The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services 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 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 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.

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 7 6 7
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 36 68 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 11.92% 12.50% 11.87%
As % of the Vendors category 28.35% 26.25% 21.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 15
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 £252 £225 £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £490 £342
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 9
Average hourly rate £10.50 £12.66 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.06% +15.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.20 £6.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £22.30 £15.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
127 259 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.05% 47.61% 56.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 126 109
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 18
Average hourly rate £10.50 £21.50 £14.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.16% +52.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.84 £9.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.65 £42.00 £25.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North East 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 North East region.

North East Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North East Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Tyne and Wear +1 24 £325 -5.45% 14
Durham -4 9 £330 +32.00% 5
Northumberland - - - -
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 27 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 22 (27.16%) .NET
2 22 (27.16%) MS Office
3 17 (20.99%) C#
4 15 (18.52%) PRINCE2
5 14 (17.28%) MS Project
6 12 (14.81%) Windows
6 12 (14.81%) Project Management
7 11 (13.58%) Change Management
7 11 (13.58%) SQL
7 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
7 11 (13.58%) Active Directory
8 10 (12.35%) PRINCE
8 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
8 10 (12.35%) Oracle
8 10 (12.35%) ITIL
8 10 (12.35%) MS PowerPoint
9 9 (11.11%) WPF
9 9 (11.11%) PMP
9 9 (11.11%) PMI Certification
10 8 (9.877%) Finance
10 8 (9.877%) Degree
11 7 (8.642%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (8.642%) Multithreading
11 7 (8.642%) Scrum
11 7 (8.642%) HP
11 7 (8.642%) SharePoint
11 7 (8.642%) CSS
11 7 (8.642%) VB
12 6 (7.407%) VB.NET

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 22 (27.16%) .NET
2 9 (11.11%) WPF
3 7 (8.642%) CSS
4 5 (6.173%) ASP.NET
4 5 (6.173%) HTML
5 4 (4.938%) XML
6 3 (3.704%) Web Services
6 3 (3.704%) COM
6 3 (3.704%) XHTML
6 3 (3.704%) Ajax
7 2 (2.469%) WCF
7 2 (2.469%) jQuery
7 2 (2.469%) ASP
8 1 (1.235%) XSLT
8 1 (1.235%) HTML5
8 1 (1.235%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.235%) Middleware
8 1 (1.235%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.642%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.938%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (4.938%) MS Project Server
3 3 (3.704%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (2.469%) Lync
5 1 (1.235%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.235%) Moodle
5 1 (1.235%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.235%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.235%) CMS
Applications
1 27 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 22 (27.16%) MS Office
3 14 (17.28%) MS Project
4 10 (12.35%) MS PowerPoint
5 5 (6.173%) Office 365
5 5 (6.173%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.235%) Fireworks
6 1 (1.235%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 4 (4.938%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle 11i
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.235%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.407%) Intranet
2 5 (6.173%) Wireless
3 3 (3.704%) Modbus
3 3 (3.704%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.469%) HTTP
5 1 (1.235%) DNS
5 1 (1.235%) LAN
5 1 (1.235%) DHCP
5 1 (1.235%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (13.58%) SQL Server
2 6 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (6.173%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (4.938%) Oracle BI EE
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.469%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.235%) OLAP
7 1 (1.235%) Adabas
7 1 (1.235%) GIS
7 1 (1.235%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 3 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (2.469%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.235%) Oracle APEX
General
1 8 (9.877%) Finance
2 4 (4.938%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.469%) Publishing
4 1 (1.235%) Billing
4 1 (1.235%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 20 (24.69%) Analyst
2 16 (19.75%) Project Manager
3 11 (13.58%) Developer
3 11 (13.58%) Service Analyst
3 11 (13.58%) Service Desk Analyst
4 7 (8.642%) Software Engineer
5 6 (7.407%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (4.938%) Service Manager
6 4 (4.938%) Team Leader
6 4 (4.938%) Service Desk Manager
6 4 (4.938%) Administrator
7 3 (3.704%) Web Developer
7 3 (3.704%) Trainer
7 3 (3.704%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) .NET Software Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) VB Software Engineer
7 3 (3.704%) Agile Project Manager
8 2 (2.469%) Dynamics CRM Developer
8 2 (2.469%) CRM Developer
8 2 (2.469%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.173%) Computer Science
1 5 (6.173%) Social Network
2 4 (4.938%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.704%) N-Tier
3 3 (3.704%) PMI
4 1 (1.235%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.235%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.235%) E-Learning
4 1 (1.235%) VLE
4 1 (1.235%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.81%) Windows
2 4 (4.938%) Windows 7
3 1 (1.235%) Solaris
3 1 (1.235%) Linux
3 1 (1.235%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.235%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (18.52%) PRINCE2
2 12 (14.81%) Project Management
3 11 (13.58%) Change Management
4 10 (12.35%) ITIL
4 10 (12.35%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (12.35%) PRINCE
5 7 (8.642%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (8.642%) Scrum
5 7 (8.642%) Multithreading
6 6 (7.407%) CRM
6 6 (7.407%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (7.407%) Unit Testing
6 6 (7.407%) Waterfall
7 5 (6.173%) UML
7 5 (6.173%) Asset Management
7 5 (6.173%) Document Management
7 5 (6.173%) Software Engineering
8 4 (4.938%) Migration
8 4 (4.938%) Risk Management
9 3 (3.704%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.99%) C#
2 11 (13.58%) SQL
3 7 (8.642%) VB
4 6 (7.407%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.704%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.704%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.469%) VBA
7 1 (1.235%) NATURAL
7 1 (1.235%) JCL
7 1 (1.235%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.235%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (11.11%) PMP
1 9 (11.11%) PMI Certification
2 8 (9.877%) Degree
3 3 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (3.704%) HND
3 3 (3.704%) ISEB
4 2 (2.469%) ECDL
4 2 (2.469%) MOS
4 2 (2.469%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.469%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.235%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.235%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.235%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.469%) SLA
2 1 (1.235%) Data Quality
System Software
1 11 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.235%) VMware ESX
2 1 (1.235%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.235%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (2.469%) OpenView
1 2 (2.469%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (2.469%) SCCM
2 1 (1.235%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (1.235%) OVSD
2 1 (1.235%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Oracle
2 7 (8.642%) HP
3 5 (6.173%) Dell
3 5 (6.173%) IBM
3 5 (6.173%) Google
4 3 (3.704%) Citrix
5 1 (1.235%) VMware
5 1 (1.235%) Siebel
5 1 (1.235%) Cisco
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