The first table below looks at the demand for Office 365 skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Office 365 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 of the Applications category for the North West 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office 365
Rank - 125 -
Contract jobs citing Office 365 0 7 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West - 0.225% -
As % of the Applications category - 2.147% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £339 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £350 £413
% change year-on-year
-15.71% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
-50.00% -
All Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
319 326 321
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.69% 10.48% 10.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 129 153
Average daily rate £295 £301 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.83% -3.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £136 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £427 £430 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 47 41
Average hourly rate £19.04 £17.51 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.73% +34.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.11 £12.54 £8.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.80 £22.30 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
Office 365
England

Office 365
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Office 365 across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

North West Office 365 Jobs Demand Trend

Office 365
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Office 365 across the North West region.

North West Office 365 Daily Rate Trend

Office 365
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Office 365 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 Office 365.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) MSF
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) Web Development
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) IMAP
3 1 (25.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
3 1 (25.00%) Ajax
3 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) MVC

Office 365
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing Office 365 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 Office 365. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (25.00%) WCF
1 1 (25.00%) jQuery
1 1 (25.00%) Ext JS
1 1 (25.00%) Ajax
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InfoPath
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) IMAP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) MSF
2 1 (25.00%) Web Development
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) CMMI
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) HP
1 2 (50.00%) Remedy
1 2 (50.00%) VMware