The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Uxbridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification 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 for the Uxbridge 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge - - -
As % of the Qualifications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -11.42%
All Qualifications
Uxbridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
32 20 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Uxbridge 31.07% 14.71% 29.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 17
Average daily rate £525 £485 £430
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.24% +12.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £318 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £666 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
London

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Uxbridge 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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

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 Uxbridge region.

Uxbridge Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 2000
1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) MCSA
1 4 (66.67%) NetIQ
1 4 (66.67%) Symantec
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (66.67%) Law
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
1 4 (66.67%) CLARiiON
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (66.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (33.33%) Red Gate
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) DTS

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Uxbridge 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 Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (33.33%) DTS
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Server Support
1 4 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Server Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Server Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Analyst
1 4 (66.67%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Implementation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Blackberry
1 4 (66.67%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows 2000
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (33.33%) Change Control
2 2 (33.33%) ETL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) MCSE
1 4 (66.67%) MCSA
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (33.33%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) MCTS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) NetIQ
1 4 (66.67%) Symantec
1 4 (66.67%) EMC
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
1 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Red Gate