South Yorkshire Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 job ads that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell 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 Paisley Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rotherham Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thame Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wirral Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	21	22
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	22	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	36.67 %	38.10 %
Daily rates quoted	13	3
Average minimum daily rate	£271	£243
Average daily rate	£286	£266
% change on same period last year	+7.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£271	£282
% change on same period last year	-3.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.53	£31.25
Average hourly rate	£27.78	£31.63
% change on same period last year	-12.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.03	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.05	£23.28
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Qualifications South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	60	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.079 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	30	12
Average minimum daily rate	£291	£266
Average daily rate	£303	£284
% change on same period last year	+6.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.32	£31.25
Average hourly rate	£28.57	£31.63
% change on same period last year	-9.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.82	£32.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
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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 Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification across the South Yorkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Microsoft Certification within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 4 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	+5	17	£289	-16.83 %
Rotherham	+3	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 29 (93.55 %) Windows 2 28 (90.32 %) MCSE 3 18 (58.06 %) Microsoft 4 15 (48.39 %) Windows 2000 5 13 (41.94 %) Windows NT 5 13 (41.94 %) Active Directory 6 12 (38.71 %) MS Exchange 6 12 (38.71 %) MCP 6 12 (38.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 11 (35.48 %) SAN 8 10 (32.26 %) Windows Server 2003 8 10 (32.26 %) Back Office 9 9 (29.03 %) Middleware 10 8 (25.81 %) ITIL 10 8 (25.81 %) SharePoint

10 8 (25.81 %) SCOM 11 7 (22.58 %) SQL 12 6 (19.35 %) MS Excel 12 6 (19.35 %) MCSA 12 6 (19.35 %) ISA Server 12 6 (19.35 %) Change Management 13 5 (16.13 %) HP 13 5 (16.13 %) SCCM 14 4 (12.90 %) MOM 14 4 (12.90 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 15 3 (9.677 %) Finance 15 3 (9.677 %) Legal 15 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2000 16 2 (6.452 %) VMware 16 2 (6.452 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (29.03 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.226 %) .NET 2 1 (3.226 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 12 (38.71 %) MS Exchange 1 12 (38.71 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 8 (25.81 %) SharePoint 3 3 (9.677 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.226 %) IIS 4 1 (3.226 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (3.226 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 6 (19.35 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.452 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 11 (35.48 %) SAN 2 2 (6.452 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.226 %) LAN 3 1 (3.226 %) SNA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server	General 1 10 (32.26 %) Back Office 2 3 (9.677 %) Finance 2 3 (9.677 %) Legal 3 1 (3.226 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 12 (38.71 %) Support Engineer 2 4 (12.90 %) 3rd Line Support 2 4 (12.90 %) Server Support 3 3 (9.677 %) Wintel Support 3 3 (9.677 %) Consultant 3 3 (9.677 %) Technical Consultant 3 3 (9.677 %) Wintel Engineer 4 2 (6.452 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 2 (6.452 %) Windows Administrator 4 2 (6.452 %) Administrator 4 2 (6.452 %) Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) Trainer 5 1 (3.226 %) Network Engineer 5 1 (3.226 %) Server Support Technician 5 1 (3.226 %) Support Technician 5 1 (3.226 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) IT Support Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) Senior Support Analyst 5 1 (3.226 %) IT Support Engineer	Operating Systems 1 29 (93.55 %) Windows 2 15 (48.39 %) Windows 2000 3 13 (41.94 %) Windows NT 4 10 (32.26 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (3.226 %) Windows XP 5 1 (3.226 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.81 %) ITIL 2 6 (19.35 %) Change Management 3 2 (6.452 %) Project Management 4 1 (3.226 %) Performance Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (22.58 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 28 (90.32 %) MCSE 2 12 (38.71 %) MCP 3 6 (19.35 %) MCSA 4 1 (3.226 %) MCT 4 1 (3.226 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (3.226 %) CCEA 4 1 (3.226 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.452 %) SLA
System Software 1 13 (41.94 %) Active Directory 2 6 (19.35 %) ISA Server 3 1 (3.226 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (3.226 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (3.226 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 8 (25.81 %) SCOM 2 5 (16.13 %) SCCM 3 4 (12.90 %) MOM 3 4 (12.90 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 1 (3.226 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 18 (58.06 %) Microsoft 2 5 (16.13 %) HP 3 2 (6.452 %) Intel 3 2 (6.452 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.452 %) Remedy 3 2 (6.452 %) VMware 4 1 (3.226 %) NetApp 4 1 (3.226 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (3.226 %) Symantec