Microsoft Developer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Developer 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 Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Developer
Rank 420 408 455
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +47
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 83 159 115
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.199% 0.298% 0.207%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.215% 0.321% 0.224%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 107 76
Average daily rate £375 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £256 £275 £323
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 4
Average hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £24.19
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.55% +86.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £24.19
% change year-on-year
-25.55% +86.04%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38599 49457 51411
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.55% 92.65% 92.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22682 27982 28506
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £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 2004 2401 2726
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.13 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Microsoft Developer
UK

Microsoft Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Microsoft Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
London +11 39 £400 -11.11%
West Midlands +6 9 £300 -18.91%
South East -7 9 £288 +4.54%
North West +11 8 £372 +24.00%
South West +29 7 £365 -9.31%
East of England +3 7 £375 -
Yorkshire -6 3 £281 -43.75%
North East +13 1 £350 -30.00%
Microsoft Developer
UK

Microsoft Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 121 (77.56%) Microsoft
2 87 (55.77%) .NET
3 84 (53.85%) SQL Server
4 64 (41.03%) C#
5 58 (37.18%) MS Excel
6 57 (36.54%) CRM
6 57 (36.54%) Dynamics CRM
7 55 (35.26%) SQL
8 45 (28.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 43 (27.56%) SharePoint
10 35 (22.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 33 (21.15%) ASP.NET
12 32 (20.51%) SQL Server 2008
13 29 (18.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 26 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
15 23 (14.74%) JavaScript
16 20 (12.82%) Advertising
17 19 (12.18%) Finance
18 17 (10.90%) VBA
19 16 (10.26%) Visual Studio
19 16 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
19 16 (10.26%) Dynamics AX
20 15 (9.615%) Windows
20 15 (9.615%) T-SQL
21 14 (8.974%) MS Access
22 13 (8.333%) HTML
22 13 (8.333%) XML
23 12 (7.692%) WCF
23 12 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
24 11 (7.051%) Business Analysis

Microsoft Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 87 (55.77%) .NET
2 33 (21.15%) ASP.NET
3 13 (8.333%) HTML
3 13 (8.333%) XML
4 12 (7.692%) WCF
5 11 (7.051%) Web Services
5 11 (7.051%) .NET Framework
6 10 (6.410%) CSS
7 8 (5.128%) COM
8 7 (4.487%) ASP
8 7 (4.487%) MDX
9 6 (3.846%) Silverlight
9 6 (3.846%) jQuery
9 6 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 4 (2.564%) ASP.NET MVC
10 4 (2.564%) SOAP
10 4 (2.564%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
11 3 (1.923%) LINQ
12 2 (1.282%) EDI
12 2 (1.282%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 43 (27.56%) SharePoint
2 12 (7.692%) SharePoint 2010
3 11 (7.051%) BizTalk Server
4 8 (5.128%) IIS
5 4 (2.564%) CMS
6 3 (1.923%) Umbraco
7 2 (1.282%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.641%) Content Management Server
8 1 (0.641%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.641%) SharePoint Foundation
8 1 (0.641%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 58 (37.18%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.564%) MS Office
3 2 (1.282%) PowerPivot
3 2 (1.282%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.641%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.641%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.641%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 57 (36.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 16 (10.26%) Dynamics AX
3 5 (3.205%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.641%) SalesLogix
4 1 (0.641%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.641%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.282%) HTTP
2 1 (0.641%) Internet
2 1 (0.641%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (53.85%) SQL Server
2 45 (28.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 35 (22.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 32 (20.51%) SQL Server 2008
5 29 (18.59%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 16 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (8.974%) MS Access
8 9 (5.769%) OLAP
9 7 (4.487%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (1.923%) Oracle 8/8i
10 3 (1.923%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 2 (1.282%) Oracle OLAP
11 2 (1.282%) PerformancePoint
12 1 (0.641%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
12 1 (0.641%) SQL Server 2012
12 1 (0.641%) QlikView
12 1 (0.641%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.641%) Star Schema
12 1 (0.641%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 16 (10.26%) Visual Studio
2 4 (2.564%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (1.282%) MorphX
3 2 (1.282%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (1.282%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.641%) ClearCase
4 1 (0.641%) Subversion
4 1 (0.641%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (0.641%) Git (software)
General
1 20 (12.82%) Advertising
2 19 (12.18%) Finance
3 6 (3.846%) Banking
4 5 (3.205%) Retail
5 4 (2.564%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.282%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.282%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.282%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.282%) Marketing
7 1 (0.641%) General Ledger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (1.923%) N-Tier
2 2 (1.282%) NHS
2 2 (1.282%) Management Information System
2 2 (1.282%) Clustering
3 1 (0.641%) Equities
3 1 (0.641%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.641%) Reference Data
3 1 (0.641%) Data Extraction
3 1 (0.641%) Data Integration
3 1 (0.641%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 15 (9.615%) Windows
2 5 (3.205%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (1.282%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.641%) Oracle Linux
4 1 (0.641%) UNIX
4 1 (0.641%) Linux
4 1 (0.641%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.641%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (0.641%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (36.54%) CRM
2 26 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (7.051%) MVC
3 11 (7.051%) Business Analysis
4 10 (6.410%) ETL
5 9 (5.769%) Workflow
6 8 (5.128%) ERP
6 8 (5.128%) Data Modelling
6 8 (5.128%) Data Management
7 6 (3.846%) TDD
7 6 (3.846%) SOA
7 6 (3.846%) BDD
8 5 (3.205%) Data Migration
8 5 (3.205%) OO
8 5 (3.205%) Migration
8 5 (3.205%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (3.205%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (2.564%) Unit Testing
9 4 (2.564%) OOP
10 3 (1.923%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (41.03%) C#
2 55 (35.26%) SQL
3 23 (14.74%) JavaScript
4 17 (10.90%) VBA
5 15 (9.615%) T-SQL
6 7 (4.487%) VB.NET
7 5 (3.205%) VB
7 5 (3.205%) C
8 4 (2.564%) X++
9 3 (1.923%) Perl
9 3 (1.923%) C++
10 2 (1.282%) Java
10 2 (1.282%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.641%) PHP
11 1 (0.641%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (4.487%) MCTS
3 6 (3.846%) MCSD
4 4 (2.564%) MCAD
4 4 (2.564%) MCPD
4 4 (2.564%) Degree
5 2 (1.282%) MCP
5 2 (1.282%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.641%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.282%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.282%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.641%) LiteSpeed
2 1 (0.641%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.641%) BMC PATROL
1 1 (0.641%) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors
1 121 (77.56%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.769%) Oracle
3 7 (4.487%) Cognos
4 3 (1.923%) Sage
5 1 (0.641%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (0.641%) VMware
5 1 (0.641%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.641%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.641%) Red Gate
5 1 (0.641%) Twitter
5 1 (0.641%) Siebel
5 1 (0.641%) IBM
5 1 (0.641%) BMC
5 1 (0.641%) MicroStrategy
5 1 (0.641%) NetApp
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