Halifax Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Halifax region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	13	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	40.91 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£298	-
Average daily rate	£298	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£298	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£313
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.52	£20.80
% change on same period last year	-6.18 %
Vendors Halifax
Matching contract IT job ads	22	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	7	0
Average minimum daily rate	£297	-
Average daily rate	£303	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£309	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	-
Average hourly rate	£12.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the Microsoft Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft across the Halifax region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft across the Halifax region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Halifax region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 10 (71.43 %) .NET 2 8 (57.14 %) C# 3 7 (50.00 %) SQL 3 7 (50.00 %) VBScript 3 7 (50.00 %) IIS 3 7 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 7 (50.00 %) XML 3 7 (50.00 %) Windows 4 6 (42.86 %) Finance 4 6 (42.86 %) Banking 5 5 (35.71 %) CSS 5 5 (35.71 %) JavaScript 5 5 (35.71 %) HTML 6 4 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 6 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server

6 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 6 4 (28.57 %) OO 6 4 (28.57 %) Lotus Notes 6 4 (28.57 %) Retail 6 4 (28.57 %) Lotus 7 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (21.43 %) Retail Banking 7 3 (21.43 %) OOD 7 3 (21.43 %) SLA 7 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory 7 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 7 3 (21.43 %) XSLT 7 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 8 2 (14.29 %) XSD 8 2 (14.29 %) XSL

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 10 (71.43 %) .NET 2 7 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 7 (50.00 %) XML 3 5 (35.71 %) HTML 3 5 (35.71 %) CSS 4 3 (21.43 %) WebServices 4 3 (21.43 %) XSLT 5 2 (14.29 %) XHTML 5 2 (14.29 %) XML Schema 5 2 (14.29 %) XML Messaging 5 2 (14.29 %) ASP 5 2 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (14.29 %) XSD 5 2 (14.29 %) XSL 6 1 (7.143 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 7 (50.00 %) IIS 2 4 (28.57 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (7.143 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (7.143 %) MTS 3 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint 3 1 (7.143 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (7.143 %) Commerce Server 3 1 (7.143 %) Site Server 3 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Office 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) DHCP 1 1 (7.143 %) DNS 1 1 (7.143 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (7.143 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 6 (42.86 %) Finance 1 6 (42.86 %) Banking 2 4 (28.57 %) Retail 3 3 (21.43 %) Retail Banking 4 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms 5 1 (7.143 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 9 (64.29 %) Developer 2 6 (42.86 %) .NET Developer 3 4 (28.57 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 3 (21.43 %) 1st Line Support 4 3 (21.43 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Lead Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) Administrator 5 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint Developer 5 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint Administrator 5 1 (7.143 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Client/Server 1 1 (7.143 %) Replication	Operating Systems 1 7 (50.00 %) Windows 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) OO 2 3 (21.43 %) ITIL 2 3 (21.43 %) OOD 2 3 (21.43 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (14.29 %) E-business 3 2 (14.29 %) Web Development 3 2 (14.29 %) Use Case 3 2 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (14.29 %) DNA 4 1 (7.143 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) System Testing 4 1 (7.143 %) Document Management	Programming Languages 1 8 (57.14 %) C# 2 7 (50.00 %) SQL 2 7 (50.00 %) VBScript 3 5 (35.71 %) JavaScript 4 2 (14.29 %) VB 4 2 (14.29 %) VB6 5 1 (7.143 %) VB.NET 5 1 (7.143 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (7.143 %) Perl 5 1 (7.143 %) C++ 5 1 (7.143 %) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (21.43 %) SLA 2 2 (14.29 %) WAI	System Software 1 3 (21.43 %) Active Directory 2 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 3 1 (7.143 %) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Lotus 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 1 (7.143 %) VMware