The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Developer
Rank - 46 -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.723% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.769% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £24.19
% change year-on-year
-25.55% +86.04%
All Job Titles
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
302 390 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 89.88% 93.98% 97.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 194 123
Average daily rate £350 £310 £306
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% +1.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 52 46
Average hourly rate £37.25 £35.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.42% +159.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £10.40 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £52.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Microsoft Developer
Cambridgeshire

Microsoft Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Microsoft Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Microsoft Developer Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region that cited Microsoft Developer 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 Developer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM

Microsoft Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft