The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Derby 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 7 3 15
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 7 34 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 12.50% 21.94% 8.416%
As % of the Vendors category 36.84% 34.34% 22.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 7
Average daily rate £295 £400 £371
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.25% +7.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £151 £150 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £439 £475 £383
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 3
Average hourly rate - £55.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +111.53%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Derby
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19 99 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Derby 33.93% 63.87% 37.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 36 24
Average daily rate £325 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.16% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £150 £84
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 15 13
Average hourly rate - £55.00 £30.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +80.32%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Derbyshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby 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 Derby region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Derby 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 Derby region.

Derby Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) MS Office
2 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
3 6 (33.33%) MS Excel
4 4 (22.22%) MS Exchange
4 4 (22.22%) SLA
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
5 3 (16.67%) VMware
5 3 (16.67%) Advertising
5 3 (16.67%) Migration
5 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (16.67%) WSUS
5 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (16.67%) ISA Server
5 3 (16.67%) COM
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) NFS
6 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 2 (11.11%) Symantec
6 2 (11.11%) McAfee
6 2 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
6 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (11.11%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) SAN
6 2 (11.11%) NetApp
6 2 (11.11%) Veritas
6 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (11.11%) iSCSI

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Derby 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 3 (16.67%) COM
2 1 (5.556%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 4 (22.22%) MS Exchange
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (11.11%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Office
2 6 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (5.556%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) WAN
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.556%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) DNS
General
1 3 (16.67%) Advertising
2 1 (5.556%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Service Analyst
1 4 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamics NAV Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Administrator
3 2 (11.11%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Project Administrator
4 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (5.556%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Author
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Author
4 1 (5.556%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 2 (11.11%) Clustering
2 1 (5.556%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Migration
2 2 (11.11%) Project Management
2 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (11.11%) WAN Optimisation
2 2 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (5.556%) Change Management
3 1 (5.556%) Risk Management
3 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.556%) ERP
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL
3 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.556%) MCDST
2 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.556%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) ISA Server
3 2 (11.11%) NFS
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) XenApp
4 1 (5.556%) vSphere
4 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) WSUS
2 2 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (11.11%) NetBackup
2 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
2 2 (11.11%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (5.556%) SCCM
3 1 (5.556%) SCOM
3 1 (5.556%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Citrix
2 3 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec
3 2 (11.11%) McAfee
3 2 (11.11%) NetApp
3 2 (11.11%) Veritas
3 2 (11.11%) Riverbed
3 2 (11.11%) MobileIron
4 1 (5.556%) HP
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