Sheffield Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts within the Sheffield region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	27
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	17	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	38.64 %	21.88 %
Daily rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£330
Average daily rate	£284	£365
% change on same period last year	-22.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£264	£271
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.81	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£28.07	£20.50
% change on same period last year	+36.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.34	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.23	£22.97
% change on same period last year	-7.58 %
Qualifications Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	44	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.032 %
Daily rates quoted	19	13
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£260
Average daily rate	£305	£282
% change on same period last year	+7.97 %
Average maximum daily rate	£317	£305
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.48 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.79	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£26.82	£22.00
% change on same period last year	+21.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.85	£22.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.31	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
Microsoft Certification South Yorkshire

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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Sheffield 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 Sheffield region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 27 (96.43 %) Windows 2 26 (92.86 %) MCSE 3 20 (71.43 %) Windows Server 2003 4 19 (67.86 %) Microsoft 5 15 (53.57 %) Windows 2000 6 12 (42.86 %) MCP 6 12 (42.86 %) SAN 7 10 (35.71 %) Active Directory 7 10 (35.71 %) Middleware 7 10 (35.71 %) Back Office 8 7 (25.00 %) MCSA 9 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 9 6 (21.43 %) SharePoint 9 6 (21.43 %) Intel 9 6 (21.43 %) SCCM

9 6 (21.43 %) SCOM 10 5 (17.86 %) SQL 10 5 (17.86 %) MS Excel 11 4 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 11 4 (14.29 %) Change Management 11 4 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 4 (14.29 %) Finance 12 3 (10.71 %) ISA Server 12 3 (10.71 %) Windows XP 12 3 (10.71 %) HP 12 3 (10.71 %) Windows NT 12 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server 13 2 (7.143 %) MS Office 13 2 (7.143 %) SLA 13 2 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 (35.71 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.571 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (21.43 %) SharePoint 2 4 (14.29 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (14.29 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (3.571 %) IIS 3 1 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (17.86 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.143 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 12 (42.86 %) SAN 2 2 (7.143 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (10.71 %) SQL Server	General 1 10 (35.71 %) Back Office 2 4 (14.29 %) Finance 3 2 (7.143 %) Legal 4 1 (3.571 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 10 (35.71 %) Support Engineer 2 6 (21.43 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (10.71 %) Technical Consultant 3 3 (10.71 %) Administrator 3 3 (10.71 %) Consultant 3 3 (10.71 %) Server Support 4 2 (7.143 %) Support Technician 4 2 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) Server Support Technician 4 2 (7.143 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 2 (7.143 %) Windows Administrator 4 2 (7.143 %) Analyst 4 2 (7.143 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) Wintel Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) IT Support Analyst 5 1 (3.571 %) IT Support Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) Senior Support Engineer 5 1 (3.571 %) Server Administrator 5 1 (3.571 %) Wintel Support	Operating Systems 1 27 (96.43 %) Windows 2 20 (71.43 %) Windows Server 2003 3 15 (53.57 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (10.71 %) Windows XP 4 3 (10.71 %) Windows NT 5 2 (7.143 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (3.571 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (21.43 %) ITIL 2 4 (14.29 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Performance Management 3 1 (3.571 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (17.86 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 26 (92.86 %) MCSE 2 12 (42.86 %) MCP 3 7 (25.00 %) MCSA 4 1 (3.571 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (3.571 %) CCEA 4 1 (3.571 %) MCT	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (35.71 %) Active Directory 2 3 (10.71 %) ISA Server 3 1 (3.571 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 6 (21.43 %) SCCM 1 6 (21.43 %) SCOM 2 2 (7.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (3.571 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (3.571 %) MOM
Vendors 1 19 (67.86 %) Microsoft 2 6 (21.43 %) Intel 3 3 (10.71 %) HP 4 2 (7.143 %) Remedy 5 1 (3.571 %) Symantec 5 1 (3.571 %) Citrix 5 1 (3.571 %) Lotus 5 1 (3.571 %) CheckPoint