The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Basingstoke 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 14 4 6
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 28 32 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 13.79% 17.30% 16.53%
As % of the Vendors category 23.33% 35.96% 33.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 13
Average daily rate £420 £400 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £360 £217
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £520 £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 9
Average hourly rate £10.90 £14.00 £13.54
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.14% +3.39%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
120 89 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 59.11% 48.11% 49.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 27 41
Average daily rate £400 £429 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.70% +22.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £350 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £524 £500 £439
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 16
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.00 £13.54
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+114.28% +3.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.44 £13.40 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £31.70 £34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Hampshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 22 (37.29%) MS Excel
2 20 (33.90%) Windows
3 16 (27.12%) VMware
4 13 (22.03%) C#
4 13 (22.03%) SQL
4 13 (22.03%) .NET
5 11 (18.64%) SQL Server
5 11 (18.64%) MS Office
5 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
5 11 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (16.95%) .NET Framework
7 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
7 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
7 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
7 9 (15.25%) HP
7 9 (15.25%) Scrum
8 8 (13.56%) TDD
8 8 (13.56%) Finance
8 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
8 8 (13.56%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (13.56%) Linux
8 8 (13.56%) ASP.NET
8 8 (13.56%) VMware Server
9 7 (11.86%) jQuery
9 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (11.86%) ITIL
9 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (11.86%) SUSE
9 7 (11.86%) Change Management
9 7 (11.86%) MVC

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 13 (22.03%) .NET
2 10 (16.95%) .NET Framework
3 8 (13.56%) ASP.NET
4 7 (11.86%) jQuery
4 7 (11.86%) ASP.NET MVC
5 4 (6.780%) Ajax
5 4 (6.780%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 3 (5.085%) WCF
6 3 (5.085%) KML
6 3 (5.085%) WebSphere
6 3 (5.085%) WSDL
6 3 (5.085%) CSS
6 3 (5.085%) Web Services
7 2 (3.390%) HTML
7 2 (3.390%) XML
7 2 (3.390%) XSLT
7 2 (3.390%) SOAP
7 2 (3.390%) LINQ
7 2 (3.390%) MooTools
7 2 (3.390%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.475%) SharePoint Server
1 5 (8.475%) MS Exchange
1 5 (8.475%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.780%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.085%) ESB
3 3 (5.085%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 3 (5.085%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (5.085%) WebSphere Process Server
4 2 (3.390%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (3.390%) Windows Azure
5 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.695%) IIS
Applications
1 22 (37.29%) MS Excel
2 11 (18.64%) MS Office
3 3 (5.085%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.695%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.695%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) ATM
2 4 (6.780%) Unified Communications
3 3 (5.085%) Wireless
4 2 (3.390%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (1.695%) LAN
5 1 (1.695%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.780%) MySQL
2 4 (6.780%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.695%) MS Access
4 1 (1.695%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Git (software)
1 6 (10.17%) Selenium
2 5 (8.475%) Visual Studio
3 4 (6.780%) Subversion
3 4 (6.780%) ReSharper
3 4 (6.780%) SpecFlow
4 3 (5.085%) Rational Application Developer
4 3 (5.085%) NUnit
5 2 (3.390%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.695%) Moq
General
1 8 (13.56%) Finance
2 4 (6.780%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.085%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.695%) Marketing
4 1 (1.695%) Publishing
4 1 (1.695%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Developer
2 8 (13.56%) Consultant
3 6 (10.17%) Analyst
3 6 (10.17%) Support Engineer
4 4 (6.780%) Rollout Engineer
4 4 (6.780%) C# Developer
4 4 (6.780%) Designer
4 4 (6.780%) Agile C# Developer
5 3 (5.085%) IT Support
5 3 (5.085%) SQL Developer
5 3 (5.085%) IT Support Engineer
5 3 (5.085%) .NET Developer
5 3 (5.085%) Server Support Engineer
5 3 (5.085%) Server Engineer
5 3 (5.085%) WebSphere Developer
5 3 (5.085%) Server Support
6 2 (3.390%) DBA
6 2 (3.390%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.390%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (3.390%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.17%) SaaS
2 5 (8.475%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.695%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.695%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (1.695%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.695%) DTV
3 1 (1.695%) Clustering
3 1 (1.695%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 20 (33.90%) Windows
2 8 (13.56%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (13.56%) Linux
3 7 (11.86%) SUSE
4 4 (6.780%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (5.085%) Solaris
6 2 (3.390%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.695%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.695%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.695%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.25%) Unit Testing
1 9 (15.25%) Scrum
2 8 (13.56%) TDD
3 7 (11.86%) ITIL
3 7 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (11.86%) Change Management
3 7 (11.86%) MVC
4 6 (10.17%) Pair Programming
4 6 (10.17%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (10.17%) OO
4 6 (10.17%) Configuration Management
4 6 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (10.17%) BDD
5 5 (8.475%) UML
6 4 (6.780%) OOP
6 4 (6.780%) Technical Architecture
6 4 (6.780%) Kanban
6 4 (6.780%) Change Control
7 3 (5.085%) Incident Management
7 3 (5.085%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) C#
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.780%) C++
3 4 (6.780%) Python
4 2 (3.390%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.695%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.695%) VBA
5 1 (1.695%) Java
Qualifications
1 11 (18.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.780%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (6.780%) DV Cleared
3 2 (3.390%) Degree
3 2 (3.390%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.695%) MCITP
4 1 (1.695%) HNC
4 1 (1.695%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.085%) QA
2 2 (3.390%) TickIT
2 2 (3.390%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.695%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (18.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (15.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (13.56%) VMware Server
4 3 (5.085%) vSphere
4 3 (5.085%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.695%) XenApp
5 1 (1.695%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 3 (5.085%) Tivoli
1 3 (5.085%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 3 (5.085%) Backup Exec
2 2 (3.390%) HP SIM
3 1 (1.695%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) VMware
2 9 (15.25%) HP
3 8 (13.56%) Red Hat
4 6 (10.17%) Citrix
5 4 (6.780%) Oracle
6 3 (5.085%) IBM
7 2 (3.390%) Remedy
7 2 (3.390%) NetApp
8 1 (1.695%) Fujitsu
8 1 (1.695%) Nokia
8 1 (1.695%) Primavera
8 1 (1.695%) EMC
8 1 (1.695%) SAP
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