The first table below looks at the demand for MCSA in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSA 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
Rank 105 110 91
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -19
Contract jobs citing MCSA 5 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.269% 0.090% 0.383%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.645% 0.601% 2.703%
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 £226 £228 £319
% change year-on-year
-0.87% -28.62%
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 £15.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-22.58% -8.82%
All Qualifications
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
304 333 259
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 16.36% 14.91% 14.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 181 102
Average daily rate £308 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £185 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 21 24
Average hourly rate £12.75 £22.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.33% +2.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire 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
West Yorkshire +6 5 £250 -28.57%
MCSA
England

MCSA
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) MCSE
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
3 7 (77.78%) Windows XP
4 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
4 5 (55.56%) UNIX
4 5 (55.56%) SAN
4 5 (55.56%) VMware
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco
5 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Vista
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
5 4 (44.44%) Citrix
5 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (44.44%) Internet
5 4 (44.44%) VoIP
5 4 (44.44%) CCNA
5 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
5 4 (44.44%) Windows 2000
5 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
5 4 (44.44%) MS Office
5 4 (44.44%) ITIL
5 4 (44.44%) MCP
5 4 (44.44%) HNC
6 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (33.33%) Lotus Domino

MCSA
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
2 3 (33.33%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (33.33%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (11.11%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) SAN
2 4 (44.44%) Internet
2 4 (44.44%) VoIP
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (33.33%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Support Officer
1 4 (44.44%) Analyst
1 4 (44.44%) Technical Support
2 3 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Support Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Replication
2 1 (11.11%) Fat Client
2 1 (11.11%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows XP
3 5 (55.56%) UNIX
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Vista
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (44.44%) Windows 2000
5 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
2 3 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
1 1 (11.11%) Perl
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) MCSE
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (44.44%) CCNA
2 4 (44.44%) MCP
2 4 (44.44%) HNC
3 1 (11.11%) MCTS
3 1 (11.11%) MCITP
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 4 (44.44%) Cisco
3 4 (44.44%) Citrix
4 3 (33.33%) Lotus
4 3 (33.33%) LANDesk
5 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 1 (11.11%) HP