Microsoft Developer Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Microsoft Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Developer
Rank 108 138 112
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft Developer 7 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.342% 0.030% 0.179%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.363% 0.032% 0.189%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
Average daily rate £365 £403 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.31% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £24.50 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £45.00 £24.19
% change year-on-year
-25.55% +86.04%
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Microsoft Developer
England

Microsoft Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Developer across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West Microsoft Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West Microsoft Developer Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West Microsoft Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Developer within the South West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Somerset +7 3 £335 -16.77%
Dorset - 2 £389 -
Gloucestershire - 1 - -
Bristol - 1 - -
Microsoft Developer
England

Microsoft Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 with Microsoft Developer in their job title.

1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
4 8 (53.33%) VBA
5 6 (40.00%) Business Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (26.67%) SQL
7 3 (20.00%) .NET
7 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (13.33%) Finance
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
8 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (13.33%) Oracle
8 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
8 2 (13.33%) Windows
8 2 (13.33%) C#
8 2 (13.33%) CRM
8 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
9 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (6.667%) EDI
9 1 (6.667%) ERP
9 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
9 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
9 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
9 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
9 1 (6.667%) MVC
9 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003

Microsoft Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Microsoft Developer in their job title 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 with Microsoft Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) ASP
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.667%) CSS
2 1 (6.667%) SOAP
2 1 (6.667%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) EDI
2 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.667%) MDX
2 1 (6.667%) WCF
2 1 (6.667%) jQuery
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (6.667%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (6.667%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.667%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (6.667%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (6.667%) OLAP
5 1 (6.667%) MS Access
5 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (6.667%) MorphX
1 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Windows XP
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Business Analysis
2 3 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (13.33%) CRM
4 1 (6.667%) ERP
4 1 (6.667%) Data Modelling
4 1 (6.667%) Performance Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
4 1 (6.667%) MVC
4 1 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.667%) Data Management
4 1 (6.667%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) VBA
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) PL/SQL
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.667%) X++
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle
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