South Yorkshire MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the South Yorkshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Buxton Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Margate Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Renfrewshire Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southwark Spalding St Ives Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	49
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	1	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.778 %	10.81 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£320
Average daily rate	-	£340
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£171	£211
% change on same period last year	-18.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£14.70
Average hourly rate	£30.38	£14.90
% change on same period last year	+103.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.76	£15.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.30	£17.05
% change on same period last year	-4.41 %
Qualifications South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	36	74
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.058 %	0.079 %
Daily rates quoted	15	19
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£220
Average daily rate	£332	£232
% change on same period last year	+42.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£346	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.22	£23.44
Average hourly rate	£30.85	£24.66
% change on same period last year	+25.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.47	£25.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.56	£25.13
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
MCP Yorkshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Sheffield	+17	1	-	-

MCP Yorkshire

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 8 (100.00 %) Windows 1 8 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (87.50 %) MCSE 3 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 5 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 6 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 7 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 7 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 7 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (25.00 %) SCCM 7 2 (25.00 %) SCOM 7 2 (25.00 %) MCSA 7 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint 7 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP

7 2 (25.00 %) ITIL 7 2 (25.00 %) SQL 7 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server 7 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 7 2 (25.00 %) ISA Server 8 1 (12.50 %) Middleware 8 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 8 1 (12.50 %) Norton AntiVirus 8 1 (12.50 %) HP 8 1 (12.50 %) Dell 8 1 (12.50 %) CNA 8 1 (12.50 %) Novell Certification 8 1 (12.50 %) SAN 8 1 (12.50 %) Siemens 8 1 (12.50 %) Lotus

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 (12.50 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (25.00 %) SharePoint 2 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (12.50 %) IIS 3 1 (12.50 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 2 1 (12.50 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) SAN 2 1 (12.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL Server	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Back Office 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Support Specialist 2 1 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Server Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Wintel Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support Specialist 2 1 (12.50 %) Wintel Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Server Support 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Support	Operating Systems 1 8 (100.00 %) Windows 2 6 (75.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 2 (25.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 7 (87.50 %) MCSE 3 2 (25.00 %) MCSA 4 1 (12.50 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) CCEA 4 1 (12.50 %) CNA 4 1 (12.50 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (62.50 %) Active Directory 2 2 (25.00 %) ISA Server 3 1 (12.50 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 2 (25.00 %) SCCM 1 2 (25.00 %) SCOM 2 1 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (12.50 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 4 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 2 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 1 (12.50 %) Siemens 3 1 (12.50 %) Lotus 3 1 (12.50 %) CheckPoint 3 1 (12.50 %) Symantec 3 1 (12.50 %) VMware 3 1 (12.50 %) HP 3 1 (12.50 %) Dell