York Microsoft Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts within the York 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Altrincham Amersham Andover Ascot Avon Aylesbury Ayr Bacup Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Carlisle Carmarthenshire Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Cramlington Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dumfries Dumfries and Galloway Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenford Greenwich Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lanarkshire Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stourbridge Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Drayton West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	11
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	40.91 %	33.87 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£225	£267
Average daily rate	£273	£283
% change on same period last year	-3.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£312
% change on same period last year	+0.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
% change on same period last year	-53.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.56	£20.76
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
Vendors York
Matching contract IT job ads	44	62
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	8	17
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£311
Average daily rate	£296	£320
% change on same period last year	-7.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£323	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£358
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
% change on same period last year	-53.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£21.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.26	£24.93
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
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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 York 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 York 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 York region over the 3 months to 24 July 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 York 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 York region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 12 (36.36 %) Windows 2 11 (33.33 %) MS Office 3 10 (30.30 %) TCP/IP 4 9 (27.27 %) Windows NT 4 9 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 4 9 (27.27 %) Active Directory 5 7 (21.21 %) ITIL 5 7 (21.21 %) .NET 6 6 (18.18 %) C# 6 6 (18.18 %) VB.NET 6 6 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 6 6 (18.18 %) XML 6 6 (18.18 %) Finance 7 5 (15.15 %) Health 7 5 (15.15 %) Pensions

7 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 5 (15.15 %) WAN 7 5 (15.15 %) C++ 7 5 (15.15 %) MFC 7 5 (15.15 %) .NET Framework 8 4 (12.12 %) MS Excel 9 3 (9.091 %) SQL 9 3 (9.091 %) Banking 10 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 10 2 (6.061 %) ITSM 10 2 (6.061 %) HP 10 2 (6.061 %) VB6 10 2 (6.061 %) VB 10 2 (6.061 %) ASP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 7 (21.21 %) .NET 2 6 (18.18 %) XML 3 5 (15.15 %) .NET Framework 3 5 (15.15 %) MFC 4 2 (6.061 %) ASP 5 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (3.030 %) Windows SharePoint Services	Application Platforms 1 9 (27.27 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 5 (15.15 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (6.061 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint 4 1 (3.030 %) IIS
Applications 1 11 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 4 (12.12 %) MS Excel 3 2 (6.061 %) MS Project 3 2 (6.061 %) Spreadsheet 4 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio 4 1 (3.030 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 10 (30.30 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (15.15 %) WAN 3 2 (6.061 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Access 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server	General 1 6 (18.18 %) Finance 2 5 (15.15 %) Health 2 5 (15.15 %) Pensions 3 3 (9.091 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 9 (27.27 %) Developer 1 9 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.21 %) Helpdesk Operator 3 5 (15.15 %) CSharp Software Developer 3 5 (15.15 %) Software Developer 3 5 (15.15 %) .NET Developer 3 5 (15.15 %) C# Developer 3 5 (15.15 %) Helpdesk Support 4 3 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (9.091 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) VB Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) ASP Developer 5 2 (6.061 %) Information Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Network Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Junior 6 1 (3.030 %) Project Planner	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) NHS 2 1 (3.030 %) Smartcard
Operating Systems 1 12 (36.36 %) Windows 2 9 (27.27 %) Windows NT 3 2 (6.061 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (21.21 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 2 2 (6.061 %) ITSM 3 1 (3.030 %) Document Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Time Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (18.18 %) C# 1 6 (18.18 %) VB.NET 2 5 (15.15 %) C++ 3 3 (9.091 %) SQL 4 2 (6.061 %) VB 4 2 (6.061 %) VB6 5 1 (3.030 %) C	Qualifications 1 6 (18.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) MCSE
System Software 1 9 (27.27 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (6.061 %) IBM 1 2 (6.061 %) HP 1 2 (6.061 %) Lotus