The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 74 77 83
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +6
Contract jobs citing MCP 6 20 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.516% 1.232% 1.097%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.344% 6.623% 6.920%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 2
Average daily rate £280 £190 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.36% -34.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £196 £118 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £376 £586 £318
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £210 £146
% change year-on-year
+7.14% +43.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Average hourly rate - £16.75 £16.17
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +3.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.50 £16.33
% change year-on-year
-12.06% -11.21%
All Qualifications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
256 302 289
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 22.03% 18.61% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 188 138
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £190 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £535 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 10 16
Average hourly rate £32.50 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £14.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £32.25 £46.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCP
South East

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey MCP Jobs Demand Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey MCP Daily Rate Histogram

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Contract Locations

The table below 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 21 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
Woking +5 2 £228 -60.43%
Staines - 2 - -
Weybridge - 1 - -
Haslemere - 1 £400 -
MCP
South East

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
3 12 (80.00%) Windows
4 10 (66.67%) Windows XP
5 9 (60.00%) MS Office
5 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
5 9 (60.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (40.00%) MCSE
7 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
8 4 (26.67%) Symantec
8 4 (26.67%) Norton AntiVirus
8 4 (26.67%) SLA
8 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
8 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
8 4 (26.67%) Time Management
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 3 (20.00%) Windows Vista
9 3 (20.00%) LAN
9 3 (20.00%) WAN
9 3 (20.00%) MCSA
9 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
9 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
9 3 (20.00%) McAfee
10 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (13.33%) .NET
10 2 (13.33%) C#
10 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
10 2 (13.33%) ITIL
10 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, 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 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (13.33%) Application Packaging
2 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (6.667%) Ajax
2 1 (6.667%) LINQ
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Azure
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (6.667%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 9 (60.00%) MS Office
1 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) LAN
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
1 3 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (6.667%) NAS
2 1 (6.667%) VLAN
2 1 (6.667%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.667%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Support Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Support Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Support
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (13.33%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) IT Support
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Deskside Support
5 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Smartphone
1 1 (6.667%) Fat Client
1 1 (6.667%) Thin Client
1 1 (6.667%) Replication
1 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 10 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 9 (60.00%) Windows 7
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (20.00%) Windows Vista
5 2 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (6.667%) UNIX
6 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Time Management
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
3 1 (6.667%) Performance Management
3 1 (6.667%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.667%) Web Application Development
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.667%) Service Management
3 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
2 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.667%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (40.00%) MCSE
3 3 (20.00%) MCSA
4 2 (13.33%) MCDST
4 2 (13.33%) MCITP
5 1 (6.667%) MCTS
5 1 (6.667%) MCAD
5 1 (6.667%) MCSD
5 1 (6.667%) A+ Certification
5 1 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
2 1 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.667%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (20.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (13.33%) SCCM
4 1 (6.667%) NetBackup
4 1 (6.667%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (26.67%) Symantec
3 3 (20.00%) McAfee
4 2 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (6.667%) LANDesk
5 1 (6.667%) NetApp
5 1 (6.667%) Lotus
5 1 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.667%) Wyse
5 1 (6.667%) Reuters
5 1 (6.667%) Bloomberg
5 1 (6.667%) HP
5 1 (6.667%) Dell
5 1 (6.667%) Citrix