The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Runcorn region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 23 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 Runcorn 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank - 11 2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn - 7.317% 45.45%
As % of the Vendors category - 10.34% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 4
Average daily rate - - £379
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.26% -
All Vendors
Runcorn
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2 29 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn 25.00% 70.73% 45.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 12 4
Average daily rate - £438 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.37%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Microsoft
Cheshire

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 6 (66.67%) C#
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Ninject
3 3 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) Subversion
4 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
4 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (22.22%) ASP
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
5 1 (11.11%) Telerik
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
5 1 (11.11%) MVC
5 1 (11.11%) Workflow
5 1 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (11.11%) XPath

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, 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 Development
1 6 (66.67%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 3 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Ninject
3 3 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
4 2 (22.22%) ASP
5 1 (11.11%) XML
5 1 (11.11%) LINQ
5 1 (11.11%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
1 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (22.22%) Investment Banking
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Developer
1 6 (66.67%) .NET Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Workflow
4 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) C#
1 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 6 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Telerik