The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Aberdeen 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within the Microsoft Corporation.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 16 9 8
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 10 22 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 7.092% 11.70% 11.64%
As % of the Vendors category 14.49% 24.18% 19.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 11
Average daily rate £325 £195 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -35.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £113 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £378 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
Average hourly rate £10.00 £14.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.03% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.26% -
All Vendors
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
69 91 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 48.94% 48.40% 60.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 45 45
Average daily rate £375 £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £116 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £500 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 10
Average hourly rate £15.77 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.75% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £14.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.80 £14.50 £31.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Microsoft
Scotland

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Microsoft Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft
Daily Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Aberdeen Microsoft Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Aberdeen Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Microsoft 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.

1 30 (66.67%) Windows
2 22 (48.89%) MS Office
3 14 (31.11%) Windows XP
4 12 (26.67%) Degree
4 12 (26.67%) Windows 7
5 11 (24.44%) Oracle
6 10 (22.22%) MS Excel
7 9 (20.00%) SharePoint
7 9 (20.00%) DNS
8 8 (17.78%) DHCP
8 8 (17.78%) FTP
8 8 (17.78%) Oracle 10g
8 8 (17.78%) Citrix
8 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
8 8 (17.78%) MS PowerPoint
8 8 (17.78%) SQL Server 2005
8 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
9 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2008
9 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2003
9 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
9 7 (15.56%) Cisco
10 6 (13.33%) HTML
10 6 (13.33%) SQL
10 6 (13.33%) Cisco IPT
11 5 (11.11%) CSS
11 5 (11.11%) Linux
11 5 (11.11%) UNIX
11 5 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
11 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
11 5 (11.11%) Internet

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing Microsoft 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.33%) HTML
2 5 (11.11%) CSS
3 4 (8.889%) XML
3 4 (8.889%) Software Packaging
4 2 (4.444%) X-Windows
5 1 (2.222%) .NET
5 1 (2.222%) COM
Application Platforms
1 9 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.889%) LiveLink
2 4 (8.889%) Apache
2 4 (8.889%) Tomcat
2 4 (8.889%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.889%) IIS
3 3 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (4.444%) Documentum
4 2 (4.444%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.222%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 22 (48.89%) MS Office
2 10 (22.22%) MS Excel
3 8 (17.78%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (4.444%) MS Project
5 1 (2.222%) Photoshop
5 1 (2.222%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.222%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 1 (2.222%) Maximo
1 1 (2.222%) SAP CO
1 1 (2.222%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.00%) DNS
2 8 (17.78%) DHCP
2 8 (17.78%) FTP
3 6 (13.33%) Cisco IPT
4 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 5 (11.11%) Internet
5 4 (8.889%) Intranet
6 2 (4.444%) VPN
7 1 (2.222%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.222%) NAS
7 1 (2.222%) SAN
7 1 (2.222%) Firewall
7 1 (2.222%) Wireless
7 1 (2.222%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) Oracle 10g
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (11.11%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (4.444%) MS Access
4 1 (2.222%) Xcelsius
4 1 (2.222%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 1 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (2.222%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.222%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (2.222%) InstallShield
1 1 (2.222%) MSI
General
1 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.222%) Aerospace
1 1 (2.222%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 17 (37.78%) Analyst
2 4 (8.889%) Team Leader
2 4 (8.889%) Support Team Leader
2 4 (8.889%) Systems Support
2 4 (8.889%) Support Analyst
3 3 (6.667%) Oracle DBA
3 3 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (6.667%) DBA
3 3 (6.667%) Project Manager
3 3 (6.667%) Desktop Support
3 3 (6.667%) Project Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Supply Chain Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Service Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (4.444%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Server Engineer
4 2 (4.444%) SQL DBA
4 2 (4.444%) Desktop Analyst
4 2 (4.444%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
2 5 (11.11%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.222%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.222%) Data Integration
3 1 (2.222%) Taxonomies
3 1 (2.222%) PDA
3 1 (2.222%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 30 (66.67%) Windows
2 14 (31.11%) Windows XP
3 12 (26.67%) Windows 7
4 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (15.56%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (11.11%) Linux
5 5 (11.11%) UNIX
6 1 (2.222%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.11%) Content Management
1 5 (11.11%) Document Management
2 4 (8.889%) Capacity Planning
3 3 (6.667%) Data Management
3 3 (6.667%) Migration
4 2 (4.444%) Logistics
4 2 (4.444%) Project Management
4 2 (4.444%) Change Management
4 2 (4.444%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.222%) Network Management
5 1 (2.222%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.222%) Time Management
5 1 (2.222%) Unit Testing
5 1 (2.222%) ITIL
5 1 (2.222%) ERP
5 1 (2.222%) Data Modelling
5 1 (2.222%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (2.222%) Data Security
5 1 (2.222%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (2.222%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
2 4 (8.889%) Java
2 4 (8.889%) JavaScript
3 3 (6.667%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.222%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.222%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (26.67%) Degree
2 4 (8.889%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.667%) MCSE
3 3 (6.667%) MCTS
3 3 (6.667%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.222%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.667%) XenApp
3 2 (4.444%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (8.889%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (24.44%) Oracle
2 8 (17.78%) Citrix
3 7 (15.56%) Cisco
4 4 (8.889%) Kofax
4 4 (8.889%) Open Text
4 4 (8.889%) VMware
5 3 (6.667%) SAP
5 3 (6.667%) CommVault
5 3 (6.667%) NetApp
5 3 (6.667%) Altiris
6 2 (4.444%) Dell
7 1 (2.222%) Business Objects
7 1 (2.222%) HP
7 1 (2.222%) Compaq
7 1 (2.222%) EMC
7 1 (2.222%) Fortinet
7 1 (2.222%) Brocade
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