The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE 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 MCSE over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 67 78 73
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -5
Contract jobs citing MCSE 28 19 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.041% 1.092% 0.833%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.39% 8.120% 6.211%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 3
Average daily rate £308 £278 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.81% +23.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £308 £275 £260
% change year-on-year
+11.81% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 4
Average hourly rate £93.00 - £22.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.40 - £18.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £158.60 - £24.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+10.52% -
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
226 234 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 16.47% 13.45% 13.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 126 63
Average daily rate £300 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £188 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 12
Average hourly rate £12.75 £14.25 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -35.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.97 £12.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £50.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
MCSE
Yorkshire

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSE Jobs Demand Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

MCSE
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire MCSE Daily Rate Histogram

MCSE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

MCSE
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MCSE across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

West Yorkshire MCSE Hourly Rate Histogram

MCSE
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MCSE within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Leeds -2 18 £308 +11.31% 6
Bradford - 4 £250 -
Halifax - 4 - - 1
Huddersfield - - - -
Wakefield - - - -
MCSE
Yorkshire

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 33 (100.00%) Windows
1 33 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 26 (78.79%) Windows Server 2003
3 26 (78.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 22 (66.67%) Cisco
4 22 (66.67%) SAN
4 22 (66.67%) Windows XP
5 21 (63.64%) SQL Server
6 20 (60.61%) LAN
6 20 (60.61%) WAN
7 18 (54.55%) MS Exchange
8 17 (51.52%) Exchange Server 2003
9 16 (48.48%) NAS
9 16 (48.48%) F5
10 11 (33.33%) VMware
11 9 (27.27%) Citrix
11 9 (27.27%) MCSA
12 8 (24.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
13 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
14 6 (18.18%) CCNA
14 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
14 6 (18.18%) ITIL
15 5 (15.15%) MCP
15 5 (15.15%) MS Office
15 5 (15.15%) UNIX
15 5 (15.15%) Windows 7
16 4 (12.12%) MCITP
16 4 (12.12%) Windows Vista

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 (6.061%) .NET
2 1 (3.030%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 18 (54.55%) MS Exchange
2 17 (51.52%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (12.12%) SharePoint
4 3 (9.091%) IBM Notes
4 3 (9.091%) Lotus Domino
5 2 (6.061%) IIS
6 1 (3.030%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (3.030%) Apache
6 1 (3.030%) WorkSite
Applications
1 5 (15.15%) MS Office
2 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
3 1 (3.030%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 22 (66.67%) SAN
2 20 (60.61%) LAN
2 20 (60.61%) WAN
3 16 (48.48%) NAS
4 4 (12.12%) VoIP
4 4 (12.12%) TCP/IP
4 4 (12.12%) DNS
4 4 (12.12%) Firewall
4 4 (12.12%) Internet
5 3 (9.091%) Wireless
6 1 (3.030%) SSL
6 1 (3.030%) VPN
6 1 (3.030%) SMTP
6 1 (3.030%) DHCP
6 1 (3.030%) FTP
6 1 (3.030%) HTTP
6 1 (3.030%) SSH
6 1 (3.030%) BIG-IP
6 1 (3.030%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.030%) Data Mining
General
1 3 (9.091%) Finance
2 2 (6.061%) Banking
2 2 (6.061%) Legal
3 1 (3.030%) Law
Job Titles
1 12 (36.36%) Analyst
2 8 (24.24%) 3rd Line Support
2 8 (24.24%) Messaging Analyst
3 7 (21.21%) Support Engineer
4 5 (15.15%) Messaging Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Support Officer
5 4 (12.12%) Technical Support
6 3 (9.091%) Support Analyst
6 3 (9.091%) Administrator
6 3 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (9.091%) Senior Support Analyst
6 3 (9.091%) Messaging Specialist
6 3 (9.091%) Microsoft Specialist
7 2 (6.061%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (3.030%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (3.030%) Systems Administrator
8 1 (3.030%) Support Technician
8 1 (3.030%) Architect
8 1 (3.030%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Replication
2 2 (6.061%) Fat Client
2 2 (6.061%) Clustering
2 2 (6.061%) Thin Client
3 1 (3.030%) Firmware
3 1 (3.030%) Blackberry
3 1 (3.030%) iPhone
3 1 (3.030%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 33 (100.00%) Windows
2 26 (78.79%) Windows Server 2003
2 26 (78.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (66.67%) Windows XP
4 5 (15.15%) UNIX
4 5 (15.15%) Windows 7
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Vista
5 4 (12.12%) Linux
5 4 (12.12%) Windows 2000
6 1 (3.030%) Mac OS X
6 1 (3.030%) Debian
6 1 (3.030%) CentOS
6 1 (3.030%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.030%) Apple iOS
6 1 (3.030%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (18.18%) ITIL
2 4 (12.12%) Service Delivery
3 3 (9.091%) Performance Management
4 1 (3.030%) Service Management
4 1 (3.030%) ITSM
4 1 (3.030%) Document Management
4 1 (3.030%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.061%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.061%) VBScript
2 1 (3.030%) Perl
2 1 (3.030%) PHP
2 1 (3.030%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (27.27%) MCSA
3 8 (24.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 6 (18.18%) CCNA
4 6 (18.18%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (15.15%) MCP
6 4 (12.12%) MCITP
6 4 (12.12%) HNC
7 2 (6.061%) SC Cleared
7 2 (6.061%) Security Cleared
8 1 (3.030%) CCA
8 1 (3.030%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (3.030%) MCTS
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.12%) VMware ESX
3 3 (9.091%) vSphere
3 3 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.061%) XenApp
5 1 (3.030%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (3.030%) Xen
5 1 (3.030%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (6.061%) WSUS
2 1 (3.030%) SCCM
2 1 (3.030%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 27 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 22 (66.67%) Cisco
3 16 (48.48%) F5
4 11 (33.33%) VMware
5 9 (27.27%) Citrix
6 3 (9.091%) Lotus
6 3 (9.091%) LANDesk
7 1 (3.030%) Juniper
7 1 (3.030%) Red Hat
7 1 (3.030%) Apple
7 1 (3.030%) HP
7 1 (3.030%) Wyse
7 1 (3.030%) Brocade
7 1 (3.030%) Syncsort
7 1 (3.030%) SolarWinds