The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft 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 Vendors for the Tyne and Wear 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 5 8 4
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 27 39 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 15.25% 12.23% 15.91%
As % of the Vendors category 31.76% 24.84% 27.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 15
Average daily rate £325 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £270 £154
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
Average hourly rate £10.50 £12.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.60 £10.08 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.18 £13.46 £12.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
85 157 153
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 48.02% 49.22% 57.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 76 70
Average daily rate £270 £325 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.92% +2.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £232 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £475 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 5
Average hourly rate £10.50 £20.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-47.50% +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.74 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.38 £50.00 £17.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
North East

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

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 Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +6 23 £350 +6.06%
Sunderland +2 3 £215 -
Microsoft
North East

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 28 (37.84%) MS Office
2 25 (33.78%) MS Excel
3 15 (20.27%) ITIL
4 13 (17.57%) Windows
4 13 (17.57%) .NET
5 11 (14.86%) PRINCE2
5 11 (14.86%) MS Project
5 11 (14.86%) Project Management
5 11 (14.86%) MS PowerPoint
6 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
6 10 (13.51%) C#
6 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
7 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
7 9 (12.16%) SQL
7 9 (12.16%) PRINCE
7 9 (12.16%) Document Management
8 8 (10.81%) PMP
8 8 (10.81%) PMI Certification
8 8 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (10.81%) Change Management
9 7 (9.459%) Scrum
9 7 (9.459%) Oracle
9 7 (9.459%) CSS
10 6 (8.108%) CRM
11 5 (6.757%) IBM
11 5 (6.757%) ASP.NET
11 5 (6.757%) HTML
11 5 (6.757%) Asset Management
11 5 (6.757%) Intranet
11 5 (6.757%) Google

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 13 (17.57%) .NET
2 7 (9.459%) CSS
3 5 (6.757%) HTML
3 5 (6.757%) ASP.NET
4 3 (4.054%) XML
4 3 (4.054%) XHTML
4 3 (4.054%) Ajax
5 2 (2.703%) ASP
5 2 (2.703%) jQuery
5 2 (2.703%) Web Services
6 1 (1.351%) COM
6 1 (1.351%) WCF
6 1 (1.351%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.405%) SharePoint
1 4 (5.405%) MS Exchange
2 3 (4.054%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (4.054%) Oracle Spatial
2 3 (4.054%) MS Project Server
3 2 (2.703%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.351%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.351%) Lync
4 1 (1.351%) CMS
4 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 28 (37.84%) MS Office
2 25 (33.78%) MS Excel
3 11 (14.86%) MS Project
3 11 (14.86%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (6.757%) Office 365
5 4 (5.405%) MS Visio
6 1 (1.351%) Fireworks
6 1 (1.351%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 5 (6.757%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.757%) Intranet
2 2 (2.703%) DNS
2 2 (2.703%) SAN
2 2 (2.703%) LDAP
2 2 (2.703%) LAN
2 2 (2.703%) SMTP
2 2 (2.703%) FTP
2 2 (2.703%) SNMP
3 1 (1.351%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.351%) VPN
3 1 (1.351%) HTTP
3 1 (1.351%) DHCP
3 1 (1.351%) SSL
3 1 (1.351%) Firewall
3 1 (1.351%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (1.351%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (1.351%) FWSM
3 1 (1.351%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.757%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (6.757%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (4.054%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (4.054%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.703%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.703%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.351%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (1.351%) QlikView
5 1 (1.351%) GIS
5 1 (1.351%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 3 (4.054%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.351%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.351%) QADirector
General
1 4 (5.405%) Legal
2 3 (4.054%) Finance
3 2 (2.703%) Telecoms
3 2 (2.703%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (29.73%) Analyst
2 11 (14.86%) Project Manager
2 11 (14.86%) Developer
2 11 (14.86%) Service Desk Analyst
3 10 (13.51%) Service Analyst
4 4 (5.405%) Service Manager
4 4 (5.405%) IT Trainer
4 4 (5.405%) Trainer
4 4 (5.405%) Service Desk Manager
5 3 (4.054%) Microsoft Developer
5 3 (4.054%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 3 (4.054%) Agile Project Manager
5 3 (4.054%) IT Technician
5 3 (4.054%) CRM Developer
5 3 (4.054%) Help Desk Analyst
5 3 (4.054%) Web Developer
5 3 (4.054%) Team Leader
5 3 (4.054%) Administrator
6 2 (2.703%) Data Analyst
6 2 (2.703%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.757%) Social Network
2 4 (5.405%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.054%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.054%) PMI
3 3 (4.054%) Blackberry
4 2 (2.703%) Clustering
5 1 (1.351%) PACS
5 1 (1.351%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (17.57%) Windows
2 3 (4.054%) Windows XP
2 3 (4.054%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (4.054%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (4.054%) Windows 7
3 2 (2.703%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (20.27%) ITIL
2 11 (14.86%) PRINCE2
2 11 (14.86%) Project Management
3 10 (13.51%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (12.16%) PRINCE
4 9 (12.16%) Document Management
5 8 (10.81%) Change Management
5 8 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (9.459%) Scrum
7 6 (8.108%) CRM
8 5 (6.757%) Asset Management
8 5 (6.757%) Waterfall
9 4 (5.405%) Time Management
10 3 (4.054%) Risk Management
10 3 (4.054%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (4.054%) Service Management
10 3 (4.054%) Data Modelling
10 3 (4.054%) EAM
11 2 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
11 2 (2.703%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.51%) C#
2 9 (12.16%) SQL
3 3 (4.054%) JavaScript
3 3 (4.054%) VB
4 2 (2.703%) VBA
4 2 (2.703%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.351%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.351%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 8 (10.81%) PMP
1 8 (10.81%) PMI Certification
2 4 (5.405%) ECDL
2 4 (5.405%) MOS
2 4 (5.405%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.054%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (4.054%) Degree
3 3 (4.054%) MCP
3 3 (4.054%) HND
3 3 (4.054%) ISEB
4 2 (2.703%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.703%) A+ Certification
4 2 (2.703%) CCNA
5 1 (1.351%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.054%) SLA
2 1 (1.351%) Data Quality
System Software
1 9 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.703%) SRDF
3 1 (1.351%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.351%) DameWare
1 1 (1.351%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.351%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 7 (9.459%) Oracle
2 5 (6.757%) Google
2 5 (6.757%) IBM
3 4 (5.405%) HP
3 4 (5.405%) Dell
3 4 (5.405%) Citrix
4 2 (2.703%) Novell
4 2 (2.703%) McAfee
4 2 (2.703%) RightFax
4 2 (2.703%) Cisco
5 1 (1.351%) Siebel
5 1 (1.351%) Micro Focus
5 1 (1.351%) VMware
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