The first table below looks at the demand for MS Access skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 17 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Birmingham 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Access
Rank 42 40 43
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Contract jobs citing MS Access 1 13 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.228% 2.121% 0.400%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.020% 7.514% 2.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 1
Average daily rate - £233 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -57.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £292 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.80% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.70 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.45 £21.86 £18.50
% change year-on-year
+16.42% +18.16%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
98 173 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.37% 28.22% 19.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 103 62
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £338
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MS Access
West Midlands

MS Access
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Birmingham MS Access Jobs Demand Trend

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham MS Access Daily Rate Trend

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham MS Access Hourly Rate Trend

MS Access
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing MS Access 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 Access.

1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) Intranet
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 4 (66.67%) Citrix
3 4 (66.67%) Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
3 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
3 4 (66.67%) Capacity Management
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
5 1 (16.67%) MS Office
5 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (16.67%) Statistics

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing MS Access 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 Access. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Intranet
2 4 (66.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
2 4 (66.67%) DBA
2 4 (66.67%) SQL DBA
2 4 (66.67%) Teradata DBA
3 2 (33.33%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Service Delivery
1 4 (66.67%) Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Risk Assessment
1 4 (66.67%) Data Migration
1 4 (66.67%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix