The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Specialist
Rank 66 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.267% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £365 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £395 £354
% change year-on-year
-0.63% +11.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £42.50 -
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
749 913 1015
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.47% 93.55% 95.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 393 383
Average daily rate £315 £318 £339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.78% -6.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £181 £165 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 67 109
Average hourly rate £13.50 £14.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.89% +3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.06 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £35.00 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Microsoft Specialist
South East

Microsoft Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Microsoft Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Microsoft Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Specialist
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Specialist within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes - 2 £365 -
Microsoft Specialist
South East

Microsoft Specialist
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Microsoft Specialist in their job title 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 with Microsoft Specialist in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL V3
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Opalis
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM

Microsoft Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited Microsoft Specialist in their job title 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 with Microsoft Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL V3
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Opalis
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp