The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 Certification
Rank 59 68 55
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 21 29 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.807% 1.787% 2.798%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.203% 9.603% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 20
Average daily rate £280 £190 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.36% -36.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £118 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £579 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £299 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 5
Average hourly rate £23.88 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+36.42% -22.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.18 £15.10 £14.87
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £18.30 £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -13.88%
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%
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Surrey Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Surrey Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification 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
Guildford -8 6 £370 -
Staines - 4 £500 -
Woking +3 3 £280 -39.45%
Sunbury-on-Thames - 1 £175 -
Weybridge - 1 - -
Haslemere - 1 £400 -
Camberley - 1 £130 -
Chertsey - 1 - -
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 36 (90.00%) Windows
2 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
3 23 (57.50%) Windows 7
4 22 (55.00%) MCSE
5 18 (45.00%) Windows XP
6 17 (42.50%) MS Excel
7 15 (37.50%) MS Office
7 15 (37.50%) MCP
8 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
9 9 (22.50%) ITIL
10 8 (20.00%) MCITP
10 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
11 7 (17.50%) VMware
11 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
11 7 (17.50%) MS Exchange
11 7 (17.50%) MCSA
12 6 (15.00%) LAN
12 6 (15.00%) Symantec
13 5 (12.50%) Migration
13 5 (12.50%) WAN
13 5 (12.50%) Citrix
13 5 (12.50%) SLA
13 5 (12.50%) Cisco
13 5 (12.50%) SCCM
13 5 (12.50%) Degree
14 4 (10.00%) Windows Vista
14 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 4 (10.00%) VLAN
14 4 (10.00%) SCOM
14 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 3 (7.500%) .NET
2 2 (5.000%) Application Packaging
2 2 (5.000%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.500%) Ajax
3 1 (2.500%) Web Services
3 1 (2.500%) XML
3 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET
3 1 (2.500%) LINQ
3 1 (2.500%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.500%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.500%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (5.000%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.000%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (2.500%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (2.500%) CMS
3 1 (2.500%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (2.500%) IIS
3 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.500%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 17 (42.50%) MS Excel
2 15 (37.50%) MS Office
3 1 (2.500%) AutoCAD
3 1 (2.500%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) LAN
2 5 (12.50%) WAN
3 4 (10.00%) VLAN
3 4 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 4 (10.00%) VoIP
3 4 (10.00%) Firewall
4 3 (7.500%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (7.500%) VPN
5 2 (5.000%) NAS
6 1 (2.500%) 3G
6 1 (2.500%) DHCP
6 1 (2.500%) SAN
6 1 (2.500%) Internet
6 1 (2.500%) DNS
6 1 (2.500%) Network Security
6 1 (2.500%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (5.000%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.500%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.500%) ClearCase
1 1 (2.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (2.500%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (20.00%) Analyst
1 8 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (10.00%) Administrator
3 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (7.500%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.000%) IT Support
5 2 (5.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Windows Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) IT Administrator
5 2 (5.000%) Rollout Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (5.000%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (7.500%) Mathematics
3 2 (5.000%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.000%) Thin Client
3 2 (5.000%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.500%) Replication
4 1 (2.500%) PKI
4 1 (2.500%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 36 (90.00%) Windows
2 23 (57.50%) Windows 7
3 18 (45.00%) Windows XP
4 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (10.00%) Windows Vista
5 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.00%) UNIX
6 2 (5.000%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (5.000%) Linux
7 1 (2.500%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) ITIL
2 5 (12.50%) Migration
3 4 (10.00%) Time Management
4 3 (7.500%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (7.500%) PRINCE2
4 3 (7.500%) Incident Management
4 3 (7.500%) Capacity Management
5 1 (2.500%) MVC
5 1 (2.500%) Service Management
5 1 (2.500%) Service Delivery
5 1 (2.500%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.500%) DRM
5 1 (2.500%) Project Management
5 1 (2.500%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.500%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.500%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.500%) Release Management
5 1 (2.500%) Performance Management
5 1 (2.500%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.500%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.500%) SQL
2 2 (5.000%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.000%) VBScript
2 2 (5.000%) VB
2 2 (5.000%) C#
3 1 (2.500%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 22 (55.00%) MCSE
2 15 (37.50%) MCP
3 8 (20.00%) MCITP
4 7 (17.50%) MCSA
5 5 (12.50%) Degree
6 3 (7.500%) MCTS
6 3 (7.500%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (7.500%) CCNA
7 2 (5.000%) MCDST
7 2 (5.000%) Security Cleared
7 2 (5.000%) A+ Certification
7 2 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.500%) MCAD
8 1 (2.500%) MCSD
8 1 (2.500%) Sun Certification
8 1 (2.500%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (2.500%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (2.500%) SC Cleared
8 1 (2.500%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (35.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.000%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.000%) vSphere
3 2 (5.000%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.500%) ISA Server
4 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.500%) NFS
4 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (2.500%) XenApp
4 1 (2.500%) XenServer
4 1 (2.500%) IAG
4 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) SCCM
2 4 (10.00%) SCOM
2 4 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (7.500%) Backup Exec
4 2 (5.000%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (5.000%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.500%) WSUS
Vendors
1 29 (72.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) VMware
3 6 (15.00%) Symantec
4 5 (12.50%) Citrix
4 5 (12.50%) Cisco
5 4 (10.00%) Dell
6 3 (7.500%) McAfee
6 3 (7.500%) Lotus
7 2 (5.000%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.000%) Apple
7 2 (5.000%) Veritas
7 2 (5.000%) Altiris
7 2 (5.000%) Wyse
8 1 (2.500%) Reuters
8 1 (2.500%) Bloomberg
8 1 (2.500%) AppSense
8 1 (2.500%) Alterian
8 1 (2.500%) NetApp
8 1 (2.500%) Novell
8 1 (2.500%) CheckPoint
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