The first table below looks at the demand for MCPD in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCPD 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 South East 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 Professional Developer (MCPD)
Rank 222 246 -
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -
Contract jobs citing MCPD 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.010% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.052% 0.045% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £575 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £320 £291
% change year-on-year
+31.09% +9.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Qualifications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1937 2212 2231
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.79% 21.78% 21.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 942 1007 908
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 132 198
Average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £11.77
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCPD
England

MCPD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East MCPD Jobs Demand Trend

MCPD
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East MCPD Daily Rate Trend

MCPD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East MCPD Hourly Rate Trend

MCPD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCPD within the South East 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
Hampshire - 1 - -
MCPD
England

MCPD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing MCPD 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 MCPD.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) MCAD
3 1 (33.33%) MCSD
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) Sybase
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET

MCPD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (33.33%) Confluence
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) PowerBuilder
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Statistics
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Logistics
2 1 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) MCAD
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (33.33%) MCSD
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Sybase
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