The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 10 3 5
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 9 16 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 7.692% 17.02% 23.84%
As % of the Vendors category 13.85% 34.78% 47.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 16
Average daily rate £270 £288 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.08% -39.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £93 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £335 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.50 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-3.33% -
All Vendors
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
65 46 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 55.56% 48.94% 50.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 30
Average daily rate £350 £315 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -21.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £205 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £390 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 14
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -35.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
Microsoft
Cambridgeshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) MS Excel
3 6 (46.15%) MS Office
3 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
4 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
4 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
5 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
5 3 (23.08%) C#
5 3 (23.08%) .NET
5 3 (23.08%) CSS
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco
5 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
5 3 (23.08%) OO
5 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
5 3 (23.08%) Citrix
5 3 (23.08%) WCF
5 3 (23.08%) MVC
6 2 (15.38%) Symantec
6 2 (15.38%) McAfee
6 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
6 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Lotus
6 2 (15.38%) IBM Notes
6 2 (15.38%) Adobe
6 2 (15.38%) MCP
7 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
7 1 (7.692%) SQL

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) ASP.NET
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
1 3 (23.08%) WCF
2 1 (7.692%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (23.08%) MS Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) IBM Notes
3 1 (7.692%) SAS
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Lync
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) MS Excel
2 6 (46.15%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) Intranet
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) Unified Communications
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) WAN
2 1 (7.692%) DHCP
2 1 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (7.692%) QlikView
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MSI
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Service Analyst
2 5 (38.46%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) 1st Line Support
5 1 (7.692%) IT Support
5 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (7.692%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (7.692%) Applications Packager
5 1 (7.692%) Network Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Graduate
5 1 (7.692%) Support Technician
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 4 (30.77%) Windows XP
4 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) ITIL
1 3 (23.08%) OO
1 3 (23.08%) MVC
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
3 1 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.692%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCP
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Server
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) ARCserve
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Citrix
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
2 2 (15.38%) Lotus
2 2 (15.38%) Symantec
2 2 (15.38%) McAfee
3 1 (7.692%) VMware
3 1 (7.692%) Altiris
3 1 (7.692%) Riverbed
3 1 (7.692%) Exinda
3 1 (7.692%) HP
3 1 (7.692%) Intel
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