Runcorn Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Runcorn 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 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Airdrie Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Aylesbury Ayr Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckfastleigh Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Carrickfergus Chalfont St Giles Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Clydebank Coatbridge Cobham Colchester Coleraine Corby Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Dronfield Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Margate Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Neath Port Talbot New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northumbria Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Port Talbot Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rochester Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Rutland Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark Spalding St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Tayside Telford Thames Valley Tidworth Torpoint Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	4	2
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	100.00 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£220	-
Average daily rate	£220	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£220	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£304	£290
% change on same period last year	+4.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.94	£18.34
% change on same period last year	+3.26 %
Vendors Runcorn
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£220	-
Average daily rate	£220	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£220	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£353
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.41	-
Average hourly rate	£16.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.60	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.83	£23.31
% change on same period last year	+2.22 %
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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 Runcorn 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 Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

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Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 2 (50.00 %) C 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Project 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Office 1 2 (50.00 %) ATM 1 2 (50.00 %) ISDN 1 2 (50.00 %) Ethernet 1 2 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (50.00 %) CCNA 1 2 (50.00 %) Nortel 1 2 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification 1 2 (50.00 %) Frame Relay 1 2 (50.00 %) Telecoms 1 2 (50.00 %) Validation 1 2 (50.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (25.00 %) Adobe

2 1 (25.00 %) Multimedia 2 1 (25.00 %) Acrobat 2 1 (25.00 %) Intranet 2 1 (25.00 %) Project Management 2 1 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (25.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (25.00 %) SharePoint 2 1 (25.00 %) MS Visio

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 Platforms 1 1 (25.00 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Project 1 2 (50.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (25.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (25.00 %) MS Visio 2 1 (25.00 %) Acrobat
Communications & Networking 1 2 (50.00 %) ATM 1 2 (50.00 %) ISDN 1 2 (50.00 %) Ethernet 1 2 (50.00 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (50.00 %) Frame Relay 2 1 (25.00 %) Intranet	Development Applications 1 1 (25.00 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 2 (50.00 %) Telecoms 2 1 (25.00 %) Multimedia	Job Titles 1 2 (50.00 %) Technical Support 1 2 (50.00 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (50.00 %) Technical Support Engineer 1 2 (50.00 %) Technical Engineer 2 1 (25.00 %) Microsoft Trainer 2 1 (25.00 %) Project Manager 2 1 (25.00 %) Trainer
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (50.00 %) Validation 2 1 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (25.00 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (50.00 %) C
Qualifications 1 2 (50.00 %) CCNA 1 2 (50.00 %) Cisco Certification	Vendors 1 2 (50.00 %) Cisco 1 2 (50.00 %) Nortel 2 1 (25.00 %) Adobe