Wakefield Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the Wakefield 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Grantham Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hinckley Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Jersey Kegworth Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire 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 Nantwich New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Weybridge Weymouth Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	6	5
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	11.11 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£280	-
Average daily rate	£303	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£325	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£314
% change on same period last year	+2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£20.72
% change on same period last year	-3.47 %
Vendors Wakefield
Matching contract IT job ads	7	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£358
Average daily rate	£303	£382
% change on same period last year	-20.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£325	£407
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£7.56	£10.02
Average hourly rate	£8.48	£10.02
% change on same period last year	-15.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£9.40	£10.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
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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 Wakefield 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 Wakefield region.

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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 Wakefield region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 3 (42.86 %) MS Excel 2 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (28.57 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (28.57 %) Remedy 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory 3 1 (14.29 %) Axapta 3 1 (14.29 %) PMP 3 1 (14.29 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (14.29 %) Baan 3 1 (14.29 %) JD Edwards 3 1 (14.29 %) Lawson 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE 3 1 (14.29 %) PeopleSoft

3 1 (14.29 %) SAP 3 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (14.29 %) VB 3 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Project 3 1 (14.29 %) Dynamics AX 3 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (14.29 %) Movex 3 1 (14.29 %) Finance 3 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 1 (14.29 %) OO 3 1 (14.29 %) SSADM 3 1 (14.29 %) ERP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (14.29 %) .NET 1 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) MS Excel 2 2 (28.57 %) MS Office 3 1 (14.29 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Axapta 1 1 (14.29 %) Movex 1 1 (14.29 %) Dynamics AX
General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Support Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) 1st Line Support 1 2 (28.57 %) Service Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Project Manager 1 2 (28.57 %) Helpdesk Support 1 2 (28.57 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) ERP Project Manager 2 1 (14.29 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) N-Tier	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (28.57 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (14.29 %) OO 2 1 (14.29 %) SSADM 2 1 (14.29 %) ERP 2 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) VB 1 1 (14.29 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) PMP 1 1 (14.29 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 2 (28.57 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (28.57 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Remedy 2 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 2 1 (14.29 %) PeopleSoft 2 1 (14.29 %) SAP 2 1 (14.29 %) Baan 2 1 (14.29 %) JD Edwards 2 1 (14.29 %) Lawson