The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Kingston Upon Thames 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 6 5 11
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 2 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 6.452% 15.00% 10.53%
As % of the Vendors category 18.18% 20.00% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £159 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -57.60%
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 £14.50 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
All Vendors
Kingston Upon Thames
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11 15 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 35.48% 75.00% 36.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 11
Average daily rate £375 £161 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+133.64% -58.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Microsoft
London

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft across the Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Teradata
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Law
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Syncfusion
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
2 1 (25.00%) DHTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (25.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (25.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (50.00%) Law
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Programmer
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Security Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Design Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (25.00%) Information Security
3 1 (25.00%) Content Management
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Teradata
2 1 (25.00%) Syncfusion
2 1 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (25.00%) Progress