The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Greenwich 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 Greenwich 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 8 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Greenwich 12.50% 5.263% -
As % of the Vendors category 25.00% 8.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £425 £530 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.81% -
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
Greenwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
4 12 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Greenwich 50.00% 63.16% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 0
Average daily rate £425 £355 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.71% -
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 £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Greenwich 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 Greenwich region.

Greenwich Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft across the Greenwich region.

Greenwich Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Greenwich 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 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Greenwich 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 Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) SAN
1 1 (100.00%) NAS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Design Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Brocade