West Wales Microsoft Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the West Wales 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 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 St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clydebank Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Kilbride 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 Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney 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 Jersey Kegworth Kendal Kent Kettering King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Matlock Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Morecambe Nantwich 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 Paddington 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 Southwark 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	21	23
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	8	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	14.29 %	6.742 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£260	-
Average daily rate	£305	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£350	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£314
% change on same period last year	+2.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.33	£16.33
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£16.33
% change on same period last year	+35.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.00	£16.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.00	£20.72
% change on same period last year	-3.47 %
Vendors West Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	56	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.076 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	27	33
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£378
Average daily rate	£391	£407
% change on same period last year	-3.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£414	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.61	£17.25
Average hourly rate	£22.17	£17.25
% change on same period last year	+28.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.72	£17.25
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 West Wales 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 West Wales 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 West Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 West Wales 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 West Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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 West Wales region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Swansea	0	5	£310	-
Carmarthenshire	-	1	£300	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 8 (36.36 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2 7 (31.82 %) MS Project 2 7 (31.82 %) Novell 3 5 (22.73 %) Remedy 3 5 (22.73 %) Citrix 3 5 (22.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (22.73 %) MS Office 3 5 (22.73 %) Government 4 4 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 4 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (18.18 %) Incident Management 4 4 (18.18 %) LAN 4 4 (18.18 %) NetWare 4 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000

4 4 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (18.18 %) Internet 4 4 (18.18 %) Lotus 4 4 (18.18 %) SmartSuite 5 3 (13.64 %) McAfee Security 5 3 (13.64 %) NHS 5 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel 5 3 (13.64 %) Windows NT 5 3 (13.64 %) IBM 5 3 (13.64 %) SQL 6 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 2 (9.091 %) Spreadsheet 6 2 (9.091 %) NPfIT 7 1 (4.545 %) DRM 7 1 (4.545 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 (4.545 %) .NET 1 1 (4.545 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (4.545 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 7 (31.82 %) MS Project 2 5 (22.73 %) MS Office 3 4 (18.18 %) SmartSuite 4 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel 5 2 (9.091 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 4 (18.18 %) LAN 1 4 (18.18 %) Internet 2 1 (4.545 %) SAN 2 1 (4.545 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 2 1 (4.545 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (4.545 %) GIS	General 1 5 (22.73 %) Government 2 1 (4.545 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 6 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 5 (22.73 %) Project Manager 3 4 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (13.64 %) Architect 4 3 (13.64 %) Solutions Architect 5 2 (9.091 %) Security Manager 5 2 (9.091 %) Security Project Manager 5 2 (9.091 %) IT Manager 5 2 (9.091 %) IT Project Manager 6 1 (4.545 %) Information Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Desktop Analyst 6 1 (4.545 %) Senior Solutions Architect 6 1 (4.545 %) Applications Specialist 6 1 (4.545 %) Developer 6 1 (4.545 %) Project Planner 6 1 (4.545 %) 1st Line Support 6 1 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (4.545 %) 3rd Line Support 6 1 (4.545 %) Administrator 6 1 (4.545 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (13.64 %) NHS 2 2 (9.091 %) NPfIT 3 1 (4.545 %) Clustering 3 1 (4.545 %) Statistics 3 1 (4.545 %) Informatics
Operating Systems 1 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2 5 (22.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (18.18 %) NetWare 3 4 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (13.64 %) Windows NT 5 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (36.36 %) Security Cleared 2 4 (18.18 %) Incident Management 2 4 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) CTC Cleared 3 1 (4.545 %) Business Development 3 1 (4.545 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (4.545 %) DRM 3 1 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (4.545 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL 2 1 (4.545 %) VB 2 1 (4.545 %) C#	System Software 1 1 (4.545 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (4.545 %) Tivoli 1 1 (4.545 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 7 (31.82 %) Novell 2 5 (22.73 %) Remedy 2 5 (22.73 %) Citrix 3 4 (18.18 %) Lotus 4 3 (13.64 %) IBM 4 3 (13.64 %) McAfee Security 5 1 (4.545 %) Dell