MCP Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MCP in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Rank 314 294 333
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +39
Contract jobs citing MCP 235 350 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.499% 0.590% 0.465%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.749% 3.420% 2.953%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 118 90
Average daily rate £275 £235 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.02% -7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £110 £126 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £407 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £210 £142
% change year-on-year
+13.09% +47.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 56 86
Average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.45% -6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £23.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.75 £14.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-13.55% -7.81%
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 8550 10235 9482
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.14% 17.26% 15.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4574 5344 4533
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £539 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 462 564 657
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%

MCP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

MCP Daily Rate Trend

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

MCP Hourly Rate Trend

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

MCP Hourly Rate Histogram

MCP
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 MCP within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -47 191 £268 +13.93%
London -32 66 £400 +70.21%
South East -9 57 £280 +47.36%
Scotland +3 28 £275 +89.65%
City of London -10 26 £375 -6.18%
East of England +5 19 £90 -35.71%
Yorkshire +5 15 £500 +61.29%
Buckinghamshire -1 15 £220 +42.85%
South West +12 13 £170 -57.50%
Milton Keynes +3 13 £325 +103.12%
Berkshire +8 12 £400 +40.35%
Glasgow - 12 £225 -
Essex +5 11 £90 -9.09%
Reading +12 10 £400 +70.21%
Kent +3 10 £280 +107.40%
West Yorkshire +5 9 - -
Wales +16 7 £129 -38.80%
South Wales +9 7 £129 -38.80%
North West -1 7 £90 -60.00%
Renfrewshire -2 7 £370 -
Erskine - 7 £370 -
West Sussex +12 6 £450 +181.25%
Surrey +3 6 £280 +47.36%
West Midlands +2 6 £108 -
East Midlands -5 6 £115 -57.40%
Basildon - 6 £85 -
Edinburgh +6 5 £134 -22.60%
Pontefract - 5 - -
Hertfordshire +10 4 £180 +38.46%
Wiltshire +4 4 £300 -20.00%

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 449 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 325 (72.38%) Microsoft
3 316 (70.38%) Windows
4 179 (39.87%) Windows 7
5 163 (36.30%) ITIL
5 163 (36.30%) MCSE
6 162 (36.08%) Active Directory
7 159 (35.41%) Windows XP
8 147 (32.74%) MS Office
9 145 (32.29%) MS Excel
10 101 (22.49%) Windows Server 2008
11 92 (20.49%) Windows Server 2003
12 91 (20.27%) SQL Server
13 89 (19.82%) MS Exchange
14 79 (17.59%) VMware
15 78 (17.37%) Citrix
16 76 (16.93%) MCSA
17 74 (16.48%) Security Cleared
18 69 (15.37%) .NET
19 68 (15.14%) HP
20 67 (14.92%) SCCM
21 62 (13.81%) MCTS
22 61 (13.59%) MCITP
23 59 (13.14%) MCDST
23 59 (13.14%) Service Management
24 56 (12.47%) SQL
25 55 (12.25%) SLA
26 52 (11.58%) TCP/IP
26 52 (11.58%) C#
26 52 (11.58%) VMware Infrastructure

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 69 (15.37%) .NET
2 37 (8.241%) XML
3 36 (8.018%) ASP.NET
4 35 (7.795%) .NET Framework
5 24 (5.345%) HTML
6 16 (3.563%) WCF
7 15 (3.341%) ASP
8 14 (3.118%) XML Schema
9 9 (2.004%) CSS
10 8 (1.782%) Application Packaging
11 7 (1.559%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 7 (1.559%) ASP.NET MVC
12 5 (1.114%) WinForms
12 5 (1.114%) Ajax
12 5 (1.114%) jQuery
13 4 (0.891%) COM
14 3 (0.668%) OpenGL
14 3 (0.668%) SOAP
14 3 (0.668%) XSLT
14 3 (0.668%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 89 (19.82%) MS Exchange
2 46 (10.24%) Exchange Server 2003
3 45 (10.02%) SharePoint
4 32 (7.127%) Exchange Server 2010
5 31 (6.904%) Lotus Notes
6 27 (6.013%) IIS
7 26 (5.791%) Exchange Server 2007
8 12 (2.673%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 11 (2.450%) OpenROAD
9 11 (2.450%) SharePoint Server
9 11 (2.450%) SharePoint 2010
10 8 (1.782%) Lync
11 4 (0.891%) Exchange Server 2000
11 4 (0.891%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.668%) SharePoint 2013
13 2 (0.445%) Lotus Domino
14 1 (0.223%) Apache
14 1 (0.223%) WorkSite
14 1 (0.223%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 147 (32.74%) MS Office
2 145 (32.29%) MS Excel
3 17 (3.786%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.227%) MS PowerPoint
4 10 (2.227%) MS Project
5 4 (0.891%) Photoshop
5 4 (0.891%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.223%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.223%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.223%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.114%) 3000 Xtra
2 4 (0.891%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.668%) Line 500
4 2 (0.445%) assyst
4 2 (0.445%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.223%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 52 (11.58%) TCP/IP
2 41 (9.131%) LAN
3 38 (8.463%) Internet
3 38 (8.463%) WAN
4 33 (7.350%) DNS
5 27 (6.013%) DHCP
6 23 (5.122%) SAN
7 21 (4.677%) Firewall
8 18 (4.009%) VPN
9 10 (2.227%) VoIP
10 7 (1.559%) Wireless
10 7 (1.559%) NetScaler
11 6 (1.336%) NAS
11 6 (1.336%) Unified Communications
11 6 (1.336%) Network Security
11 6 (1.336%) Intranet
12 5 (1.114%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.114%) MPLS
12 5 (1.114%) GPRS
12 5 (1.114%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (20.27%) SQL Server
2 34 (7.572%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (4.677%) SQL Server 2005
4 20 (4.454%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 19 (4.232%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 18 (4.009%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (2.450%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.450%) Ingres
8 8 (1.782%) OLAP
8 8 (1.782%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (1.114%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.891%) SQLPlus
11 3 (0.668%) SQL Server 2000
12 2 (0.445%) SQL Server 2012
12 2 (0.445%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 2 (0.445%) DTS
12 2 (0.445%) MySQL
13 1 (0.223%) IDOL
13 1 (0.223%) Oracle 8/8i
13 1 (0.223%) Informix
Development Applications
1 27 (6.013%) MSI
2 24 (5.345%) Wise Package Studio
3 21 (4.677%) Team Foundation Server
4 20 (4.454%) NUnit
5 14 (3.118%) Visual Studio
6 13 (2.895%) CruiseControl
7 8 (1.782%) MSTest
7 8 (1.782%) Jenkins
7 8 (1.782%) Subversion
7 8 (1.782%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 7 (1.559%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.891%) Rhino Mocks
10 3 (0.668%) Dreamweaver
10 3 (0.668%) Git (software)
11 1 (0.223%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.223%) MSBuild
11 1 (0.223%) Moq
General
1 51 (11.36%) Finance
2 24 (5.345%) Telecoms
3 15 (3.341%) Local Government
4 10 (2.227%) Law
5 9 (2.004%) Banking
6 8 (1.782%) Manufacturing
7 7 (1.559%) German Language
8 6 (1.336%) French Language
8 6 (1.336%) Legal
9 5 (1.114%) Aerospace
10 4 (0.891%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (0.668%) Back Office
11 3 (0.668%) Games
11 3 (0.668%) Retail
11 3 (0.668%) Dutch Language
12 2 (0.445%) Danish Language
12 2 (0.445%) Hebrew Language
12 2 (0.445%) Spanish Language
12 2 (0.445%) Swedish Language
12 2 (0.445%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 113 (25.17%) Analyst
2 64 (14.25%) Desktop Support
3 59 (13.14%) Support Analyst
4 57 (12.69%) 2nd Line Support
5 52 (11.58%) Support Engineer
5 52 (11.58%) Developer
6 38 (8.463%) Service Analyst
6 38 (8.463%) Service Desk Analyst
7 34 (7.572%) Desktop Engineer
8 28 (6.236%) .NET Developer
9 25 (5.568%) Applications Packager
10 23 (5.122%) Help Desk Analyst
10 23 (5.122%) 3rd Line Support
10 23 (5.122%) Administrator
11 20 (4.454%) Technical Support
12 18 (4.009%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 18 (4.009%) Consultant
13 14 (3.118%) IT Support
14 13 (2.895%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
14 13 (2.895%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 40 (8.909%) Blackberry
2 19 (4.232%) Management Information System
3 17 (3.786%) Cryptography
4 15 (3.341%) Computer Science
5 13 (2.895%) Thin Client
5 13 (2.895%) Fat Client
6 9 (2.004%) Clustering
7 8 (1.782%) iPhone
7 8 (1.782%) Statistics
7 8 (1.782%) Taxonomies
7 8 (1.782%) Tandem
8 7 (1.559%) iPad
9 6 (1.336%) Firmware
10 5 (1.114%) NHS
10 5 (1.114%) Mathematics
10 5 (1.114%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.891%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (0.891%) N-Tier
12 3 (0.668%) W3C
12 3 (0.668%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 316 (70.38%) Windows
2 179 (39.87%) Windows 7
3 159 (35.41%) Windows XP
4 101 (22.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 92 (20.49%) Windows Server 2003
6 34 (7.572%) Windows Vista
7 32 (7.127%) UNIX
8 26 (5.791%) Windows 2000
9 21 (4.677%) Linux
10 13 (2.895%) Mac OS X
11 12 (2.673%) Windows 2000 Server
12 6 (1.336%) HPUX
13 3 (0.668%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.445%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.445%) Windows NT
15 1 (0.223%) Debian
15 1 (0.223%) Android
15 1 (0.223%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 163 (36.30%) ITIL
2 59 (13.14%) Service Management
3 43 (9.577%) Migration
4 35 (7.795%) Service Delivery
5 23 (5.122%) Incident Management
6 21 (4.677%) Asset Management
7 18 (4.009%) Business Intelligence
8 16 (3.563%) Problem Management
9 15 (3.341%) Change Management
9 15 (3.341%) ITSM
10 14 (3.118%) UML
10 14 (3.118%) Disaster Recovery
10 14 (3.118%) Security Architecture
11 13 (2.895%) Software Deployment
12 10 (2.227%) Web Application Development
12 10 (2.227%) Data Protection
12 10 (2.227%) MVC
13 9 (2.004%) CRM
13 9 (2.004%) TDD
13 9 (2.004%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (12.47%) SQL
2 52 (11.58%) C#
3 46 (10.24%) VBScript
4 30 (6.682%) VB.NET
5 29 (6.459%) PowerShell
6 23 (5.122%) JavaScript
7 20 (4.454%) VB
8 14 (3.118%) Java
8 14 (3.118%) C++
9 13 (2.895%) T-SQL
10 9 (2.004%) C
11 6 (1.336%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.668%) PHP
12 3 (0.668%) VBA
13 1 (0.223%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.223%) VB6
Qualifications
1 449 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 163 (36.30%) MCSE
3 76 (16.93%) MCSA
4 74 (16.48%) Security Cleared
5 62 (13.81%) MCTS
6 61 (13.59%) MCITP
7 59 (13.14%) MCDST
8 47 (10.47%) SC Cleared
9 31 (6.904%) MCSD
10 24 (5.345%) MCAD
10 24 (5.345%) Degree
11 22 (4.900%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (4.454%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (4.232%) CCNA
14 16 (3.563%) DV Cleared
15 14 (3.118%) MCPD
15 14 (3.118%) A+ Certification
15 14 (3.118%) ISEB
16 13 (2.895%) CISSP
16 13 (2.895%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (12.25%) SLA
2 31 (6.904%) QA
3 7 (1.559%) ISO 9000
3 7 (1.559%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.559%) BS25999
System Software
1 162 (36.08%) Active Directory
2 52 (11.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (5.791%) Microsoft App-V
4 24 (5.345%) vSphere
5 19 (4.232%) Hyper-V
6 14 (3.118%) XenApp
7 13 (2.895%) VMware ESXi
8 8 (1.782%) XenDesktop
9 7 (1.559%) VMware ESX
10 3 (0.668%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.445%) XenServer
11 2 (0.445%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.445%) Terminal Server
12 1 (0.223%) ISA Server
12 1 (0.223%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.223%) Samba
12 1 (0.223%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 1 (0.223%) DFS Replication
12 1 (0.223%) Shibboleth
Systems Management
1 67 (14.92%) SCCM
2 31 (6.904%) OpenView
3 27 (6.013%) Backup Exec
4 23 (5.122%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 19 (4.232%) OVSD
6 10 (2.227%) SCOM
7 9 (2.004%) Norton AntiVirus
8 7 (1.559%) ServiceCenter
9 6 (1.336%) McAfee ePO
10 5 (1.114%) WSUS
10 5 (1.114%) HP SIM
11 3 (0.668%) Tivoli
11 3 (0.668%) MIIS
12 2 (0.445%) Legato
13 1 (0.223%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.223%) Unicenter
13 1 (0.223%) DameWare
13 1 (0.223%) NetBackup
13 1 (0.223%) HP Data Protector
13 1 (0.223%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 325 (72.38%) Microsoft
2 79 (17.59%) VMware
3 78 (17.37%) Citrix
4 68 (15.14%) HP
5 44 (9.800%) Cisco
6 33 (7.350%) Lotus
7 32 (7.127%) McAfee
8 27 (6.013%) Oracle
9 16 (3.563%) Symantec
10 14 (3.118%) Dell
10 14 (3.118%) Remedy
11 13 (2.895%) Apple
11 13 (2.895%) IBM
12 11 (2.450%) Adobe
13 9 (2.004%) Sage
14 8 (1.782%) Juniper
15 7 (1.559%) Red Hat
15 7 (1.559%) Compaq
15 7 (1.559%) Altiris
16 6 (1.336%) Riverbed
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