The first table below looks at the demand for MS Access skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 23 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 Bristol 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Access
Rank 50 61 45
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -16
Contract jobs citing MS Access 2 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.391% 0.478% 1.682%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.852% 3.200% 7.639%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
Average daily rate £450 £328 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.40% +31.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £15.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+9.75% +7.89%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
108 125 144
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.14% 14.95% 22.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 82 80
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £203
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £415 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-0.75% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 5
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -15.38%
MS Access
South West

MS Access
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol MS Access Hourly Rate Trend

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (85.71%) MS Excel
2 5 (71.43%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
3 3 (42.86%) Wholesale Banking
3 3 (42.86%) MS PowerPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) SQL
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
4 2 (28.57%) Retail
4 2 (28.57%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
5 1 (14.29%) Cognos
5 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
5 1 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (14.29%) ASP
5 1 (14.29%) VB
5 1 (14.29%) .NET
5 1 (14.29%) C++
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) NHS
5 1 (14.29%) Project Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
5 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) ASP
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Applications
1 6 (85.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (42.86%) MS Visio
2 3 (42.86%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) SAP FI-GL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (14.29%) Data Mining
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (71.43%) Banking
2 3 (42.86%) Wholesale Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Analyst
2 4 (57.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Information Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Business Process Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Process Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) NHS Information Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) NHS
1 1 (14.29%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Use Case
1 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Analysis
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) VB
2 1 (14.29%) C++
2 1 (14.29%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Cognos
2 1 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) IBM