The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Home Counties region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 20 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 Home Counties 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 7 - 3
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 0 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 10.53% - 15.25%
As % of the Vendors category 23.53% - 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
Average daily rate £550 - £300
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 £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Home Counties
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
17 23 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Home Counties 44.74% 47.92% 67.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 11
Average daily rate £550 £403 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.64% +7.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Home Counties 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 Home Counties region.

Home Counties Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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 4 (80.00%) Windows
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 3 (60.00%) Zachman Framework
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
2 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Military
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Replication
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) SLA
3 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Home Counties 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.

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (60.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Architect
1 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SQL DBA
2 1 (20.00%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Clustering
2 1 (20.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Zachman Framework
1 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
1 3 (60.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
1 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (60.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Citrix
1 3 (60.00%) VMware