The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Dorking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Dorking 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 1 3 5
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 3 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 75.00% 50.00% 13.33%
As % of the Vendors category 100.00% 100.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 3
Average daily rate £343 £363 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% +45.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Dorking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorking 75.00% 50.00% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 4
Average daily rate £343 £363 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% +31.81%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Surrey

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorking 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 Dorking region.

Dorking Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dorking Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Firewall
3 2 (40.00%) IPsec
3 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (40.00%) VPN
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) AIX
3 2 (40.00%) Linux
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) SCCM
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 2 (40.00%) vSphere
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorking 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Office
2 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Firewall
1 2 (40.00%) IPsec
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (40.00%) VPN
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (20.00%) PowerCenter
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Manager
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Informatica Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) AIX
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (20.00%) Content Management
1 1 (20.00%) Information Management
1 1 (20.00%) Document Management
1 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Informatica