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MCTS Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 13 MCTS job vacancies in the West Midlands

The first table below looks at the demand for MCTS in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCTS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 West Midlands 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS)
Rank 94 100 97
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -3
Contract jobs citing MCTS 3 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.179% 0.132% 0.052%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.075% 0.917% 0.319%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £275 £293
% change year-on-year
+16.36% -5.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £19.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £33.75
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -51.11%
All Qualifications
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 279 327 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 16.63% 14.40% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 137 155 124
Average daily rate £325 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £225 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 24 33
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -27.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.95 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £65.00 £22.55 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCTS
England

MCTS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands MCTS Jobs Demand Trend

MCTS
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands MCTS Daily Rate Trend

MCTS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands MCTS Hourly Rate Trend

MCTS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCTS within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Solihull - 1 - - 1
Walsall - - - - 1
Wolverhampton - - - -
Shropshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - - 1
Warwickshire - - - - 4
Worcestershire - - - - 1
Birmingham - - - - 5
Coventry - - - -
Smethwick - - - -
MCTS
England

MCTS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing MCTS 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 MCTS.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) CA
2 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) MCITP
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) MCPD
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM

MCTS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing MCTS 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 MCTS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Team System
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Support Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Server Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Problem Management
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) CCNP
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (66.67%) MCITP
2 1 (33.33%) MCPD
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) MCAD
2 1 (33.33%) MCSD
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CA
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
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