The first table below looks at the demand for MSI skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MSI 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 of the Development Applications category for the West Yorkshire 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Windows Installer (MSI)
Rank 88 93 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing MSI 3 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.236% 0.062% -
As % of the Development Applications category 2.655% 0.813% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £365 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.25 £34.25 £30.00
% change year-on-year
-52.55% +14.16%
All Development Applications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
113 123 130
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 8.905% 7.602% 11.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 71 54
Average daily rate £290 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 - £25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
MSI
Yorkshire

MSI
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MSI across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

West Yorkshire MSI Jobs Demand Trend

MSI
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MSI across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire MSI Daily Rate Trend

MSI
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire MSI Hourly Rate Trend

MSI
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MSI within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds -6 3 - -
MSI
Yorkshire

MSI
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MSI 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 MSI.

1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing

MSI
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MSI 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 MSI. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Gherkin
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
1 3 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 3 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Tester
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) BC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware