Buckinghamshire MS Access Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 8 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Access
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barking Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rugby Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Skipton Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	78
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	9	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	3.879 %	3.963 %
Daily rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum daily rate	£172	£333
Average daily rate	£192	£346
% change on same period last year	-44.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£212	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£302
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.10	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£14.10	£18.88
% change on same period last year	-25.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.10	£19.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.39	£19.49
% change on same period last year	+14.90 %
Database & Business Intelligence Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	232	328
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.325 %	0.336 %
Daily rates quoted	64	86
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£290
Average daily rate	£342	£305
% change on same period last year	+12.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£356	£320
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.23	£29.72
Average hourly rate	£30.89	£30.74
% change on same period last year	+0.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.55	£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.15	£31.77
% change on same period last year	-5.10 %
MS Access South East

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 Access
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 2008.

MS Access
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 8 October 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
Amersham	-	4	£203	-
Milton Keynes	-12	4	£175	-50.00 %
Aylesbury	+8	1	£175	-50.00 %

MS Access South East

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 17 (85.00 %) MS Excel 2 13 (65.00 %) SQL 3 8 (40.00 %) Oracle 4 6 (30.00 %) Lotus 4 6 (30.00 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (30.00 %) Project Planning 4 6 (30.00 %) Spreadsheet 5 5 (25.00 %) Mainframe 6 4 (20.00 %) Finance 6 4 (20.00 %) ISEB 6 4 (20.00 %) Pensions 6 4 (20.00 %) ISTQB 6 4 (20.00 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (20.00 %) Software Testing 7 3 (15.00 %) Data Migration

7 3 (15.00 %) Migration 7 3 (15.00 %) Informatica 7 3 (15.00 %) PowerCenter 7 3 (15.00 %) TestDirector 7 3 (15.00 %) Microsoft 7 3 (15.00 %) SQL Server 7 3 (15.00 %) Sybase 7 3 (15.00 %) DB2 7 3 (15.00 %) ETL 8 2 (10.00 %) Government 8 2 (10.00 %) Data Mapping 8 2 (10.00 %) Data Analysis 9 1 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 9 1 (5.000 %) QA 9 1 (5.000 %) Credit Risk

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 6 (30.00 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (5.000 %) SAS	Applications 1 17 (85.00 %) MS Excel 2 6 (30.00 %) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (15.00 %) SQL Server 1 3 (15.00 %) DB2 1 3 (15.00 %) ETL 1 3 (15.00 %) PowerCenter 2 1 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (5.000 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 3 (15.00 %) TestDirector
General 1 4 (20.00 %) Finance 1 4 (20.00 %) Pensions 2 2 (10.00 %) Government 3 1 (5.000 %) Financial Institution	Job Titles 1 16 (80.00 %) Analyst 2 6 (30.00 %) Data Analyst 3 4 (20.00 %) Test Analyst 4 3 (15.00 %) Data Migration Analyst 4 3 (15.00 %) Quality Analyst 5 2 (10.00 %) Developer 5 2 (10.00 %) Analyst Developer 6 1 (5.000 %) SQL Developer 6 1 (5.000 %) SQL Server Developer 6 1 (5.000 %) Informatica Developer 6 1 (5.000 %) QA Test Analyst 6 1 (5.000 %) Junior 6 1 (5.000 %) Administrator 6 1 (5.000 %) Report Writer 6 1 (5.000 %) SQL Server Analyst 6 1 (5.000 %) QA Analyst 6 1 (5.000 %) Server Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (25.00 %) Mainframe 2 1 (5.000 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (5.000 %) NHS	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (30.00 %) Project Planning 2 4 (20.00 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (20.00 %) Software Testing 3 3 (15.00 %) Migration 3 3 (15.00 %) Data Migration 4 2 (10.00 %) Data Mapping 4 2 (10.00 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (5.000 %) Asset Management 5 1 (5.000 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (5.000 %) DV Cleared 5 1 (5.000 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 13 (65.00 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (20.00 %) ISEB 1 4 (20.00 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.000 %) Basel II 1 1 (5.000 %) QA	Vendors 1 8 (40.00 %) Oracle 2 6 (30.00 %) Lotus 3 3 (15.00 %) Informatica 3 3 (15.00 %) Sybase 3 3 (15.00 %) Microsoft 4 1 (5.000 %) HP