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

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS 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 MCTS 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 104 135 117
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -18
Contract jobs citing MCTS 13 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.624% 0.214% 0.109%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.104% 0.675% 0.439%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 2
Average daily rate £313 £335 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.71% -1.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £254 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £323 £385 £358
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year
- -51.11%
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%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS 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 - 6 £325 -
Somerset +5 4 - -
Gloucestershire +31 1 - -
Wiltshire +3 1 £300 -
MCTS
England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 19 (63.33%) .NET
3 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
3 19 (63.33%) SharePoint
4 18 (60.00%) ASP.NET
4 18 (60.00%) C#
4 18 (60.00%) SQL
5 17 (56.67%) JavaScript
5 17 (56.67%) HTML
5 17 (56.67%) IIS
5 17 (56.67%) MCP
6 14 (46.67%) ITIL
7 13 (43.33%) MCPD
8 12 (40.00%) XML
8 12 (40.00%) UML
8 12 (40.00%) Oracle
8 12 (40.00%) Service Management
9 11 (36.67%) Service Delivery
9 11 (36.67%) OpenROAD
9 11 (36.67%) ISEB
9 11 (36.67%) Java
9 11 (36.67%) C++
9 11 (36.67%) VB
9 11 (36.67%) VB.NET
9 11 (36.67%) Ingres
9 11 (36.67%) ASP
9 11 (36.67%) UNIX
9 11 (36.67%) Windows
9 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (63.33%) .NET
2 18 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 17 (56.67%) HTML
4 12 (40.00%) XML
5 11 (36.67%) ASP
5 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
6 5 (16.67%) CSS
7 1 (3.333%) COM
7 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
Application Platforms
1 19 (63.33%) SharePoint
2 17 (56.67%) IIS
3 11 (36.67%) OpenROAD
4 8 (26.67%) MS Exchange
4 8 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 5 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (20.00%) VPN
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 5 (16.67%) WAN
2 5 (16.67%) LAN
3 2 (6.667%) VoIP
4 1 (3.333%) DHCP
4 1 (3.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (63.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (36.67%) Ingres
3 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (13.33%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (26.67%) NUnit
1 8 (26.67%) Subversion
1 8 (26.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 8 (26.67%) MSTest
1 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
2 7 (23.33%) TeamCity
2 7 (23.33%) CruiseControl
2 7 (23.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.333%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (3.333%) MSBuild
General
1 5 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (63.33%) Developer
2 9 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 8 (26.67%) C# Developer
3 8 (26.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) SharePoint Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Support Analyst
5 4 (13.33%) Analyst Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Senior Support Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (6.667%) Project Manager
7 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Project Manager
8 1 (3.333%) Consultant
8 1 (3.333%) Desktop Support
8 1 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Animation
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) Tandem
2 1 (3.333%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) UNIX
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
1 11 (36.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (10.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.667%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.333%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) ITIL
2 12 (40.00%) UML
2 12 (40.00%) Service Management
3 11 (36.67%) Service Delivery
3 11 (36.67%) ITSM
4 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
5 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (16.67%) User Experience Design
6 5 (16.67%) Data Management
6 5 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Project Management
7 1 (3.333%) CRM
7 1 (3.333%) Configuration Management
7 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (3.333%) Problem Management
7 1 (3.333%) Data Protection
7 1 (3.333%) Asset Management
7 1 (3.333%) MVC
7 1 (3.333%) Project Planning
7 1 (3.333%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) C#
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 17 (56.67%) JavaScript
3 11 (36.67%) Java
3 11 (36.67%) C++
3 11 (36.67%) VB
3 11 (36.67%) VB.NET
4 5 (16.67%) PHP
5 1 (3.333%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (76.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (56.67%) MCP
3 13 (43.33%) MCPD
4 11 (36.67%) ISEB
5 9 (30.00%) MCSE
5 9 (30.00%) MCITP
6 5 (16.67%) MCSA
7 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
8 2 (6.667%) SC Cleared
8 2 (6.667%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (3.333%) MCAD
9 1 (3.333%) MCSD
9 1 (3.333%) MCDST
9 1 (3.333%) BC Cleared
9 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
9 1 (3.333%) VCP4
9 1 (3.333%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.333%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (40.00%) Oracle
3 9 (30.00%) VMware
4 2 (6.667%) Cisco
5 1 (3.333%) HP
5 1 (3.333%) Dell
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix
Senior Developer
Taunton, South West
Skills/ Experience Required Essential Skills The post-holder must have: *Have demonstrable working knowledge of the following programming languages:- oC# oASP.net oSQL *Have demonstrable working knowledge of...
Capita Resourcing
Posted: 14 May 2013
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