The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine 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 Erskine 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 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 30 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 48.39% - -
As % of the Vendors category 63.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 28 0 0
Average daily rate £391 - -
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
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
47 21 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 75.81% 72.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 43 12 0
Average daily rate £425 £388 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Renfrewshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine 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 Erskine region.

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

Erskine Microsoft Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 37 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 35 (94.59%) Windows
3 28 (75.68%) SC Cleared
4 22 (59.46%) Windows XP
5 21 (56.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2003
7 16 (43.24%) Security Architecture
8 14 (37.84%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 12 (32.43%) Telecoms
10 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Certification
10 11 (29.73%) Solaris
10 11 (29.73%) VBScript
11 10 (27.03%) ERP
11 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
11 10 (27.03%) SaaS
12 9 (24.32%) Software Distribution
12 9 (24.32%) SAN
12 9 (24.32%) Tivoli
12 9 (24.32%) Netcool
12 9 (24.32%) XML
12 9 (24.32%) Linux
12 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
13 8 (21.62%) AIX
13 8 (21.62%) MS Office
13 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
13 8 (21.62%) Lumension
13 8 (21.62%) Windows 7
13 8 (21.62%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
14 7 (18.92%) Cryptography

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 9 (24.32%) XML
2 7 (18.92%) .NET Framework
2 7 (18.92%) .NET
2 7 (18.92%) XML Schema
3 2 (5.405%) XSLT
3 2 (5.405%) MooTools
3 2 (5.405%) Ajax
4 1 (2.703%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (24.32%) SharePoint
2 8 (21.62%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (8.108%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (21.62%) MS Office
2 7 (18.92%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (24.32%) SAN
2 6 (16.22%) TCP/IP
2 6 (16.22%) DNS
2 6 (16.22%) DHCP
2 6 (16.22%) NAS
3 4 (10.81%) LDAP
4 1 (2.703%) SNMP
4 1 (2.703%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.108%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) BusinessObjects
General
1 12 (32.43%) Telecoms
2 10 (27.03%) Manufacturing
3 3 (8.108%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Build Engineer
1 7 (18.92%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 5 (13.51%) Senior Build Engineer
3 3 (8.108%) Implementation Engineer
4 2 (5.405%) Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Architect
5 1 (2.703%) Business Analyst
5 1 (2.703%) Administrator
5 1 (2.703%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.03%) SaaS
2 7 (18.92%) Cryptography
2 7 (18.92%) Clustering
3 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
3 6 (16.22%) Taxonomies
4 4 (10.81%) Smartcard
4 4 (10.81%) PKI
5 3 (8.108%) Fat Client
5 3 (8.108%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.703%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 35 (94.59%) Windows
2 22 (59.46%) Windows XP
3 21 (56.76%) Windows Server 2008
4 20 (54.05%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (29.73%) Solaris
6 9 (24.32%) Linux
7 8 (21.62%) AIX
7 8 (21.62%) Windows 7
8 3 (8.108%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Security Architecture
2 10 (27.03%) ERP
3 9 (24.32%) Software Distribution
4 6 (16.22%) Service Management
4 6 (16.22%) Configuration Management
4 6 (16.22%) Document Management
5 5 (13.51%) Enterprise Architecture
5 5 (13.51%) Information Security
5 5 (13.51%) Release Management
6 4 (10.81%) Migration
7 3 (8.108%) Software Deployment
8 2 (5.405%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 11 (29.73%) VBScript
2 8 (21.62%) PowerShell
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 4 (10.81%) Java
4 4 (10.81%) Perl
4 4 (10.81%) Bourne shell
4 4 (10.81%) Korn
5 3 (8.108%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (75.68%) SC Cleared
3 11 (29.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (18.92%) MCP
5 3 (8.108%) MCSE
5 3 (8.108%) CISSP
6 2 (5.405%) CIMA
7 1 (2.703%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.703%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (8.108%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (8.108%) Active Directory
1 3 (8.108%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.703%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (2.703%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 14 (37.84%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 9 (24.32%) Tivoli
2 9 (24.32%) Netcool
3 3 (8.108%) Netcool/OMNIbus
4 1 (2.703%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Lumension
2 7 (18.92%) McAfee
2 7 (18.92%) Veritas
3 5 (13.51%) VMware
4 4 (10.81%) Sophos
4 4 (10.81%) HP
5 3 (8.108%) IBM
5 3 (8.108%) Oracle
5 3 (8.108%) Symantec
5 3 (8.108%) Wyse
6 2 (5.405%) Business Objects
6 2 (5.405%) SAP
7 1 (2.703%) Brocade
7 1 (2.703%) EMC
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