The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 4 8 7
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 174 218 238
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 15.04% 13.24% 13.06%
As % of the Vendors category 29.79% 27.77% 25.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 138 104
Average daily rate £305 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £149 £140 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £450 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 16 17
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.70 £13.00 £11.44
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.90 £22.25 £19.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
584 785 917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 50.48% 47.69% 50.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 432 441
Average daily rate £350 £375 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £158 £156 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 48 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £16.50 £15.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +8.19%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.50 £11.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.55 £30.60 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Microsoft Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram

Microsoft
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Guildford +2 41 £281 -18.18%
Woking +6 20 £325 +1.56%
Staines +1 17 £400 -
Leatherhead +6 9 £320 +45.45%
Weybridge +6 6 £141 -
Redhill 0 5 £325 +35.41%
Sunbury-on-Thames +6 4 £298 -17.22%
Reigate 0 4 £275 +44.73%
Addlestone 0 4 £133 -59.38%
Dorking +2 3 £343 -5.51%
Camberley -13 2 £278 -35.46%
Walton-on-Thames - 2 - -
Horley - 2 - -
Epsom -3 1 £350 -
Godalming - 1 £125 -
Haslemere - 1 £400 -
Chertsey - 1 £150 -
Cobham - 1 - -
Microsoft
South East

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 186 (49.60%) Windows
2 123 (32.80%) .NET
3 119 (31.73%) MS Office
4 109 (29.07%) MS Excel
5 96 (25.60%) SQL
6 93 (24.80%) C#
7 85 (22.67%) Active Directory
8 77 (20.53%) SharePoint
9 72 (19.20%) SQL Server
10 67 (17.87%) Windows 7
11 58 (15.47%) Windows XP
12 56 (14.93%) Finance
13 51 (13.60%) XML
14 50 (13.33%) MS Exchange
15 49 (13.07%) Scrum
16 48 (12.80%) CRM
17 45 (12.00%) Visual Studio
18 42 (11.20%) SCCM
19 39 (10.40%) Dynamics CRM
20 38 (10.13%) Degree
20 38 (10.13%) ITIL
21 37 (9.867%) WCF
22 35 (9.333%) ASP.NET
23 34 (9.067%) SCOM
24 33 (8.800%) Windows Server 2008
24 33 (8.800%) Microsoft App-V
25 32 (8.533%) SQL Server Reporting Services
25 32 (8.533%) Migration
26 31 (8.267%) Windows Server 2003
26 31 (8.267%) Oracle

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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
1 123 (32.80%) .NET
2 51 (13.60%) XML
3 37 (9.867%) WCF
4 35 (9.333%) ASP.NET
5 27 (7.200%) WF
6 23 (6.133%) XSLT
7 21 (5.600%) HTML
8 18 (4.800%) .NET Framework
8 18 (4.800%) WPF
9 17 (4.533%) Web Services
10 15 (4.000%) CSS
11 14 (3.733%) Silverlight
12 8 (2.133%) XSD
12 8 (2.133%) XSL
13 7 (1.867%) COM
14 6 (1.600%) LINQ
15 5 (1.333%) jQuery
16 4 (1.067%) ISPF
16 4 (1.067%) LAMP
16 4 (1.067%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 77 (20.53%) SharePoint
2 50 (13.33%) MS Exchange
3 29 (7.733%) IIS
4 18 (4.800%) Exchange Server 2010
5 17 (4.533%) Exchange Server 2007
6 15 (4.000%) Windows Azure
6 15 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
7 14 (3.733%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 10 (2.667%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (2.400%) Exchange Server 2003
10 8 (2.133%) CloudStack
11 6 (1.600%) CMS
12 4 (1.067%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (1.067%) Lotus Notes
12 4 (1.067%) SAS
13 3 (0.800%) SharePoint Server
14 2 (0.533%) ESB
14 2 (0.533%) SharePoint 2013
14 2 (0.533%) EPiServer CMS
15 1 (0.267%) TeamSite
Applications
1 119 (31.73%) MS Office
2 109 (29.07%) MS Excel
3 28 (7.467%) MS PowerPoint
4 14 (3.733%) MS Visio
5 9 (2.400%) MS Project
6 8 (2.133%) Photoshop
7 5 (1.333%) Fireworks
8 4 (1.067%) InfoPath
9 3 (0.800%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.267%) Office 365
10 1 (0.267%) PowerPivot
10 1 (0.267%) FrameMaker
10 1 (0.267%) AutoCAD
10 1 (0.267%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 39 (10.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (2.400%) SalesLogix
3 4 (1.067%) SAP IS-U
3 4 (1.067%) SAP CRM
4 2 (0.533%) Line 50
4 2 (0.533%) Cognos Business Intelligence
4 2 (0.533%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.267%) 3000 Xtra
5 1 (0.267%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.267%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.267%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.267%) Google Analytics
5 1 (0.267%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.267%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 26 (6.933%) TCP/IP
1 26 (6.933%) DNS
2 24 (6.400%) DHCP
3 19 (5.067%) Firewall
4 13 (3.467%) WAN
5 12 (3.200%) VPN
5 12 (3.200%) LAN
6 6 (1.600%) Internet
6 6 (1.600%) VoIP
7 5 (1.333%) SAN
7 5 (1.333%) Wi-Fi
8 4 (1.067%) Intranet
8 4 (1.067%) FTP
9 3 (0.800%) VLAN
10 2 (0.533%) IPsec
10 2 (0.533%) HTTP
10 2 (0.533%) Ethernet
10 2 (0.533%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (0.267%) PABX
11 1 (0.267%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (19.20%) SQL Server
2 32 (8.533%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 25 (6.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 14 (3.733%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (2.400%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 8 (2.133%) Data Warehouse
7 6 (1.600%) Oracle Reports
7 6 (1.600%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.333%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (0.800%) MS Access
9 3 (0.800%) MySQL
10 2 (0.533%) BusinessObjects XI
10 2 (0.533%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.533%) Crystal Reports
10 2 (0.533%) TOAD
10 2 (0.533%) BusinessObjects
11 1 (0.267%) Azure SQL Database
11 1 (0.267%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.267%) IBM InfoSphere
11 1 (0.267%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 45 (12.00%) Visual Studio
2 21 (5.600%) Team Foundation Server
3 16 (4.267%) MSI
3 16 (4.267%) InstallShield
4 6 (1.600%) Ant
4 6 (1.600%) MSBuild
5 5 (1.333%) Expression Blend
6 4 (1.067%) ChangeMan
7 3 (0.800%) JMeter
8 1 (0.267%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.267%) WiX
8 1 (0.267%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 1 (0.267%) JUnit
8 1 (0.267%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.267%) NetBeans
8 1 (0.267%) XMLSpy
8 1 (0.267%) Subversion
8 1 (0.267%) ReSharper
8 1 (0.267%) Oracle APEX
General
1 56 (14.93%) Finance
2 29 (7.733%) Games
3 11 (2.933%) Telecoms
4 8 (2.133%) Advertising
5 6 (1.600%) Banking
6 5 (1.333%) Marketing
7 4 (1.067%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (1.067%) Publishing
8 3 (0.800%) Investment Banking
9 2 (0.533%) Retail
9 2 (0.533%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.267%) Law
10 1 (0.267%) Legal
10 1 (0.267%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.267%) Back Office
10 1 (0.267%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 76 (20.27%) Developer
2 61 (16.27%) Analyst
3 28 (7.467%) Support Analyst
3 28 (7.467%) .NET Developer
4 27 (7.200%) Administrator
5 18 (4.800%) Project Manager
6 17 (4.533%) Support Engineer
7 16 (4.267%) Applications Packager
7 16 (4.267%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (4.267%) Software Engineer
8 15 (4.000%) Architect
9 14 (3.733%) C# Developer
10 13 (3.467%) VB.NET Developer
11 12 (3.200%) Consultant
12 11 (2.933%) 2nd Line Support
12 11 (2.933%) SharePoint Administrator
13 10 (2.667%) SharePoint Developer
13 10 (2.667%) Systems Administrator
14 9 (2.400%) C# .NET Developer
14 9 (2.400%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 20 (5.333%) Computer Science
2 15 (4.000%) Blackberry
3 13 (3.467%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.667%) Online Games
5 8 (2.133%) Mathematics
5 8 (2.133%) Clustering
6 6 (1.600%) Kinect
7 4 (1.067%) iPhone
7 4 (1.067%) Mainframe
7 4 (1.067%) Streaming Video
7 4 (1.067%) Visualisation
8 3 (0.800%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.800%) NHS
8 3 (0.800%) PKI
9 2 (0.533%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.533%) Fat Client
9 2 (0.533%) Thin Client
9 2 (0.533%) AS400
9 2 (0.533%) Replication
9 2 (0.533%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 186 (49.60%) Windows
2 67 (17.87%) Windows 7
3 58 (15.47%) Windows XP
4 33 (8.800%) Windows Server 2008
5 31 (8.267%) Windows Server 2003
6 14 (3.733%) Windows 8
7 11 (2.933%) Windows Server 2012
8 10 (2.667%) Linux
9 8 (2.133%) Windows Vista
9 8 (2.133%) UNIX
10 4 (1.067%) Mac OS X
11 3 (0.800%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.533%) Android
12 2 (0.533%) Windows NT
12 2 (0.533%) AIX
12 2 (0.533%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.267%) Solaris
13 1 (0.267%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (13.07%) Scrum
2 48 (12.80%) CRM
3 38 (10.13%) ITIL
4 32 (8.533%) Migration
5 26 (6.933%) Workflow
6 24 (6.400%) Business Intelligence
7 23 (6.133%) MVC
8 20 (5.333%) Data Analysis
8 20 (5.333%) Project Management
9 19 (5.067%) Incident Management
10 16 (4.267%) Document Management
11 15 (4.000%) PRINCE2
11 15 (4.000%) Service Management
12 14 (3.733%) Release Management
13 13 (3.467%) Load Balancing
13 13 (3.467%) Content Management
14 12 (3.200%) Information Management
14 12 (3.200%) Multithreading
14 12 (3.200%) SOA
15 11 (2.933%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 96 (25.60%) SQL
2 93 (24.80%) C#
3 31 (8.267%) JavaScript
4 28 (7.467%) VB.NET
5 18 (4.800%) Python
6 17 (4.533%) PowerShell
7 12 (3.200%) T-SQL
7 12 (3.200%) PL/SQL
7 12 (3.200%) VB
8 11 (2.933%) C
9 9 (2.400%) PHP
9 9 (2.400%) C++
10 8 (2.133%) Ruby
11 7 (1.867%) VBScript
12 5 (1.333%) Java
12 5 (1.333%) MATLAB
13 4 (1.067%) VB6
13 4 (1.067%) REXX
13 4 (1.067%) JCL
14 3 (0.800%) Perl
Qualifications
1 38 (10.13%) Degree
2 29 (7.733%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (3.467%) MCP
3 13 (3.467%) MCSE
3 13 (3.467%) Security Cleared
4 11 (2.933%) MCITP
5 8 (2.133%) SC Cleared
6 7 (1.867%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 6 (1.600%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.600%) CCNA
8 5 (1.333%) MCSA
9 4 (1.067%) MCTS
10 3 (0.800%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.800%) MCDST
11 2 (0.533%) ISTQB
11 2 (0.533%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (0.533%) CCEE
12 1 (0.267%) CCIA
12 1 (0.267%) CCNP
12 1 (0.267%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (2.933%) QA
2 5 (1.333%) SLA
3 4 (1.067%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.533%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 85 (22.67%) Active Directory
2 33 (8.800%) Microsoft App-V
3 20 (5.333%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.800%) XenDesktop
5 17 (4.533%) XenApp
6 11 (2.933%) XenServer
7 10 (2.667%) VMware Infrastructure
8 7 (1.867%) vSphere
9 4 (1.067%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.800%) UAG
10 3 (0.800%) Terminal Services
11 2 (0.533%) DFS Replication
11 2 (0.533%) Forefront TMG
12 1 (0.267%) IAG
12 1 (0.267%) Veritas Volume Manager
12 1 (0.267%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 1 (0.267%) VMware ESX
12 1 (0.267%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 42 (11.20%) SCCM
2 34 (9.067%) SCOM
3 9 (2.400%) Backup Exec
4 6 (1.600%) HP SIM
5 5 (1.333%) Norton AntiVirus
5 5 (1.333%) WSUS
6 4 (1.067%) CA Endevor
6 4 (1.067%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.800%) Sysprep
8 2 (0.533%) Unicenter
9 1 (0.267%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 31 (8.267%) Oracle
1 31 (8.267%) Citrix
2 29 (7.733%) VMware
3 16 (4.267%) Cisco
4 15 (4.000%) AppSense
5 12 (3.200%) SolarWinds
6 11 (2.933%) HP
7 10 (2.667%) Symantec
8 9 (2.400%) SAP
8 9 (2.400%) Sage
9 8 (2.133%) IBM
10 7 (1.867%) Lumension
10 7 (1.867%) Apple
11 6 (1.600%) CA
12 5 (1.333%) Twitter
12 5 (1.333%) Adobe
12 5 (1.333%) Dell
12 5 (1.333%) Nortel
12 5 (1.333%) NetApp
12 5 (1.333%) Lotus
Staines, Middlesex
URGENT CONTRACT Developer (C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML) PAY RATE - £400 PER DAY Developer (C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML) MUST BE ABLE TO START MONDAY 3RD JUNE - 3...
Brightred Resourcing Limited
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Staines, South East
URGENT CONTRACT Developer (C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML)PAY RATE - £400 PER DAY Developer (C#, ASP.NET, CSS, HTML) MUST BE ABLE TO START MONDAY 3RD JUNE - 3...
Brightred Resourcing
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chertsey, Surrey
My client is looking for a Deployment Engineer with Microsoft Windows 7 deployment experience to work on customer site in Chertsey, Surrey on a 3 month rolling contract...
@ITS
Rate: From £110 to £150 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Surrey, South East
The ideal candidate would have experience in Healthcare, preferably supporting Cerner Millennium but not essential, experience with any other NHS application is essential. Technical skills required Microsoft Office,...
E-Resourcing
Rate: £120 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Surrey
Must be from a software development background with up to date skills in ASP.Net, C#.Net, SQL 2008, WCF, WF and associated design patterns... *Computer sciences or...
Fusion People
Rate: market rates
Posted: 16 May 2013
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
A strong grounding in IT Support is a must with previous experience in a desktop support engineer role and exceptional Microsoft skills are essential as you will be...
Marcus Donald People
Rate: £16 to £18 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Windows Server Engineer, AD 2003, MS 2003/2008, EV 8,9,10, Microsoft WSUS, XP... Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \ 2008... Microsoft WSUS. Windows XP... MCITP \ MCSE... Experience working...
EarthStream Global
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
The Server Engineer will also be working with the current WSUS implementation and making sure all clients have XP SP3 deployed for upcoming projects... Windows Server 2003/2008...
ComputAppoint
Rate: market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Surrey
Must be from a software development background with up to date skills in ASP.Net, C#.Net, SQL 2008, WCF, WF and associated design patterns... *Computer sciences or...
Fusion People
Rate: £500 per day + market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Very strong SCCM and SCOM skills are required for the roles, the Server Engineer should have excellent experience throughout their previous roles. Essential experience for the Server Engineer...
ComputAppoint
Rate: market rates
Posted: 21 May 2013
Staines, Middlesex
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 \ 2008 \ 2012. Microsoft Windows 7 \ 8. Microsoft Systems Center Configuration Manager 2012... Microsoft Windows Client Unattended Builds. Microsoft SCCM Software Distribution. Microsoft SCOM and...
EarthStream Global
Rate: From £350 to £500 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Guildford, South East
Our client a Global technology company is seeking a Business Intelligence Developer to be based in Guildford for an initial 12 month contract.Job Description:* Contribute to technical...
Volt
Rate: £44000.00 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Surrey
Imaging a PC, Hardware Installation, MS Office - Good understanding of service management techniques, including change management, incident management Desktop Support Engineer / 2 nd Line Support /Deskside Engineer are...
Coal IT Services
Rate: Up to £150 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013