The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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 4 9 4
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 24 27 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 15.69% 10.15% 14.00%
As % of the Vendors category 32.00% 20.15% 25.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 7
Average daily rate £325 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £248 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £428 £460 £313
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
Average hourly rate £10.00 £13.00 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +10.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.40 £12.20 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £13.80 £12.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
75 134 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 49.02% 50.38% 54.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 71 44
Average daily rate £270 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £232 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £550 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 2
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +70.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.20 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £47.25 £12.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Tyne and Wear

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 25 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 24 (40.00%) MS Office
3 14 (23.33%) MS Project
4 13 (21.67%) ITIL
4 13 (21.67%) PRINCE2
5 12 (20.00%) Project Management
6 10 (16.67%) Change Management
6 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (15.00%) PMP
7 9 (15.00%) PMI Certification
7 9 (15.00%) PRINCE
7 9 (15.00%) Windows
7 9 (15.00%) SQL
7 9 (15.00%) Document Management
7 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
8 8 (13.33%) .NET
9 7 (11.67%) Oracle
9 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
9 7 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (11.67%) Scrum
10 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
11 5 (8.333%) Office 365
11 5 (8.333%) Social Network
11 5 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (8.333%) Intranet
11 5 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (8.333%) Finance
11 5 (8.333%) Asset Management
11 5 (8.333%) Google
11 5 (8.333%) C#

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 8 (13.33%) .NET
2 3 (5.000%) XML
2 3 (5.000%) ASP.NET
2 3 (5.000%) CSS
3 2 (3.333%) Web Services
4 1 (1.667%) Ajax
4 1 (1.667%) XHTML
4 1 (1.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.000%) Oracle Spatial
1 3 (5.000%) MS Project Server
1 3 (5.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (3.333%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.333%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (1.667%) CMS
3 1 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 25 (41.67%) MS Excel
2 24 (40.00%) MS Office
3 14 (23.33%) MS Project
4 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (8.333%) Office 365
6 4 (6.667%) MS Visio
7 1 (1.667%) Photoshop
7 1 (1.667%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 3 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.333%) Intranet
2 2 (3.333%) SAN
2 2 (3.333%) FTP
2 2 (3.333%) SNMP
2 2 (3.333%) DNS
2 2 (3.333%) SMTP
2 2 (3.333%) LDAP
3 1 (1.667%) DHCP
3 1 (1.667%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 3 (5.000%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.333%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.667%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (1.667%) GIS
5 1 (1.667%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.667%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.667%) QADirector
1 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (8.333%) Finance
2 4 (6.667%) Legal
3 2 (3.333%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.333%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Analyst
2 14 (23.33%) Project Manager
3 7 (11.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Service Analyst
4 5 (8.333%) Developer
5 4 (6.667%) Service Desk Manager
5 4 (6.667%) Service Manager
6 3 (5.000%) IT Technician
6 3 (5.000%) Agile Project Manager
6 3 (5.000%) Administrator
6 3 (5.000%) Trainer
6 3 (5.000%) Help Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.000%) IT Trainer
6 3 (5.000%) Team Leader
7 2 (3.333%) Technical Administrator
7 2 (3.333%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Server Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (3.333%) Data Analyst
7 2 (3.333%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.333%) Social Network
2 4 (6.667%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.000%) PMI
3 3 (5.000%) Blackberry
4 2 (3.333%) Clustering
5 1 (1.667%) PACS
5 1 (1.667%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.00%) Windows
2 2 (3.333%) UNIX
2 2 (3.333%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (1.667%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.667%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) ITIL
1 13 (21.67%) PRINCE2
2 12 (20.00%) Project Management
3 10 (16.67%) Change Management
3 10 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (15.00%) PRINCE
4 9 (15.00%) Document Management
5 7 (11.67%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (11.67%) Scrum
6 6 (10.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.333%) Asset Management
8 4 (6.667%) CRM
8 4 (6.667%) Risk Management
8 4 (6.667%) Time Management
9 3 (5.000%) EAM
9 3 (5.000%) Data Modelling
10 2 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (3.333%) Migration
10 2 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (8.333%) C#
3 3 (5.000%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.333%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.333%) VBA
5 1 (1.667%) VB
5 1 (1.667%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (15.00%) PMP
1 9 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 3 (5.000%) Degree
2 3 (5.000%) MOS
2 3 (5.000%) HND
2 3 (5.000%) ISEB
2 3 (5.000%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 3 (5.000%) ECDL
3 2 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.667%) MCP
4 1 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.667%) CCNA
4 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (3.333%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.333%) SRDF
2 1 (1.667%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.667%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.667%) Cisco UCCX
1 1 (1.667%) DameWare
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) Oracle
2 5 (8.333%) Google
2 5 (8.333%) IBM
2 5 (8.333%) HP
3 4 (6.667%) Dell
4 2 (3.333%) Novell
4 2 (3.333%) Citrix
4 2 (3.333%) McAfee
4 2 (3.333%) RightFax
5 1 (1.667%) VMware
5 1 (1.667%) Cisco
5 1 (1.667%) Micro Focus