West Midlands MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hounslow Hove Hull Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	94	83
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	30	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	8.772 %	10.62 %
Daily rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£275
Average daily rate	£269	£285
% change on same period last year	-5.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£273	£296
UK excluding London average daily rate	£274	£292
% change on same period last year	-6.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.46	£28.46
Average hourly rate	£19.81	£29.81
% change on same period last year	-33.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	£31.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	£24.20
% change on same period last year	-7.01 %
Qualifications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	342	405
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.456 %	0.404 %
Daily rates quoted	112	119
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£264
Average daily rate	£319	£279
% change on same period last year	+14.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£330
% change on same period last year	+0.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	65
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.95	£29.54
Average hourly rate	£28.58	£32.50
% change on same period last year	-12.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.22	£35.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.85
% change on same period last year	-4.74 %
MCSE 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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MCSE
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Warwickshire	+13	9	£370	-
Birmingham	+5	8	£106	-67.80 %
Staffordshire	-3	3	£100	-
Coventry	-8	2	-	-
Wolverhampton	-	2	-	-
Herefordshire	0	1	£225	-
Worcestershire	-	1	-	-

MCSE England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing MCSE 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 MCSE.

1 48 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 35 (72.92 %) Windows 3 25 (52.08 %) Active Directory 4 21 (43.75 %) MS Exchange 5 18 (37.50 %) Microsoft 6 16 (33.33 %) MCP 6 16 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 15 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 8 12 (25.00 %) Windows XP 8 12 (25.00 %) Citrix 9 10 (20.83 %) ITIL 9 10 (20.83 %) VMware 10 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 11 7 (14.58 %) Dell 11 7 (14.58 %) LAN

11 7 (14.58 %) MCSA 11 7 (14.58 %) Windows Vista 11 7 (14.58 %) Windows 2000 Server 12 6 (12.50 %) Cisco 13 5 (10.42 %) HP 13 5 (10.42 %) Government 13 5 (10.42 %) Firewall 14 4 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 14 4 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 14 4 (8.333 %) Compaq 14 4 (8.333 %) CCNA 14 4 (8.333 %) WAN 14 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 15 3 (6.250 %) MS Excel 15 3 (6.250 %) Windows 2000

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing MCSE 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 MCSE. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (2.083 %) .NET 1 1 (2.083 %) XML 1 1 (2.083 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 21 (43.75 %) MS Exchange 2 16 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (6.250 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 1 (2.083 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (2.083 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 8 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 3 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (14.58 %) LAN 2 5 (10.42 %) Firewall 3 4 (8.333 %) WAN 4 2 (4.167 %) DHCP 4 2 (4.167 %) SNMP 4 2 (4.167 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (4.167 %) DNS 4 2 (4.167 %) SAN 4 2 (4.167 %) Wireless 4 2 (4.167 %) Network Security 5 1 (2.083 %) ADSL 5 1 (2.083 %) VPN 5 1 (2.083 %) Ethernet 5 1 (2.083 %) VoIP 5 1 (2.083 %) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 5 (10.42 %) Government 2 2 (4.167 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 8 (16.67 %) Analyst 2 7 (14.58 %) Support Analyst 3 6 (12.50 %) 3rd Line Support 4 5 (10.42 %) Server Support 5 4 (8.333 %) Consultant 5 4 (8.333 %) Server Engineer 6 3 (6.250 %) Network Engineer 6 3 (6.250 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) IT Manager 7 2 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) Field Engineer 7 2 (4.167 %) IT Support Analyst 7 2 (4.167 %) Network Support 7 2 (4.167 %) Support Consultant 8 1 (2.083 %) Administrator 8 1 (2.083 %) Delivery Manager 8 1 (2.083 %) Senior Support Engineer 8 1 (2.083 %) Server Support Engineer 8 1 (2.083 %) Infrastructure Consultant 8 1 (2.083 %) Server Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) Thin Client 1 1 (2.083 %) Blackberry 1 1 (2.083 %) Management Information System 1 1 (2.083 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 35 (72.92 %) Windows 2 15 (31.25 %) Windows Server 2003 3 12 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 7 (14.58 %) Windows Vista 4 7 (14.58 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (4.167 %) NetWare 6 2 (4.167 %) UNIX 7 1 (2.083 %) Windows NT 7 1 (2.083 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.83 %) ITIL 2 3 (6.250 %) Business Desktop Deployment 3 2 (4.167 %) Information Security 3 2 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (4.167 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (2.083 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (2.083 %) Information Security Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Security Management 4 1 (2.083 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (2.083 %) C 1 1 (2.083 %) SQL 1 1 (2.083 %) VBScript 1 1 (2.083 %) VB 1 1 (2.083 %) VB.NET 1 1 (2.083 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 48 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (33.33 %) MCP 3 7 (14.58 %) MCSA 4 4 (8.333 %) CCNA 4 4 (8.333 %) Cisco Certification 5 3 (6.250 %) MCDST 6 2 (4.167 %) CCNP 6 2 (4.167 %) CNE 6 2 (4.167 %) Novell Certification 6 2 (4.167 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (2.083 %) MOS 7 1 (2.083 %) MCAD 7 1 (2.083 %) CCA 7 1 (2.083 %) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.083 %) SLA 1 1 (2.083 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 25 (52.08 %) Active Directory 2 4 (8.333 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (2.083 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (2.083 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (2.083 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (2.083 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (4.167 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (4.167 %) ARCserve 2 1 (2.083 %) MIMEsweeper 2 1 (2.083 %) DameWare 2 1 (2.083 %) Legato	Vendors 1 18 (37.50 %) Microsoft 2 12 (25.00 %) Citrix 3 10 (20.83 %) VMware 4 7 (14.58 %) Dell 5 6 (12.50 %) Cisco 6 5 (10.42 %) HP 7 4 (8.333 %) Compaq 8 3 (6.250 %) Lotus 9 2 (4.167 %) Remedy 9 2 (4.167 %) 3Com 9 2 (4.167 %) Novell 10 1 (2.083 %) VERITAS 10 1 (2.083 %) Nortel 10 1 (2.083 %) IBM 10 1 (2.083 %) CheckPoint 10 1 (2.083 %) SAP