The first table below looks at the demand for MCDST in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCDST 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 Warrington 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 Certified Desktop Support Technician (MCDST)
Rank - 15 -
Contract jobs citing MCDST 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington - 2.083% -
As % of the Qualifications category - 5.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £110 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £95 £125 £119
% change year-on-year
-24.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.77 £16.50 £21.25
% change year-on-year
-22.60% -22.35%
All Qualifications
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
34 40 37
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 26.56% 41.67% 44.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 4
Average daily rate £450 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.40% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £110 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £462 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £12.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCDST
Cheshire

MCDST
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington MCDST Jobs Demand Trend

MCDST
Daily Rate Trend

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

Warrington MCDST Daily Rate Trend

MCDST
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington region citing MCDST 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 MCDST.

1 4 (100.00%) MS Project
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) OpenView
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus
1 4 (100.00%) LiveLink
1 4 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceCenter
1 4 (100.00%) BS25999
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7

MCDST
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington region citing MCDST 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 MCDST. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 4 (100.00%) LiveLink
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Project
1 4 (100.00%) MS Office
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) MS Visio
1 4 (100.00%) MS PowerPoint
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Support Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Incident Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) MCP
1 4 (100.00%) MCSE
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) ISO 9000
1 4 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (100.00%) BS25999
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) OpenView
1 4 (100.00%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) HP
1 4 (100.00%) Lotus