Microsoft Contracts in Herefordshire
 
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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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 7 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 23.53% 15.79% -
As % of the Vendors category 26.67% 50.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £255 £334 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.70% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £11.50 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Herefordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 15 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Herefordshire 88.24% 31.58% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 0
Average daily rate £250 £281 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.03% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £10.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+175.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

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

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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
Hereford - 2 £135 -
Microsoft
West Midlands

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows XP
2 10 (76.92%) MS Office
2 10 (76.92%) SLA
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 2000
4 5 (38.46%) LAN
4 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Vista
5 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
5 4 (30.77%) PDA
5 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
6 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
6 2 (15.38%) CSS
6 2 (15.38%) XML
6 2 (15.38%) XSLT
6 2 (15.38%) C#
6 2 (15.38%) HTML
6 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
6 2 (15.38%) SQL
6 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
6 2 (15.38%) .NET
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
6 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (15.38%) TDD
6 2 (15.38%) Web Development
6 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (15.38%) jQuery
6 2 (15.38%) Mercurial
6 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
1 2 (15.38%) CSS
1 2 (15.38%) XML
1 2 (15.38%) XSLT
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) jQuery
1 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 10 (76.92%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) LAN
2 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (7.692%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Visual Studio
1 2 (15.38%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) 1st Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) Support Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Help Desk Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Service Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (38.46%) Service Desk Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Field Support Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Field Engineer
3 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Web Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) PDA
1 4 (30.77%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 11 (84.62%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Windows XP
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 2000
4 5 (38.46%) Windows Vista
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (15.38%) TDD
1 2 (15.38%) Web Development
2 1 (7.692%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) C#
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
1 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) MCDST
1 1 (7.692%) MCSE
1 1 (7.692%) MCSA
1 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (76.92%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
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