Ilford Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Ilford 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Ayr Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Bristol Bromley Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Cobham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Dalkeith Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dronfield Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tidworth Tonbridge Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	4	2
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	60.00 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£311	£295
% change on same period last year	+5.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£8.85
Average hourly rate	£19.75	£8.85
% change on same period last year	+123.16 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.00	£8.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.89	£19.03
% change on same period last year	-0.72 %
Vendors Ilford
Matching contract IT job ads	5	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.006 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£258
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£265
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£348
% change on same period last year	+2.84 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.88	£17.07
Average hourly rate	£23.31	£17.07
% change on same period last year	+36.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.75	£17.07
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.26	£24.41
% change on same period last year	-0.60 %
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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 Ilford 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 Ilford 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 Ilford region.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ilford 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 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) CCA 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification 3 1 (33.33 %) SAN 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) HP 3 1 (33.33 %) Dell 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Ilford 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 Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Network Technician 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) CCA 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Certification	System Software 1 3 (100.00 %) Active Directory 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 1 (33.33 %) VMware 2 1 (33.33 %) HP 2 1 (33.33 %) Dell