The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Developer 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 Developer 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 Developer
Rank 191 199 228
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 12 19 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.188% 0.242% 0.174%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.204% 0.264% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 11
Average daily rate £385 £475 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.94% +31.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £388 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £530 £450
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
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 Developer
London

Microsoft Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Microsoft Developer Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London Microsoft Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
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 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 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) CRM
2 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
2 13 (61.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 12 (57.14%) C#
4 10 (47.62%) .NET
4 10 (47.62%) MS Excel
5 9 (42.86%) Advertising
6 8 (38.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
7 7 (33.33%) SQL
8 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
8 6 (28.57%) ETL
8 6 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (28.57%) TDD
8 6 (28.57%) BDD
9 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
10 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2008
10 4 (19.05%) Data Management
10 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
11 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
11 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (14.29%) Migration
11 3 (14.29%) Finance
11 3 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
11 3 (14.29%) Sage
11 3 (14.29%) Oracle

Microsoft Developer
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 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 10 (47.62%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET
2 2 (9.524%) COM
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) JSP
3 1 (4.762%) EDI
Application Platforms
1 13 (61.90%) SharePoint
2 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.762%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 10 (47.62%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.762%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 13 (61.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (4.762%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (38.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 6 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 6 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (19.05%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (19.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (4.762%) PerformancePoint
5 1 (4.762%) QlikView
5 1 (4.762%) OLAP
General
1 9 (42.86%) Advertising
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.524%) Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Retail
4 1 (4.762%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Reference Data
1 1 (4.762%) Equities
1 1 (4.762%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.762%) Oracle Linux
2 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) CRM
2 6 (28.57%) ETL
2 6 (28.57%) TDD
2 6 (28.57%) BDD
3 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (19.05%) Data Management
4 3 (14.29%) Data Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Electronic Trading
5 1 (4.762%) Kimball Methodology
5 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
5 1 (4.762%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 12 (57.14%) C#
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.524%) Perl
5 1 (4.762%) PHP
5 1 (4.762%) Java
5 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
5 1 (4.762%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 17 (80.95%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Sage
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.762%) Cognos
3 1 (4.762%) IBM
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