The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS 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 Taunton 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 Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 18 20 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing MCTS 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 1.351% 3.390% -
As % of the Qualifications category 2.941% 5.128% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £320 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £300 £314
% change year-on-year
+11.66% -4.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
- -61.17%
All Qualifications
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
34 39 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 45.95% 66.10% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 24 8
Average daily rate £458 £365 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.47% +11.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
MCTS
Somerset

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Taunton MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) MCP
1 10 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (100.00%) MCPD
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (90.00%) Service Management
2 9 (90.00%) Service Delivery
2 9 (90.00%) ITSM
2 9 (90.00%) OpenROAD
2 9 (90.00%) ISEB
2 9 (90.00%) Ingres
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
2 9 (90.00%) UML
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (90.00%) IIS
2 9 (90.00%) ASP
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) XML
2 9 (90.00%) ITIL
2 9 (90.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) C++
2 9 (90.00%) HTML
2 9 (90.00%) Java
2 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
2 9 (90.00%) VB
2 9 (90.00%) VB.NET

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) XML
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (90.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (90.00%) OpenROAD
2 9 (90.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (90.00%) Ingres
2 1 (10.00%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) NUnit
1 8 (80.00%) Subversion
1 8 (80.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 8 (80.00%) MSTest
1 8 (80.00%) Jenkins
2 7 (70.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 7 (70.00%) TeamCity
2 7 (70.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (10.00%) MSBuild
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) .NET Developer
2 8 (80.00%) C# Developer
2 8 (80.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 9 (90.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ITIL
1 9 (90.00%) UML
1 9 (90.00%) Service Management
1 9 (90.00%) Service Delivery
1 9 (90.00%) ITSM
2 8 (80.00%) Unit Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
1 9 (90.00%) C++
1 9 (90.00%) Java
1 9 (90.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (90.00%) SQL
1 9 (90.00%) VB
1 9 (90.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (100.00%) MCPD
1 10 (100.00%) MCP
2 9 (90.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) Oracle
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