MCSA Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA 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 MCSA 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 Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 215 223 237
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +14
Contract jobs citing MCSA 8 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.102% 0.236% 0.144%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.413% 1.085% 0.672%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 1
Average daily rate £200 £243 £138
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.52% +76.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £243 £245
% change year-on-year
-12.16% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
Average hourly rate £12.00 £17.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.42% +9.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-27.27% -5.71%
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%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSA across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East MCSA Daily Rate Histogram

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA 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
Surrey +23 4 £200 +42.85%
Hampshire -5 4 £180 -21.73%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (66.67%) Windows
3 12 (57.14%) MCSE
4 11 (52.38%) Citrix
5 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
6 9 (42.86%) MS Excel
7 7 (33.33%) ITIL
7 7 (33.33%) SAN
7 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (33.33%) VMware
7 7 (33.33%) Degree
7 7 (33.33%) Windows 7
8 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
8 6 (28.57%) Firewall
8 6 (28.57%) MCP
8 6 (28.57%) LAN
9 5 (23.81%) WAN
9 5 (23.81%) Microsoft App-V
9 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
10 4 (19.05%) MCITP
10 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
10 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (19.05%) DHCP
10 4 (19.05%) MS Office
10 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
10 4 (19.05%) HP
10 4 (19.05%) CCNA
10 4 (19.05%) DNS
10 4 (19.05%) Cisco

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.524%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 4 (19.05%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (33.33%) SAN
2 6 (28.57%) Firewall
2 6 (28.57%) LAN
3 5 (23.81%) WAN
4 4 (19.05%) DHCP
4 4 (19.05%) DNS
5 3 (14.29%) WLAN
5 3 (14.29%) VPN
5 3 (14.29%) IPsec
6 2 (9.524%) VoIP
7 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
7 1 (4.762%) VLAN
7 1 (4.762%) Network Security
7 1 (4.762%) NAS
7 1 (4.762%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 3 (14.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Service Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Help Desk Support
3 3 (14.29%) Server Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.524%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (9.524%) Architect
4 2 (9.524%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.762%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.762%) Administrator
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Computer Science
2 3 (14.29%) SaaS
3 2 (9.524%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.762%) Replication
4 1 (4.762%) CMDB
4 1 (4.762%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.762%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (66.67%) Windows
2 7 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (33.33%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
3 3 (14.29%) Validation
3 3 (14.29%) ERP
3 3 (14.29%) Release Management
4 2 (9.524%) Service Management
4 2 (9.524%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (4.762%) Migration
5 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.762%) Configuration Management
5 1 (4.762%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (57.14%) MCSE
3 7 (33.33%) Degree
4 6 (28.57%) MCP
5 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (19.05%) CCNA
5 4 (19.05%) MCITP
6 3 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (14.29%) MCDST
7 1 (4.762%) MCTS
7 1 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (4.762%) CCENT
7 1 (4.762%) CCEE
7 1 (4.762%) CCAA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) SLA
2 1 (4.762%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (47.62%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (14.29%) Terminal Server
4 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
5 1 (4.762%) XenDesktop
5 1 (4.762%) vSphere
5 1 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (52.38%) Citrix
3 7 (33.33%) VMware
4 4 (19.05%) Cisco
4 4 (19.05%) HP
5 3 (14.29%) Dell
5 3 (14.29%) Remedy
5 3 (14.29%) Juniper
6 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.762%) Apple
6 1 (4.762%) Reuters
6 1 (4.762%) Bloomberg
6 1 (4.762%) Symantec
6 1 (4.762%) Wyse
6 1 (4.762%) Mitel
6 1 (4.762%) Fujitsu
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