The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Reigate 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 Reigate 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 3 3 12
Rank change year-on-year
0 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 26.67% 34.09% 13.64%
As % of the Vendors category 44.44% 51.72% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 1
Average daily rate £275 £190 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.73% -36.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Reigate
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9 29 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reigate 60.00% 65.91% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 21
Average daily rate £275 £190 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+44.73% -36.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £29.25
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 Reigate region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate 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 Reigate region.

Reigate Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (87.50%) SQL
3 13 (81.25%) SharePoint
4 11 (68.75%) CRM
4 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
4 11 (68.75%) .NET
4 11 (68.75%) MS Office
4 11 (68.75%) Visual Studio
4 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
4 11 (68.75%) XML
4 11 (68.75%) XSLT
4 11 (68.75%) MVC
4 11 (68.75%) Workflow
4 11 (68.75%) Scrum
4 11 (68.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 11 (68.75%) WCF
4 11 (68.75%) WF
5 8 (50.00%) Finance
6 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
6 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (25.00%) VMware
8 3 (18.75%) Release Management
8 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
8 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
8 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
9 2 (12.50%) UNIX
9 2 (12.50%) AIX

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reigate 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 11 (68.75%) .NET
1 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
1 11 (68.75%) XML
1 11 (68.75%) XSLT
1 11 (68.75%) WCF
1 11 (68.75%) WF
Application Platforms
1 13 (81.25%) SharePoint
2 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
2 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (31.25%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 11 (68.75%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (12.50%) DHCP
1 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 2 (12.50%) VPN
1 2 (12.50%) DNS
1 2 (12.50%) Firewall
1 2 (12.50%) IPsec
2 1 (6.250%) NAS
2 1 (6.250%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (68.75%) Developer
2 5 (31.25%) .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Systems Developer
4 3 (18.75%) VB.NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Team Leader
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Support Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Support Team Leader
5 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Team Leader
6 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (6.250%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows XP
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) AIX
3 2 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) MVC
1 11 (68.75%) Workflow
1 11 (68.75%) Scrum
1 11 (68.75%) CRM
2 3 (18.75%) Release Management
3 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) MCP
2 1 (6.250%) MCSE
2 1 (6.250%) MCSA
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) MCDST
2 1 (6.250%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 2 (12.50%) XenApp
2 2 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco
2 2 (12.50%) Citrix
2 2 (12.50%) CheckPoint