Microsoft Consultant Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Consultant 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 City of London 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 Consultant
Rank 198 204 235
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 5 14 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.078% 0.178% 0.102%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.195% 0.111%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 5
Average daily rate £350 £450 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.22% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £365 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £630 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £365
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +9.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year
- +21.95%
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All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Microsoft Consultant
London

Microsoft Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Consultant across the City of London region.

City of London Microsoft Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Microsoft Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Consultant across the City of London region.

City of London Microsoft Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Microsoft Consultant 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 Consultant in their job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (37.50%) CRM
4 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
5 3 (18.75%) SQL
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
5 3 (18.75%) Banking
6 2 (12.50%) Migration
6 2 (12.50%) Symantec
6 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
6 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (12.50%) MS Project
6 2 (12.50%) C#
6 2 (12.50%) .NET
6 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (12.50%) Windows
6 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (12.50%) SMTP
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (12.50%) PowerPivot
6 2 (12.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Microsoft Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.250%) CSS
2 1 (6.250%) XML
2 1 (6.250%) XSLT
2 1 (6.250%) jQuery
2 1 (6.250%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (6.250%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (6.250%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
3 1 (6.250%) MS Project Server
3 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Project
2 2 (12.50%) PowerPivot
3 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.250%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (6.250%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) SMTP
2 1 (6.250%) POP3
2 1 (6.250%) SSL
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.250%) LDAP
2 1 (6.250%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) OLAP
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.250%) ProClarity
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (18.75%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
1 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) CRM
2 2 (12.50%) Migration
2 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (6.250%) Change Control
3 1 (6.250%) BDD
3 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.250%) ETL
3 1 (6.250%) OO
3 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.250%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
3 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (6.250%) Data Management
3 1 (6.250%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
3 1 (6.250%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) MCSE
2 1 (6.250%) MCDBA
2 1 (6.250%) MCSD
2 1 (6.250%) MCITP
2 1 (6.250%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) Forefront TMG
2 1 (6.250%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (6.250%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Symantec
3 1 (6.250%) RightFax
3 1 (6.250%) F5
3 1 (6.250%) CA
3 1 (6.250%) Lotus
3 1 (6.250%) Clearswift
3 1 (6.250%) Open Text
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