Scotland Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 job ads that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thame Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	62
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	50	75
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.080 %
As % of the category below	17.54 %	20.05 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£135	£232
Average daily rate	£151	£251
% change on same period last year	-39.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£166	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£282
% change on same period last year	-3.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.29	£17.47
Average hourly rate	£27.93	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+56.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.57	£18.13
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.05	£23.28
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Qualifications Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	285	374
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.376 %	0.397 %
Daily rates quoted	64	57
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£337
Average daily rate	£270	£346
% change on same period last year	-21.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.90	£16.73
Average hourly rate	£26.23	£17.96
% change on same period last year	+46.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.57	£19.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
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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 Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Microsoft Certification within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 4 July 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	+6	18	£210	+10.39 %
Edinburgh	+1	12	-	-
Aberdeen	+5	11	£91	-
South Lanarkshire	+1	2	-	-
Renfrewshire	-	2	-	-
Midlothian	-	1	-	-
East Lothian	-	1	-	-
Falkirk	-	1	-	-
Dundee	+2	1	-	-
North Lanarkshire	+1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 61 (58.65 %) Microsoft 2 54 (51.92 %) Windows 3 53 (50.96 %) MCSE 4 35 (33.65 %) MCP 4 35 (33.65 %) Active Directory 5 22 (21.15 %) MS Exchange 6 19 (18.27 %) Windows 2000 6 19 (18.27 %) SQL 6 19 (18.27 %) HP 7 16 (15.38 %) SAN 7 16 (15.38 %) Finance 8 15 (14.42 %) VMware 8 15 (14.42 %) MS Excel 9 13 (12.50 %) Windows XP 10 12 (11.54 %) SQL Server

10 12 (11.54 %) MS Office 11 10 (9.615 %) .NET 11 10 (9.615 %) TCP/IP 11 10 (9.615 %) Novell 12 9 (8.654 %) VMware ESX 12 9 (8.654 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 9 (8.654 %) Windows Server 2003 12 9 (8.654 %) Cisco 12 9 (8.654 %) ITIL 13 8 (7.692 %) MCAD 13 8 (7.692 %) IBM 13 8 (7.692 %) Citrix 13 8 (7.692 %) Lotus 13 8 (7.692 %) Dell 13 8 (7.692 %) MCDST

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (9.615 %) .NET 2 5 (4.808 %) WebServices 2 5 (4.808 %) XML 3 4 (3.846 %) CSS 4 3 (2.885 %) XSL 4 3 (2.885 %) WinForms 4 3 (2.885 %) ASP 4 3 (2.885 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (1.923 %) ADO.NET 5 2 (1.923 %) HTML 5 2 (1.923 %) AJAX 6 1 (0.962 %) COM 6 1 (0.962 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 22 (21.15 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (8.654 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 6 (5.769 %) IIS 3 6 (5.769 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (3.846 %) SharePoint 5 3 (2.885 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (1.923 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 2 (1.923 %) BizTalk Server 7 1 (0.962 %) ColdFusion MX 7 1 (0.962 %) ColdFusion
Applications 1 15 (14.42 %) MS Excel 2 12 (11.54 %) MS Office 3 2 (1.923 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (1.923 %) Line 50
Communications & Networking 1 16 (15.38 %) SAN 2 10 (9.615 %) TCP/IP 3 7 (6.731 %) LAN 4 5 (4.808 %) WAN 4 5 (4.808 %) LDAP 5 4 (3.846 %) Firewall 5 4 (3.846 %) VPN 6 3 (2.885 %) WINS 6 3 (2.885 %) DNS 6 3 (2.885 %) SSL 6 3 (2.885 %) IPsec 6 3 (2.885 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (1.923 %) Wireless 7 2 (1.923 %) Internet 7 2 (1.923 %) DHCP 7 2 (1.923 %) SMS 7 2 (1.923 %) VoIP 8 1 (0.962 %) Intranet 8 1 (0.962 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (11.54 %) SQL Server 2 5 (4.808 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 5 (4.808 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (2.885 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 3 (2.885 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (2.885 %) ETL 4 1 (0.962 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.962 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 3 (2.885 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (1.923 %) Flash 2 2 (1.923 %) Dreamweaver 2 2 (1.923 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.962 %) PVCS 3 1 (0.962 %) NUnit	General 1 16 (15.38 %) Finance 2 5 (4.808 %) Banking 2 5 (4.808 %) Marketing 3 3 (2.885 %) Education 4 2 (1.923 %) Back Office 4 2 (1.923 %) Electronics 5 1 (0.962 %) Telecoms 5 1 (0.962 %) Health 5 1 (0.962 %) FMCG 5 1 (0.962 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (0.962 %) Pensions 5 1 (0.962 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 27 (25.96 %) Analyst 2 14 (13.46 %) Support Analyst 3 13 (12.50 %) Developer 4 10 (9.615 %) Consultant 4 10 (9.615 %) Support Engineer 5 8 (7.692 %) 2nd Line Support 5 8 (7.692 %) Deployment Engineer 6 7 (6.731 %) 3rd Line Support 7 6 (5.769 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (5.769 %) Server Engineer 8 5 (4.808 %) Service Desk Analyst 8 5 (4.808 %) Desktop Engineer 8 5 (4.808 %) Server Analyst 8 5 (4.808 %) Service Analyst 8 5 (4.808 %) .NET Developer 9 3 (2.885 %) Support Technician 9 3 (2.885 %) Trainer 9 3 (2.885 %) Network Consultant 9 3 (2.885 %) Systems Analyst 9 3 (2.885 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 5 (4.808 %) Clustering 2 3 (2.885 %) PKI 2 3 (2.885 %) Client/Server 2 3 (2.885 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.962 %) Blackberry 3 1 (0.962 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 54 (51.92 %) Windows 2 19 (18.27 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (12.50 %) Windows XP 4 9 (8.654 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (4.808 %) Windows NT 6 3 (2.885 %) NetWare 7 2 (1.923 %) Unix 7 2 (1.923 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (8.654 %) ITIL 2 7 (6.731 %) Service Management 3 4 (3.846 %) Change Management 3 4 (3.846 %) Disaster Recovery 3 4 (3.846 %) Web Development 4 3 (2.885 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (1.923 %) CRM 5 2 (1.923 %) UML 5 2 (1.923 %) Web Design 5 2 (1.923 %) Content Management 5 2 (1.923 %) CAD 5 2 (1.923 %) Service Delivery 5 2 (1.923 %) Search Engine Marketing 6 1 (0.962 %) System Testing 6 1 (0.962 %) Quality Management 6 1 (0.962 %) Migration 6 1 (0.962 %) OO 6 1 (0.962 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (0.962 %) ERP 6 1 (0.962 %) RDF
Programming Languages 1 19 (18.27 %) SQL 2 7 (6.731 %) Transact-SQL 3 5 (4.808 %) VB 3 5 (4.808 %) C# 4 4 (3.846 %) JavaScript 5 2 (1.923 %) PHP 5 2 (1.923 %) C 5 2 (1.923 %) DHTML 6 1 (0.962 %) C++ 6 1 (0.962 %) Delphi 6 1 (0.962 %) Shell Script 6 1 (0.962 %) VB6 6 1 (0.962 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 53 (50.96 %) MCSE 2 35 (33.65 %) MCP 3 8 (7.692 %) MCAD 3 8 (7.692 %) MCDST 4 7 (6.731 %) MCSD 4 7 (6.731 %) MCSA 4 7 (6.731 %) Cisco Certification 5 5 (4.808 %) CNA 5 5 (4.808 %) Novell Certification 5 5 (4.808 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 4 (3.846 %) CCNA 6 4 (3.846 %) MCT 7 3 (2.885 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (2.885 %) MCITP 7 3 (2.885 %) MCPD 8 2 (1.923 %) HND 8 2 (1.923 %) MCDBA 8 2 (1.923 %) A+ Certification 9 1 (0.962 %) CNE 9 1 (0.962 %) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.962 %) QA	System Software 1 35 (33.65 %) Active Directory 2 9 (8.654 %) VMware ESX 3 8 (7.692 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 3 (2.885 %) NDS 5 2 (1.923 %) NetBackup 5 2 (1.923 %) Backup Exec 6 1 (0.962 %) PowerConvert 6 1 (0.962 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 1 (0.962 %) VMware Workstation 6 1 (0.962 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 3 (2.885 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 3 (2.885 %) OpenView 2 2 (1.923 %) MOM 3 1 (0.962 %) Tivoli 3 1 (0.962 %) BMC PATROL 3 1 (0.962 %) Nagios 3 1 (0.962 %) ARCserve 3 1 (0.962 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 61 (58.65 %) Microsoft 2 19 (18.27 %) HP 3 15 (14.42 %) VMware 4 10 (9.615 %) Novell 5 9 (8.654 %) Cisco 6 8 (7.692 %) IBM 6 8 (7.692 %) Dell 6 8 (7.692 %) Citrix 6 8 (7.692 %) Lotus 7 4 (3.846 %) VERITAS 8 3 (2.885 %) CheckPoint 8 3 (2.885 %) Symantec 8 3 (2.885 %) McAfee Security 9 2 (1.923 %) Remedy 9 2 (1.923 %) Blue Coat 9 2 (1.923 %) Sage 9 2 (1.923 %) Compaq 10 1 (0.962 %) Intel 10 1 (0.962 %) Adobe 10 1 (0.962 %) Macromedia