The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE over the 3 months to 17 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 Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 24 27 35
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Contract jobs citing MCSE 10 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 3.731% 2.353% 1.404%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.23% 12.50% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 3
Average daily rate £330 £185 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+78.37% -26.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+8.72% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £19.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +5.40%
All Qualifications
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
52 48 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 19.40% 18.82% 11.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 28 14
Average daily rate £335 £310 £251
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.06% +23.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £185 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £408 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
Average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -36.98%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £21.00 £22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.10 £27.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCSE
Yorkshire

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Rotherham - 5 £330 -
Sheffield -5 2 £300 +62.16%
Doncaster +1 1 £295 +118.51%
MCSE
Yorkshire

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 17 (94.44%) Windows
3 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
4 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
5 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (66.67%) Windows 7
6 12 (66.67%) MS Excel
7 11 (61.11%) Symantec
7 11 (61.11%) Remedy
7 11 (61.11%) SCCM
7 11 (61.11%) Software Deployment
8 9 (50.00%) SLA
9 5 (27.78%) VMware
9 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
9 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
10 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
11 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
11 3 (16.67%) Citrix
12 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
12 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
12 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
12 2 (11.11%) Local Government
12 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
12 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
12 2 (11.11%) WSUS
12 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
12 2 (11.11%) McAfee
12 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
12 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
12 2 (11.11%) IIS

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 12 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (11.11%) Local Government
2 1 (5.556%) Advertising
2 1 (5.556%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Server Support
2 8 (44.44%) Server Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Server Support Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Support Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Administrator
5 2 (11.11%) Server Administrator
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Server Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Environment Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Server Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) Wintel Specialist
6 1 (5.556%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 1 (5.556%) SCCM Engineer
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Windows
2 15 (83.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 14 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
4 12 (66.67%) Windows 7
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Software Deployment
2 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) Migration
3 1 (5.556%) Time Management
3 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.556%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
1 1 (5.556%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) CCA
3 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.11%) Terminal Server
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
4 1 (5.556%) XenApp
4 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 11 (61.11%) SCCM
2 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
2 2 (11.11%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) Symantec
2 11 (61.11%) Remedy
3 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) CA
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 2 (11.11%) McAfee