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Microsoft Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills
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The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol 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 Bristol 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 13 11 4
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 39 87 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 7.911% 9.932% 12.99%
As % of the Vendors category 21.20% 30.53% 30.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 34
Average daily rate £340 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.63% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £123 £122
10% offered a daily rate of more than £524 £405 £364
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 17
Average hourly rate £14.50 £25.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.00% +56.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.30 £10.20 £10.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.90 £41.60 £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.98 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.13% -
All Vendors
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 184 285 299
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 37.32% 32.53% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 168 132
Average daily rate £325 £301 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.15% +0.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £135 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 26
Average hourly rate £16.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-28.88% +28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £12.90 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.50 £41.20 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Microsoft
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Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bristol Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 46 (39.66%) MS Excel
2 38 (32.76%) Windows
3 35 (30.17%) SQL
4 32 (27.59%) SQL Server
5 30 (25.86%) .NET
6 21 (18.10%) MS Office
6 21 (18.10%) ASP.NET
7 20 (17.24%) C#
7 20 (17.24%) Active Directory
8 18 (15.52%) MVC
9 17 (14.66%) VMware
9 17 (14.66%) SharePoint
9 17 (14.66%) Security Cleared
10 16 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
10 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
11 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET MVC
12 14 (12.07%) SQL Server 2008
12 14 (12.07%) LAN
13 13 (11.21%) TCP/IP
13 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
13 13 (11.21%) DNS
13 13 (11.21%) Finance
14 12 (10.34%) Firewall
14 12 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 12 (10.34%) .NET Framework
14 12 (10.34%) Degree
14 12 (10.34%) MS Exchange
14 12 (10.34%) WAN
15 11 (9.483%) UML
15 11 (9.483%) Windows Server 2003

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 30 (25.86%) .NET
2 21 (18.10%) ASP.NET
3 15 (12.93%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (10.34%) .NET Framework
5 8 (6.897%) jQuery
6 7 (6.034%) CSS
7 3 (2.586%) Web Services
7 3 (2.586%) COM
7 3 (2.586%) WCF
8 2 (1.724%) MDX
8 2 (1.724%) Ajax
8 2 (1.724%) Silverlight
8 2 (1.724%) XML
9 1 (0.862%) XSLT
9 1 (0.862%) ASP
9 1 (0.862%) MFC
9 1 (0.862%) HTML
9 1 (0.862%) XHTML
9 1 (0.862%) OLE
9 1 (0.862%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 17 (14.66%) SharePoint
2 12 (10.34%) MS Exchange
3 7 (6.034%) Exchange Server 2010
4 6 (5.172%) IIS
5 4 (3.448%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (3.448%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (1.724%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (1.724%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.862%) CMS
7 1 (0.862%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.862%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 46 (39.66%) MS Excel
2 21 (18.10%) MS Office
3 6 (5.172%) MS Project
4 3 (2.586%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.724%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.862%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (7.759%) Visualfiles
2 1 (0.862%) SAP HR
2 1 (0.862%) SAP FI-GL
Communications & Networking
1 14 (12.07%) LAN
2 13 (11.21%) TCP/IP
2 13 (11.21%) DNS
3 12 (10.34%) Firewall
3 12 (10.34%) WAN
4 9 (7.759%) VPN
5 7 (6.034%) DHCP
6 5 (4.310%) Internet
7 3 (2.586%) Network Security
8 2 (1.724%) DMZ
8 2 (1.724%) MPLS
8 2 (1.724%) BGP
9 1 (0.862%) VoIP
9 1 (0.862%) WLAN
9 1 (0.862%) SAN
9 1 (0.862%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 14 (12.07%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (11.21%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (10.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (9.483%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (6.034%) MS Access
6 7 (6.034%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (5.172%) SQL Server 2005
8 3 (2.586%) OLAP
8 3 (2.586%) DTS
9 2 (1.724%) MySQL
10 1 (0.862%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.862%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.862%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.862%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.862%) OLTP
10 1 (0.862%) RDBMS
10 1 (0.862%) QlikView
10 1 (0.862%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (3.448%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.862%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.862%) Rational Rhapsody
2 1 (0.862%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.862%) Rational DOORS
General
1 13 (11.21%) Finance
2 10 (8.621%) Legal
3 6 (5.172%) Banking
4 5 (4.310%) Retail
5 3 (2.586%) Military
5 3 (2.586%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.724%) Retail Banking
6 2 (1.724%) Law
7 1 (0.862%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.862%) Advertising
7 1 (0.862%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 40 (34.48%) Developer
2 13 (11.21%) Analyst
3 11 (9.483%) Support Engineer
4 10 (8.621%) .NET Developer
4 10 (8.621%) Network Engineer
5 9 (7.759%) Desktop Support
6 8 (6.897%) ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (5.172%) Microsoft Developer
7 6 (5.172%) SQL Developer
7 6 (5.172%) Systems Engineer
8 5 (4.310%) Hardware Engineer
8 5 (4.310%) Desktop Engineer
8 5 (4.310%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 5 (4.310%) Computer Engineer
8 5 (4.310%) MI Analyst
9 4 (3.448%) Project Officer
9 4 (3.448%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 4 (3.448%) C# Developer
9 4 (3.448%) Project Support Officer
9 4 (3.448%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.310%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.586%) PKI
3 2 (1.724%) EqualLogic
3 2 (1.724%) Statistics
3 2 (1.724%) Clustering
3 2 (1.724%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.862%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.862%) Handset
4 1 (0.862%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (0.862%) Replication
4 1 (0.862%) CMDB
4 1 (0.862%) Data Extraction
4 1 (0.862%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.862%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 38 (32.76%) Windows
2 16 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (9.483%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (7.759%) Windows XP
4 9 (7.759%) Windows 7
5 3 (2.586%) UNIX
6 2 (1.724%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.724%) AIX
6 2 (1.724%) Linux
7 1 (0.862%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (15.52%) MVC
2 11 (9.483%) UML
3 9 (7.759%) Data Security
4 8 (6.897%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (6.897%) ITIL
5 7 (6.034%) ETL
5 7 (6.034%) Business Intelligence
5 7 (6.034%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (5.172%) Business Analysis
6 6 (5.172%) OO
7 5 (4.310%) Validation
7 5 (4.310%) Change Control
8 4 (3.448%) Workflow
8 4 (3.448%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (3.448%) Unit Testing
8 4 (3.448%) Multithreading
8 4 (3.448%) Migration
8 4 (3.448%) Programme Management
8 4 (3.448%) Project Management
8 4 (3.448%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 35 (30.17%) SQL
2 20 (17.24%) C#
3 10 (8.621%) VBA
4 9 (7.759%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.310%) VB
6 3 (2.586%) PHP
6 3 (2.586%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.586%) VBScript
7 2 (1.724%) VB6
7 2 (1.724%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.724%) C++
7 2 (1.724%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.862%) C
8 1 (0.862%) Delphi
8 1 (0.862%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.862%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 17 (14.66%) Security Cleared
2 16 (13.79%) SC Cleared
3 12 (10.34%) Degree
4 8 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.897%) MCSE
5 5 (4.310%) MCSA
5 5 (4.310%) MCITP
5 5 (4.310%) MCTS
6 2 (1.724%) ISEB
7 1 (0.862%) MCP
7 1 (0.862%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.862%) CCA
7 1 (0.862%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (0.862%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.862%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (0.862%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.759%) SLA
2 7 (6.034%) QA
3 2 (1.724%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.862%) Basel II
4 1 (0.862%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 20 (17.24%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.310%) vSphere
3 4 (3.448%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.586%) Forefront TMG
5 2 (1.724%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.862%) Terminal Server
6 1 (0.862%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (0.862%) VMware ESX
6 1 (0.862%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (6.034%) SCCM
2 3 (2.586%) Tivoli
2 3 (2.586%) SCOM
3 2 (1.724%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.724%) DameWare
3 2 (1.724%) Unicenter
4 1 (0.862%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (14.66%) VMware
2 7 (6.034%) HP
3 6 (5.172%) Cisco
3 6 (5.172%) Citrix
3 6 (5.172%) Oracle
4 4 (3.448%) Siemens
4 4 (3.448%) SAP
5 3 (2.586%) Veritas
5 3 (2.586%) NetApp
5 3 (2.586%) CA
5 3 (2.586%) Avaya
5 3 (2.586%) IBM
5 3 (2.586%) Adobe
5 3 (2.586%) ProCurve
6 2 (1.724%) SolarWinds
6 2 (1.724%) SonicWALL
6 2 (1.724%) BT
6 2 (1.724%) Dell
6 2 (1.724%) CommVault
6 2 (1.724%) Lotus
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