Bedfordshire MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Bedfordshire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury 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 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 Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	15
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	10	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	55.56 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£235
Average daily rate	£225	£285
% change on same period last year	-21.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£251
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.20	£14.25
Average hourly rate	£15.30	£14.25
% change on same period last year	+7.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.40	£14.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.75	£15.70
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Applications Bedfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	18	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.046 %
Daily rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£284
Average daily rate	£225	£324
% change on same period last year	-30.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£250	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.25	£13.69
Average hourly rate	£16.94	£13.94
% change on same period last year	+21.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.63	£14.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Office East of England

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 Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Bedfordshire region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Office
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Bedford	-3	3	-	-

MS Office East of England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 27 (64.29 %) MS Excel 2 24 (57.14 %) Lotus 2 24 (57.14 %) Lotus Notes 3 20 (47.62 %) Windows 3 20 (47.62 %) Microsoft 4 17 (40.48 %) Windows XP 5 16 (38.10 %) Finance 6 6 (14.29 %) Active Directory 7 5 (11.90 %) Citrix 7 5 (11.90 %) MS PowerPoint 8 4 (9.524 %) French Language 8 4 (9.524 %) AS400 8 4 (9.524 %) Insurance 8 4 (9.524 %) VPN 8 4 (9.524 %) Novell

9 3 (7.143 %) Education 9 3 (7.143 %) Remedy 9 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 9 3 (7.143 %) MS Project 10 2 (4.762 %) i-GRasp 10 2 (4.762 %) Office Project Server 10 2 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 10 2 (4.762 %) Business Objects 10 2 (4.762 %) ClearCase 10 2 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (4.762 %) Project Management 10 2 (4.762 %) ClearQuest 10 2 (4.762 %) Management Information System 11 1 (2.381 %) Service Delivery 11 1 (2.381 %) Firewall

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (2.381 %) HTML 1 1 (2.381 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 24 (57.14 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (4.762 %) Office Project Server 3 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.381 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 27 (64.29 %) MS Excel 2 5 (11.90 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (7.143 %) MS Project 4 1 (2.381 %) MS Visio 4 1 (2.381 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.524 %) VPN 2 1 (2.381 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.381 %) Symposium 2 1 (2.381 %) MPLS 2 1 (2.381 %) OSPF 2 1 (2.381 %) BGP 2 1 (2.381 %) NetScreen 2 1 (2.381 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.381 %) ISDN 2 1 (2.381 %) LAN 2 1 (2.381 %) WAN 2 1 (2.381 %) RIP 2 1 (2.381 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.762 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (2.381 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 2 (4.762 %) ClearCase 1 2 (4.762 %) ClearQuest
General 1 16 (38.10 %) Finance 2 4 (9.524 %) Insurance 3 3 (7.143 %) Education	Job Titles 1 23 (54.76 %) Analyst 2 18 (42.86 %) Service Analyst 2 18 (42.86 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 4 (9.524 %) Administrator 4 3 (7.143 %) 2nd Line Support 4 3 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (7.143 %) Coordinator 4 3 (7.143 %) Trainer 4 3 (7.143 %) IT Trainer 5 2 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Support 5 2 (4.762 %) Project Coordinator 5 2 (4.762 %) Data Administrator 5 2 (4.762 %) 1st Line Support 6 1 (2.381 %) Network Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Information Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Project Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Infrastructure Manager 6 1 (2.381 %) Support Manager
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.524 %) French Language 1 4 (9.524 %) AS400 2 2 (4.762 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.381 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.381 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.381 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 20 (47.62 %) Windows 2 17 (40.48 %) Windows XP 3 3 (7.143 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (2.381 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (4.762 %) Security Cleared 1 2 (4.762 %) Project Management 2 1 (2.381 %) Service Delivery 2 1 (2.381 %) Migration 2 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (2.381 %) Resource Management 2 1 (2.381 %) Business Development 2 1 (2.381 %) Numerical Analysis 2 1 (2.381 %) Performance Management 2 1 (2.381 %) DV Cleared 2 1 (2.381 %) Document Management	Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (2.381 %) CCNP 1 1 (2.381 %) CCNA 1 1 (2.381 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.381 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (14.29 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.381 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (2.381 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 24 (57.14 %) Lotus 2 20 (47.62 %) Microsoft 3 5 (11.90 %) Citrix 4 4 (9.524 %) Novell 5 3 (7.143 %) Remedy 6 2 (4.762 %) i-GRasp 6 2 (4.762 %) Business Objects 7 1 (2.381 %) Cisco 7 1 (2.381 %) Oracle