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Microsoft Contracts in Dunstable
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Dunstable 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 3 1 6
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 14 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 33.33% 50.00% 7.692%
As % of the Vendors category 40.00% 87.50% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £428 £165 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+159.09% -
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 £14.98 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.13% -
All Vendors
Dunstable
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 10 16 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 83.33% 57.14% 69.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
Average daily rate £500 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% +52.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Microsoft
Bedfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 6 (85.71%) XenApp
2 6 (85.71%) Citrix
3 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) VMware Server
4 4 (57.14%) IVR
4 4 (57.14%) Retail
4 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
4 4 (57.14%) MS Visio
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
4 4 (57.14%) IIS
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle
5 3 (42.86%) Nortel
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (42.86%) Finance
5 3 (42.86%) Nortel Meridian
5 3 (42.86%) XenDesktop
6 2 (28.57%) Migration
6 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
6 2 (28.57%) LANDesk
6 2 (28.57%) Fat Client
6 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (28.57%) AppSense
6 2 (28.57%) Thin Client

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 2 (28.57%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) MS Visio
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Nortel Meridian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
2 1 (14.29%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Retail
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Applications Packager
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Deployment Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) IVR
2 2 (28.57%) Fat Client
2 2 (28.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) TOGAF
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) XenApp
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (57.14%) VMware Server
4 3 (42.86%) XenDesktop
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Citrix
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
3 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 3 (42.86%) Nortel
4 2 (28.57%) LANDesk
4 2 (28.57%) AppSense
4 2 (28.57%) Mercator
4 2 (28.57%) Adobe
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) Dell
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