The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA over the 3 months to 21 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 Yorkshire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 87 93 65
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -28
Contract jobs citing MCSA 5 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.389% 0.125% 0.639%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.500% 0.881% 4.698%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £250 £350 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +75.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £233 £245
% change year-on-year
-3.22% -5.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
Average hourly rate £93.00 - £22.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.40 - £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £158.60 - £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-27.27% -5.71%
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
200 227 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 15.58% 14.15% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 129 61
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £213 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
Average hourly rate £12.75 £20.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.80% -6.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £50.00 £25.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
MCSA
Yorkshire

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSA Jobs Demand Trend

MCSA
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSA Daily Rate Trend

MCSA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSA Hourly Rate Trend

MCSA
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSA across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire MCSA Hourly Rate Histogram

MCSA
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSA within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Bradford - 4 £250 -
Pontefract - 1 - -
MCSA
Yorkshire

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (90.00%) MCSE
3 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
4 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
5 5 (50.00%) UNIX
5 5 (50.00%) SAN
5 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (50.00%) VMware
5 5 (50.00%) Windows Vista
5 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
6 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco
6 4 (40.00%) Citrix
6 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (40.00%) Internet
6 4 (40.00%) VoIP
6 4 (40.00%) CCNA
6 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
6 4 (40.00%) Windows 2000
6 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (40.00%) MS Office
6 4 (40.00%) ITIL
6 4 (40.00%) MCP
6 4 (40.00%) HNC
7 3 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
7 3 (30.00%) Lotus Domino

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MCSA 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 MCSA. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (30.00%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (40.00%) Internet
2 4 (40.00%) VoIP
3 3 (30.00%) WAN
3 3 (30.00%) LAN
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall
3 3 (30.00%) Wireless
4 1 (10.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Support Officer
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Support
1 4 (40.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 8 (80.00%) Windows XP
3 5 (50.00%) UNIX
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (50.00%) Windows Vista
3 5 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 2000
5 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (10.00%) Document Management
3 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (10.00%) Perl
1 1 (10.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (90.00%) MCSE
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (40.00%) CCNA
3 4 (40.00%) MCP
3 4 (40.00%) HNC
4 1 (10.00%) MCTS
4 1 (10.00%) MCITP
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (10.00%) XenApp
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SCCM
1 1 (10.00%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) Cisco
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix
4 3 (30.00%) Lotus
4 3 (30.00%) LANDesk
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) HP