Cambridge MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Cambridge 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 29 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 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 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 Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham 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 Staines 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 Tunbridge Wells 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 Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	28
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	19	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.032 %
As % of the category below	44.19 %	37.21 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£155	£272
Average daily rate	£164	£297
% change on same period last year	-44.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£174	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£240	£255
% change on same period last year	-5.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£19.57
Average hourly rate	£12.12	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-43.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.23	£23.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.72	£15.74
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Applications Cambridge
Matching contract IT job ads	43	86
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.057 %	0.086 %
Daily rates quoted	3	14
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£298
Average daily rate	£215	£313
% change on same period last year	-31.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£219	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£289
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.48	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£13.71	£27.24
% change on same period last year	-49.65 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.95	£29.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.51
% change on same period last year	-4.60 %
MS Office Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 29 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 Cambridge region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 37 (67.27 %) Windows 2 31 (56.36 %) Microsoft 3 21 (38.18 %) Windows XP 4 18 (32.73 %) Active Directory 5 16 (29.09 %) WAN 6 13 (23.64 %) ADSL 7 12 (21.82 %) Windows 2000 8 11 (20.00 %) Windows Server 2003 8 11 (20.00 %) TCP/IP 9 10 (18.18 %) MS Excel 9 10 (18.18 %) Citrix 10 9 (16.36 %) MS Exchange 11 8 (14.55 %) LAN 11 8 (14.55 %) DameWare 12 7 (12.73 %) HP

12 7 (12.73 %) Dell 12 7 (12.73 %) Cisco 13 6 (10.91 %) VoIP 13 6 (10.91 %) SLA 14 5 (9.091 %) ISDN 14 5 (9.091 %) Windows NT 14 5 (9.091 %) SQL 14 5 (9.091 %) McAfee Security 14 5 (9.091 %) OpenView 14 5 (9.091 %) Firewall 14 5 (9.091 %) 3Com 14 5 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000 14 5 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 5 (9.091 %) Intrusion Detection 15 4 (7.273 %) Manufacturing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (3.636 %) .NET 2 1 (1.818 %) ASP 2 1 (1.818 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 9 (16.36 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 5 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (5.455 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (5.455 %) SharePoint 4 1 (1.818 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 10 (18.18 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.818 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.818 %) SPSS 2 1 (1.818 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (1.818 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 16 (29.09 %) WAN 2 13 (23.64 %) ADSL 3 11 (20.00 %) TCP/IP 4 8 (14.55 %) LAN 5 6 (10.91 %) VoIP 6 5 (9.091 %) Firewall 6 5 (9.091 %) ISDN 6 5 (9.091 %) Intrusion Detection 7 2 (3.636 %) GSM 7 2 (3.636 %) VPN 7 2 (3.636 %) DNS 8 1 (1.818 %) IP Telephony
Development Applications 1 2 (3.636 %) PVCS	General 1 4 (7.273 %) Manufacturing 2 3 (5.455 %) Telecoms 3 2 (3.636 %) Insurance 4 1 (1.818 %) Finance 4 1 (1.818 %) Health
Job Titles 1 22 (40.00 %) Analyst 2 15 (27.27 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 12 (21.82 %) Support Engineer 4 6 (10.91 %) 2nd Line Support 5 5 (9.091 %) Network Engineer 5 5 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 5 5 (9.091 %) Network Support Engineer 5 5 (9.091 %) Network Support 6 4 (7.273 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (5.455 %) Technical Support 7 3 (5.455 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 3 (5.455 %) Desktop Engineer 7 3 (5.455 %) IT Support Engineer 8 2 (3.636 %) Hardware Engineer 8 2 (3.636 %) Helpdesk Support 8 2 (3.636 %) Technical Analyst 8 2 (3.636 %) Support Technician 8 2 (3.636 %) Technical Support Analyst 8 2 (3.636 %) Developer 9 1 (1.818 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.455 %) Data Protection Act 2 2 (3.636 %) Device Driver 3 1 (1.818 %) Statistics 3 1 (1.818 %) Thin Client 3 1 (1.818 %) Blackberry 3 1 (1.818 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 37 (67.27 %) Windows 2 21 (38.18 %) Windows XP 3 12 (21.82 %) Windows 2000 4 11 (20.00 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (9.091 %) Windows NT 6 4 (7.273 %) Linux 6 4 (7.273 %) UNIX 7 1 (1.818 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (5.455 %) Configuration Management 1 3 (5.455 %) Data Protection 2 2 (3.636 %) Project Management 3 1 (1.818 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (1.818 %) System Testing 3 1 (1.818 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (1.818 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.818 %) ERP
Programming Languages 1 5 (9.091 %) SQL 2 2 (3.636 %) C 2 2 (3.636 %) C++ 2 2 (3.636 %) VB.NET 3 1 (1.818 %) VB	Qualifications 1 2 (3.636 %) MCP 1 2 (3.636 %) MCSE 1 2 (3.636 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.818 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (10.91 %) SLA	System Software 1 18 (32.73 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.818 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 8 (14.55 %) DameWare 2 5 (9.091 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 31 (56.36 %) Microsoft 2 10 (18.18 %) Citrix 3 7 (12.73 %) HP 3 7 (12.73 %) Dell 3 7 (12.73 %) Cisco 4 5 (9.091 %) 3Com 4 5 (9.091 %) McAfee Security 5 2 (3.636 %) MKS 6 1 (1.818 %) VMware 6 1 (1.818 %) Kaspersky