The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Burton-upon-Trent 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 Burton-upon-Trent 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 5 - 3
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Burton-upon-Trent 10.00% - 27.78%
As % of the Vendors category 14.29% - 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £11.13 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.98 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.13% -
All Vendors
Burton-upon-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
7 4 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Burton-upon-Trent 70.00% 26.67% 77.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 6
Average daily rate £363 £290 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £290 £95
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £374 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
Average hourly rate £11.13 £16.50 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.57% -28.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Microsoft
Staffordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Burton-upon-Trent 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 Burton-upon-Trent region.

Burton-upon-Trent 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 Burton-upon-Trent region.

Burton-upon-Trent Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Burton-upon-Trent 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
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) NHS
2 1 (50.00%) Extranet
2 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (50.00%) Process Management
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) UML

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Burton-upon-Trent 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
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Extranet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) ERP
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Process Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (50.00%) UML
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell