Basildon MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Basildon region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	13
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	4	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	66.67 %	35.14 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£108	£267
Average daily rate	£109	£267
% change on same period last year	-59.06 %
Average maximum daily rate	£110	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£251
% change on same period last year	-0.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£37.14
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£37.14
% change on same period last year	-59.61 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£37.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.47	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+3.18 %
Applications Basildon
Matching contract IT job ads	6	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.038 %
Daily rates quoted	3	4
Average minimum daily rate	£108	£283
Average daily rate	£109	£283
% change on same period last year	-61.47 %
Average maximum daily rate	£110	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£34.50
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£34.50
% change on same period last year	-56.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£34.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£18.93
% change on same period last year	-4.76 %
MS Office Essex

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.

MS Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Basildon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Office across the Basildon region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Basildon region.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon region citing MS Office 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 MS Office.

1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2 4 (36.36 %) MCP 2 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Project 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 4 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel 4 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 4 2 (18.18 %) SLA 4 2 (18.18 %) NHS 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 5 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical

5 1 (9.091 %) MS Access 5 1 (9.091 %) PMI 5 1 (9.091 %) PMI Certification 5 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (9.091 %) VPN 5 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 5 1 (9.091 %) Linux 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (9.091 %) JBoss 5 1 (9.091 %) MCSE 5 1 (9.091 %) XML 5 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 5 1 (9.091 %) SQL 5 1 (9.091 %) J2EE

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basildon region citing MS Office 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 MS Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (9.091 %) J2EE 1 1 (9.091 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (9.091 %) JBoss
Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Project 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (9.091 %) VPN 1 1 (9.091 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Access	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms 1 1 (9.091 %) Finance 1 1 (9.091 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Support Technician 2 2 (18.18 %) Project Manager 2 2 (18.18 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) IT Support Technician 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Contracts Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Systems Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) NHS 2 1 (9.091 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows XP 3 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 3 1 (9.091 %) Solaris 3 1 (9.091 %) Linux 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (36.36 %) MCP 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle