The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Redhill region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Redhill 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 5 5 8
Rank change year-on-year
0 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 11 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Redhill 18.75% 20.75% 16.36%
As % of the Vendors category 66.67% 40.74% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 8
Average daily rate £325 £240 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.41% -33.79%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £23.75 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Redhill
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9 27 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Redhill 28.13% 50.94% 50.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 20
Average daily rate £325 £225 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.44% -27.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £150 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £600 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 2
Average hourly rate - £10.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Surrey

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Redhill 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 Redhill region.

Redhill Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft across the Redhill region.

Redhill Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Redhill 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 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 9 (69.23%) Windows
3 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
3 7 (53.85%) SQL
4 5 (38.46%) VB.NET
4 5 (38.46%) .NET
4 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
4 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
4 5 (38.46%) XML
4 5 (38.46%) XSLT
4 5 (38.46%) CRM
4 5 (38.46%) Scrum
4 5 (38.46%) WCF
4 5 (38.46%) WF
4 5 (38.46%) Firewall
4 5 (38.46%) MVC
4 5 (38.46%) Workflow
4 5 (38.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
5 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (23.08%) Dell
5 3 (23.08%) WAN
5 3 (23.08%) Terminal Services
6 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
6 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (15.38%) DHCP
6 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) VPN
6 2 (15.38%) DNS

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Redhill 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 5 (38.46%) .NET
1 5 (38.46%) ASP.NET
1 5 (38.46%) XML
1 5 (38.46%) XSLT
1 5 (38.46%) WCF
1 5 (38.46%) WF
Application Platforms
1 7 (53.85%) SharePoint
2 2 (15.38%) MS Exchange
2 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (15.38%) MS Office
2 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (15.38%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Visual Studio
2 3 (23.08%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (84.62%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
1 5 (38.46%) VB.NET Developer
1 5 (38.46%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Support Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Support Technician
2 2 (15.38%) Team Leader
2 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Support Technician
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) IT Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) AIX
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (15.38%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) MVC
1 5 (38.46%) Workflow
1 5 (38.46%) Scrum
1 5 (38.46%) CRM
2 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Capacity Management
3 1 (7.692%) Project Management
3 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) SQL
2 5 (38.46%) VB.NET
3 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) MCITP
2 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Terminal Services
2 2 (15.38%) XenApp
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) SCCM
2 1 (7.692%) SCOM
2 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Dell
2 2 (15.38%) Citrix
2 2 (15.38%) CheckPoint
2 2 (15.38%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) SolarWinds