The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bath 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 2 11 8
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 10 1 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 22.22% 2.083% 19.70%
As % of the Vendors category 41.67% 6.250% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £10.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.98 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.13% -
All Vendors
Bath
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
24 16 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bath 53.33% 33.33% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 9
Average daily rate £265 £313 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.20% +13.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £455 £323
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 7
Average hourly rate £19.00 £10.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Microsoft
Somerset

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath 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 Bath region.

Bath Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bath Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (25.00%) UNIX
2 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) MS Office
3 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 3 (18.75%) .NET
3 3 (18.75%) MySQL
3 3 (18.75%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
4 2 (12.50%) HP
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 2 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Subversion
4 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (12.50%) Apache
4 2 (12.50%) FreeBSD
4 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
4 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) HTML

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bath 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 3 (18.75%) .NET
1 3 (18.75%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (6.250%) MDX
3 1 (6.250%) CSS
3 1 (6.250%) JSP
3 1 (6.250%) Servlets
3 1 (6.250%) EDI
3 1 (6.250%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (12.50%) Apache
1 2 (12.50%) nginx
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (6.250%) IIS
2 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (6.250%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (18.75%) Internet
3 2 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (6.250%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) MySQL
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (6.250%) DB2
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Subversion
1 2 (12.50%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 1 (6.250%) MorphX
General
1 2 (12.50%) Banking
1 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Developer
2 4 (25.00%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Support
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Systems Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Developer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Programmer
4 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (6.250%) Programmer
4 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Open Source
2 1 (6.250%) SCADA
2 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Linux
2 4 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (25.00%) UNIX
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (12.50%) Solaris
3 2 (12.50%) FreeBSD
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS X Server
4 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
4 1 (6.250%) Mac OS
4 1 (6.250%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (12.50%) Migration
1 2 (12.50%) Change Control
2 1 (6.250%) Data Entry
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL V2
2 1 (6.250%) Performance Testing
2 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
2 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (6.250%) ERP
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL
2 1 (6.250%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
2 1 (6.250%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) C
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 1 (6.250%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.250%) X++
3 1 (6.250%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.250%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) XenApp
2 1 (6.250%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (6.250%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) HP
1 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Adobe
2 1 (6.250%) Citrix
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