The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 19 8
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 85 71 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 13.34% 7.267% 12.33%
As % of the Vendors category 28.52% 19.72% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 37
Average daily rate £369 £275 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.09% -12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £153 £150 £187
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 34
Average hourly rate £19.50 £16.00 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.87% -31.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £11.86 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.35 £36.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
298 360 465
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 46.78% 36.85% 53.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 134 179
Average daily rate £363 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 36 69
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% -47.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.65 £11.60 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
East of England

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Hertfordshire 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
St Albans +1 10 - -
Watford +9 7 £363 -
Letchworth -3 4 - -
Hemel Hempstead +4 3 £280 +24.44%
Stevenage +1 3 £180 -
Welwyn Garden City -2 2 £144 -
Rickmansworth - 2 £263 -
Borehamwood - 1 £450 -
Microsoft
East of England

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 75 (43.86%) Windows
2 55 (32.16%) MS Excel
3 52 (30.41%) MS Office
4 48 (28.07%) SQL
5 46 (26.90%) .NET
6 45 (26.32%) SQL Server
7 40 (23.39%) Active Directory
8 36 (21.05%) Retail
9 31 (18.13%) C#
10 23 (13.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 23 (13.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 22 (12.87%) Windows Server 2008
12 21 (12.28%) SharePoint
12 21 (12.28%) Migration
13 20 (11.70%) T-SQL
13 20 (11.70%) Team Foundation Server
14 19 (11.11%) Windows 7
14 19 (11.11%) JavaScript
15 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET
15 18 (10.53%) Web Services
15 18 (10.53%) MS Exchange
15 18 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
15 18 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 18 (10.53%) jQuery
16 17 (9.942%) .NET Framework
16 17 (9.942%) PRINCE2
17 16 (9.357%) Project Management
18 15 (8.772%) Remedy
18 15 (8.772%) ITIL
18 15 (8.772%) Oracle

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 46 (26.90%) .NET
2 18 (10.53%) ASP.NET
2 18 (10.53%) Web Services
2 18 (10.53%) jQuery
3 17 (9.942%) .NET Framework
4 14 (8.187%) HTML
5 13 (7.602%) XML
5 13 (7.602%) Ajax
6 12 (7.018%) WCF
7 11 (6.433%) DHTML
8 10 (5.848%) WinForms
8 10 (5.848%) ADO.NET
9 9 (5.263%) CSS
10 6 (3.509%) KnockoutJS
10 6 (3.509%) JSON
11 5 (2.924%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (2.924%) ASP
12 3 (1.754%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 3 (1.754%) Unity DI Container
12 3 (1.754%) COM
Application Platforms
1 21 (12.28%) SharePoint
2 18 (10.53%) MS Exchange
3 11 (6.433%) Exchange Server 2010
4 9 (5.263%) IIS
5 8 (4.678%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (4.094%) Lotus Notes
7 5 (2.924%) Exchange Server 2007
8 3 (1.754%) Lync
8 3 (1.754%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (1.754%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.585%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.585%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.585%) DotNetNuke
9 1 (0.585%) SharePoint 2010
9 1 (0.585%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.585%) Sitefinity
9 1 (0.585%) Kentico
9 1 (0.585%) CMS
9 1 (0.585%) SAS
9 1 (0.585%) Apache
Applications
1 55 (32.16%) MS Excel
2 52 (30.41%) MS Office
3 9 (5.263%) MS Project
4 5 (2.924%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.754%) Office 365
5 3 (1.754%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (1.754%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.585%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.585%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.585%) InDesign
6 1 (0.585%) QuarkXPress
6 1 (0.585%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 7 (4.094%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (2.339%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.848%) FTP
2 9 (5.263%) DNS
3 8 (4.678%) DHCP
4 7 (4.094%) Internet
4 7 (4.094%) LAN
5 6 (3.509%) Ethernet
5 6 (3.509%) Firewall
6 5 (2.924%) WAN
7 4 (2.339%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.170%) VoIP
8 2 (1.170%) SAN
8 2 (1.170%) VPN
8 2 (1.170%) HTTP
8 2 (1.170%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.170%) Cisco PIX
9 1 (0.585%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.585%) Network Security
9 1 (0.585%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.585%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.585%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 23 (13.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 18 (10.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 12 (7.018%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 12 (7.018%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (6.433%) SQL Server 2008
6 10 (5.848%) DTS
7 6 (3.509%) MS Access
8 4 (2.339%) SQL Server 2000
8 4 (2.339%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (1.754%) PerformancePoint
9 3 (1.754%) OLAP
9 3 (1.754%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (1.170%) OLTP
10 2 (1.170%) RDBMS
10 2 (1.170%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 2 (1.170%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.585%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 20 (11.70%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (4.094%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.170%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (1.170%) Subversion
3 2 (1.170%) MSBuild
3 2 (1.170%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.170%) WiX
3 2 (1.170%) Axure RP
3 2 (1.170%) TeamCity
3 2 (1.170%) JIRA
4 1 (0.585%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.585%) Hudson
4 1 (0.585%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (0.585%) FrontPage
4 1 (0.585%) LoadRunner
General
1 36 (21.05%) Retail
2 15 (8.772%) Telecoms
2 15 (8.772%) Finance
3 4 (2.339%) Welsh Language
4 3 (1.754%) Marketing
4 3 (1.754%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.170%) French Language
6 1 (0.585%) German Language
6 1 (0.585%) Multimedia
6 1 (0.585%) Legal
6 1 (0.585%) Games
Job Titles
1 44 (25.73%) Developer
2 25 (14.62%) Project Manager
3 20 (11.70%) Analyst
4 13 (7.602%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.602%) .NET Developer
5 11 (6.433%) Consultant
5 11 (6.433%) Web Developer
6 8 (4.678%) 2nd Line Support
7 7 (4.094%) Build Manager
7 7 (4.094%) Service Analyst
7 7 (4.094%) C# Developer
8 6 (3.509%) Architect
8 6 (3.509%) C# .NET Developer
9 5 (2.924%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (2.924%) Navision Developer
9 5 (2.924%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (2.924%) Java Developer
10 4 (2.339%) Business Analyst
10 4 (2.339%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.339%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.263%) Blackberry
2 7 (4.094%) N-Tier
3 4 (2.339%) Clustering
4 3 (1.754%) Mathematics
4 3 (1.754%) iPhone
4 3 (1.754%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.170%) NHS
5 2 (1.170%) Thin Client
5 2 (1.170%) Computer Science
5 2 (1.170%) Fat Client
5 2 (1.170%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.585%) FMCG
6 1 (0.585%) iPad
6 1 (0.585%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.585%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.585%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 75 (43.86%) Windows
2 23 (13.45%) Windows Server 2003
3 22 (12.87%) Windows Server 2008
4 19 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 12 (7.018%) Windows XP
6 6 (3.509%) Linux
7 4 (2.339%) Windows 2000
8 2 (1.170%) UNIX
8 2 (1.170%) Windows Mobile
8 2 (1.170%) Windows 8
8 2 (1.170%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (1.170%) Windows Vista
8 2 (1.170%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (0.585%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.585%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (12.28%) Migration
2 17 (9.942%) PRINCE2
3 16 (9.357%) Project Management
4 15 (8.772%) ITIL
4 15 (8.772%) Change Management
5 13 (7.602%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (6.433%) Business Intelligence
6 11 (6.433%) Risk Management
6 11 (6.433%) Service Management
7 10 (5.848%) Time Management
7 10 (5.848%) Scrum
8 9 (5.263%) SOA
9 8 (4.678%) Continuous Improvement
9 8 (4.678%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (4.678%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (4.094%) Business Analysis
10 7 (4.094%) Service Delivery
10 7 (4.094%) ETL
11 6 (3.509%) TDD
11 6 (3.509%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.07%) SQL
2 31 (18.13%) C#
3 20 (11.70%) T-SQL
4 19 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 13 (7.602%) VBScript
6 11 (6.433%) Java
7 10 (5.848%) VB.NET
8 6 (3.509%) VBA
8 6 (3.509%) C
9 5 (2.924%) PowerShell
9 5 (2.924%) VB
10 1 (0.585%) F#
10 1 (0.585%) C++
10 1 (0.585%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (6.433%) Degree
2 11 (6.433%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 10 (5.848%) Security Cleared
3 10 (5.848%) ISEB
4 8 (4.678%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.094%) MCSE
6 5 (2.924%) MCP
7 4 (2.339%) MCSA
7 4 (2.339%) PMP
8 2 (1.170%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.170%) CISSP
8 2 (1.170%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.170%) CISM
8 2 (1.170%) MCITP
9 1 (0.585%) CCEE
9 1 (0.585%) MCDST
9 1 (0.585%) MCTS
9 1 (0.585%) CCNP
9 1 (0.585%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.339%) SLA
1 4 (2.339%) QA
2 2 (1.170%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 40 (23.39%) Active Directory
2 9 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.509%) vSphere
4 5 (2.924%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.339%) Terminal Services
6 3 (1.754%) VMware ESX
7 2 (1.170%) XenApp
7 2 (1.170%) XenServer
7 2 (1.170%) XenDesktop
7 2 (1.170%) Xen
8 1 (0.585%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.585%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 8 (4.678%) Puppet
2 5 (2.924%) SCCM
2 5 (2.924%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (1.754%) SCOM
3 3 (1.754%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (1.170%) Tivoli
4 2 (1.170%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (0.585%) SCVMM
5 1 (0.585%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (0.585%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (0.585%) NetBackup
5 1 (0.585%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 15 (8.772%) Remedy
1 15 (8.772%) Oracle
1 15 (8.772%) VMware
2 12 (7.018%) Citrix
3 9 (5.263%) Symantec
4 8 (4.678%) Cisco
5 7 (4.094%) Lotus
6 5 (2.924%) Sophos
6 5 (2.924%) HP
7 4 (2.339%) Cognos
7 4 (2.339%) Apple
8 3 (1.754%) Acronis
9 2 (1.170%) SAP
9 2 (1.170%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.170%) Salesforce.com
9 2 (1.170%) McAfee
9 2 (1.170%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.170%) Wyse
9 2 (1.170%) Veeam
9 2 (1.170%) Pega
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