The first table below looks at the demand for MCSE in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MCSE 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 Engineer (MCSE)
Rank 78 83 75
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -8
Contract jobs citing MCSE 32 29 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.722% 1.298% 1.258%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.53% 8.709% 8.880%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 6
Average daily rate £308 £185 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.21% -40.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £135 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £369 £363 £414
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £275 £265
% change year-on-year
+9.09% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
Average hourly rate £93.00 £18.25 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+409.58% -7.59%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.40 £14.85 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £158.60 £21.65 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
- -2.63%
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%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 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 +8 23 £308 -1.60%
South Yorkshire +4 8 £330 +78.37%
MCSE
England

MCSE
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 49 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 47 (95.92%) Windows
3 45 (91.84%) Microsoft
4 37 (75.51%) Windows Server 2003
5 36 (73.47%) Windows Server 2008
6 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
6 23 (46.94%) Windows XP
6 23 (46.94%) MS Exchange
7 21 (42.86%) Cisco
7 21 (42.86%) SAN
8 18 (36.73%) LAN
8 18 (36.73%) WAN
8 18 (36.73%) Exchange Server 2003
8 18 (36.73%) Windows 7
9 15 (30.61%) F5
9 15 (30.61%) NAS
9 15 (30.61%) MS Excel
10 12 (24.49%) VMware
10 12 (24.49%) SCCM
10 12 (24.49%) Software Deployment
11 11 (22.45%) Symantec
11 11 (22.45%) Remedy
11 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
12 10 (20.41%) Citrix
12 10 (20.41%) SLA
12 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
13 9 (18.37%) MCSA
14 7 (14.29%) MS Office
14 7 (14.29%) ITIL
15 6 (12.24%) MCP

MCSE
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 (4.082%) .NET
2 1 (2.041%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.041%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.041%) COM
Application Platforms
1 23 (46.94%) MS Exchange
2 18 (36.73%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (10.20%) SharePoint
4 4 (8.163%) IIS
5 3 (6.122%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (6.122%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (2.041%) WorkSite
6 1 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.041%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.041%) Apache
Applications
1 15 (30.61%) MS Excel
2 7 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (2.041%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.041%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.041%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 21 (42.86%) SAN
2 18 (36.73%) LAN
2 18 (36.73%) WAN
3 15 (30.61%) NAS
4 5 (10.20%) Firewall
5 4 (8.163%) VoIP
5 4 (8.163%) DNS
5 4 (8.163%) Internet
6 3 (6.122%) Wireless
7 2 (4.082%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.041%) SSH
8 1 (2.041%) BIG-IP
8 1 (2.041%) VPN
8 1 (2.041%) SSL
8 1 (2.041%) SMTP
8 1 (2.041%) DHCP
8 1 (2.041%) FTP
8 1 (2.041%) HTTP
8 1 (2.041%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (46.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.041%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (4.082%) Local Government
1 2 (4.082%) Legal
2 1 (2.041%) Advertising
2 1 (2.041%) Finance
2 1 (2.041%) Law
2 1 (2.041%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.53%) Analyst
1 13 (26.53%) Support Engineer
2 10 (20.41%) Server Support
3 8 (16.33%) 3rd Line Support
3 8 (16.33%) Server Engineer
3 8 (16.33%) Messaging Analyst
4 7 (14.29%) Server Support Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Messaging Engineer
6 4 (8.163%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (8.163%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (8.163%) Support Analyst
6 4 (8.163%) Technical Support
7 3 (6.122%) Messaging Specialist
7 3 (6.122%) Senior Support Analyst
7 3 (6.122%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (6.122%) Administrator
7 3 (6.122%) Microsoft Specialist
8 2 (4.082%) Windows Engineer
8 2 (4.082%) Desktop Engineer
8 2 (4.082%) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.122%) Replication
2 2 (4.082%) Thin Client
2 2 (4.082%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.041%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.041%) NHS
3 1 (2.041%) Firmware
3 1 (2.041%) iPhone
3 1 (2.041%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 47 (95.92%) Windows
2 37 (75.51%) Windows Server 2003
3 36 (73.47%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (46.94%) Windows XP
5 18 (36.73%) Windows 7
6 5 (10.20%) Windows Vista
6 5 (10.20%) UNIX
7 4 (8.163%) Windows 2000
8 3 (6.122%) Linux
9 1 (2.041%) Debian
9 1 (2.041%) Mac OS X
9 1 (2.041%) CentOS
9 1 (2.041%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (2.041%) Apple iOS
9 1 (2.041%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.49%) Software Deployment
2 7 (14.29%) ITIL
3 6 (12.24%) Service Delivery
4 3 (6.122%) Performance Management
5 2 (4.082%) Problem Management
5 2 (4.082%) Migration
6 1 (2.041%) ITSM
6 1 (2.041%) Change Management
6 1 (2.041%) Service Management
6 1 (2.041%) Document Management
6 1 (2.041%) Software Testing
6 1 (2.041%) Time Management
6 1 (2.041%) Release Management
6 1 (2.041%) Configuration Management
6 1 (2.041%) CRM
6 1 (2.041%) ITIL V2
6 1 (2.041%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.122%) VBScript
1 3 (6.122%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.082%) SQL
3 1 (2.041%) VB
3 1 (2.041%) Perl
3 1 (2.041%) PHP
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (18.37%) MCSA
3 6 (12.24%) MCP
4 4 (8.163%) HNC
4 4 (8.163%) CCNA
4 4 (8.163%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (8.163%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.122%) SC Cleared
5 3 (6.122%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.082%) CCA
6 2 (4.082%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (4.082%) MCITP
7 1 (2.041%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (22.45%) Active Directory
2 10 (20.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.122%) XenApp
3 3 (6.122%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (4.082%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.082%) Terminal Server
4 2 (4.082%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.041%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (2.041%) Xen
5 1 (2.041%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.041%) XenServer
5 1 (2.041%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (24.49%) SCCM
2 2 (4.082%) SolarWinds Orion
2 2 (4.082%) WSUS
2 2 (4.082%) NetBackup
2 2 (4.082%) Backup Exec
3 1 (2.041%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 1 (2.041%) ZENworks
3 1 (2.041%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 45 (91.84%) Microsoft
2 21 (42.86%) Cisco
3 15 (30.61%) F5
4 12 (24.49%) VMware
5 11 (22.45%) Symantec
5 11 (22.45%) Remedy
6 10 (20.41%) Citrix
7 3 (6.122%) LANDesk
7 3 (6.122%) Lotus
7 3 (6.122%) HP
7 3 (6.122%) SolarWinds
8 2 (4.082%) CA
8 2 (4.082%) McAfee
9 1 (2.041%) Wyse
9 1 (2.041%) Brocade
9 1 (2.041%) Red Hat
9 1 (2.041%) Apple
9 1 (2.041%) Novell
9 1 (2.041%) Juniper
9 1 (2.041%) Syncsort
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