West Sussex MCSE Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Rochdale Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	43
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	1.429 %	10.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£265
Average daily rate	-	£282
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£273	£288
% change on same period last year	-4.99 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.00	£26.00
Average hourly rate	£31.00	£26.00
% change on same period last year	+19.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.00	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.84	£22.98
% change on same period last year	+8.09 %
Qualifications West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	70	100
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	29	45
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£364
Average daily rate	£356	£379
% change on same period last year	-5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£394
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£336
% change on same period last year	-2.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.82	£24.05
Average hourly rate	£26.59	£25.34
% change on same period last year	+4.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.36	£26.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.94	£25.67
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
MCSE 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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MCSE across the West Sussex 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 Sussex region.

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 Sussex region.

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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Chichester	-	1	-	-

MCSE South East

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Compaq 2 2 (66.67 %) Dell 2 2 (66.67 %) EMC 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware Workstation 2 2 (66.67 %) NetBackup 2 2 (66.67 %) WMI 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (66.67 %) Operations Management

2 2 (66.67 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco 2 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 2 (66.67 %) VERITAS 2 2 (66.67 %) MOM 2 2 (66.67 %) MSI 2 2 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (66.67 %) VBA 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (66.67 %) DHCP 2 2 (66.67 %) DNS 3 1 (33.33 %) SLA 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Office

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 2 (66.67 %) WMI	Application Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (66.67 %) DHCP 1 2 (66.67 %) DNS 1 2 (66.67 %) SAN 2 1 (33.33 %) Wireless
Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) MSI	Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Server Engineer 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Technical Engineer
Operating Systems 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 1 2 (66.67 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Operations Management 2 1 (33.33 %) ITIL
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (33.33 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware Workstation 2 2 (66.67 %) NetBackup 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 2 (66.67 %) MOM	Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (66.67 %) Compaq 2 2 (66.67 %) Dell 2 2 (66.67 %) EMC 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (66.67 %) VERITAS 2 2 (66.67 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) Cisco