South West MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the South West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding St Ives Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	128	137
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	19	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	3.870 %	5.346 %
Daily rates quoted	3	15
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£231
Average daily rate	£268	£247
% change on same period last year	+8.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£263
UK excluding London average daily rate	£210	£184
% change on same period last year	+13.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£18.52
Average hourly rate	£13.47	£19.41
% change on same period last year	-30.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.44	£20.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.14	£18.12
% change on same period last year	-16.43 %
Qualifications South West
Matching contract IT job ads	491	636
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.700 %	0.658 %
Daily rates quoted	142	180
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£312
Average daily rate	£354	£328
% change on same period last year	+8.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£336	£322
% change on same period last year	+4.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	70	109
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.77	£24.17
Average hourly rate	£24.83	£25.81
% change on same period last year	-3.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.89	£27.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.24	£26.09
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
MCP England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCP across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCP across the South West region.

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCP across the South West region.

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the South West region over the 3 months to 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Dorset	-	7	£268	-
Wiltshire	+2	6	-	-
Bristol	-6	3	-	-
Somerset	-3	1	-	-
Cornwall	-	1	-	-

MCP England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MCP 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 MCP.

1 37 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 24 (64.86 %) Windows 3 20 (54.05 %) MCSE 4 19 (51.35 %) Microsoft 5 18 (48.65 %) Windows Server 2003 6 16 (43.24 %) Active Directory 7 13 (35.14 %) Windows XP 8 10 (27.03 %) Government 8 10 (27.03 %) Security Cleared 9 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 9 9 (24.32 %) MCSA 10 8 (21.62 %) MS Office 11 7 (18.92 %) Windows 2000 12 6 (16.22 %) TCP/IP 12 6 (16.22 %) DNS

12 6 (16.22 %) Cisco 12 6 (16.22 %) SC Cleared 13 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 5 (13.51 %) Migration 13 5 (13.51 %) Lotus 13 5 (13.51 %) DHCP 13 5 (13.51 %) VPN 13 5 (13.51 %) Lotus Notes 13 5 (13.51 %) SQL 14 4 (10.81 %) VB 14 4 (10.81 %) ITIL 14 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server 14 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel 14 4 (10.81 %) MOM 14 4 (10.81 %) Remedy

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MCP 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 MCP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.703 %) HTML 1 1 (2.703 %) .NET 1 1 (2.703 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (2.703 %) CSS 1 1 (2.703 %) XML 1 1 (2.703 %) AJAX 1 1 (2.703 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (2.703 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 9 (24.32 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (13.51 %) Lotus Notes 2 5 (13.51 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (10.81 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (2.703 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.703 %) SharePoint 4 1 (2.703 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (2.703 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (2.703 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (21.62 %) MS Office 2 4 (10.81 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 6 (16.22 %) DNS 1 6 (16.22 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (13.51 %) VPN 2 5 (13.51 %) DHCP 3 3 (8.108 %) LAN 3 3 (8.108 %) iSCSI 4 2 (5.405 %) WAN 4 2 (5.405 %) SMTP 5 1 (2.703 %) LDAP 5 1 (2.703 %) SSL 5 1 (2.703 %) Intranet 5 1 (2.703 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (10.81 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.703 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (2.703 %) Visual Studio	General 1 10 (27.03 %) Government 2 3 (8.108 %) Auditing 3 2 (5.405 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.703 %) Front Office 4 1 (2.703 %) Multimedia 4 1 (2.703 %) Music
Job Titles 1 10 (27.03 %) Analyst 2 8 (21.62 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (10.81 %) 3rd Line Support 4 3 (8.108 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (8.108 %) Administrator 4 3 (8.108 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (8.108 %) Systems Administrator 4 3 (8.108 %) Desktop Engineer 4 3 (8.108 %) Messaging Analyst 5 2 (5.405 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst 5 2 (5.405 %) Messaging Support Analyst 5 2 (5.405 %) Consultant 5 2 (5.405 %) Desktop Support 5 2 (5.405 %) Technical Support 5 2 (5.405 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (2.703 %) Server Support 6 1 (2.703 %) Support Technician 6 1 (2.703 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 (2.703 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 1 (2.703 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (10.81 %) Replication 1 4 (10.81 %) Clustering 2 2 (5.405 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.703 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 24 (64.86 %) Windows 2 18 (48.65 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (35.14 %) Windows XP 4 7 (18.92 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (5.405 %) Windows NT 5 2 (5.405 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.703 %) Linux 6 1 (2.703 %) UNIX 6 1 (2.703 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (27.03 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (16.22 %) SC Cleared 3 5 (13.51 %) Migration 4 4 (10.81 %) ITIL 4 4 (10.81 %) Release Management 5 3 (8.108 %) Service Delivery 5 3 (8.108 %) DV Cleared 6 1 (2.703 %) SOA 6 1 (2.703 %) Service Management 6 1 (2.703 %) Web Design 6 1 (2.703 %) Information Security 6 1 (2.703 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.703 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (2.703 %) Business Development
Programming Languages 1 5 (13.51 %) SQL 2 4 (10.81 %) VB 3 1 (2.703 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (2.703 %) C# 3 1 (2.703 %) DHTML 3 1 (2.703 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 37 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 20 (54.05 %) MCSE 3 9 (24.32 %) MCSA 4 3 (8.108 %) ECDL 4 3 (8.108 %) MCDST 4 3 (8.108 %) Degree 5 2 (5.405 %) CCSA 5 2 (5.405 %) CCSE 5 2 (5.405 %) CCNA 5 2 (5.405 %) CCA 5 2 (5.405 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (5.405 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (2.703 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (2.703 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (2.703 %) MCAD 6 1 (2.703 %) MCSD 6 1 (2.703 %) MCTS 6 1 (2.703 %) MCPD
System Software 1 16 (43.24 %) Active Directory 2 4 (10.81 %) MailMarshal	Systems Management 1 4 (10.81 %) MOM 1 4 (10.81 %) MAILsweeper
Vendors 1 19 (51.35 %) Microsoft 2 6 (16.22 %) Cisco 3 5 (13.51 %) Lotus 4 4 (10.81 %) Remedy 4 4 (10.81 %) IBM 4 4 (10.81 %) Citrix 5 3 (8.108 %) NetApp 6 2 (5.405 %) Novell 6 2 (5.405 %) CheckPoint 6 2 (5.405 %) VMware 7 1 (2.703 %) Altiris 7 1 (2.703 %) Oracle 7 1 (2.703 %) Primavera 7 1 (2.703 %) VERITAS 7 1 (2.703 %) HP