The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Canary Wharf 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 21 24 32
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 31 26 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 7.969% 6.806% 5.825%
As % of the Vendors category 20.26% 13.27% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 22 26
Average daily rate £450 £477 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.70% -4.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £176 £271 £416
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £597 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.26% -
All Vendors
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
153 196 210
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 39.33% 51.31% 40.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 116 164
Average daily rate £575 £525 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.52% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £390 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £675 £600 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 24 (42.11%) Banking
3 18 (31.58%) Investment Banking
3 18 (31.58%) Windows
4 16 (28.07%) C#
4 16 (28.07%) MS Excel
5 15 (26.32%) C++
6 14 (24.56%) MS Project
7 12 (21.05%) .NET
7 12 (21.05%) OO
7 12 (21.05%) Project Management
7 12 (21.05%) Degree
8 11 (19.30%) Front Office
8 11 (19.30%) SQL
8 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
9 10 (17.54%) MS Office
9 10 (17.54%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (15.79%) Linux
10 9 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 9 (15.79%) Multithreading
10 9 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
11 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
12 7 (12.28%) Back Office
12 7 (12.28%) VC++
12 7 (12.28%) VBA
13 6 (10.53%) Oracle
13 6 (10.53%) PRINCE2
13 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
13 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
13 6 (10.53%) MS Exchange

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 12 (21.05%) .NET
2 5 (8.772%) WCF
2 5 (8.772%) WPF
2 5 (8.772%) XML
3 4 (7.018%) XSLT
3 4 (7.018%) Web Services
3 4 (7.018%) .NET Framework
4 3 (5.263%) Silverlight
4 3 (5.263%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.509%) Struts
5 2 (3.509%) WSH
5 2 (3.509%) JSON
5 2 (3.509%) REST
6 1 (1.754%) LINQ
6 1 (1.754%) WinForms
6 1 (1.754%) FpML
6 1 (1.754%) Middleware
6 1 (1.754%) JSP
6 1 (1.754%) SOAP
6 1 (1.754%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) SharePoint
1 6 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 5 (8.772%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.263%) IIS
4 2 (3.509%) Confluence
4 2 (3.509%) TIBCO EMS
4 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.754%) Lync
5 1 (1.754%) GemFire
5 1 (1.754%) Oracle Coherence
5 1 (1.754%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 16 (28.07%) MS Excel
2 14 (24.56%) MS Project
3 10 (17.54%) MS Office
4 2 (3.509%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (1.754%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.754%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.754%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.509%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.754%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.772%) LAN
2 4 (7.018%) Intranet
2 4 (7.018%) VPN
3 3 (5.263%) Internet
4 1 (1.754%) NAS
4 1 (1.754%) SAN
4 1 (1.754%) WAN
4 1 (1.754%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (19.30%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.263%) KDB
4 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (3.509%) DTS
5 1 (1.754%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.754%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.754%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.754%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.754%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (8.772%) TeamCity
2 5 (8.772%) LLVM
3 4 (7.018%) ClearQuest
4 2 (3.509%) Maven
4 2 (3.509%) JIRA
5 1 (1.754%) Hudson
5 1 (1.754%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.754%) ERwin
5 1 (1.754%) Ant
5 1 (1.754%) JUnit
General
1 25 (43.86%) Finance
2 24 (42.11%) Banking
3 18 (31.58%) Investment Banking
4 11 (19.30%) Front Office
5 7 (12.28%) Back Office
6 2 (3.509%) Marketing
7 1 (1.754%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.754%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.754%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (33.33%) Developer
2 15 (26.32%) Project Manager
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) C++ Developer
5 5 (8.772%) C++ Quantitative Developer
5 5 (8.772%) Quantitative Developer
6 4 (7.018%) C# Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Real Time Engineer
7 3 (5.263%) Architect
7 3 (5.263%) Software Engineer
7 3 (5.263%) Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) Data Architect
8 2 (3.509%) DBA
8 2 (3.509%) Front Office Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Service Analyst
8 2 (3.509%) Lead Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Portfolio Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Exchange Consultant
8 2 (3.509%) Real Time Software Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 6 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 6 (10.53%) Derivative
3 5 (8.772%) Mathematics
3 5 (8.772%) Physics
4 4 (7.018%) Telematics
5 3 (5.263%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.754%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.754%) New Media
6 1 (1.754%) Animation
6 1 (1.754%) Visualisation
6 1 (1.754%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (1.754%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (31.58%) Windows
2 9 (15.79%) Linux
3 4 (7.018%) UNIX
3 4 (7.018%) Windows XP
3 4 (7.018%) Windows 7
4 2 (3.509%) Solaris
4 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (3.509%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.509%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.05%) OO
1 12 (21.05%) Project Management
2 10 (17.54%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (15.79%) Multithreading
4 8 (14.04%) Software Engineering
5 6 (10.53%) PRINCE2
5 6 (10.53%) Scrum
5 6 (10.53%) Matrix Management
6 5 (8.772%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (8.772%) Data Architecture
6 5 (8.772%) Analytics
7 4 (7.018%) ITIL
7 4 (7.018%) RUP
7 4 (7.018%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.018%) CMMI
7 4 (7.018%) Web Design
7 4 (7.018%) TDD
7 4 (7.018%) Zachman Framework
7 4 (7.018%) TOGAF
7 4 (7.018%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) C#
2 15 (26.32%) C++
3 11 (19.30%) SQL
4 7 (12.28%) VC++
4 7 (12.28%) VBA
5 5 (8.772%) Java
6 3 (5.263%) F#
6 3 (5.263%) PowerShell
6 3 (5.263%) Haskell
7 2 (3.509%) Python
8 1 (1.754%) VB6
8 1 (1.754%) VBScript
8 1 (1.754%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (21.05%) Degree
2 5 (8.772%) PhD
3 2 (3.509%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.754%) MCITP
4 1 (1.754%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.509%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.509%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.263%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (3.509%) SCOM
2 2 (3.509%) HP Operations Orchestration
2 2 (3.509%) BladeLogic
2 2 (3.509%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (10.53%) Oracle
2 5 (8.772%) DataSynapse
3 4 (7.018%) Yahoo!
4 3 (5.263%) VMware
4 3 (5.263%) NetIQ
5 2 (3.509%) TIBCO
5 2 (3.509%) BMC
5 2 (3.509%) HP
5 2 (3.509%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.754%) 29West
6 1 (1.754%) IBM
6 1 (1.754%) Quark
6 1 (1.754%) Reuters
6 1 (1.754%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.754%) JBoss
6 1 (1.754%) Sybase