The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Consultant
Rank 467 459 502
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 65 86 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.150% 0.162% 0.136%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.162% 0.176% 0.147%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 42
Average daily rate £375 £420 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.71% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £275 £326
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £515 £498
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £428 £370
% change year-on-year
-12.28% +15.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £50.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +21.95%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year
- +21.95%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Microsoft Consultant
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Microsoft Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

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

England 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 England region.

England Microsoft Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Consultant within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +6 24 £400 -4.76% 9
South East +28 20 £358 +30.00% 4
South West +34 4 £325 -31.57% 1
East of England +15 4 £375 -12.79% 1
North West +14 4 £390 +7.58% 1
West Midlands +7 2 £438 - 1
East Midlands -3 1 - - 1
Midlands - - - -
Yorkshire - - - - 4
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Microsoft Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 94 (78.33%) Microsoft
2 37 (30.83%) Dynamics CRM
3 35 (29.17%) CRM
4 32 (26.67%) MS Excel
5 31 (25.83%) Windows
6 28 (23.33%) SQL Server
7 27 (22.50%) MS Exchange
8 26 (21.67%) Migration
9 25 (20.83%) Active Directory
10 22 (18.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 20 (16.67%) .NET
11 20 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 18 (15.00%) Finance
13 17 (14.17%) SharePoint
13 17 (14.17%) Exchange Server 2010
13 17 (14.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 15 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (11.67%) Dynamics AX
15 14 (11.67%) SQL Server 2008
16 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 12 (10.00%) C#
17 12 (10.00%) SQL
18 10 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
18 10 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
18 10 (8.333%) Lync
18 10 (8.333%) SCCM
19 9 (7.500%) Windows 7
19 9 (7.500%) OLAP
20 8 (6.667%) MS Office
20 8 (6.667%) MCP

Microsoft Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 20 (16.67%) .NET
2 8 (6.667%) .NET Framework
3 7 (5.833%) WCF
3 7 (5.833%) Web Services
3 7 (5.833%) ASP.NET
4 6 (5.000%) Silverlight
5 5 (4.167%) jQuery
5 5 (4.167%) HTML
5 5 (4.167%) XML
6 4 (3.333%) Middleware
7 2 (1.667%) CSS
7 2 (1.667%) Ajax
8 1 (0.833%) AppFabric
8 1 (0.833%) JSON
8 1 (0.833%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.833%) MDX
8 1 (0.833%) WPF
8 1 (0.833%) WF
8 1 (0.833%) REST
8 1 (0.833%) COM
Application Platforms
1 27 (22.50%) MS Exchange
2 17 (14.17%) SharePoint
2 17 (14.17%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (8.333%) Lync
4 6 (5.000%) IIS
4 6 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 6 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2003
5 5 (4.167%) Windows Azure
5 5 (4.167%) WorkSite
5 5 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (3.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (2.500%) Office Communications Server
7 3 (2.500%) IBM Notes
8 2 (1.667%) Lotus Domino
8 2 (1.667%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.833%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 32 (26.67%) MS Excel
2 8 (6.667%) MS Office
3 2 (1.667%) MS Project
3 2 (1.667%) PowerPivot
4 1 (0.833%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 37 (30.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 14 (11.67%) Dynamics AX
3 7 (5.833%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.833%) DNS
2 6 (5.000%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.333%) SMTP
4 3 (2.500%) DHCP
5 2 (1.667%) Internet
5 2 (1.667%) POP3
5 2 (1.667%) SSL
5 2 (1.667%) LDAP
6 1 (0.833%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.833%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (0.833%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (0.833%) PBX
6 1 (0.833%) VPN
6 1 (0.833%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (23.33%) SQL Server
2 20 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 17 (14.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (11.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 13 (10.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 10 (8.333%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
7 9 (7.500%) OLAP
8 3 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.833%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.833%) QlikView
9 1 (0.833%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 1 (0.833%) ProClarity
9 1 (0.833%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.833%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 7 (5.833%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (15.00%) Finance
2 6 (5.000%) Law
3 5 (4.167%) Legal
3 5 (4.167%) Banking
4 3 (2.500%) Advertising
5 2 (1.667%) Retail
5 2 (1.667%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.833%) Marketing
6 1 (0.833%) French Language
6 1 (0.833%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.833%) Publishing
6 1 (0.833%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.167%) Blackberry
2 1 (0.833%) iPad
2 1 (0.833%) EqualLogic
2 1 (0.833%) Market Risk
2 1 (0.833%) Data Extraction
2 1 (0.833%) Handset
2 1 (0.833%) PKI
2 1 (0.833%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 31 (25.83%) Windows
2 9 (7.500%) Windows 7
3 8 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (5.000%) Windows XP
5 5 (4.167%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (3.333%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.667%) NetWare
8 1 (0.833%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.833%) Android
8 1 (0.833%) Windows Vista
8 1 (0.833%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.833%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (29.17%) CRM
2 26 (21.67%) Migration
3 15 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (6.667%) Workflow
5 6 (5.000%) Data Migration
6 5 (4.167%) Project Management
6 5 (4.167%) Document Management
6 5 (4.167%) ITIL
7 4 (3.333%) EAI
8 3 (2.500%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (2.500%) TOGAF
9 2 (1.667%) Data Modelling
9 2 (1.667%) Business Analysis
9 2 (1.667%) Change Control
9 2 (1.667%) Requirements Analysis
9 2 (1.667%) Test Scripting
10 1 (0.833%) Technical Architecture
10 1 (0.833%) Web Development
10 1 (0.833%) Load Balancing
10 1 (0.833%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.00%) C#
1 12 (10.00%) SQL
2 5 (4.167%) PowerShell
2 5 (4.167%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.500%) VB
4 2 (1.667%) VBScript
5 1 (0.833%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (6.667%) MCP
2 8 (6.667%) MCITP
2 8 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.833%) MCSE
4 6 (5.000%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.500%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.833%) MCTS
6 1 (0.833%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (0.833%) MCSD
6 1 (0.833%) MCDBA
System Software
1 25 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.500%) Oracle RAC
3 3 (2.500%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 3 (2.500%) XenApp
4 2 (1.667%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.833%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (0.833%) UAG
5 1 (0.833%) vSphere
5 1 (0.833%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.833%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 10 (8.333%) SCCM
2 6 (5.000%) SCOM
3 3 (2.500%) Opalis
3 3 (2.500%) SCVMM
3 3 (2.500%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (1.667%) ZENworks
4 2 (1.667%) Novell Identity Manager
5 1 (0.833%) WSUS
5 1 (0.833%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.833%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 94 (78.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.167%) VMware
3 4 (3.333%) NetApp
3 4 (3.333%) Dell
3 4 (3.333%) Oracle
3 4 (3.333%) Symantec
4 3 (2.500%) SAP
4 3 (2.500%) EMC
4 3 (2.500%) Citrix
4 3 (2.500%) Hitachi
4 3 (2.500%) Lotus
5 2 (1.667%) Novell
5 2 (1.667%) Cisco
5 2 (1.667%) McAfee
6 1 (0.833%) Postini
6 1 (0.833%) Polycom
6 1 (0.833%) RightFax
6 1 (0.833%) F5
6 1 (0.833%) MobileIron
6 1 (0.833%) Clearswift
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