West Midlands MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the West Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MCP over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aylesbury Banbury Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Derby Derbyshire Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Haslemere Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Ives Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	110
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	16	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.022 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	4.878 %	4.675 %
Daily rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£97
Average daily rate	£320	£103
% change on same period last year	+210.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£109
UK excluding London average daily rate	£223	£190
% change on same period last year	+17.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.58	£13.20
Average hourly rate	£13.33	£13.50
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.08	£13.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.34	£18.66
% change on same period last year	-17.75 %
Qualifications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	328	385
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.458 %	0.387 %
Daily rates quoted	111	114
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£239
Average daily rate	£344	£254
% change on same period last year	+35.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£269
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£323
% change on same period last year	+4.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	45	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.60	£29.58
Average hourly rate	£27.18	£32.84
% change on same period last year	-17.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£36.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.40	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-1.74 %
MCP England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MCP
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCP across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MCP
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MCP across the West Midlands region.

MCP
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

MCP
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MCP across the West Midlands region.

MCP
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCP across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

MCP
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+21	7	-	-
Warwickshire	+14	5	£375	+257.14 %
Staffordshire	-9	1	£100	-
Worcestershire	-	1	-	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-

MCP England

MCP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 22 (73.33 %) Windows 3 18 (60.00 %) Microsoft 4 14 (46.67 %) Windows XP 5 13 (43.33 %) MCSE 6 10 (33.33 %) HP 7 9 (30.00 %) MS Office 8 8 (26.67 %) Active Directory 8 8 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 9 5 (16.67 %) Citrix 10 4 (13.33 %) Dell 10 4 (13.33 %) Lotus 10 4 (13.33 %) Lotus Notes 10 4 (13.33 %) MCSA 11 3 (10.00 %) MS Exchange

11 3 (10.00 %) DHCP 11 3 (10.00 %) NetWare 11 3 (10.00 %) DNS 11 3 (10.00 %) Compaq 11 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 11 3 (10.00 %) Education 11 3 (10.00 %) Windows Vista 11 3 (10.00 %) MCDST 12 2 (6.667 %) Blackberry 12 2 (6.667 %) Novell 12 2 (6.667 %) CNE 12 2 (6.667 %) Novell Certification 12 2 (6.667 %) SLA 12 2 (6.667 %) SNMP 12 2 (6.667 %) TCP/IP

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region 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 Platforms 1 4 (13.33 %) Lotus Notes 2 3 (10.00 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (3.333 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (3.333 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 9 (30.00 %) MS Office 2 2 (6.667 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.333 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.00 %) DHCP 1 3 (10.00 %) DNS 2 2 (6.667 %) SNMP 2 2 (6.667 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.333 %) VPN 3 1 (3.333 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.333 %) LAN 3 1 (3.333 %) SMS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.333 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (10.00 %) Education 2 1 (3.333 %) Finance 2 1 (3.333 %) Automotive	Job Titles 1 8 (26.67 %) Deployment Engineer 2 6 (20.00 %) Desktop Support 3 5 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 4 (13.33 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (10.00 %) 1st Line Support 5 3 (10.00 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (10.00 %) Desktop Engineer 6 2 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 6 2 (6.667 %) Server Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Support Technician 7 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Network Support Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (3.333 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.333 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Network Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (3.333 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 1 (3.333 %) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.667 %) Blackberry 2 1 (3.333 %) PDA	Operating Systems 1 22 (73.33 %) Windows 2 14 (46.67 %) Windows XP 3 8 (26.67 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (10.00 %) NetWare 4 3 (10.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (10.00 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 1 (3.333 %) Windows NT 5 1 (3.333 %) Linux 5 1 (3.333 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.667 %) ITIL 2 1 (3.333 %) Quality Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (3.333 %) Disaster Recovery 2 1 (3.333 %) Information Security Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Security Management 2 1 (3.333 %) Workflow 2 1 (3.333 %) Migration 2 1 (3.333 %) Information Security 2 1 (3.333 %) Asset Management	Qualifications 1 30 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 13 (43.33 %) MCSE 3 4 (13.33 %) MCSA 4 3 (10.00 %) MCDST 5 2 (6.667 %) CNE 5 2 (6.667 %) Novell Certification 6 1 (3.333 %) A+ Certification 6 1 (3.333 %) Network+ Certification 6 1 (3.333 %) CCNA 6 1 (3.333 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.667 %) SLA 2 1 (3.333 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 8 (26.67 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.333 %) MetaFrame 2 1 (3.333 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (3.333 %) Legato 1 1 (3.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (3.333 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 18 (60.00 %) Microsoft 2 10 (33.33 %) HP 3 5 (16.67 %) Citrix 4 4 (13.33 %) Lotus 4 4 (13.33 %) Dell 5 3 (10.00 %) Compaq 6 2 (6.667 %) Novell 7 1 (3.333 %) VMware 7 1 (3.333 %) Cisco 7 1 (3.333 %) IBM