The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Luton 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 Luton 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 1 6 2
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 16 6 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 20.00% 9.677% 19.61%
As % of the Vendors category 53.33% 31.58% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 4
Average daily rate £325 £300 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
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
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
30 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 37.50% 30.65% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 11
Average daily rate £325 £375 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +21.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £20.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Bedfordshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 22 (75.86%) Windows
2 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
3 15 (51.72%) .NET
4 13 (44.83%) MS Excel
5 11 (37.93%) C#
6 10 (34.48%) .NET Framework
7 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
8 8 (27.59%) XML
9 7 (24.14%) Web Services
9 7 (24.14%) IIS
9 7 (24.14%) DHCP
9 7 (24.14%) DNS
9 7 (24.14%) Unit Testing
9 7 (24.14%) TDD
9 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
10 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
10 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
10 6 (20.69%) Internet
10 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
10 6 (20.69%) SQL
10 6 (20.69%) SOA
11 5 (17.24%) Windows XP
11 5 (17.24%) ITIL
11 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
11 5 (17.24%) FTP
11 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (17.24%) SCOM
11 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
11 5 (17.24%) Change Management
11 5 (17.24%) Publishing

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 15 (51.72%) .NET
2 10 (34.48%) .NET Framework
3 8 (27.59%) XML
4 7 (24.14%) Web Services
5 4 (13.79%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.897%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (6.897%) NHibernate
6 2 (6.897%) COM
7 1 (3.448%) HTML
7 1 (3.448%) WCF
7 1 (3.448%) WF
7 1 (3.448%) jQuery
7 1 (3.448%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.448%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (24.14%) IIS
2 4 (13.79%) Windows Azure
3 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (6.897%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (6.897%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (6.897%) MS Exchange
5 1 (3.448%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (3.448%) Papyrus
5 1 (3.448%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 13 (44.83%) MS Excel
2 4 (13.79%) MS Office
3 3 (10.34%) MS Project
3 3 (10.34%) MS Visio
3 3 (10.34%) PrintSoft PReS
3 3 (10.34%) DOC1
4 2 (6.897%) Photoshop
5 1 (3.448%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Exstream
2 1 (3.448%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) DHCP
1 7 (24.14%) DNS
2 6 (20.69%) Internet
3 5 (17.24%) FTP
4 2 (6.897%) HTTP
4 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.897%) LAN
5 1 (3.448%) VPN
5 1 (3.448%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (62.07%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (20.69%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (13.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (10.34%) RDBMS
5 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.448%) GIS
5 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
2 5 (17.24%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.897%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (6.897%) Git (software)
4 1 (3.448%) NUnit
4 1 (3.448%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (17.24%) Publishing
2 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.448%) Finance
2 1 (3.448%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 7 (24.14%) Developer
2 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (17.24%) .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.79%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (10.34%) Support Technician
6 2 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 2 (6.897%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (6.897%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.897%) ScrumMaster
6 2 (6.897%) Software Engineer
6 2 (6.897%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.448%) Desktop Support
7 1 (3.448%) Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.448%) Consultant
7 1 (3.448%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 1 (3.448%) Deployment Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.34%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.897%) Client/Server
4 1 (3.448%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.448%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.448%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 22 (75.86%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Windows XP
2 5 (17.24%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (6.897%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.897%) Windows Vista
5 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000
5 1 (3.448%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Unit Testing
1 7 (24.14%) TDD
2 6 (20.69%) SOA
3 5 (17.24%) ITIL
3 5 (17.24%) Configuration Management
3 5 (17.24%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (17.24%) Refactoring
3 5 (17.24%) Change Management
4 4 (13.79%) Scrum
4 4 (13.79%) AOP
4 4 (13.79%) E-Commerce
5 3 (10.34%) ETL
5 3 (10.34%) PRINCE2
5 3 (10.34%) OO
5 3 (10.34%) Migration
5 3 (10.34%) MVC
6 2 (6.897%) Agile Testing
6 2 (6.897%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.897%) BDD
6 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) C#
2 7 (24.14%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) SQL
4 2 (6.897%) VBScript
4 2 (6.897%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.448%) VB
5 1 (3.448%) VBA
5 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.448%) Java
5 1 (3.448%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (6.897%) Degree
1 2 (6.897%) Security Cleared
1 2 (6.897%) ISEB
1 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (3.448%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.897%) QA
1 2 (6.897%) SLA
2 1 (3.448%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (31.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.448%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) SCOM
2 2 (6.897%) SCCM
3 1 (3.448%) ZENworks
3 1 (3.448%) Nagios
3 1 (3.448%) Cacti
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle
1 3 (10.34%) HP
2 2 (6.897%) Symantec
2 2 (6.897%) Adobe
3 1 (3.448%) Novell
3 1 (3.448%) JD Edwards
3 1 (3.448%) Citrix
3 1 (3.448%) Polycom