Microsoft Contracts in Stirling
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Stirling 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 Stirling 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 18 9 18
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 6 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 5.310% 13.51% 2.381%
As % of the Vendors category 8.696% 38.46% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 2
Average daily rate £385 £244 £613
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.94% -60.20%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.96 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-0.26% -
All Vendors
Stirling
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 69 13 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stirling 61.06% 35.14% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 6 10
Average daily rate £400 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -22.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £338 £135 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £350 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Microsoft
Scotland

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling 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 Stirling region.

Stirling Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 5 (62.50%) MS Office
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (37.50%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
2 3 (37.50%) Project Planning
3 2 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) MBA
4 1 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 1 (12.50%) MS Access
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (12.50%) PMI
4 1 (12.50%) PMP
4 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
4 1 (12.50%) Quark
4 1 (12.50%) QuarkXPress
4 1 (12.50%) Project Management
4 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stirling 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 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Office
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (37.50%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 1 (12.50%) QuarkXPress
3 1 (12.50%) Photoshop
3 1 (12.50%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MS Access
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Advertising
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
2 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Resource Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Access Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Graphic Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PMI
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
1 3 (37.50%) Project Planning
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
2 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
1 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
1 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) MBA
1 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (12.50%) PMP
1 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Quark
1 1 (12.50%) Sybase
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