West Sussex Microsoft Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Lutterworth Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow 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 Paisley Penrith Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wimbledon Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	40	36
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	13.46 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£265
Average daily rate	£300	£282
% change on same period last year	+6.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£266	£275
% change on same period last year	-3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.50	£23.25
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£23.88
% change on same period last year	-3.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.50	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.07	£23.18
% change on same period last year	-0.50 %
Qualifications West Sussex
Matching contract IT job ads	70	104
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.105 %
Daily rates quoted	29	47
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£366
Average daily rate	£356	£382
% change on same period last year	-6.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
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	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
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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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 25 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
Crawley	+1	2	£175	-
Chichester	-	1	-	-
Worthing	+8	1	£425	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification.

1 10 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 6 (50.00 %) Windows 3 5 (41.67 %) SQL 3 5 (41.67 %) Active Directory 3 5 (41.67 %) MS Exchange 4 3 (25.00 %) MCP 4 3 (25.00 %) C# 4 3 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (25.00 %) MCSE 4 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 2 (16.67 %) Operations Management 5 2 (16.67 %) Cisco 5 2 (16.67 %) WMI 5 2 (16.67 %) VMware Infrastructure

5 2 (16.67 %) MS Office 5 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 5 2 (16.67 %) VBA 5 2 (16.67 %) .NET 5 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 5 2 (16.67 %) DHCP 5 2 (16.67 %) DNS 5 2 (16.67 %) Compaq 5 2 (16.67 %) Dell 5 2 (16.67 %) EMC 5 2 (16.67 %) Citrix 5 2 (16.67 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (16.67 %) NetBackup 5 2 (16.67 %) VMware 5 2 (16.67 %) VMware Workstation

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region citing Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (16.67 %) .NET 1 2 (16.67 %) WMI 2 1 (8.333 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 5 (41.67 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (8.333 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) MS Office 2 1 (8.333 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (16.67 %) DHCP 1 2 (16.67 %) DNS 1 2 (16.67 %) SAN 2 1 (8.333 %) Wireless 2 1 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (8.333 %) VPN 2 1 (8.333 %) VoIP 2 1 (8.333 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 1 1 (8.333 %) MS Access 1 1 (8.333 %) DTS 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (16.67 %) MSI
General 1 1 (8.333 %) Finance 1 1 (8.333 %) Education 1 1 (8.333 %) Manufacturing 1 1 (8.333 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 5 (41.67 %) Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Server Engineer 2 2 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 2 (16.67 %) Citrix Engineer 3 1 (8.333 %) Senior DBA 3 1 (8.333 %) Systems Programmer 3 1 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (8.333 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (8.333 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Administrator 3 1 (8.333 %) C# Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) IT Support Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) Technical Engineer 3 1 (8.333 %) Applications Architect 3 1 (8.333 %) Architect 3 1 (8.333 %) Developer 3 1 (8.333 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (8.333 %) DBA
Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 6 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (25.00 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 4 1 (8.333 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (8.333 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 1 2 (16.67 %) Operations Management 2 1 (8.333 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 5 (41.67 %) SQL 2 3 (25.00 %) C# 3 2 (16.67 %) VBA 4 1 (8.333 %) C++ 4 1 (8.333 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (25.00 %) MCP 1 3 (25.00 %) MCSE 2 1 (8.333 %) MCSA 2 1 (8.333 %) MCDBA 2 1 (8.333 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (8.333 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) SLA
System Software 1 5 (41.67 %) Active Directory 2 2 (16.67 %) MetaFrame 2 2 (16.67 %) VMware Workstation 2 2 (16.67 %) NetBackup 2 2 (16.67 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (16.67 %) MOM
Vendors 1 10 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (16.67 %) Compaq 2 2 (16.67 %) Dell 2 2 (16.67 %) EMC 2 2 (16.67 %) Citrix 2 2 (16.67 %) VERITAS 2 2 (16.67 %) VMware 2 2 (16.67 %) Cisco 3 1 (8.333 %) Oracle