South Yorkshire MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	29
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	16	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	30.19 %	30.77 %
Daily rates quoted	8	2
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£315
Average daily rate	£258	£348
% change on same period last year	-25.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£269	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£294
% change on same period last year	-7.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.45	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£27.24	£26.75
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.04	£27.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.94	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+9.00 %
Qualifications South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	53	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.071 %	0.039 %
Daily rates quoted	24	11
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£279
Average daily rate	£308	£300
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.62	£26.25
Average hourly rate	£23.65	£26.75
% change on same period last year	-11.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.67	£27.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
MCSE 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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MCSE
Contract Locations

This section 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 25 July 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	+4	13	£252	-27.33 %

MCSE Yorkshire

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 30 (100.00 %) Windows 1 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 17 (56.67 %) Microsoft 3 15 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (46.67 %) MCP 4 14 (46.67 %) Windows NT 5 12 (40.00 %) Active Directory 5 12 (40.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 11 (36.67 %) SAN 6 11 (36.67 %) MS Exchange 7 10 (33.33 %) Back Office 7 10 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 8 9 (30.00 %) Middleware 9 8 (26.67 %) ITIL 9 8 (26.67 %) SharePoint

9 8 (26.67 %) SCOM 10 7 (23.33 %) SQL 11 6 (20.00 %) MCSA 11 6 (20.00 %) ISA Server 11 6 (20.00 %) Change Management 12 5 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 12 5 (16.67 %) MS Excel 12 5 (16.67 %) HP 12 5 (16.67 %) SCCM 13 4 (13.33 %) MOM 13 4 (13.33 %) Finance 14 3 (10.00 %) Legal 14 3 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 15 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 15 2 (6.667 %) Project Management

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 Development 1 9 (30.00 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.333 %) .NET 2 1 (3.333 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 12 (40.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 11 (36.67 %) MS Exchange 3 8 (26.67 %) SharePoint 4 3 (10.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (6.667 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 1 (3.333 %) IIS 6 1 (3.333 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 5 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 11 (36.67 %) SAN 2 1 (3.333 %) Firewall 2 1 (3.333 %) LAN 2 1 (3.333 %) WAN 2 1 (3.333 %) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.667 %) SQL Server	General 1 10 (33.33 %) Back Office 2 4 (13.33 %) Finance 3 3 (10.00 %) Legal 4 1 (3.333 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 12 (40.00 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 3 4 (13.33 %) Server Support 4 3 (10.00 %) Consultant 4 3 (10.00 %) Wintel Support 4 3 (10.00 %) Technical Consultant 4 3 (10.00 %) Wintel Engineer 5 2 (6.667 %) Analyst 5 2 (6.667 %) Microsoft Consultant 5 2 (6.667 %) Windows Administrator 5 2 (6.667 %) Administrator 5 2 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support 6 1 (3.333 %) Server Support Technician 6 1 (3.333 %) Network Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) Support Technician 6 1 (3.333 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support Engineer 6 1 (3.333 %) IT Support Analyst 6 1 (3.333 %) Senior Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 30 (100.00 %) Windows 2 15 (50.00 %) Windows 2000 3 14 (46.67 %) Windows NT 4 10 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (26.67 %) ITIL 2 6 (20.00 %) Change Management 3 2 (6.667 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.333 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (23.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 14 (46.67 %) MCP 3 6 (20.00 %) MCSA 4 1 (3.333 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (3.333 %) CCEA 4 1 (3.333 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (40.00 %) Active Directory 2 6 (20.00 %) ISA Server 3 1 (3.333 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (3.333 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (3.333 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 8 (26.67 %) SCOM 2 5 (16.67 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (16.67 %) SCCM 3 4 (13.33 %) MOM 4 1 (3.333 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 17 (56.67 %) Microsoft 2 5 (16.67 %) HP 3 2 (6.667 %) Intel 3 2 (6.667 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.667 %) Remedy 4 1 (3.333 %) VMware 4 1 (3.333 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.333 %) NetApp 4 1 (3.333 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.333 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (3.333 %) Symantec