North Lanarkshire Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the North Lanarkshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 25 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 Aylesbury Ayr Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton 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 Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumfries Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Haverhill Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks 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 Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	2	3
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	2	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	61.54 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£315
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£313
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.80	-
Average hourly rate	£23.80	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.80	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.52	£20.80
% change on same period last year	-6.18 %
Vendors North Lanarkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	4	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£384
Average daily rate	£250	£392
% change on same period last year	-36.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.80	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£23.80	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+58.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.80	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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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 North Lanarkshire 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 North Lanarkshire region.

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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 North Lanarkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the North Lanarkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Motherwell	-1	1	-	-
Bellshill	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Lanarkshire 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 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 3 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (50.00 %) WebServices 2 3 (50.00 %) VB 2 3 (50.00 %) .NET 2 3 (50.00 %) OO 2 3 (50.00 %) BizTalk Server 3 2 (33.33 %) Internet 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 2 (33.33 %) C# 3 2 (33.33 %) XML 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 3 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000 3 2 (33.33 %) SOAP

4 1 (16.67 %) HP 4 1 (16.67 %) C++ 4 1 (16.67 %) PHP 4 1 (16.67 %) SQL 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 4 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (16.67 %) LAN 4 1 (16.67 %) WAN 4 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (16.67 %) VPN 4 1 (16.67 %) DNS 4 1 (16.67 %) Cisco 4 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Lanarkshire 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 3 (50.00 %) .NET 1 3 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (50.00 %) WebServices 2 2 (33.33 %) XML 2 2 (33.33 %) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 3 (50.00 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (16.67 %) LAN 2 1 (16.67 %) WAN 2 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (16.67 %) VPN 2 1 (16.67 %) DNS 2 1 (16.67 %) SAN
General 1 1 (16.67 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 3 (50.00 %) Developer 2 2 (33.33 %) .NET Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) C++ Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) C# Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) Server Administrator 3 1 (16.67 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) .NET Programmer 3 1 (16.67 %) C++/CSharp Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Consultant 3 1 (16.67 %) Systems Administrator 3 1 (16.67 %) Analyst Programmer 3 1 (16.67 %) Programmer 3 1 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 3 1 (16.67 %) Administrator
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (50.00 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) VB 2 2 (33.33 %) C# 3 1 (16.67 %) C++ 3 1 (16.67 %) PHP 3 1 (16.67 %) SQL 3 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Cisco 1 1 (16.67 %) HP