The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 15 39 45
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 25 20 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 6.757% 3.040% 1.584%
As % of the Qualifications category 35.71% 22.47% 8.750%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 2
Average daily rate £425 £313 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.00% +7.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £265
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 3
Average hourly rate £18.27 £12.63 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+44.67% +14.77%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-6.45% -11.42%
All Qualifications
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
70 89 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 18.92% 13.53% 18.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 47 29
Average daily rate £400 £320 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £140 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £439 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 7 22
Average hourly rate £36.50 £15.30 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+138.56% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.27 £11.75 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £33.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Microsoft Certification Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Sussex Microsoft Certification Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Contract Locations

The table below 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 24 May 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
Gatwick - 5 £585 -
Horsham - 3 - -
Crawley +11 2 £450 -
Worthing 0 1 £320 +0.39%
Microsoft Certification
South East

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 31 (77.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (45.00%) Windows
3 17 (42.50%) .NET
3 17 (42.50%) ASP.NET
4 15 (37.50%) CSS
4 15 (37.50%) SQL
4 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 15 (37.50%) XHTML
4 15 (37.50%) Back Office
4 15 (37.50%) MVC
4 15 (37.50%) Scrum
4 15 (37.50%) Subversion
4 15 (37.50%) jQuery
4 15 (37.50%) Umbraco
4 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.00%) CMS
5 14 (35.00%) TDD
5 14 (35.00%) NUnit
5 14 (35.00%) VMware
6 13 (32.50%) Google Maps API
6 13 (32.50%) Google
7 12 (30.00%) Bing Maps
7 12 (30.00%) NetApp
8 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
8 11 (27.50%) Clustering
9 10 (25.00%) QA
9 10 (25.00%) MCSE
10 9 (22.50%) SharePoint
10 9 (22.50%) ITIL

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 17 (42.50%) .NET
1 17 (42.50%) ASP.NET
2 15 (37.50%) CSS
2 15 (37.50%) XHTML
2 15 (37.50%) jQuery
2 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 13 (32.50%) Google Maps API
4 12 (30.00%) Bing Maps
5 6 (15.00%) WebSphere
6 3 (7.500%) XML
7 1 (2.500%) RESTful
7 1 (2.500%) HTML5
7 1 (2.500%) SOAP
7 1 (2.500%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 15 (37.50%) Umbraco
2 14 (35.00%) CMS
3 9 (22.50%) SharePoint
4 8 (20.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (17.50%) Sitecore CMS
6 6 (15.00%) Apache
6 6 (15.00%) OpenEdge
7 4 (10.00%) MS Exchange
8 2 (5.000%) Lync
Applications
1 6 (15.00%) MS Office
1 6 (15.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.000%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 6 (15.00%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 8 (20.00%) SAN
2 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (15.00%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) Firewall
3 5 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (5.000%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.500%) LAN
5 1 (2.500%) WAN
5 1 (2.500%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (15.00%) MySQL
2 6 (15.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Subversion
2 14 (35.00%) NUnit
General
1 15 (37.50%) Back Office
2 3 (7.500%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.500%) Local Government
3 1 (2.500%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.500%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Developer
2 13 (32.50%) Analyst
3 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (25.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Web Developer
6 3 (7.500%) Desktop Administrator
6 3 (7.500%) Desktop Support
6 3 (7.500%) Administrator
7 2 (5.000%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.000%) Support Engineer
7 2 (5.000%) Technical Architect
7 2 (5.000%) Architect
7 2 (5.000%) Desktop Support Administrator
7 2 (5.000%) IT Support
7 2 (5.000%) .NET Technical Architect
7 2 (5.000%) .NET Architect
7 2 (5.000%) IT Support Analyst
8 1 (2.500%) .NET Web Developer
8 1 (2.500%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (27.50%) Clustering
2 5 (12.50%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.000%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.000%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (45.00%) Windows
2 8 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (15.00%) Linux
3 6 (15.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Windows 7
5 2 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.000%) Windows XP
6 1 (2.500%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.500%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (2.500%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) MVC
1 15 (37.50%) Scrum
2 14 (35.00%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (35.00%) TDD
3 9 (22.50%) ITIL
4 3 (7.500%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (5.000%) Project Management
5 2 (5.000%) Software Deployment
6 1 (2.500%) Business Continuity
6 1 (2.500%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) SQL
1 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (15.00%) PHP
3 2 (5.000%) C
3 2 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (25.00%) MCSE
2 7 (17.50%) MCP
3 6 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (12.50%) CCNP
5 2 (5.000%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (5.000%) MCSD
6 1 (2.500%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (2.500%) MCITP
6 1 (2.500%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.00%) VMware ESX
2 6 (15.00%) vSphere
3 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (5.000%) XenApp
5 1 (2.500%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.500%) XenServer
5 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Backup Exec
2 5 (12.50%) WSUS
3 3 (7.500%) HP SIM
4 2 (5.000%) SCCM
5 1 (2.500%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.500%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 31 (77.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (35.00%) VMware
3 13 (32.50%) Google
4 12 (30.00%) NetApp
5 7 (17.50%) Sitecore
6 6 (15.00%) Juniper
6 6 (15.00%) HP
6 6 (15.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (15.00%) CheckPoint
7 5 (12.50%) F5
7 5 (12.50%) ProCurve
7 5 (12.50%) Altiris
7 5 (12.50%) Cisco
8 2 (5.000%) Symantec
9 1 (2.500%) SAP
9 1 (2.500%) Citrix
9 1 (2.500%) StorageTek
9 1 (2.500%) McAfee