The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 21 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 Wales 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 26 28 29
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 9 16 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 2.769% 4.051% 4.500%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.98% 11.19% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 12
Average daily rate £199 £210 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.47% -48.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £121 £105 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £288 £491
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -13.88%
All Qualifications
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
82 143 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 25.23% 36.20% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 57
Average daily rate £350 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £105 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £450 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 14
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -30.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £14.50 £8.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.20 £15.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
Wales

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South Wales Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cardiff -4 4 £250 +19.04%
Torfaen - 4 - -
Newport +2 1 £110 -75.55%
Microsoft Certification
Wales

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 11 (64.71%) MCP
2 11 (64.71%) Windows
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 9 (52.94%) Windows 7
4 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (41.18%) MCSE
4 7 (41.18%) Migration
5 6 (35.29%) SCCM
5 6 (35.29%) LAN
5 6 (35.29%) WAN
6 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
6 5 (29.41%) DNS
6 5 (29.41%) MS Office
6 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
6 5 (29.41%) Firewall
6 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
7 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
7 4 (23.53%) Network Design
7 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (23.53%) Degree
7 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
7 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
7 4 (23.53%) Internet
7 4 (23.53%) Cisco
7 4 (23.53%) Citrix
7 4 (23.53%) Riverbed
7 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (17.65%) HTML

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
2 1 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) LAN
1 6 (35.29%) WAN
2 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) DNS
2 5 (29.41%) Firewall
3 4 (23.53%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (23.53%) Internet
4 2 (11.76%) SAN
4 2 (11.76%) Wireless
5 1 (5.882%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) LAN Administrator
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Support
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Server Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) IT Support
4 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Technical Support
4 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Server Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
3 2 (11.76%) Thin Client
3 2 (11.76%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 11 (64.71%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows 7
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.882%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Migration
2 5 (29.41%) Data Protection
3 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
3 4 (23.53%) Network Design
3 4 (23.53%) Load Balancing
3 4 (23.53%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL
4 2 (11.76%) Data Migration
4 2 (11.76%) Incident Management
4 2 (11.76%) Software Deployment
5 1 (5.882%) Network Management
5 1 (5.882%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) MCP
2 7 (41.18%) MCSE
3 4 (23.53%) Degree
4 2 (11.76%) MCSA
4 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
5 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
5 1 (5.882%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.76%) XenApp
3 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Cisco
2 4 (23.53%) Citrix
2 4 (23.53%) Riverbed
3 2 (11.76%) VMware