The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Consultant role in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the North East 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Consultant
Rank - 48 -
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Consultant 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East - 0.206% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.224% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £338 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £360
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £50.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year
- +21.95%
All Job Titles
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
249 447 404
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 93.61% 91.98% 91.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 225 182
Average daily rate £300 £350 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £230 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 39 26
Average hourly rate £11.00 £20.00 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.00% +20.30%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.18 £9.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £35.00 £25.08
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Microsoft Consultant
England

Microsoft Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Consultant across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North East Microsoft Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Consultant across the North East region.

North East Microsoft Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Consultant
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title 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 with Microsoft Consultant in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery

Microsoft Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region that cited Microsoft Consultant in their job title 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 with Microsoft Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#