The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 73 96 95
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -1
Contract jobs citing MCSA 4 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.351% 0.243% 0.320%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.606% 1.294% 1.980%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £200 £140 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+42.85% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £243 £245
% change year-on-year
-12.16% -1.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £16.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -54.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-27.27% -5.71%
All Qualifications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
249 309 303
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 21.86% 18.77% 16.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 192 145
Average daily rate £400 £375 £416
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -9.90%
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 20 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 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCSA
South East

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSA across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey MCSA Daily Rate Histogram

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Camberley - 1 £130 -
Guildford - 1 £200 -
Staines - 1 - -
Woking - 1 £400 -
MCSA
South East

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) MCSE
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) MCP
3 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
4 2 (33.33%) MCDST
4 2 (33.33%) MS Office
4 2 (33.33%) MCITP
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 2 (33.33%) VoIP
5 1 (16.67%) Service Management
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Firewall
5 1 (16.67%) Wyse
5 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (16.67%) Replication
5 1 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (16.67%) SAN
5 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (16.67%) Apple
5 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
5 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (16.67%) Reuters
5 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco
5 1 (16.67%) Linux

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) SAN
2 1 (16.67%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) NAS
2 1 (16.67%) PABX
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Rollout Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Deskside Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Support Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Replication
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 1 (16.67%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (33.33%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Linux
4 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Service Management
1 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (83.33%) MCSE
3 3 (50.00%) MCP
4 2 (33.33%) MCDST
4 2 (33.33%) MCITP
5 1 (16.67%) Degree
5 1 (16.67%) CCNA
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
1 1 (16.67%) vSphere
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix
2 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
2 1 (16.67%) Apple
2 1 (16.67%) Reuters
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) Wyse
2 1 (16.67%) VMware
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
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