Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the West Yorkshire region.

 Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank565479
Rank change year-on-year
Down-2Up+25
Matching contract IT job ads12613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire1.143 %0.680 %0.715 %
As % of the Qualifications category12.77 %3.614 %5.328 %
Daily rates quoted202
Average daily rate£285-£250
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£257-£114
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£313-£386
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£278£300
% change year-on-year
-0.900 %-7.500 %
Hourly rates quoted302
Average hourly rate£21.00-£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£17.50£22.00£20.00
% change year-on-year
-20.45 %+10.00 %
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
94166244
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire8.952 %18.80 %13.41 %
Daily rates quoted344264
Average daily rate£344£345£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.360 %-1.420 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£125£243
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£518£460£420
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted10525
Average hourly rate£21.00£17.80£20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.97 %-11.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.00£13.88£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£24.00£32.10£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
MCSE YorkshireMCSE
Yorkshire

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.

MCSE
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 Demand Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire MCSE Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire MCSE Hourly Rate Trend

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 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
LeedsUp+1211£285-
BradfordNew entry-1--
MCSE YorkshireMCSE
Yorkshire

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

122 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
212 (54.55 %)Windows
310 (45.45 %)Windows Server 2003
49 (40.91 %)MCP
58 (36.36 %)MCSA
67 (31.82 %)ITIL
67 (31.82 %)Windows 2000 Server
75 (22.73 %)HP
75 (22.73 %)Dell
75 (22.73 %)TCP/IP
75 (22.73 %)IBM
75 (22.73 %)Windows Vista
75 (22.73 %)Migration
84 (18.18 %)MCDST
84 (18.18 %)SQL
84 (18.18 %)Active Directory
84 (18.18 %)Finance
84 (18.18 %)Health
84 (18.18 %)Manufacturing
93 (13.64 %)Disaster Recovery
93 (13.64 %)CCNA
93 (13.64 %)Cisco Certification
93 (13.64 %)NHS
93 (13.64 %)Project Management
93 (13.64 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
93 (13.64 %)C
93 (13.64 %).NET
93 (13.64 %)Microsoft
93 (13.64 %)Windows NT
93 (13.64 %)Windows XP

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (13.64 %).NET
22 (9.091 %)Spring
22 (9.091 %)SAX
22 (9.091 %)Web Services
31 (4.545 %)XML
31 (4.545 %)CSS
31 (4.545 %)HTML
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (9.091 %)CMS
12 (9.091 %)MS Exchange
12 (9.091 %)IIS
21 (4.545 %)SharePoint
21 (4.545 %)Exchange Server 2003
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11 (4.545 %)MS Project
11 (4.545 %)MS Office
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (22.73 %)TCP/IP
22 (9.091 %)LAN
22 (9.091 %)WAN
22 (9.091 %)DNS
22 (9.091 %)Firewall
31 (4.545 %)SAN
31 (4.545 %)SMTP
31 (4.545 %)DHCP
31 (4.545 %)FTP
31 (4.545 %)LDAP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (9.091 %)SQL Server 2005
12 (9.091 %)SQL Server
21 (4.545 %)SQL Server 2000
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14 (18.18 %)Finance
14 (18.18 %)Health
14 (18.18 %)Manufacturing
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
17 (31.82 %)Systems Engineer
26 (27.27 %)Analyst
34 (18.18 %)Support Analyst
43 (13.64 %)3rd Line Support
43 (13.64 %)Network Support
52 (9.091 %)Systems Support Analyst
52 (9.091 %)Systems Support
52 (9.091 %)3rd Line Support Analyst
52 (9.091 %)Systems Analyst
61 (4.545 %)Web Developer
61 (4.545 %)Senior Consultant
61 (4.545 %)Consultant
61 (4.545 %)Infrastructure Project Manager
61 (4.545 %)Senior Systems Engineer
61 (4.545 %)Applications Developer
61 (4.545 %)Infrastructure Analyst
61 (4.545 %)Administrator
61 (4.545 %)Project Manager
61 (4.545 %)Developer
61 (4.545 %)IT Support
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
13 (13.64 %)NHS
21 (4.545 %)Smartcard
21 (4.545 %)PKI
21 (4.545 %)Clustering
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
112 (54.55 %)Windows
210 (45.45 %)Windows Server 2003
37 (31.82 %)Windows 2000 Server
45 (22.73 %)Windows Vista
53 (13.64 %)Windows NT
53 (13.64 %)Windows XP
62 (9.091 %)Windows Server 2008
71 (4.545 %)Linux
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (31.82 %)ITIL
25 (22.73 %)Migration
33 (13.64 %)Disaster Recovery
33 (13.64 %)Project Management
42 (9.091 %)Content Management
42 (9.091 %)PRINCE2
42 (9.091 %)Validation
51 (4.545 %)Project Planning
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (18.18 %)SQL
23 (13.64 %)C
31 (4.545 %)C#
31 (4.545 %)VBScript
31 (4.545 %)VB
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
122 (100.00 %)Microsoft Certification
29 (40.91 %)MCP
38 (36.36 %)MCSA
44 (18.18 %)MCDST
53 (13.64 %)CCNA
53 (13.64 %)Cisco Certification
62 (9.091 %)Security Cleared
62 (9.091 %)CCNP
71 (4.545 %)RHCE
71 (4.545 %)CCA
71 (4.545 %)Citrix Certification
71 (4.545 %)CCEA
71 (4.545 %)MCAD
71 (4.545 %)HP APS
71 (4.545 %)MCTS
71 (4.545 %)MCITP
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
13 (13.64 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (4.545 %)SLA
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
14 (18.18 %)Active Directory
21 (4.545 %)XenApp
21 (4.545 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (4.545 %)Citrix Presentation Server
West Yorkshire IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (22.73 %)HP
15 (22.73 %)Dell
15 (22.73 %)IBM
23 (13.64 %)Microsoft
31 (4.545 %)Citrix
31 (4.545 %)Cisco
31 (4.545 %)VMware