The first table below looks at the demand for MCSD in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSD over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MCSD 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.094% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 9.756% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £458 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £410 £331 £350
% change year-on-year
+23.90% -5.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £22.50 -
All Qualifications
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
41 66 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 21.47% 37.08% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 41 31
Average daily rate £423 £365 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.75% +7.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £230 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
Average hourly rate £19.50 £22.69 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.05% +29.65%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCSD
South West

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset MCSD Jobs Demand Trend

MCSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset MCSD Daily Rate Trend

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing MCSD 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 MCSD.

1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RAD
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) TickIT
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing MCSD 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 MCSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XSL
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Subversion
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 4 (100.00%) UML
1 4 (100.00%) RAD
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Service Management
1 4 (100.00%) Performance Management
1 4 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (75.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VBScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB
1 4 (100.00%) VB6
1 4 (100.00%) C
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) ISEB Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) TickIT
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (75.00%) COBIT
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Oracle