MCSE Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE 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 West 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 Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 97 123 89
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -34
Contract jobs citing MCSE 20 19 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.960% 0.582% 1.163%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.236% 1.832% 4.678%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
Average daily rate £215 £275 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.81% -5.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £195 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £413 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 8
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +20.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £19.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.12% -2.50%
All Qualifications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 618 1037 684
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 29.65% 31.76% 24.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 354 557 311
Average daily rate £380 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £220 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 72 52
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -21.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £14.55 £13.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £50.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

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

South West MCSE Daily Rate Histogram

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the South West 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
Bristol +16 7 £388 -
Dorset +6 7 £158 -30.00%
Wiltshire -4 4 £225 -30.76%
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
MCSE
England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 31 (88.57%) Windows
3 20 (57.14%) VMware
4 18 (51.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
5 17 (48.57%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (45.71%) ITIL
7 13 (37.14%) Windows XP
7 13 (37.14%) MS Exchange
7 13 (37.14%) Cisco
7 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
7 13 (37.14%) LAN
7 13 (37.14%) MCITP
8 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
9 10 (28.57%) VPN
9 10 (28.57%) HP
9 10 (28.57%) Citrix
9 10 (28.57%) MCP
9 10 (28.57%) MCSA
9 10 (28.57%) Windows 7
10 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
10 9 (25.71%) MCTS
11 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
11 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
11 8 (22.86%) DNS
12 7 (20.00%) VoIP
12 7 (20.00%) MS Excel
12 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
12 7 (20.00%) SQL

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (2.857%) COM
Application Platforms
1 13 (37.14%) MS Exchange
2 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 6 (17.14%) IIS
5 5 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (8.571%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (8.571%) Lotus Domino
6 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.714%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) LAN
2 12 (34.29%) TCP/IP
3 10 (28.57%) VPN
4 8 (22.86%) DNS
5 7 (20.00%) VoIP
6 6 (17.14%) Firewall
6 6 (17.14%) SAN
6 6 (17.14%) WAN
7 3 (8.571%) DHCP
7 3 (8.571%) Internet
7 3 (8.571%) Wireless
8 1 (2.857%) Broadband
8 1 (2.857%) 3G
8 1 (2.857%) Network Security
8 1 (2.857%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (20.00%) Military
2 2 (5.714%) Finance
3 1 (2.857%) Back Office
3 1 (2.857%) Banking
3 1 (2.857%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 6 (17.14%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Desktop Support
3 5 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (8.571%) Field Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.571%) Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) Field Service Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) IT Support
6 2 (5.714%) Wintel Analyst
6 2 (5.714%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Support
7 1 (2.857%) Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Blackberry
2 4 (11.43%) Handset
3 3 (8.571%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.857%) Clustering
4 1 (2.857%) PKI
4 1 (2.857%) RMADS
Operating Systems
1 31 (88.57%) Windows
2 18 (51.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (48.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (37.14%) Windows XP
5 10 (28.57%) Windows 7
6 4 (11.43%) Linux
7 1 (2.857%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) ITIL
2 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (8.571%) Project Management
3 3 (8.571%) PRINCE
3 3 (8.571%) Service Delivery
3 3 (8.571%) Information Management
3 3 (8.571%) Network Management
3 3 (8.571%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (5.714%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.857%) CRM
5 1 (2.857%) Service Management
5 1 (2.857%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.857%) Asset Management
5 1 (2.857%) Network Design
5 1 (2.857%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.857%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (2.857%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.857%) Capacity Management
5 1 (2.857%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (2.857%) C
2 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.857%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 35 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (37.14%) MCITP
3 10 (28.57%) MCP
3 10 (28.57%) MCSA
4 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
4 9 (25.71%) MCTS
5 8 (22.86%) DV Cleared
6 6 (17.14%) MCDST
7 5 (14.29%) CCNA
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (8.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (2.857%) CCA
10 1 (2.857%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (2.857%) Degree
10 1 (2.857%) VCP4
10 1 (2.857%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.571%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (37.14%) Active Directory
2 8 (22.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (14.29%) vSphere
4 2 (5.714%) XenApp
4 2 (5.714%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (8.571%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (8.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (8.571%) Backup Exec
2 2 (5.714%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (2.857%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) VMware
2 17 (48.57%) Microsoft
3 13 (37.14%) Cisco
4 10 (28.57%) HP
4 10 (28.57%) Citrix
5 3 (8.571%) Avaya
5 3 (8.571%) Lotus
5 3 (8.571%) Symantec
5 3 (8.571%) Sophos
6 2 (5.714%) Dell
7 1 (2.857%) IBM
7 1 (2.857%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.857%) Juniper
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