The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Certification 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 Microsoft Certification over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certification
Rank 55 46 68
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Certification 40 56 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.876% 3.254% 0.918%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.32% 24.35% 6.790%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 38 3
Average daily rate £308 £340 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.55% +51.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £288 £263
% change year-on-year
+4.34% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 5
Average hourly rate £11.50 £13.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.81% -38.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £13.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.65 £13.50 £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.75 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-4.76% -1.56%
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
231 230 162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 16.61% 13.36% 13.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 125 62
Average daily rate £300 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +1.56%
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 £21.50 £21.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -14.00%
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

West Yorkshire Microsoft Certification Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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 -26 20 £308 -12.14% 9
Bradford - 8 £250 - 1
Halifax +9 5 - - 2
Huddersfield - - - -
Batley - - - - 2
Bingley - - - -
Wakefield - - - - 1
Microsoft Certification
Yorkshire

Microsoft Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 50 (98.04%) Windows
2 41 (80.39%) Microsoft
3 35 (68.63%) Windows Server 2003
4 33 (64.71%) MCSE
4 33 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
5 32 (62.75%) Windows XP
6 26 (50.98%) SQL Server
7 24 (47.06%) MS Exchange
8 23 (45.10%) Exchange Server 2003
9 22 (43.14%) SAN
9 22 (43.14%) Cisco
10 21 (41.18%) MCP
11 20 (39.22%) LAN
11 20 (39.22%) WAN
12 19 (37.25%) Windows 7
13 16 (31.37%) F5
13 16 (31.37%) NAS
14 15 (29.41%) MS Office
15 14 (27.45%) VMware
16 12 (23.53%) Internet
17 11 (21.57%) Windows 2000
17 11 (21.57%) Windows Vista
18 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
19 9 (17.65%) MCSA
19 9 (17.65%) ITIL
19 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
19 9 (17.65%) Citrix
20 8 (15.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
21 7 (13.73%) DNS
22 6 (11.76%) Cisco Certification

Microsoft Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 3 (5.882%) .NET
2 2 (3.922%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.961%) WCF
3 1 (1.961%) Spring.NET
3 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (1.961%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (1.961%) Ninject
3 1 (1.961%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (1.961%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 24 (47.06%) MS Exchange
2 23 (45.10%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (7.843%) SharePoint
4 3 (5.882%) IBM Notes
4 3 (5.882%) Lotus Domino
4 3 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (3.922%) IIS
6 1 (1.961%) WorkSite
6 1 (1.961%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.961%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (29.41%) MS Office
2 5 (9.804%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.961%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.882%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 22 (43.14%) SAN
2 20 (39.22%) LAN
2 20 (39.22%) WAN
3 16 (31.37%) NAS
4 12 (23.53%) Internet
5 7 (13.73%) DNS
6 4 (7.843%) VoIP
6 4 (7.843%) TCP/IP
6 4 (7.843%) DHCP
6 4 (7.843%) Firewall
7 3 (5.882%) Wireless
7 3 (5.882%) GPRS
8 1 (1.961%) SSH
8 1 (1.961%) BIG-IP
8 1 (1.961%) FTP
8 1 (1.961%) HTTP
8 1 (1.961%) SMTP
8 1 (1.961%) VPN
8 1 (1.961%) SSL
8 1 (1.961%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (50.98%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.961%) DB2
3 1 (1.961%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) NUnit
1 1 (1.961%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (1.961%) Moq
1 1 (1.961%) MSTest
General
1 3 (5.882%) Finance
1 3 (5.882%) Manufacturing
2 2 (3.922%) Banking
2 2 (3.922%) Legal
2 2 (3.922%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.961%) Law
3 1 (1.961%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (33.33%) Analyst
2 14 (27.45%) Support Engineer
3 8 (15.69%) Messaging Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (13.73%) 2nd Line Support
4 7 (13.73%) Technical Support
4 7 (13.73%) Desktop Support
5 6 (11.76%) Support Analyst
6 5 (9.804%) Messaging Engineer
7 4 (7.843%) Technical Support Officer
7 4 (7.843%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (7.843%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 3 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (5.882%) Administrator
8 3 (5.882%) Messaging Specialist
8 3 (5.882%) Senior Support Analyst
8 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 3 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 3 (5.882%) Microsoft Specialist
9 2 (3.922%) Help Desk Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) Blackberry
2 3 (5.882%) Replication
3 2 (3.922%) Fat Client
3 2 (3.922%) NHS
3 2 (3.922%) Thin Client
3 2 (3.922%) Clustering
4 1 (1.961%) Firmware
4 1 (1.961%) iPhone
4 1 (1.961%) iPad
4 1 (1.961%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 50 (98.04%) Windows
2 35 (68.63%) Windows Server 2003
3 33 (64.71%) Windows Server 2008
4 32 (62.75%) Windows XP
5 19 (37.25%) Windows 7
6 11 (21.57%) Windows 2000
6 11 (21.57%) Windows Vista
7 6 (11.76%) UNIX
8 4 (7.843%) Linux
9 1 (1.961%) Debian
9 1 (1.961%) Mac OS X
9 1 (1.961%) CentOS
9 1 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (1.961%) Apple iOS
9 1 (1.961%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (17.65%) ITIL
2 4 (7.843%) Service Delivery
3 3 (5.882%) ERP
3 3 (5.882%) Time Management
3 3 (5.882%) Performance Management
4 2 (3.922%) Network Architecture
5 1 (1.961%) Scrum
5 1 (1.961%) Service Management
5 1 (1.961%) MVC
5 1 (1.961%) ITSM
5 1 (1.961%) TDD
5 1 (1.961%) Document Management
5 1 (1.961%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (1.961%) Web Development
5 1 (1.961%) Project Management
5 1 (1.961%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (1.961%) Problem Management
5 1 (1.961%) Kanban
5 1 (1.961%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (1.961%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.922%) PowerShell
1 2 (3.922%) VBScript
2 1 (1.961%) C#
2 1 (1.961%) Perl
2 1 (1.961%) PHP
2 1 (1.961%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (64.71%) MCSE
2 21 (41.18%) MCP
3 9 (17.65%) MCSA
4 8 (15.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (11.76%) CCNA
6 4 (7.843%) HNC
6 4 (7.843%) MCITP
7 3 (5.882%) MCTS
7 3 (5.882%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.961%) CIW
9 1 (1.961%) OCP
9 1 (1.961%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.961%) CCA
9 1 (1.961%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.961%) MCAD
9 1 (1.961%) MCSD
9 1 (1.961%) NVQ Level 3
System Software
1 10 (19.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
4 3 (5.882%) vSphere
4 3 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.922%) XenApp
6 1 (1.961%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.961%) Xen
6 1 (1.961%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (3.922%) WSUS
2 1 (1.961%) SCCM
2 1 (1.961%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 41 (80.39%) Microsoft
2 22 (43.14%) Cisco
3 16 (31.37%) F5
4 14 (27.45%) VMware
5 9 (17.65%) Citrix
6 3 (5.882%) Sage
6 3 (5.882%) Lotus
6 3 (5.882%) LANDesk
7 2 (3.922%) HP
8 1 (1.961%) Wyse
8 1 (1.961%) Brocade
8 1 (1.961%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.961%) Apple
8 1 (1.961%) Juniper
8 1 (1.961%) Oracle
8 1 (1.961%) Syncsort
8 1 (1.961%) SolarWinds
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