Microsoft Contracts in West Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Wales 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 West Wales 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 8 15 26
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 4 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 8.889% 4.651% 3.933%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 11.76% 6.364%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £216 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-42.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+135.29% +70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
West Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category		 12 34 110
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 26.67% 39.53% 61.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 34
Average daily rate £363 £405 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.49% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £400 £317
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £538 £513
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £17.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+135.29% +70.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Wales

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Wales 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 West Wales region.

West Wales Microsoft Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Wales 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 West Wales 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
Carmarthenshire - 2 £216 -
Swansea +8 1 - -
Pembrokeshire -3 1 - -
Microsoft
Wales

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (58.33%) Windows
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (41.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) GroupWise
4 4 (33.33%) Novell
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 4 (33.33%) MS Office
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Vista
4 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (33.33%) Novell eDirectory
4 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 3 (25.00%) TDD
5 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) InterBase
6 2 (16.67%) NHS
6 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
6 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
6 2 (16.67%) UML
6 2 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (16.67%) HTML

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.333%) ASP
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.333%) CSS
2 1 (8.333%) Web Services
2 1 (8.333%) Ajax
2 1 (8.333%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (8.333%) JSON
2 1 (8.333%) Django
2 1 (8.333%) REST
Application Platforms
1 4 (33.33%) GroupWise
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Office
2 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) InterBase
1 2 (16.67%) Firebird
2 1 (8.333%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.333%) MySQL
2 1 (8.333%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (8.333%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MSI
General
1 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Applications Packager
2 2 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Author
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Author
3 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Applications Developer
3 1 (8.333%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (58.33%) Windows
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 3 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) UML
5 1 (8.333%) Web Development
5 1 (8.333%) Kanban
5 1 (8.333%) Service Delivery
5 1 (8.333%) Scrum
5 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) VBA
2 2 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) Ruby
3 1 (8.333%) Scala
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
3 1 (8.333%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (58.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (33.33%) Novell eDirectory
4 3 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) SCCM
2 5 (41.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (8.333%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Novell
2 3 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (8.333%) Oracle
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix
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