Harrogate Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Harrogate region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	17	3
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	17.24 %	46.15 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£180	-
Average daily rate	£205	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£230	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£308
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.21	£20.77
% change on same period last year	-7.46 %
Vendors Harrogate
Matching contract IT job ads	29	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.014 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£255
Average daily rate	£277	£255
% change on same period last year	+8.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£18.00
Average hourly rate	-	£18.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.94	£25.21
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
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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 Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Harrogate region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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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 Harrogate region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 %) MS Excel 2 9 (64.29 %) MS Office 2 9 (64.29 %) Project Management 3 8 (57.14 %) PRINCE2 4 7 (50.00 %) ClearQuest 4 7 (50.00 %) ClearCase 4 7 (50.00 %) MS PowerPoint 4 7 (50.00 %) Office Project Server 5 6 (42.86 %) Finance 6 5 (35.71 %) Business Development 7 3 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (14.29 %) MS Project 8 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP 8 2 (14.29 %) Government 8 2 (14.29 %) Windows

8 2 (14.29 %) UML 8 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 9 1 (7.143 %) Google 9 1 (7.143 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (7.143 %) Java EE 9 1 (7.143 %) VB6 9 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (7.143 %) Management Information System 9 1 (7.143 %) QA 9 1 (7.143 %) WCF 9 1 (7.143 %) WPF 9 1 (7.143 %) Google Maps API 9 1 (7.143 %) BC Cleared 9 1 (7.143 %) OOA/OOD

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Harrogate 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 1 (7.143 %) .NET 1 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (7.143 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (7.143 %) Java EE 1 1 (7.143 %) WCF 1 1 (7.143 %) WPF 1 1 (7.143 %) Google Maps API	Application Platforms 1 7 (50.00 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (7.143 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 10 (71.43 %) MS Excel 2 9 (64.29 %) MS Office 3 7 (50.00 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (14.29 %) MS Project	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Access 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 7 (50.00 %) ClearCase 1 7 (50.00 %) ClearQuest	General 1 6 (42.86 %) Finance 2 2 (14.29 %) Government
Job Titles 1 6 (42.86 %) Analyst 1 6 (42.86 %) Support Analyst 1 6 (42.86 %) Project Analyst 1 6 (42.86 %) Project Support Analyst 2 3 (21.43 %) Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) Project Support Officer 3 2 (14.29 %) Project Officer 4 1 (7.143 %) Excel Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) Excel VBA Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) VBA Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL Server Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) VB Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) SQL Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows 1 2 (14.29 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (64.29 %) Project Management 2 8 (57.14 %) PRINCE2 3 5 (35.71 %) Business Development 4 3 (21.43 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (14.29 %) Project Planning 5 2 (14.29 %) UML 6 1 (7.143 %) OOA/OOD 6 1 (7.143 %) OO 6 1 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (7.143 %) Migration 6 1 (7.143 %) Unified Process 6 1 (7.143 %) Requirements Analysis 6 1 (7.143 %) BC Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) C# 1 1 (7.143 %) Java 1 1 (7.143 %) SQL 1 1 (7.143 %) VB 1 1 (7.143 %) VBA 1 1 (7.143 %) VB6	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 1 1 (7.143 %) Google