Sandwich Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Sandwich 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 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Jersey Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kettering Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Pershore Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Sidmouth Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	1	4
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	11	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	91.67 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£308
% change on same period last year	+4.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.20	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£17.75	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-60.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.30	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.73	£20.19
% change on same period last year	-2.31 %
Vendors Sandwich
Matching contract IT job ads	12	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.004 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£355
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.83	£45.00
Average hourly rate	£18.33	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-59.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.83	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.38	£24.36
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
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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 Sandwich 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 Sandwich 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 Sandwich region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Sandwich region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sandwich 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 12 (80.00 %) Windows 2 11 (73.33 %) MS Office 3 10 (66.67 %) UNIX 3 10 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 3 10 (66.67 %) HPUX 3 10 (66.67 %) Solaris 3 10 (66.67 %) Linux 3 10 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 4 9 (60.00 %) Pharmaceutical 5 2 (13.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (13.33 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (13.33 %) Degree 5 2 (13.33 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (13.33 %) Application Packaging 5 2 (13.33 %) Business Desktop Deployment

5 2 (13.33 %) BMC Marimba 5 2 (13.33 %) Data Migration 5 2 (13.33 %) Validation 5 2 (13.33 %) Migration 5 2 (13.33 %) DNS 6 1 (6.667 %) HP 6 1 (6.667 %) VBScript 6 1 (6.667 %) VB.NET 6 1 (6.667 %) .NET 6 1 (6.667 %) MS Project 6 1 (6.667 %) MS Excel 6 1 (6.667 %) SharePoint 6 1 (6.667 %) Windows XP 6 1 (6.667 %) Education 6 1 (6.667 %) Manufacturing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sandwich 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 2 (13.33 %) Application Packaging 2 1 (6.667 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.667 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 11 (73.33 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.667 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 10 (66.67 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (13.33 %) DNS
General 1 9 (60.00 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (6.667 %) Education 2 1 (6.667 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 5 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 2 4 (26.67 %) Analyst 3 3 (20.00 %) Support Analyst 3 3 (20.00 %) Deskside Support 4 2 (13.33 %) Deskside Analyst 4 2 (13.33 %) Deskside Support Analyst 4 2 (13.33 %) Desktop Analyst 4 2 (13.33 %) Deployment Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Planner 5 1 (6.667 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) 1st Line Support 5 1 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) 3rd Line Support 5 1 (6.667 %) Administrator 5 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Desktop Support Engineer 5 1 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support 5 1 (6.667 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 1 (6.667 %) Project Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 1 (6.667 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 12 (80.00 %) Windows 2 10 (66.67 %) HPUX 2 10 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 10 (66.67 %) Linux 2 10 (66.67 %) Windows 2000 2 10 (66.67 %) UNIX 3 2 (13.33 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (6.667 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (13.33 %) Validation 1 2 (13.33 %) Migration 1 2 (13.33 %) Business Desktop Deployment 1 2 (13.33 %) Data Migration 2 1 (6.667 %) Logistics 2 1 (6.667 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (6.667 %) VBScript 1 1 (6.667 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (13.33 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.667 %) QA
Systems Management 1 2 (13.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (13.33 %) BMC Marimba	Vendors 1 2 (13.33 %) McAfee Security 2 1 (6.667 %) HP