The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 23 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 Somerset 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank - - 33
Contract jobs citing MCITP 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - - 1.149%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 3.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £311 £275
% change year-on-year
-27.38% +13.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -22.72%
All Qualifications
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
47 67 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 27.01% 39.64% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 41 28
Average daily rate £426 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.78% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £230 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £450 £419
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCITP
South West

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Support
1 1 (100.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Server Support Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Load Balancing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware