiris
4 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Change Management
1 5 (62.50%) Workflow
1 5 (62.50%) Load Balancing
1 5 (62.50%) Performance Management
2 1 (12.50%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) MCSE
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (37.50%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) XenApp
2 2 (25.00%) vSphere
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Citrix
1 3 (37.50%) CommVault
1 3 (37.50%) VMware
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Altiris
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
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