The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Microsoft products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft over the 3 months to 22 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 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft
Rank 9 6 11
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 230 285 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 12.19% 12.39% 8.766%
As % of the Vendors category 26.32% 26.74% 21.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 152 55
Average daily rate £320 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £185 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 33 29
Average hourly rate £12.43 £13.00 £11.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.38% +10.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.76 £10.31 £7.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.25 £23.00 £21.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £15.00
All Vendors
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
874 1066 719
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 46.32% 46.33% 40.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 537 292
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £472 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 75 74
Average hourly rate £13.71 £16.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.90% -17.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.32 £10.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £33.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Microsoft Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Yorkshire Microsoft Hourly Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
West Yorkshire 0 136 £299 -14.64%
South Yorkshire -1 49 £330 -6.04%
North Yorkshire +1 23 £380 +8.57%
East Yorkshire +2 8 - -
Microsoft
England

Microsoft
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 236 (45.74%) Windows
2 192 (37.21%) MS Excel
3 130 (25.19%) SQL Server
4 125 (24.22%) MS Office
5 122 (23.64%) SQL
6 103 (19.96%) Active Directory
7 98 (18.99%) Windows Server 2003
8 88 (17.05%) Windows Server 2008
9 85 (16.47%) .NET
10 84 (16.28%) Windows 7
11 79 (15.31%) Windows XP
12 76 (14.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 75 (14.53%) VMware
14 63 (12.21%) Citrix
14 63 (12.21%) MS Exchange
15 54 (10.47%) C#
15 54 (10.47%) ITIL
16 51 (9.884%) Finance
17 50 (9.690%) VMware Infrastructure
18 48 (9.302%) Project Management
18 48 (9.302%) SharePoint
19 44 (8.527%) MCSE
20 40 (7.752%) ASP.NET
21 39 (7.558%) Oracle
22 38 (7.364%) SAN
22 38 (7.364%) SCCM
23 35 (6.783%) CRM
23 35 (6.783%) MS Project
23 35 (6.783%) SQL Server 2008
24 34 (6.589%) SLA

Microsoft
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 85 (16.47%) .NET
2 40 (7.752%) ASP.NET
3 28 (5.426%) HTML
4 19 (3.682%) Web Services
4 19 (3.682%) CSS
5 17 (3.295%) XML
6 15 (2.907%) MDX
7 14 (2.713%) ASP.NET MVC
8 13 (2.519%) COM
9 12 (2.326%) Ajax
9 12 (2.326%) .NET Framework
10 11 (2.132%) LINQ
10 11 (2.132%) Middleware
11 9 (1.744%) WCF
11 9 (1.744%) ASP
12 8 (1.550%) XSLT
13 7 (1.357%) HTML5
13 7 (1.357%) ASP.NET MVC 3
13 7 (1.357%) Silverlight
13 7 (1.357%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 63 (12.21%) MS Exchange
2 48 (9.302%) SharePoint
3 32 (6.202%) Exchange Server 2003
4 14 (2.713%) IIS
5 13 (2.519%) SharePoint 2010
6 12 (2.326%) Lotus Notes
6 12 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2007
7 11 (2.132%) Exchange Server 2010
8 9 (1.744%) Windows Azure
9 8 (1.550%) StreamWeaver
9 8 (1.550%) CloudStack
9 8 (1.550%) OpenStack
9 8 (1.550%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (0.969%) BizTalk Server
10 5 (0.969%) Tomcat
11 4 (0.775%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.775%) Lotus Domino
11 4 (0.775%) WebSphere Application Server
11 4 (0.775%) IBM HTTP Server
11 4 (0.775%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 192 (37.21%) MS Excel
2 125 (24.22%) MS Office
3 35 (6.783%) MS Project
4 22 (4.264%) MS PowerPoint
5 13 (2.519%) MS Visio
6 7 (1.357%) PowerPivot
7 4 (0.775%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.194%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 26 (5.039%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.581%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.581%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (0.581%) Line 500
3 1 (0.194%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (0.194%) Sage 1000
Communications & Networking
1 38 (7.364%) SAN
2 28 (5.426%) WAN
3 26 (5.039%) LAN
4 20 (3.876%) Internet
5 16 (3.101%) DNS
5 16 (3.101%) NAS
6 15 (2.907%) Firewall
7 12 (2.326%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.326%) VPN
8 10 (1.938%) DHCP
9 8 (1.550%) GPRS
9 8 (1.550%) Intranet
10 7 (1.357%) Wireless
10 7 (1.357%) HTTP
11 6 (1.163%) iSCSI
12 5 (0.969%) FTP
12 5 (0.969%) VoIP
13 4 (0.775%) SSL
13 4 (0.775%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (0.581%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 130 (25.19%) SQL Server
2 35 (6.783%) SQL Server 2008
3 28 (5.426%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 25 (4.845%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 24 (4.651%) SQL Server 2005
6 23 (4.457%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 20 (3.876%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.907%) Oracle Reports
9 13 (2.519%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 8 (1.550%) DTS
10 8 (1.550%) OLAP
10 8 (1.550%) Oracle OWB
11 6 (1.163%) Star Schema
11 6 (1.163%) Oracle 8/8i
11 6 (1.163%) SQL Server 2000
11 6 (1.163%) PerformancePoint
12 5 (0.969%) SQL Server 2012
12 5 (0.969%) Oracle 11g
12 5 (0.969%) Crystal Reports
12 5 (0.969%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 27 (5.233%) Visual Studio
2 9 (1.744%) MSI
3 7 (1.357%) Subversion
4 6 (1.163%) Selenium
5 3 (0.581%) TeamCity
5 3 (0.581%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (0.581%) Cucumber
5 3 (0.581%) WebDriver
5 3 (0.581%) SpecFlow
5 3 (0.581%) JIRA
5 3 (0.581%) ClearCase
6 2 (0.388%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (0.388%) AdminStudio
6 2 (0.388%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 51 (9.884%) Finance
2 23 (4.457%) Telecoms
3 18 (3.488%) Retail
4 14 (2.713%) Legal
5 13 (2.519%) Banking
6 8 (1.550%) Advertising
7 6 (1.163%) Law
8 5 (0.969%) Publishing
9 4 (0.775%) Manufacturing
9 4 (0.775%) Retail Banking
9 4 (0.775%) Games
10 3 (0.581%) Local Government
10 3 (0.581%) Marketing
11 2 (0.388%) Back Office
11 2 (0.388%) Private Banking
11 2 (0.388%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.194%) Military
12 1 (0.194%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.194%) Electronics
12 1 (0.194%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 133 (25.78%) Analyst
2 88 (17.05%) Developer
3 35 (6.783%) Support Engineer
4 34 (6.589%) Service Analyst
4 34 (6.589%) Service Desk Analyst
5 31 (6.008%) 2nd Line Support
6 30 (5.814%) Support Analyst
7 28 (5.426%) Technical Support
8 26 (5.039%) Project Manager
9 25 (4.845%) .NET Developer
10 21 (4.070%) Architect
11 18 (3.488%) 1st Line Support
11 18 (3.488%) Business Analyst
11 18 (3.488%) Desktop Support
12 16 (3.101%) Technical Analyst
13 15 (2.907%) Administrator
14 14 (2.713%) Business Intelligence Developer
15 13 (2.519%) Desktop Engineer
15 13 (2.519%) Technical Architect
16 12 (2.326%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 18 (3.488%) NHS
2 16 (3.101%) Computer Science
3 13 (2.519%) SaaS
4 12 (2.326%) PaaS
4 12 (2.326%) IaaS
5 11 (2.132%) Replication
5 11 (2.132%) Blackberry
6 10 (1.938%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (1.744%) Data Integration
7 9 (1.744%) Open Source
7 9 (1.744%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.550%) MPEG
8 8 (1.550%) IPTV
8 8 (1.550%) STB
9 7 (1.357%) Statistics
10 6 (1.163%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.163%) Clustering
11 5 (0.969%) W3C
12 2 (0.388%) Client/Server
12 2 (0.388%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 236 (45.74%) Windows
2 98 (18.99%) Windows Server 2003
3 88 (17.05%) Windows Server 2008
4 84 (16.28%) Windows 7
5 79 (15.31%) Windows XP
6 26 (5.039%) Windows 2000
7 20 (3.876%) Windows Vista
8 18 (3.488%) UNIX
9 17 (3.295%) Linux
10 8 (1.550%) Solaris
11 6 (1.163%) Windows NT
12 4 (0.775%) AIX
12 4 (0.775%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.775%) Windows 2000 Server
13 3 (0.581%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.581%) Apple iOS
13 3 (0.581%) NetWare
14 2 (0.388%) Debian
15 1 (0.194%) CentOS
15 1 (0.194%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (10.47%) ITIL
2 48 (9.302%) Project Management
3 35 (6.783%) CRM
4 27 (5.233%) Business Intelligence
4 27 (5.233%) Migration
5 25 (4.845%) Agile Software Development
6 24 (4.651%) User Acceptance Testing
7 23 (4.457%) PRINCE2
8 22 (4.264%) Data Modelling
9 20 (3.876%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (3.682%) E-Commerce
11 18 (3.488%) Web Development
12 17 (3.295%) ETL
13 15 (2.907%) ERP
14 14 (2.713%) Software Deployment
15 13 (2.519%) Data Management
16 12 (2.326%) Workflow
16 12 (2.326%) Disaster Recovery
16 12 (2.326%) MVC
17 11 (2.132%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 122 (23.64%) SQL
2 54 (10.47%) C#
3 31 (6.008%) T-SQL
4 24 (4.651%) JavaScript
5 16 (3.101%) VB.NET
6 15 (2.907%) PowerShell
7 12 (2.326%) PL/SQL
8 10 (1.938%) VBScript
8 10 (1.938%) VB
9 8 (1.550%) Perl
9 8 (1.550%) Bash shell
10 6 (1.163%) Python
10 6 (1.163%) Java
10 6 (1.163%) Tcl
11 5 (0.969%) VBA
12 4 (0.775%) C
13 3 (0.581%) PHP
13 3 (0.581%) C++
14 1 (0.194%) XPath
14 1 (0.194%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 76 (14.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 44 (8.527%) MCSE
3 33 (6.395%) Degree
4 31 (6.008%) Security Cleared
5 26 (5.039%) MCP
6 16 (3.101%) SC Cleared
7 11 (2.132%) ISEB
8 10 (1.938%) MCITP
9 9 (1.744%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 9 (1.744%) MCSA
9 9 (1.744%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (1.550%) HND
11 7 (1.357%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 6 (1.163%) CCNA
13 5 (0.969%) MCTS
14 4 (0.775%) HNC
14 4 (0.775%) MCDST
15 3 (0.581%) BC Cleared
15 3 (0.581%) MOS
15 3 (0.581%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.589%) SLA
2 11 (2.132%) QA
3 4 (0.775%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.194%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 103 (19.96%) Active Directory
2 50 (9.690%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (4.457%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.713%) Xen
4 14 (2.713%) vSphere
5 8 (1.550%) XenApp
6 7 (1.357%) UAG
6 7 (1.357%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.163%) VMware ESX
8 4 (0.775%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.581%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.388%) NFS
10 2 (0.388%) Terminal Server
11 1 (0.194%) XenServer
11 1 (0.194%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 38 (7.364%) SCCM
2 20 (3.876%) SCOM
3 8 (1.550%) Backup Exec
4 7 (1.357%) WSUS
5 5 (0.969%) NetBackup
5 5 (0.969%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 5 (0.969%) ARCserve
6 4 (0.775%) Unicenter
6 4 (0.775%) Opalis
7 3 (0.581%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (0.581%) McAfee ePO
7 3 (0.581%) Norton AntiVirus
7 3 (0.581%) MOM
8 2 (0.388%) OpenView
8 2 (0.388%) ZENworks
8 2 (0.388%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.388%) SCVMM
8 2 (0.388%) OVSD
8 2 (0.388%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.194%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 75 (14.53%) VMware
2 63 (12.21%) Citrix
3 39 (7.558%) Oracle
4 33 (6.395%) Cisco
5 24 (4.651%) HP
6 22 (4.264%) Remedy
7 16 (3.101%) Symantec
7 16 (3.101%) F5
8 12 (2.326%) NetApp
8 12 (2.326%) Lotus
9 11 (2.132%) Google
10 10 (1.938%) SAP
11 7 (1.357%) EMC
11 7 (1.357%) IBM
12 6 (1.163%) Novell
12 6 (1.163%) CA
13 5 (0.969%) McAfee
14 4 (0.775%) Siebel
14 4 (0.775%) Sun
14 4 (0.775%) Business Objects
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