MCSD 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 MCSD 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 MCSD 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 Solution Developer (MCSD)
Rank 212 242 245
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +3
Contract jobs citing MCSD 11 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.141% 0.049% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.568% 0.226% 0.314%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 3
Average daily rate £413 £458 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.93% +30.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £435 £391 £300
% change year-on-year
+11.25% +30.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
MCSD
England

MCSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East MCSD Daily Rate Trend

MCSD
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South East MCSD Daily Rate Histogram

MCSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East MCSD Hourly Rate Trend

MCSD
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSD 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
Berkshire +19 6 £380 -2.81%
Surrey +22 1 £400 -27.27%
West Sussex - 1 £450 -
Thames Valley - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £325 -
Middlesex - 1 £475 -
MCSD
England

MCSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
3 12 (80.00%) C#
3 12 (80.00%) .NET
3 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
4 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
5 9 (60.00%) Windows
5 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 7 (46.67%) SharePoint
7 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
7 7 (46.67%) SQL
7 7 (46.67%) T-SQL
8 6 (40.00%) OLAP
8 6 (40.00%) LDAP
8 6 (40.00%) MS Office
8 6 (40.00%) DTS
8 6 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
8 6 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
9 5 (33.33%) IDOL
9 5 (33.33%) Meridio
9 5 (33.33%) XML
9 5 (33.33%) MCP
10 4 (26.67%) Web Services
10 4 (26.67%) IIS
10 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
10 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
11 3 (20.00%) CM System

MCSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 12 (80.00%) .NET
2 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 6 (40.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 5 (33.33%) XML
5 4 (26.67%) Web Services
6 3 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 2 (13.33%) WPF
8 1 (6.667%) jQuery
8 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (6.667%) WCF
8 1 (6.667%) HTML
8 1 (6.667%) Ajax
8 1 (6.667%) CSS
8 1 (6.667%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) SharePoint
2 6 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (26.67%) IIS
4 3 (20.00%) MS Project Server
4 3 (20.00%) CM System
5 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (13.33%) MS Exchange
6 1 (6.667%) Site Server
6 1 (6.667%) CMS
6 1 (6.667%) WebLogic
6 1 (6.667%) Apache
6 1 (6.667%) Windows Azure
6 1 (6.667%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) MS Office
2 3 (20.00%) MS Project
3 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (53.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (40.00%) OLAP
3 6 (40.00%) DTS
4 5 (33.33%) IDOL
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) PVCS
3 1 (6.667%) PowerBuilder
3 1 (6.667%) NUnit
3 1 (6.667%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) .NET Developer
2 4 (26.67%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Development Team Leader
4 2 (13.33%) Exchange Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Messaging Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Architect
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Technical Architect
5 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Technical Architect
5 1 (6.667%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (13.33%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (60.00%) Windows
1 9 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) Solaris
3 1 (6.667%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (20.00%) Web Development
2 3 (20.00%) Release Management
3 2 (13.33%) UML
3 2 (13.33%) Unified Process
3 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (6.667%) ITIL
4 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
4 1 (6.667%) OOP
4 1 (6.667%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Scrum
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) C#
2 7 (46.67%) SQL
2 7 (46.67%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
3 1 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.667%) Java
3 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (33.33%) MCP
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) MCSE
5 2 (13.33%) MCAD
5 2 (13.33%) MCTS
6 1 (6.667%) MCPD
6 1 (6.667%) Degree
6 1 (6.667%) CCNA
6 1 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
Vendors
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Meridio
3 2 (13.33%) Remedy
4 1 (6.667%) Sun
4 1 (6.667%) HP
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) Sybase
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco
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