The first table below looks at the demand for MCITP in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCITP over the 3 months to 23 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 Staffordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP)
Rank - - 39
Contract jobs citing MCITP 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - - 0.457%
As % of the Qualifications category - - 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £226 £311 £275
% change year-on-year
-27.38% +13.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+17.64% -22.72%
All Qualifications
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
12 37 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 13.64% 17.29% 5.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 3
Average daily rate £175 £285 £293
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.59% -2.56%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 1
Average hourly rate £43.15 £17.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+146.54% +25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCITP
West Midlands

MCITP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire MCITP Jobs Demand Trend

MCITP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire MCITP Daily Rate Trend

MCITP
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing MCITP 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 MCITP.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) MDX
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

MCITP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing MCITP 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 MCITP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MDX
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft