Cambridgeshire MS Access Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Access
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London Doncaster Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gwent Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Twickenham UK Wales Walsall Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	66
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	7	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	4.375 %	3.867 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£450	-
Average daily rate	£450	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£450	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£282	£303
% change on same period last year	-6.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.63	£17.91
% change on same period last year	+37.54 %
Database & Business Intelligence Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	160	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.211 %	0.180 %
Daily rates quoted	36	22
Average minimum daily rate	£344	£297
Average daily rate	£360	£313
% change on same period last year	+14.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£330
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£359
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.70	£25.15
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£26.45
% change on same period last year	+13.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.30	£27.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.61	£32.20
% change on same period last year	+1.25 %
MS Access East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

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 Cambridgeshire region.

MS Access
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Cambridge	+10	2	-	-
Huntingdon	-	2	-	-
Peterborough	0	1	-	-

MS Access East of England

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 12 (75.00 %) SQL 2 9 (56.25 %) MS Excel 3 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 4 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 5 5 (31.25 %) Windows 5 5 (31.25 %) Crystal Reports 6 4 (25.00 %) VBA 6 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 4 (25.00 %) Time Management 7 3 (18.75 %) NHS 7 3 (18.75 %) .NET 7 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 7 3 (18.75 %) VB 7 3 (18.75 %) C#

7 3 (18.75 %) HTML 7 3 (18.75 %) JavaScript 8 2 (12.50 %) C++ 8 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 8 2 (12.50 %) VBScript 8 2 (12.50 %) XML 8 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 8 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 8 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 8 2 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 8 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 8 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 8 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 8 2 (12.50 %) HP

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (18.75 %) .NET 1 3 (18.75 %) HTML 2 2 (12.50 %) XML 3 1 (6.250 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 4 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Application Server 2 2 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 9 (56.25 %) MS Excel 2 2 (12.50 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) LAN 1 2 (12.50 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL Server 2 5 (31.25 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (25.00 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (6.250 %) TestPartner
General 1 2 (12.50 %) Government 2 1 (6.250 %) Law 2 1 (6.250 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Developer 2 5 (31.25 %) Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) NHS Information Analyst 3 3 (18.75 %) Information Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Systems Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) Business Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) DBA 4 2 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (12.50 %) Oracle DBA 4 2 (12.50 %) Access Developer 4 2 (12.50 %) VBA Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Test Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Consultant 5 1 (6.250 %) Functional Test Engineer 5 1 (6.250 %) Report Developer 5 1 (6.250 %) Crystal Reports Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) NHS 2 2 (12.50 %) Client/Server 2 2 (12.50 %) Data Extraction	Operating Systems 1 5 (31.25 %) Windows 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (12.50 %) Solaris 2 2 (12.50 %) Linux 2 2 (12.50 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (25.00 %) Time Management 2 2 (12.50 %) ITIL 2 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 2 2 (12.50 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (12.50 %) Migration 3 1 (6.250 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (6.250 %) Stress Testing 3 1 (6.250 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 12 (75.00 %) SQL 2 4 (25.00 %) VBA 3 3 (18.75 %) VB 3 3 (18.75 %) C# 3 3 (18.75 %) JavaScript 4 2 (12.50 %) C++ 4 2 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (12.50 %) VBScript 4 2 (12.50 %) Shell Script 5 1 (6.250 %) VB6 5 1 (6.250 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (12.50 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 1 2 (12.50 %) Backup Exec 1 2 (12.50 %) Oracle RMAN	Vendors 1 7 (43.75 %) Microsoft 2 3 (18.75 %) Oracle 3 2 (12.50 %) HP 4 1 (6.250 %) Compuware