Microsoft Contracts in Gloucestershire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations 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 Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 13 12 6
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 26 76 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 9.594% 11.80% 18.81%
As % of the Vendors category 22.22% 24.44% 38.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 43 35
Average daily rate £300 £375 £315
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £122 £174 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £409
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 4
Average hourly rate £19.00 £50.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.00% +75.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.60 £16.68 £16.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.40 £50.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
Search 38 Microsoft jobs in Gloucestershire
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 117 311 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 43.17% 48.29% 48.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 204 90
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £347 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 15
Average hourly rate £11.00 £25.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.00% +19.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £20.00 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
South West

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheltenham +22 9 £363 -5.84%
Gloucester +4 5 £120 -68.00%
Microsoft
South West

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 32 (47.76%) Windows
2 25 (37.31%) SQL Server
3 23 (34.33%) Security Cleared
4 21 (31.34%) .NET
4 21 (31.34%) C#
5 20 (29.85%) Visual Studio
5 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (23.88%) Finance
6 16 (23.88%) MS Excel
7 15 (22.39%) DV Cleared
8 14 (20.90%) SQL Server 2008
8 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
8 14 (20.90%) ASP.NET
8 14 (20.90%) HTML
8 14 (20.90%) SQL
8 14 (20.90%) VMware
9 13 (19.40%) Oracle
9 13 (19.40%) SharePoint
9 13 (19.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 12 (17.91%) CSS
11 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
11 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
11 11 (16.42%) Windows 7
12 10 (14.93%) SharePoint 2010
12 10 (14.93%) Cisco
12 10 (14.93%) Linux
12 10 (14.93%) Firewall
13 9 (13.43%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (13.43%) MS Exchange

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 21 (31.34%) .NET
2 14 (20.90%) ASP.NET
2 14 (20.90%) HTML
3 12 (17.91%) CSS
4 7 (10.45%) jQuery
4 7 (10.45%) Middleware
5 3 (4.478%) WCF
6 2 (2.985%) ODBC
6 2 (2.985%) XML
6 2 (2.985%) Hibernate
6 2 (2.985%) HTML5
6 2 (2.985%) Application Packaging
6 2 (2.985%) Spring
7 1 (1.493%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.493%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (1.493%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (1.493%) XSD
7 1 (1.493%) XSLT
7 1 (1.493%) ASP
7 1 (1.493%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 13 (19.40%) SharePoint
2 10 (14.93%) SharePoint 2010
3 9 (13.43%) MS Exchange
4 7 (10.45%) Oracle Application Server
4 7 (10.45%) GlassFish
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Azure
4 7 (10.45%) Amazon AWS
4 7 (10.45%) WebLogic
5 6 (8.955%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (8.955%) MS Project Server
5 6 (8.955%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (5.970%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (4.478%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (4.478%) SharePoint 2013
7 3 (4.478%) IIS
8 2 (2.985%) Apache
9 1 (1.493%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (1.493%) Lotus Notes
9 1 (1.493%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 16 (23.88%) MS Excel
2 9 (13.43%) MS Office
3 6 (8.955%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.970%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) Firewall
2 8 (11.94%) MPLS
2 8 (11.94%) SAN
3 7 (10.45%) DHCP
3 7 (10.45%) TCP/IP
3 7 (10.45%) DNS
4 2 (2.985%) DSL
4 2 (2.985%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.493%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (1.493%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.493%) Internet
5 1 (1.493%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (37.31%) SQL Server
2 14 (20.90%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (19.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 11 (16.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (11.94%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (10.45%) Oracle 11g
6 7 (10.45%) Oracle 10g
7 5 (7.463%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 5 (7.463%) Oracle Reports
7 5 (7.463%) Crystal Reports
8 3 (4.478%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (2.985%) MySQL
9 2 (2.985%) RDBMS
9 2 (2.985%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 20 (29.85%) Visual Studio
2 7 (10.45%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (8.955%) Dreamweaver
4 3 (4.478%) MSI
5 2 (2.985%) TestDirector
5 2 (2.985%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 16 (23.88%) Finance
2 3 (4.478%) Banking
2 3 (4.478%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.493%) Retail
3 1 (1.493%) Retail Banking
3 1 (1.493%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Developer
2 9 (13.43%) Analyst
3 7 (10.45%) SharePoint Developer
3 7 (10.45%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (10.45%) Architect
3 7 (10.45%) Desktop Support
4 6 (8.955%) Web Developer
5 5 (7.463%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 5 (7.463%) Tester
5 5 (7.463%) Support Engineer
6 4 (5.970%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.970%) Developer Analyst
6 4 (5.970%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (5.970%) Web Analyst
7 3 (4.478%) Desktop Support Technician
7 3 (4.478%) Mac Engineer
7 3 (4.478%) Desktop Technician
7 3 (4.478%) Support Technician
8 2 (2.985%) Applications Packager
8 2 (2.985%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) PaaS
1 7 (10.45%) IaaS
2 5 (7.463%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (7.463%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.970%) Statistics
3 4 (5.970%) VAX
4 3 (4.478%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.985%) iPad
5 2 (2.985%) iPhone
5 2 (2.985%) CMDB
6 1 (1.493%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.493%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 32 (47.76%) Windows
2 11 (16.42%) Windows 7
3 10 (14.93%) Linux
4 9 (13.43%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (11.94%) UNIX
6 7 (10.45%) Windows Vista
6 7 (10.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (10.45%) Windows XP
6 7 (10.45%) Solaris
7 5 (7.463%) Mac OS X Server
7 5 (7.463%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (7.463%) Mac OS X
8 4 (5.970%) VMS
9 1 (1.493%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.493%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (10.45%) Load Balancing
1 7 (10.45%) MVC
2 6 (8.955%) ITIL
2 6 (8.955%) Data Modelling
2 6 (8.955%) Scrum
2 6 (8.955%) Business Analysis
3 5 (7.463%) Asset Management
3 5 (7.463%) Web Development
3 5 (7.463%) Stochastic Modelling
3 5 (7.463%) Data Architecture
3 5 (7.463%) Software Deployment
3 5 (7.463%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (5.970%) OO
4 4 (5.970%) CRM
4 4 (5.970%) Migration
4 4 (5.970%) Problem Management
4 4 (5.970%) Test Scripting
4 4 (5.970%) Automated Testing
5 3 (4.478%) Manual Testing
5 3 (4.478%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (31.34%) C#
2 14 (20.90%) SQL
3 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (8.955%) C
5 5 (7.463%) PL/SQL
5 5 (7.463%) T-SQL
5 5 (7.463%) VB.NET
6 4 (5.970%) Fortran
7 2 (2.985%) VB
7 2 (2.985%) PHP
7 2 (2.985%) Delphi
7 2 (2.985%) Python
7 2 (2.985%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.985%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (34.33%) Security Cleared
2 20 (29.85%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (22.39%) DV Cleared
4 8 (11.94%) MCP
5 5 (7.463%) MCITP
6 4 (5.970%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.478%) Degree
8 2 (2.985%) MCAD
8 2 (2.985%) MCSD
8 2 (2.985%) MCSE
8 2 (2.985%) ISEB
9 1 (1.493%) MCTS
9 1 (1.493%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.493%) VCP5
9 1 (1.493%) VCP4
9 1 (1.493%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.493%) MCSA
9 1 (1.493%) CCSP
9 1 (1.493%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.955%) QA
2 1 (1.493%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (20.90%) Active Directory
2 11 (16.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (10.45%) Oracle RAC
3 7 (10.45%) vSphere
4 4 (5.970%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (2.985%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.985%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (2.985%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 2 (2.985%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.493%) WhatsUp Gold
2 1 (1.493%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (1.493%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (1.493%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 14 (20.90%) VMware
2 13 (19.40%) Oracle
3 10 (14.93%) Cisco
4 8 (11.94%) Apple
5 7 (10.45%) Sun
6 6 (8.955%) Red Hat
7 5 (7.463%) Business Objects
8 4 (5.970%) Citrix
8 4 (5.970%) Altiris
9 2 (2.985%) Dell
10 1 (1.493%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.493%) Lotus
10 1 (1.493%) Symantec
10 1 (1.493%) McAfee
10 1 (1.493%) Sophos
10 1 (1.493%) IBM
10 1 (1.493%) HP
Service Desk Support
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
1st Line Service Desk Analyst will be taking calls from a large customer base receiving hosted infrastructure services across a suite of Microsoft applications and server products. 1st...
Experis IT
Rate: £130 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
MS Dynamics AX Developer
Gloucestershire, South West
My client is searching for an experienced MS Dynamics AX Developer, who is experienced X++ coding, for a major end user based in the Gloucestershire area.The main...
Nigel Frank International
Rate: £325 - £350 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
1st Line Support / Service Desk
Gloucester, Gloucestershire
3 month contract initial - likely to extend £100 - £120 per day Our client is looking for a first line support to help out on their busy service desk...
Experis IT
Rate: £100 - £120 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Project Engineer - SOLIDWORKS
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £27 - £32 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Engineer - Contract
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £27 - £32 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Engineer
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £26 - £32 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Engineer
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications 18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £27 - £33 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
Project Engineer
Cheltenham, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £20 - £25 per hour
Posted: 21 May 2013
Contract Project Engineer
Gloucestershire, South West
Good office computer skills in a range of Microsoft applications18. Experience in the use of Solid Works CAD with ability to operate other CAD packages an advantage (but...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £25 - £30 per hour
Posted: 22 May 2013
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