The first table below looks at the demand for MSI skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSI over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Development Applications category for the South East 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Rank 162 197 185
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -12
Contract jobs citing MSI 58 48 68
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.732% 0.472% 0.663%
As % of the Development Applications category 6.848% 5.275% 6.445%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 25 14
Average daily rate £300 £350 £261
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +33.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £271 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £425 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £34.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-52.55% +14.16%
All Development Applications
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
847 910 1055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 10.69% 8.958% 10.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 447 469 425
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 54 116
Average hourly rate £37.50 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.20 £31.00 £30.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSI
England

MSI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MSI across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

South East MSI Jobs Demand Trend

MSI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MSI across the South East region.

South East MSI Daily Rate Trend

MSI
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MSI across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East MSI Daily Rate Histogram

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East MSI Hourly Rate Trend

MSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Surrey +20 12 £250 -40.47%
Kent +8 12 £280 +5.66%
Hampshire -8 12 £270 -30.76%
Buckinghamshire +7 8 £350 +100.00%
Berkshire -6 7 - -
Middlesex +4 2 £350 -17.64%
West Sussex - 2 £400 -
MSI
England

MSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing MSI 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 MSI.

1 101 (87.07%) Windows
2 75 (64.66%) Microsoft
2 75 (64.66%) Windows 7
3 68 (58.62%) Microsoft App-V
4 65 (56.03%) SCCM
5 56 (48.28%) VBScript
6 46 (39.66%) Windows XP
7 34 (29.31%) InstallShield
7 34 (29.31%) Wise Package Studio
8 31 (26.72%) Active Directory
9 30 (25.86%) QA
10 28 (24.14%) Security Cleared
11 26 (22.41%) Citrix
12 25 (21.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (21.55%) MCP
13 20 (17.24%) Migration
14 19 (16.38%) XenApp
14 19 (16.38%) Application Packaging
15 18 (15.52%) Finance
15 18 (15.52%) MS Excel
16 17 (14.66%) VB
17 15 (12.93%) OpenView Configuration Management
17 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
18 12 (10.34%) AdminStudio
19 10 (8.621%) User Acceptance Testing
19 10 (8.621%) VMware
20 9 (7.759%) Validation
20 9 (7.759%) Local Government
20 9 (7.759%) AppDNA
21 8 (6.897%) Altiris

MSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing MSI 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 MSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (16.38%) Application Packaging
2 6 (5.172%) HTML5
2 6 (5.172%) WPF
2 6 (5.172%) Caliburn.Micro
2 6 (5.172%) jQuery
3 5 (4.310%) KnockoutJS
3 5 (4.310%) CSS3
3 5 (4.310%) Backbone.js
3 5 (4.310%) NHibernate
3 5 (4.310%) .NET Framework
3 5 (4.310%) LINQ
3 5 (4.310%) ASP.NET MVC
3 5 (4.310%) HTML
3 5 (4.310%) ASP.NET
3 5 (4.310%) CSS
3 5 (4.310%) .NET
4 4 (3.448%) ODBC
4 4 (3.448%) Software Packaging
4 4 (3.448%) WCF
5 3 (2.586%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.586%) ESB
2 1 (0.862%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.862%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.862%) Lync
2 1 (0.862%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 18 (15.52%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.862%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.862%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.862%) Firewall
1 1 (0.862%) Wireless
1 1 (0.862%) NAS
1 1 (0.862%) LAN
1 1 (0.862%) WAN
1 1 (0.862%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.034%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.724%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (1.724%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 34 (29.31%) InstallShield
1 34 (29.31%) Wise Package Studio
2 12 (10.34%) AdminStudio
3 6 (5.172%) TeamCity
4 5 (4.310%) Moq
4 5 (4.310%) ReSharper
5 3 (2.586%) Subversion
6 2 (1.724%) NetAdvantage
7 1 (0.862%) Git (software)
General
1 18 (15.52%) Finance
2 9 (7.759%) Local Government
3 5 (4.310%) Publishing
4 1 (0.862%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 96 (82.76%) Applications Packager
2 9 (7.759%) Developer
3 5 (4.310%) C# Developer
4 4 (3.448%) MSI Packager
5 2 (1.724%) WPF Developer
5 2 (1.724%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (1.724%) Consultant
5 2 (1.724%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (1.724%) Administrator
5 2 (1.724%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (1.724%) Agile C# Developer
5 2 (1.724%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (1.724%) Team Leader
5 2 (1.724%) SQL Developer
5 2 (1.724%) SQL Server Developer
5 2 (1.724%) .NET Developer
6 1 (0.862%) Systems Developer
6 1 (0.862%) Citrix Administrator
6 1 (0.862%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 1 (0.862%) Technical Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.172%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (4.310%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (1.724%) Open Source
4 1 (0.862%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 101 (87.07%) Windows
2 75 (64.66%) Windows 7
3 46 (39.66%) Windows XP
4 5 (4.310%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.448%) Windows Vista
6 3 (2.586%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (2.586%) Windows 8
7 2 (1.724%) Windows NT
7 2 (1.724%) Windows 2000
8 1 (0.862%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (17.24%) Migration
2 10 (8.621%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (7.759%) Validation
4 6 (5.172%) TDD
4 6 (5.172%) Software Distribution
5 5 (4.310%) BDD
5 5 (4.310%) Change Management
5 5 (4.310%) DNA
5 5 (4.310%) MVC
5 5 (4.310%) OO
6 4 (3.448%) Configuration Management
7 3 (2.586%) Scrum
7 3 (2.586%) Unit Testing
7 3 (2.586%) ITIL
7 3 (2.586%) Service Delivery
7 3 (2.586%) Software Deployment
8 2 (1.724%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (1.724%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (1.724%) Data Entry
8 2 (1.724%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 56 (48.28%) VBScript
2 17 (14.66%) VB
3 6 (5.172%) C#
3 6 (5.172%) PowerShell
4 5 (4.310%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.724%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.862%) C
Qualifications
1 28 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 25 (21.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (21.55%) MCP
3 15 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 6 (5.172%) DV Cleared
5 4 (3.448%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (25.86%) QA
2 2 (1.724%) SLA
3 1 (0.862%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.862%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 68 (58.62%) Microsoft App-V
2 31 (26.72%) Active Directory
3 19 (16.38%) XenApp
4 7 (6.034%) XenDesktop
5 5 (4.310%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (2.586%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 2 (1.724%) Terminal Services
7 2 (1.724%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 65 (56.03%) SCCM
2 15 (12.93%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 9 (7.759%) AppDNA
4 3 (2.586%) ChangeBASE
5 2 (1.724%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.862%) SCOM
6 1 (0.862%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 75 (64.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (22.41%) Citrix
3 10 (8.621%) VMware
4 8 (6.897%) Altiris
5 6 (5.172%) AppSense
6 5 (4.310%) HP
7 2 (1.724%) Infragistics
8 1 (0.862%) LANDesk
8 1 (0.862%) Dell
8 1 (0.862%) Oracle
8 1 (0.862%) Sybase
8 1 (0.862%) SAP
8 1 (0.862%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.862%) Novell
8 1 (0.862%) Cisco
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