MS Office Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office 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 of the Applications category for the Bedfordshire 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.

Location
 3 months to
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 22 14 20
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +6
Contract jobs citing MS Office 7 22 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.665% 7.885% 7.877%
As % of the Applications category 25.00% 50.00% 71.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 7
Average daily rate £100 £233 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-56.98% -7.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £269 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
Average hourly rate £22.00 £30.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.66% +172.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.73 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -1.96%
All Applications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 28 44 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 14.66% 15.77% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 11
Average daily rate £325 £280 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +24.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £185 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% +163.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
MS Office
East of England

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Bedfordshire MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedfordshire MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below 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 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
Luton -10 3 - -
MS Office
East of England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) MS Excel
4 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
4 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
5 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
5 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
5 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
5 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (18.18%) Project Management
6 2 (18.18%) Adobe
6 2 (18.18%) DNS
6 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
6 2 (18.18%) MS Project
6 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
6 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
6 2 (18.18%) LAN
6 2 (18.18%) DHCP
6 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
6 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 2 (18.18%) Legal
6 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
7 1 (9.091%) Software Deployment
7 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, 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 (9.091%) Web Services
1 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
1 2 (18.18%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (9.091%) MSMQ
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) MS Excel
2 2 (18.18%) Photoshop
2 2 (18.18%) MS Project
2 2 (18.18%) MS Visio
3 1 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle HRMS
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle Payroll
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle iRecruitment
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) TCP/IP
2 2 (18.18%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) LAN
2 2 (18.18%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
1 1 (9.091%) JIRA
1 1 (9.091%) Selenium
1 1 (9.091%) NUnit
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Legal
2 1 (9.091%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Consultant
1 2 (18.18%) Support Technician
1 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (18.18%) Analyst
1 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle HRMS Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Project Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Developer
2 1 (9.091%) Deployment Project Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Service Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Migration Technician
2 1 (9.091%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Migration Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Deployment Manager
2 1 (9.091%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle HR Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 1 (9.091%) Software Deployment
3 1 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (9.091%) Stress Testing
3 1 (9.091%) Test Management
3 1 (9.091%) E-business
3 1 (9.091%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) VBScript
2 1 (9.091%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) HNC
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) Symantec
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