North Wales Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the North Wales 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Addlestone Alderley Edge Amersham Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Ayr Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Neath Port Talbot Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Pershore Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	50.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£500	-
Average daily rate	£500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£500	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£324	£305
% change on same period last year	+6.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.50	-
Average hourly rate	£11.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.67	£20.05
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Vendors North Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	14	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£370	-
Average daily rate	£370	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£370	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.33	-
Average hourly rate	£26.33	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.33	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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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 Wales 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 Wales 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 Wales region.

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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 Wales region over the 3 months to 10 October 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
Flintshire	-	1	£500	-
Denbighshire	-	1	-	-
Conwy	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 8 (66.67 %) Windows 2 6 (50.00 %) Active Directory 3 4 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 4 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (33.33 %) Linux 3 4 (33.33 %) MS Office 4 3 (25.00 %) MCSE 4 3 (25.00 %) MCP 4 3 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (25.00 %) SAN 4 3 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (25.00 %) Migration 4 3 (25.00 %) Samba 4 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2007

5 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 5 2 (16.67 %) XML 5 2 (16.67 %) MS Excel 5 2 (16.67 %) SQL 6 1 (8.333 %) VB.NET 6 1 (8.333 %) .NET 6 1 (8.333 %) HTML 6 1 (8.333 %) Java 6 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (8.333 %) JSP 6 1 (8.333 %) Struts 6 1 (8.333 %) CRM 6 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint 6 1 (8.333 %) Apache

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 2 (16.67 %) XML 2 1 (8.333 %) Hibernate 2 1 (8.333 %) JSF 2 1 (8.333 %) HTML 2 1 (8.333 %) .NET 2 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (8.333 %) JSP 2 1 (8.333 %) Struts	Application Platforms 1 4 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (8.333 %) Apache 3 1 (8.333 %) Tomcat 3 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 4 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 2 (16.67 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (25.00 %) SAN
Development Applications 1 1 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (8.333 %) XDoclet	General 1 1 (8.333 %) Electronics 1 1 (8.333 %) Government
Job Titles 1 2 (16.67 %) Developer 2 1 (8.333 %) Analyst 2 1 (8.333 %) Web Developer 2 1 (8.333 %) Consultant 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support 2 1 (8.333 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (8.333 %) VB.NET Developer 2 1 (8.333 %) Desktop Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Technical Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Build Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint Consultant 2 1 (8.333 %) Video Conferencing Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) 1st Line Support Engineer 2 1 (8.333 %) Project Manager 2 1 (8.333 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 1 (8.333 %) Thin Client 1 1 (8.333 %) Fat Client 1 1 (8.333 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 8 (66.67 %) Windows 2 4 (33.33 %) Linux 2 4 (33.33 %) UNIX 3 3 (25.00 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (16.67 %) Windows XP 5 1 (8.333 %) NetWare	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (25.00 %) Migration 2 1 (8.333 %) Incident Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (8.333 %) CRM 2 1 (8.333 %) Project Management 2 1 (8.333 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 2 (16.67 %) SQL 2 1 (8.333 %) VB.NET 2 1 (8.333 %) Java	Qualifications 1 3 (25.00 %) MCP 1 3 (25.00 %) MCSE 1 3 (25.00 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (8.333 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (50.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (25.00 %) Samba
Vendors 1 1 (8.333 %) Cisco 1 1 (8.333 %) Citrix 1 1 (8.333 %) VERITAS