The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 24 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 Woking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 1 9 6
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 19 11 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 43.18% 17.74% 19.23%
As % of the Vendors category 70.37% 47.83% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 5
Average daily rate £325 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £280 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £530 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
27 23 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 61.36% 37.10% 57.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 19 22
Average daily rate £325 £300 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -10.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £280 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £430 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
Surrey

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking 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 Woking region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 17 (68.00%) .NET
2 15 (60.00%) WPF
3 11 (44.00%) C#
4 10 (40.00%) Data Analysis
4 10 (40.00%) Multithreading
4 10 (40.00%) MVVM
5 7 (28.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (28.00%) MS Exchange
5 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
6 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
6 6 (24.00%) Scrum
6 6 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 6 (24.00%) LINQ
7 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
7 5 (20.00%) Expression Blend
7 5 (20.00%) Fireworks
7 5 (20.00%) MATLAB
7 5 (20.00%) Photoshop
7 5 (20.00%) SQL
7 5 (20.00%) Windows
7 5 (20.00%) OO
8 4 (16.00%) LAN
8 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
8 4 (16.00%) MS Office
8 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
8 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (16.00%) Windows Vista
8 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
9 3 (12.00%) Symantec
9 3 (12.00%) McAfee

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 17 (68.00%) .NET
2 15 (60.00%) WPF
3 6 (24.00%) LINQ
4 5 (20.00%) Silverlight
5 2 (8.000%) XML
6 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET
6 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.000%) Web Services
6 1 (4.000%) Ajax
6 1 (4.000%) .NET Framework
6 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (28.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (4.000%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) Fireworks
1 5 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (16.00%) MS Office
3 1 (4.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.00%) LAN
2 3 (12.00%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (12.00%) WAN
3 1 (4.000%) Firewall
3 1 (4.000%) DHCP
3 1 (4.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.000%) DNS
3 1 (4.000%) VoIP
3 1 (4.000%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (24.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (4.000%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (20.00%) Expression Blend
3 1 (4.000%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (4.000%) Games
1 1 (4.000%) Finance
1 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Developer
3 5 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 5 (20.00%) WPF Developer
3 5 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (12.00%) Project Manager
4 3 (12.00%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
5 1 (4.000%) Software Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Architect
5 1 (4.000%) ScrumMaster
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.000%) iPhone
1 1 (4.000%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
2 4 (16.00%) Windows Vista
2 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (40.00%) Data Analysis
1 10 (40.00%) Multithreading
1 10 (40.00%) MVVM
2 6 (24.00%) Scrum
3 5 (20.00%) OO
4 3 (12.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (8.000%) ITIL
5 2 (8.000%) Migration
5 2 (8.000%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (4.000%) Programme Management
6 1 (4.000%) Quality Management
6 1 (4.000%) Project Management
6 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
6 1 (4.000%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (4.000%) Change Control
6 1 (4.000%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) C#
2 5 (20.00%) MATLAB
2 5 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.000%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (12.00%) MCP
3 1 (4.000%) CCNA
3 1 (4.000%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.000%) MCSE
3 1 (4.000%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (28.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 3 (12.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.000%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (12.00%) Symantec
1 3 (12.00%) McAfee
2 1 (4.000%) Cisco
2 1 (4.000%) Citrix