Surrey MCP Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	89	92
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	15	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	5.597 %	6.996 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£188	£223
Average daily rate	£194	£227
% change on same period last year	-14.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£199	£232
UK excluding London average daily rate	£203	£195
% change on same period last year	+4.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.83	£14.30
Average hourly rate	£21.17	£14.40
% change on same period last year	+46.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.50	£14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.84	£19.99
% change on same period last year	-15.75 %
Qualifications Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	268	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.354 %	0.242 %
Daily rates quoted	57	66
Average minimum daily rate	£306	£365
Average daily rate	£314	£373
% change on same period last year	-15.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£329
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	31
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.67	£16.92
Average hourly rate	£23.70	£17.51
% change on same period last year	+35.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.73	£18.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.48	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-4.69 %
MCP South East

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.

MCP
Demand Trend

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

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MCP
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCP within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Chertsey	-	2	-	-
Reigate	-	1	-	-
Epsom	-4	1	£363	-
Leatherhead	-	1	-	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 41 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 33 (80.49 %) Windows 3 21 (51.22 %) MS Office 3 21 (51.22 %) MCSE 4 20 (48.78 %) Microsoft 5 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 6 15 (36.59 %) Windows XP 7 14 (34.15 %) MS Excel 8 13 (31.71 %) ITIL 8 13 (31.71 %) HP 9 12 (29.27 %) MS Exchange 10 11 (26.83 %) Windows 2000 10 11 (26.83 %) Windows Server 2003 11 8 (19.51 %) Insurance 12 7 (17.07 %) Exchange Server 2003

12 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 12 7 (17.07 %) MCSA 13 6 (14.63 %) Internet 13 6 (14.63 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 13 6 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 13 6 (14.63 %) Finance 14 5 (12.20 %) Service Management 14 5 (12.20 %) ITSM 14 5 (12.20 %) Incident Management 14 5 (12.20 %) DNS 14 5 (12.20 %) CRM 14 5 (12.20 %) LAN 15 4 (9.756 %) N-Tier 15 4 (9.756 %) Flash 15 4 (9.756 %) E-Commerce

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 4 (9.756 %) ASP.NET 1 4 (9.756 %) WebServices 1 4 (9.756 %) .NET 2 1 (2.439 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 12 (29.27 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (17.07 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (4.878 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (4.878 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 2 (4.878 %) GroupWise 3 2 (4.878 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint Portal Server 4 1 (2.439 %) Lotus Domino 4 1 (2.439 %) IIS 4 1 (2.439 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 21 (51.22 %) MS Office 2 14 (34.15 %) MS Excel 3 4 (9.756 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (7.317 %) Line 50 2 2 (4.878 %) Microsoft CRM
Communications & Networking 1 6 (14.63 %) Internet 1 6 (14.63 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (12.20 %) DNS 2 5 (12.20 %) LAN 3 4 (9.756 %) VPN 3 4 (9.756 %) Firewall 4 3 (7.317 %) VLAN 4 3 (7.317 %) SAN 4 3 (7.317 %) WAN 4 3 (7.317 %) DHCP 5 2 (4.878 %) VoIP 6 1 (2.439 %) SSL 6 1 (2.439 %) Intranet 6 1 (2.439 %) Ethernet 6 1 (2.439 %) PSTN 6 1 (2.439 %) ADSL 6 1 (2.439 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (17.07 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (9.756 %) Flash	General 1 8 (19.51 %) Insurance 2 6 (14.63 %) Finance 3 3 (7.317 %) Education 3 3 (7.317 %) Back Office 4 1 (2.439 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 15 (36.59 %) Analyst 2 11 (26.83 %) Desktop Support 3 10 (24.39 %) Support Analyst 4 9 (21.95 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (17.07 %) Desktop Analyst 5 7 (17.07 %) Support Engineer 6 5 (12.20 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 5 (12.20 %) Desktop Engineer 7 4 (9.756 %) SQL Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) .NET Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) SQL Server Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) Service Analyst 7 4 (9.756 %) Developer 7 4 (9.756 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 4 (9.756 %) ASP.NET Developer 8 3 (7.317 %) Technical Support 8 3 (7.317 %) Helpdesk Support	Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.756 %) N-Tier 2 2 (4.878 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.439 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.439 %) Handset 3 1 (2.439 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 33 (80.49 %) Windows 2 15 (36.59 %) Windows XP 3 11 (26.83 %) Windows 2000 3 11 (26.83 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (4.878 %) NetWare 4 2 (4.878 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (2.439 %) UNIX 5 1 (2.439 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (31.71 %) ITIL 2 5 (12.20 %) Service Management 2 5 (12.20 %) ITSM 2 5 (12.20 %) Incident Management 2 5 (12.20 %) CRM 3 4 (9.756 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (7.317 %) Data Security 5 2 (4.878 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.439 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.439 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (9.756 %) VB.NET 2 3 (7.317 %) SQL 3 1 (2.439 %) VBScript 3 1 (2.439 %) VB 3 1 (2.439 %) C	Qualifications 1 41 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 21 (51.22 %) MCSE 3 7 (17.07 %) MCSA 4 4 (9.756 %) MCSD 5 2 (4.878 %) CNE 5 2 (4.878 %) Novell Certification 5 2 (4.878 %) CCNA 5 2 (4.878 %) CCA 5 2 (4.878 %) Citrix Certification 5 2 (4.878 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (2.439 %) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (43.90 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.317 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 2 (4.878 %) Novell eDirectory 3 2 (4.878 %) NetBackup 4 1 (2.439 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 1 (2.439 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 6 (14.63 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (7.317 %) MOM 2 3 (7.317 %) MAILsweeper 3 1 (2.439 %) HP Data Protector	Vendors 1 20 (48.78 %) Microsoft 2 13 (31.71 %) HP 3 4 (9.756 %) VMware 4 3 (7.317 %) 3Com 4 3 (7.317 %) Adobe 4 3 (7.317 %) Sage 5 2 (4.878 %) Novell 5 2 (4.878 %) VERITAS 5 2 (4.878 %) Lotus 5 2 (4.878 %) Compaq 5 2 (4.878 %) Intel 5 2 (4.878 %) Citrix 6 1 (2.439 %) LANDesk 6 1 (2.439 %) Remedy 6 1 (2.439 %) McAfee Security 6 1 (2.439 %) BT 6 1 (2.439 %) Tandberg 6 1 (2.439 %) Altiris 6 1 (2.439 %) Dell 6 1 (2.439 %) Avaya