The first table below looks at the demand for MCAD in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCAD over the 3 months to 19 June 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 currently tracked.

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)
Rank 512 548 578
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +30
Contract jobs citing MCAD 29 22 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.060% 0.038% 0.037%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.332% 0.221% 0.234%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 9 15
Average daily rate £363 £270 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.35% -16.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £235 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £270 £350
% change year-on-year
+29.62% -22.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £47.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8728 9969 9842
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.18% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 4650 5163 4803
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 491 522 685
Average hourly rate £22.13 £20.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.92% -8.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.28 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%

MCAD
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MCAD within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCAD Jobs Demand Trend

MCAD
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCAD within the UK.

MCAD Daily Rate Trend

MCAD
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCAD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

MCAD Daily Rate Histogram

MCAD
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCAD within the UK.

MCAD Hourly Rate Trend

MCAD
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCAD within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +20 29 £363 +34.35% 142
North West - 10 £420 - 17
South West - 7 £350 - 6
Cheshire - 7 £420 - 5
South East +24 5 £320 - 37
London +21 5 £450 +24.13% 45
Milton Keynes +2 3 £300 - 2
Buckinghamshire -8 3 £300 - 6
Merseyside - 3 - - 2
Liverpool - 3 - -
West Midlands - 2 £475 - 5
Gloucestershire - 2 £375 - 2
Cheltenham - 2 £375 -
Tunbridge Wells - 1 £320 - 2
Hampshire - 1 - - 4
Wiltshire - 1 £300 - 2
Worcestershire - 1 £475 - 1
Kent - 1 £320 - 5
Lancashire - - - - 3
Leicestershire - - - - 1
Lincolnshire - - - - 2
Norfolk - - - - 1
Northamptonshire - - - - 2
Northumberland - - - - 2
Nottinghamshire - - - - 6
Oxfordshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Surrey - - - - 9
West Sussex - - - - 2

MCAD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MCAD 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 MCAD.

1 46 (100.00%) .NET
1 46 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (91.30%) MCSD
3 38 (82.61%) C#
4 33 (71.74%) Microsoft
5 28 (60.87%) SQL Server
6 27 (58.70%) ASP.NET
7 26 (56.52%) MCTS
8 23 (50.00%) MCP
8 23 (50.00%) JavaScript
9 20 (43.48%) CSS
9 20 (43.48%) MVC
10 19 (41.30%) HTML
10 19 (41.30%) Visual Studio
10 19 (41.30%) WCF
11 18 (39.13%) Dynamics CRM
11 18 (39.13%) CRM
12 17 (36.96%) SQL
13 16 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
14 15 (32.61%) .NET Framework
14 15 (32.61%) XML
15 12 (26.09%) VB.NET
15 12 (26.09%) MCPD
16 11 (23.91%) Visual Studio Team System
16 11 (23.91%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 10 (21.74%) Web Application Development
17 10 (21.74%) Tandem
17 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
17 10 (21.74%) Web Services
17 10 (21.74%) Windows

MCAD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MCAD 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 MCAD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 46 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (58.70%) ASP.NET
3 20 (43.48%) CSS
4 19 (41.30%) HTML
4 19 (41.30%) WCF
5 15 (32.61%) .NET Framework
5 15 (32.61%) XML
6 11 (23.91%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 10 (21.74%) Web Services
8 8 (17.39%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 7 (15.22%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (15.22%) XSLT
10 5 (10.87%) WinForms
11 4 (8.696%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (6.522%) Castle Windsor
12 3 (6.522%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 3 (6.522%) Razor View Engine
12 3 (6.522%) HTML5
12 3 (6.522%) WPF
12 3 (6.522%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 10 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 9 (19.57%) IIS
3 2 (4.348%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.174%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (6.522%) MS Office
2 2 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 18 (39.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (13.04%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (60.87%) SQL Server
2 16 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.696%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (6.522%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (2.174%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 19 (41.30%) Visual Studio
2 11 (23.91%) Visual Studio Team System
3 8 (17.39%) NUnit
3 8 (17.39%) Git (software)
4 4 (8.696%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (6.522%) Rhino Mocks
6 2 (4.348%) CruiseControl
7 1 (2.174%) MSBuild
General
1 4 (8.696%) Finance
2 3 (6.522%) Games
3 2 (4.348%) Back Office
4 1 (2.174%) Banking
4 1 (2.174%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.174%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 40 (86.96%) Developer
2 27 (58.70%) .NET Developer
3 10 (21.74%) CRM Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Developer
5 6 (13.04%) SQL Developer
5 6 (13.04%) SQL Server Developer
5 6 (13.04%) VB.NET Developer
6 5 (10.87%) C# Developer
6 5 (10.87%) Programmer
7 3 (6.522%) Gameplay Developer
7 3 (6.522%) C++ Games Developer
7 3 (6.522%) C++/C# Developer
7 3 (6.522%) C++ Developer
7 3 (6.522%) Games Developer
8 2 (4.348%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.348%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (4.348%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (2.174%) WPF Developer
9 1 (2.174%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Tandem
2 3 (6.522%) Mathematics
2 3 (6.522%) 3D Graphics
3 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.174%) SaaS
3 1 (2.174%) iPad
3 1 (2.174%) iPhone
3 1 (2.174%) CESG
3 1 (2.174%) Statistics
3 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Windows
2 1 (2.174%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (43.48%) MVC
2 18 (39.13%) CRM
3 10 (21.74%) Web Application Development
4 8 (17.39%) Scrum
5 6 (13.04%) OO
5 6 (13.04%) SOA
6 5 (10.87%) Asset Management
6 5 (10.87%) TDD
7 4 (8.696%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (8.696%) MVVM
8 3 (6.522%) Game Development
8 3 (6.522%) 3D Modelling
8 3 (6.522%) Kanban
8 3 (6.522%) Web Development
8 3 (6.522%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (4.348%) Configuration Management
9 2 (4.348%) B2B
9 2 (4.348%) B2C
9 2 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (4.348%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 38 (82.61%) C#
2 23 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 17 (36.96%) SQL
4 12 (26.09%) VB.NET
5 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
6 6 (13.04%) VB
6 6 (13.04%) XQuery
7 5 (10.87%) XPath
8 4 (8.696%) C
9 3 (6.522%) Java
9 3 (6.522%) C++
10 2 (4.348%) PL/SQL
11 1 (2.174%) PowerShell
11 1 (2.174%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 42 (91.30%) MCSD
3 26 (56.52%) MCTS
4 23 (50.00%) MCP
5 12 (26.09%) MCPD
6 4 (8.696%) Security Cleared
6 4 (8.696%) SC Cleared
7 3 (6.522%) Degree
7 3 (6.522%) MCITP
8 2 (4.348%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.174%) QA
Vendors
1 33 (71.74%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.39%) Oracle
3 1 (2.174%) IBM
3 1 (2.174%) VMware
West Malling, South East
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £350 - £400 per day + £350 - £400 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Halifax, Yorkshire
.NET Developer, ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL Server, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection,...
Noir Consulting
Rate: £300 - £350 per day + £300 - £350 / Day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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