West Sussex MCP Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in IT contracts within the West Sussex 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Salisbury Sandbach Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	48
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.778 %	3.261 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£160	-
Average daily rate	£175	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£190	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£208	£199
% change on same period last year	+4.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£26.50
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£26.50
% change on same period last year	-43.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.58	£19.74
% change on same period last year	-16.01 %
Qualifications West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	72	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.097 %	0.091 %
Daily rates quoted	26	39
Average minimum daily rate	£349	£389
Average daily rate	£365	£402
% change on same period last year	-9.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£331
% change on same period last year	+0.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.72	£24.57
Average hourly rate	£26.86	£24.57
% change on same period last year	+9.31 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£24.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.62	£25.79
% change on same period last year	-4.55 %
MCP South East

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 Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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 Sussex region.

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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Crawley	0	2	£175	-

MCP South East

MCP
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 2 (66.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (33.33 %) Wireless 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSA 3 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 3 1 (33.33 %) SLA 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification

MCP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) VoIP 1 1 (33.33 %) Wireless
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) ITIL	Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 2 1 (33.33 %) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft