Barking Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Barking region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayr Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark Spalding St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	40.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£316
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	-
Average hourly rate	£12.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.85	£20.89
% change on same period last year	-4.98 %
Vendors Barking
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.70	-
Average hourly rate	£13.75	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.80	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft across the Barking region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Barking 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 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (100.00 %) WAN 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration 1 2 (100.00 %) MS PowerPoint

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Barking 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.

Applications 1 2 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 2 (100.00 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 2 (100.00 %) WAN
General 1 2 (100.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Administrator 1 2 (100.00 %) Project Administrator
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) Migration