Bracknell MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Bracknell 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	12	26
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	20	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	43.48 %	42.86 %
Daily rates quoted	2	7
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£184
Average daily rate	£475	£191
% change on same period last year	+148.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£199
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£251
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.71	£21.00
Average hourly rate	£15.57	£23.50
% change on same period last year	-33.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.43	£26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.75	£15.70
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Applications Bracknell
Matching contract IT job ads	46	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	8	21
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£200
Average daily rate	£391	£206
% change on same period last year	+89.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£213
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.42	£16.52
Average hourly rate	£16.79	£18.18
% change on same period last year	-7.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.16	£19.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Office Berkshire

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 Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Bracknell 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 Bracknell region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 20 (43.48 %) MS Excel 2 15 (32.61 %) Microsoft 3 14 (30.43 %) Windows 4 11 (23.91 %) Windows 2000 4 11 (23.91 %) Security Cleared 5 9 (19.57 %) SQL 5 9 (19.57 %) Government 5 9 (19.57 %) Migration 6 8 (17.39 %) Windows XP 7 7 (15.22 %) VB 7 7 (15.22 %) SC Cleared 8 6 (13.04 %) Data Conversion 8 6 (13.04 %) Project Management 9 5 (10.87 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 5 (10.87 %) VBScript

9 5 (10.87 %) SQL Server 9 5 (10.87 %) Telecoms 10 4 (8.696 %) Oracle 10 4 (8.696 %) SharePoint 10 4 (8.696 %) EDRMS 10 4 (8.696 %) Active Directory 10 4 (8.696 %) Spreadsheet 11 3 (6.522 %) Windows Server 2003 11 3 (6.522 %) MS Access 11 3 (6.522 %) Windows NT 11 3 (6.522 %) VBA 11 3 (6.522 %) Data Migration 12 2 (4.348 %) Windows Vista 12 2 (4.348 %) QA 12 2 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Bracknell 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 2 (4.348 %) MAPI 2 1 (2.174 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (8.696 %) SharePoint 2 1 (2.174 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 20 (43.48 %) MS Excel 2 4 (8.696 %) Spreadsheet 3 2 (4.348 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (4.348 %) MS Project	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (10.87 %) SQL Server 2 4 (8.696 %) EDRMS 3 3 (6.522 %) MS Access
General 1 9 (19.57 %) Government 2 5 (10.87 %) Telecoms 3 2 (4.348 %) Finance 3 2 (4.348 %) Construction 4 1 (2.174 %) Health	Job Titles 1 6 (13.04 %) Coordinator 2 5 (10.87 %) Developer 2 5 (10.87 %) Analyst 3 4 (8.696 %) Support Specialist 3 4 (8.696 %) VB Developer 3 4 (8.696 %) Project Coordinator 3 4 (8.696 %) Installations Engineer 3 4 (8.696 %) Database Specialist 3 4 (8.696 %) Software Engineer 4 3 (6.522 %) Support Engineer 4 3 (6.522 %) VBA Developer 5 2 (4.348 %) Data Consultant 5 2 (4.348 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (4.348 %) Administrator 5 2 (4.348 %) Quality Manager 5 2 (4.348 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (4.348 %) Technical Support 5 2 (4.348 %) Consultant 5 2 (4.348 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 1 (2.174 %) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.04 %) Data Conversion	Operating Systems 1 14 (30.43 %) Windows 2 11 (23.91 %) Windows 2000 3 8 (17.39 %) Windows XP 4 3 (6.522 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (6.522 %) Windows NT 5 2 (4.348 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (23.91 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (19.57 %) Migration 3 7 (15.22 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (13.04 %) Project Management 5 3 (6.522 %) Data Migration 6 2 (4.348 %) Logistics 6 2 (4.348 %) DV Cleared 7 1 (2.174 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (2.174 %) Change Management 7 1 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (2.174 %) Strategic Management 7 1 (2.174 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 9 (19.57 %) SQL 2 7 (15.22 %) VB 3 5 (10.87 %) VBScript 4 3 (6.522 %) VBA 5 1 (2.174 %) C 5 1 (2.174 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.174 %) MCP 1 1 (2.174 %) CIMA	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.348 %) QA 2 1 (2.174 %) SLA
System Software 1 4 (8.696 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 5 (10.87 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 15 (32.61 %) Microsoft 2 4 (8.696 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.174 %) Peregrine 3 1 (2.174 %) Lotus