Middlesex Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Middlesex region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Ayr Bacup Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumfries Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Haverhill Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hove Huddersfield Hull Immingham Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Whyteleafe Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	11
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	45	50
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	15.73 %	15.72 %
Daily rates quoted	16	11
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£291
Average daily rate	£338	£291
% change on same period last year	+16.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£291
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	£311
% change on same period last year	+0.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.67	£16.67
Average hourly rate	£33.67	£16.67
% change on same period last year	+102.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.67	£16.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.23	£20.71
% change on same period last year	-7.14 %
Vendors Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	286	318
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.377 %	0.333 %
Daily rates quoted	77	86
Average minimum daily rate	£352	£333
Average daily rate	£370	£352
% change on same period last year	+5.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£388	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.19	£23.87
Average hourly rate	£25.90	£24.91
% change on same period last year	+3.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.61	£25.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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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 Middlesex region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 45 (41.67 %) MS Excel 2 26 (24.07 %) MS Office 3 23 (21.30 %) Windows 4 21 (19.44 %) Project Management 5 15 (13.89 %) PRINCE2 6 14 (12.96 %) MS Project 6 14 (12.96 %) SQL 7 13 (12.04 %) SQL Server 7 13 (12.04 %) Active Directory 8 12 (11.11 %) Finance 8 12 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 9 11 (10.19 %) Oracle 10 9 (8.333 %) SharePoint 11 8 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2005 11 8 (7.407 %) Security Cleared

12 7 (6.481 %) SC Cleared 12 7 (6.481 %) Exchange Server 2007 12 7 (6.481 %) Exchange Server 2003 12 7 (6.481 %) MS Visio 12 7 (6.481 %) MS Exchange 12 7 (6.481 %) Unix 12 7 (6.481 %) AIX 12 7 (6.481 %) SAP 12 7 (6.481 %) ITIL 12 7 (6.481 %) .NET 12 7 (6.481 %) VPN 12 7 (6.481 %) PRINCE 13 6 (5.556 %) Remedy 13 6 (5.556 %) Citrix 13 6 (5.556 %) PMI

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 7 (6.481 %) .NET 2 3 (2.778 %) Series 60 3 2 (1.852 %) Middleware 3 2 (1.852 %) XML 3 2 (1.852 %) COM 3 2 (1.852 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (1.852 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 1 (0.926 %) WCF 4 1 (0.926 %) WF 4 1 (0.926 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.926 %) MDX 4 1 (0.926 %) AJAX 4 1 (0.926 %) ATL 4 1 (0.926 %) ASP 4 1 (0.926 %) DCOM 4 1 (0.926 %) SOAP 4 1 (0.926 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.926 %) XSD 4 1 (0.926 %) XSLT 4 1 (0.926 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 9 (8.333 %) SharePoint 2 7 (6.481 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 7 (6.481 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 7 (6.481 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 2 (1.852 %) IIS 4 2 (1.852 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (0.926 %) SAP Web AS 5 1 (0.926 %) Oracle Workflow 5 1 (0.926 %) ESB 5 1 (0.926 %) Apache 5 1 (0.926 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (0.926 %) BizTalk Server 5 1 (0.926 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 45 (41.67 %) MS Excel 2 26 (24.07 %) MS Office 3 14 (12.96 %) MS Project 4 12 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 5 7 (6.481 %) MS Visio 6 1 (0.926 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 4 (3.704 %) Remedy ITSM 2 2 (1.852 %) Great Plains 2 2 (1.852 %) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking 1 7 (6.481 %) VPN 2 5 (4.630 %) WINS 2 5 (4.630 %) DNS 3 4 (3.704 %) GPRS 3 4 (3.704 %) HSDPA 4 3 (2.778 %) LDAP 4 3 (2.778 %) SAN 4 3 (2.778 %) 3G 5 2 (1.852 %) Intranet 5 2 (1.852 %) Internet 5 2 (1.852 %) WAN 5 2 (1.852 %) DHCP 5 2 (1.852 %) Firewall 6 1 (0.926 %) Network Security 6 1 (0.926 %) Wi-Fi 6 1 (0.926 %) Wireless 6 1 (0.926 %) IP Telephony 6 1 (0.926 %) Cisco IPT 6 1 (0.926 %) HSUPA 6 1 (0.926 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (12.04 %) SQL Server 2 8 (7.407 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (4.630 %) Oracle 9i 4 4 (3.704 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 3 (2.778 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 3 (2.778 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (2.778 %) MS Access 5 3 (2.778 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (2.778 %) Oracle 10g 5 3 (2.778 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (1.852 %) SQL Server 7 6 2 (1.852 %) DB2 6 2 (1.852 %) DTS 7 1 (0.926 %) RDBMS 7 1 (0.926 %) EDMS
Development Applications 1 2 (1.852 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.926 %) ClearCase 2 1 (0.926 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.926 %) ProC	General 1 12 (11.11 %) Finance 2 6 (5.556 %) Banking 3 5 (4.630 %) Health 3 5 (4.630 %) Investment Banking 4 3 (2.778 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (2.778 %) Aerospace 5 2 (1.852 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (1.852 %) Insurance 5 2 (1.852 %) Retail 5 2 (1.852 %) Billing 5 2 (1.852 %) Government 5 2 (1.852 %) Publishing 6 1 (0.926 %) Education 6 1 (0.926 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 23 (21.30 %) Analyst 2 19 (17.59 %) Project Manager 3 8 (7.407 %) Administrator 4 7 (6.481 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (6.481 %) Helpdesk Support 5 6 (5.556 %) Business Analyst 5 6 (5.556 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 6 (5.556 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 5 (4.630 %) Developer 6 5 (4.630 %) Desktop Support 6 5 (4.630 %) Architect 7 4 (3.704 %) Software Engineer 7 4 (3.704 %) Applications Manager 7 4 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support 8 3 (2.778 %) PMO Analyst 8 3 (2.778 %) Project Planner 8 3 (2.778 %) Solutions Architect 8 3 (2.778 %) Senior Manager 8 3 (2.778 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 3 (2.778 %) Account Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (5.556 %) PMI 2 4 (3.704 %) Blackberry 3 2 (1.852 %) NHS 3 2 (1.852 %) French Language 3 2 (1.852 %) Asset Management 3 2 (1.852 %) AS400 3 2 (1.852 %) Italian Language 4 1 (0.926 %) CMDB 4 1 (0.926 %) Management Information System 4 1 (0.926 %) German Language 4 1 (0.926 %) Computer Science 4 1 (0.926 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 23 (21.30 %) Windows 2 7 (6.481 %) Unix 2 7 (6.481 %) AIX 3 6 (5.556 %) Linux 4 5 (4.630 %) Windows 2000 5 3 (2.778 %) Windows Mobile 5 3 (2.778 %) Solaris 5 3 (2.778 %) VxWorks 6 2 (1.852 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (19.44 %) Project Management 2 15 (13.89 %) PRINCE2 3 8 (7.407 %) Security Cleared 4 7 (6.481 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (6.481 %) ITIL 4 7 (6.481 %) PRINCE 5 6 (5.556 %) Business Analysis 6 5 (4.630 %) ERP 7 4 (3.704 %) Business Intelligence 7 4 (3.704 %) Migration 7 4 (3.704 %) Service Management 7 4 (3.704 %) ITSM 8 3 (2.778 %) Integration Testing 8 3 (2.778 %) Data Migration 8 3 (2.778 %) CMMI 8 3 (2.778 %) Change Management 8 3 (2.778 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (1.852 %) CAD 9 2 (1.852 %) UML 9 2 (1.852 %) Data Modelling
Programming Languages 1 14 (12.96 %) SQL 2 5 (4.630 %) PL/SQL 2 5 (4.630 %) C++ 3 4 (3.704 %) C# 4 3 (2.778 %) VB 5 2 (1.852 %) VB.NET 5 2 (1.852 %) Perl 5 2 (1.852 %) C 5 2 (1.852 %) RPG 5 2 (1.852 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (1.852 %) Korn 6 1 (0.926 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.926 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 5 (4.630 %) ITIL Certification 2 4 (3.704 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (3.704 %) Degree 3 3 (2.778 %) MCSE 4 2 (1.852 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 2 (1.852 %) ISEB 4 2 (1.852 %) MCP 5 1 (0.926 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (0.926 %) SAP Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) PMP 5 1 (0.926 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (0.926 %) CCNP 5 1 (0.926 %) CISSP 5 1 (0.926 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.926 %) ISO27001 1 1 (0.926 %) GxP 1 1 (0.926 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 13 (12.04 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.852 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (0.926 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 5 (4.630 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (2.778 %) MOM 3 1 (0.926 %) EMC NetWorker 3 1 (0.926 %) BMC Performance Manager 3 1 (0.926 %) Legato 3 1 (0.926 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 11 (10.19 %) Oracle 2 7 (6.481 %) SAP 3 6 (5.556 %) Remedy 3 6 (5.556 %) Citrix 4 4 (3.704 %) BMC 5 3 (2.778 %) Symbian 5 3 (2.778 %) Business Objects 5 3 (2.778 %) Cisco 5 3 (2.778 %) IBM 6 2 (1.852 %) Primavera 6 2 (1.852 %) HP 6 2 (1.852 %) Sun 6 2 (1.852 %) Hyperion 7 1 (0.926 %) ProClarity 7 1 (0.926 %) Planview 7 1 (0.926 %) ARDENTIA 7 1 (0.926 %) iSOFT 7 1 (0.926 %) Novell 7 1 (0.926 %) VERITAS 7 1 (0.926 %) Lotus