Tyne and Wear Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Tyne and Wear 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen 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 Knutsford 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 Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich 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 Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph 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 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 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	3	11
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	56	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.078 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	36.84 %	16.67 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum daily rate	£351	£323
Average daily rate	£353	£329
% change on same period last year	+7.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£355	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£321	£309
% change on same period last year	+3.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.04	£16.80
Average hourly rate	£21.50	£18.17
% change on same period last year	+18.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.96	£19.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.78	£20.58
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Vendors Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	152	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.212 %	0.277 %
Daily rates quoted	39	86
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£337
Average daily rate	£325	£349
% change on same period last year	-6.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.44	£24.14
Average hourly rate	£22.65	£26.11
% change on same period last year	-13.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.87	£28.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
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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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+8	24	£353	-13.23 %
Newcastle	+4	21	£540	+83.39 %
Sunderland	+2	3	£350	-
Gateshead	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 29 (29.59 %) Windows 2 23 (23.47 %) SQL Server 3 21 (21.43 %) .NET 3 21 (21.43 %) MS Office 3 21 (21.43 %) MS Excel 4 20 (20.41 %) SQL 5 19 (19.39 %) C# 6 12 (12.24 %) Active Directory 7 11 (11.22 %) Cisco 7 11 (11.22 %) Microsoft Certification 7 11 (11.22 %) Government 8 10 (10.20 %) Security Cleared 9 9 (9.184 %) .NET Framework 9 9 (9.184 %) Telecoms 9 9 (9.184 %) Firewall

9 9 (9.184 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (9.184 %) Transact-SQL 9 9 (9.184 %) Windows XP 9 9 (9.184 %) Windows 2000 10 8 (8.163 %) MCSE 10 8 (8.163 %) VB 10 8 (8.163 %) HTML 10 8 (8.163 %) CSS 10 8 (8.163 %) SQL Server 2000 10 8 (8.163 %) Citrix 11 7 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 12 6 (6.122 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (6.122 %) Finance 12 6 (6.122 %) MOS 12 6 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2005

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 21 (21.43 %) .NET 2 9 (9.184 %) .NET Framework 3 8 (8.163 %) HTML 3 8 (8.163 %) CSS 4 6 (6.122 %) ASP.NET 5 4 (4.082 %) WebServices 5 4 (4.082 %) XML 5 4 (4.082 %) XSL 6 3 (3.061 %) Middleware 7 2 (2.041 %) ASP 8 1 (1.020 %) XSLT 8 1 (1.020 %) XHTML 8 1 (1.020 %) WAP 8 1 (1.020 %) WinForms 8 1 (1.020 %) Silverlight	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.061 %) SharePoint 2 2 (2.041 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (2.041 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (1.020 %) Lotus Domino 3 1 (1.020 %) GroupWise 3 1 (1.020 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 21 (21.43 %) MS Office 1 21 (21.43 %) MS Excel 2 4 (4.082 %) MS Project 3 3 (3.061 %) MS Visio 4 2 (2.041 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (2.041 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (1.020 %) Photoshop 5 1 (1.020 %) Adobe Illustrator	Communications & Networking 1 9 (9.184 %) Firewall 2 5 (5.102 %) Internet 3 4 (4.082 %) LAN 4 3 (3.061 %) VPN 4 3 (3.061 %) DNS 5 2 (2.041 %) SSL 5 2 (2.041 %) DHCP 5 2 (2.041 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (2.041 %) Intranet 5 2 (2.041 %) WAN 6 1 (1.020 %) SMTP 6 1 (1.020 %) UMTS 6 1 (1.020 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.020 %) LDAP 6 1 (1.020 %) ADSL 6 1 (1.020 %) GPRS 6 1 (1.020 %) GSM 6 1 (1.020 %) FTP 6 1 (1.020 %) SNMP 6 1 (1.020 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (23.47 %) SQL Server 2 8 (8.163 %) SQL Server 2000 3 6 (6.122 %) SQL Server 2005 4 5 (5.102 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (3.061 %) MS Access 5 3 (3.061 %) Datawarehouse 5 3 (3.061 %) Data Mining 6 1 (1.020 %) MySQL 6 1 (1.020 %) SQL Server Integration Services	Development Applications 1 7 (7.143 %) Visual Studio 2 4 (4.082 %) NUnit 2 4 (4.082 %) Visual Studio Team System 3 1 (1.020 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 11 (11.22 %) Government 2 9 (9.184 %) Telecoms 3 6 (6.122 %) Finance 4 4 (4.082 %) Legal 4 4 (4.082 %) Banking 5 2 (2.041 %) Education 6 1 (1.020 %) Health 6 1 (1.020 %) Law 6 1 (1.020 %) Billing 6 1 (1.020 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.020 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 21 (21.43 %) Developer 2 11 (11.22 %) Analyst 3 9 (9.184 %) Desktop Support 4 8 (8.163 %) Helpdesk Support 5 7 (7.143 %) .NET Developer 6 6 (6.122 %) Administrator 6 6 (6.122 %) Software Developer 6 6 (6.122 %) Trainer 7 5 (5.102 %) Architect 7 5 (5.102 %) Support Engineer 8 4 (4.082 %) Systems Administrator 8 4 (4.082 %) Network Technician 8 4 (4.082 %) IT Trainer 8 4 (4.082 %) Desktop Engineer 8 4 (4.082 %) SQL Developer 9 3 (3.061 %) Server Engineer 9 3 (3.061 %) Security Architect 9 3 (3.061 %) Network Support 9 3 (3.061 %) Solutions Architect 9 3 (3.061 %) Programmer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.082 %) Clustering 2 2 (2.041 %) NHS 2 2 (2.041 %) PKI 3 1 (1.020 %) IPTV 3 1 (1.020 %) PDA 3 1 (1.020 %) Data Integration 3 1 (1.020 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.020 %) W3C 3 1 (1.020 %) NPfIT 3 1 (1.020 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.020 %) AS400 3 1 (1.020 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.020 %) VLE 3 1 (1.020 %) SecurID	Operating Systems 1 29 (29.59 %) Windows 2 9 (9.184 %) Windows 2000 2 9 (9.184 %) Windows XP 2 9 (9.184 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (4.082 %) Windows Vista 3 4 (4.082 %) UNIX 4 3 (3.061 %) Linux 4 3 (3.061 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.020 %) NetWare 5 1 (1.020 %) MVS 5 1 (1.020 %) HPUX 5 1 (1.020 %) Solaris 5 1 (1.020 %) VME 5 1 (1.020 %) Windows Server 2008 5 1 (1.020 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (10.20 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (5.102 %) Change Management 2 5 (5.102 %) Workflow 3 4 (4.082 %) ITIL 3 4 (4.082 %) UML 3 4 (4.082 %) SC Cleared 4 3 (3.061 %) TOGAF 4 3 (3.061 %) Data Analysis 4 3 (3.061 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (3.061 %) Technical Architecture 4 3 (3.061 %) CRM 4 3 (3.061 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (3.061 %) Data Modelling 4 3 (3.061 %) Project Management 4 3 (3.061 %) Risk Management 5 2 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (2.041 %) Service Management 5 2 (2.041 %) ERD 5 2 (2.041 %) Network Design 6 1 (1.020 %) DV Cleared	Programming Languages 1 20 (20.41 %) SQL 2 19 (19.39 %) C# 3 9 (9.184 %) Transact-SQL 4 8 (8.163 %) VB 5 3 (3.061 %) VB.NET 5 3 (3.061 %) PL/SQL 6 2 (2.041 %) C 6 2 (2.041 %) PHP 6 2 (2.041 %) C++ 6 2 (2.041 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.020 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 11 (11.22 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (8.163 %) MCSE 3 6 (6.122 %) MOS 4 5 (5.102 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.020 %) MCP 5 1 (1.020 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (1.020 %) A+ Certification 5 1 (1.020 %) MCSA 5 1 (1.020 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.020 %) CCA 5 1 (1.020 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.020 %) CISSP 5 1 (1.020 %) Degree 5 1 (1.020 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	System Software 1 12 (12.24 %) Active Directory 2 2 (2.041 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (1.020 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.020 %) ISA Server 3 1 (1.020 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 1 (1.020 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 11 (11.22 %) Cisco 2 8 (8.163 %) Citrix 3 5 (5.102 %) Business Objects 3 5 (5.102 %) VMware 4 4 (4.082 %) Dell 5 3 (3.061 %) Oracle 6 2 (2.041 %) Juniper 6 2 (2.041 %) Finjan 7 1 (1.020 %) Novell 7 1 (1.020 %) Lotus 7 1 (1.020 %) CheckPoint 7 1 (1.020 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.020 %) Adobe 7 1 (1.020 %) HP