City of London MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate 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 Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Skelmersdale 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 Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	38
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	414	288
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.550 %	0.296 %
As % of the category below	46.94 %	44.10 %
Daily rates quoted	143	113
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£319
Average daily rate	£317	£347
% change on same period last year	-8.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£254
% change on same period last year	-1.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	82	43
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.16	£17.22
Average hourly rate	£18.65	£18.09
% change on same period last year	+3.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.14	£18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.41	£14.98
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Applications City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	882	653
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.171 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	396	250
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£340
Average daily rate	£347	£361
% change on same period last year	-3.77 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	109	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.81	£18.25
Average hourly rate	£21.40	£19.14
% change on same period last year	+11.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.99	£20.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.25	£19.10
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
MS Office London

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 City of London 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 City of London region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 City of London region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

1 309 (37.96 %) MS Excel 1 309 (37.96 %) Microsoft 2 292 (35.87 %) Windows 3 242 (29.73 %) Finance 4 167 (20.52 %) Banking 5 156 (19.16 %) Law 6 149 (18.30 %) Active Directory 7 146 (17.94 %) Windows XP 8 143 (17.57 %) Legal 9 108 (13.27 %) MS Exchange 10 101 (12.41 %) Investment Banking 11 92 (11.30 %) Document Management 12 87 (10.69 %) Project Management 13 86 (10.57 %) ITIL 14 75 (9.214 %) MS Visio

15 73 (8.968 %) MS PowerPoint 16 69 (8.477 %) Lotus 17 68 (8.354 %) Lotus Notes 17 68 (8.354 %) SQL 18 66 (8.108 %) Windows 2000 19 65 (7.985 %) PRINCE2 19 65 (7.985 %) MS Project 19 65 (7.985 %) Blackberry 20 58 (7.125 %) MOS 21 56 (6.880 %) Interwoven 22 54 (6.634 %) Bloomberg 23 53 (6.511 %) UNIX 23 53 (6.511 %) SharePoint 24 52 (6.388 %) Hummingbird 25 49 (6.020 %) Change Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 44 (5.405 %) .NET 2 34 (4.177 %) ASP.NET 3 31 (3.808 %) HTML 4 20 (2.457 %) CSS 4 20 (2.457 %) XML 5 18 (2.211 %) Windows SharePoint Services 6 11 (1.351 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 9 (1.106 %) FIX Protocol 7 9 (1.106 %) ASP 8 8 (0.983 %) XSLT 9 7 (0.860 %) XHTML 10 5 (0.614 %) WebServices 11 3 (0.369 %) RSS 12 2 (0.246 %) Middleware 12 2 (0.246 %) SOAP 12 2 (0.246 %) J2EE 13 1 (0.123 %) JSP 13 1 (0.123 %) DCOM 13 1 (0.123 %) XSL 13 1 (0.123 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 108 (13.27 %) MS Exchange 2 68 (8.354 %) Lotus Notes 3 53 (6.511 %) SharePoint 4 36 (4.423 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 26 (3.194 %) WorkSite 6 25 (3.071 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 19 (2.334 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 19 (2.334 %) CMS 8 17 (2.088 %) IIS 9 14 (1.720 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 7 (0.860 %) Office Project Server 11 6 (0.737 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 11 6 (0.737 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 5 (0.614 %) Office Communications Server 13 3 (0.369 %) BizTalk Server 13 3 (0.369 %) Lotus Domino 14 2 (0.246 %) Apache 14 2 (0.246 %) MQSeries 14 2 (0.246 %) Documentum 14 2 (0.246 %) SAS
Applications 1 309 (37.96 %) MS Excel 2 75 (9.214 %) MS Visio 3 73 (8.968 %) MS PowerPoint 4 65 (7.985 %) MS Project 5 16 (1.966 %) Photoshop 6 11 (1.351 %) Acrobat 7 8 (0.983 %) CA Clarity 8 6 (0.737 %) DeltaView 9 5 (0.614 %) Fireworks 10 3 (0.369 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 2 (0.246 %) RoboHelp 11 2 (0.246 %) ImageReady 12 1 (0.123 %) PageMaker 12 1 (0.123 %) QuarkXPress 12 1 (0.123 %) InDesign 12 1 (0.123 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 4 (0.491 %) Oracle Applications 1 4 (0.491 %) Summit 2 2 (0.246 %) Temenos Globus 2 2 (0.246 %) RMDS 2 2 (0.246 %) assyst 2 2 (0.246 %) Kondor+ 2 2 (0.246 %) Loan IQ 2 2 (0.246 %) Oracle 11i 2 2 (0.246 %) BusinessWorks 2 2 (0.246 %) Oracle HRMS 3 1 (0.123 %) WebTrends
Communications & Networking 1 49 (6.020 %) TCP/IP 2 46 (5.651 %) Internet 3 34 (4.177 %) DNS 4 25 (3.071 %) LAN 4 25 (3.071 %) DHCP 5 22 (2.703 %) Intranet 6 20 (2.457 %) SMTP 7 18 (2.211 %) WAN 8 12 (1.474 %) VoIP 8 12 (1.474 %) SAN 9 10 (1.229 %) Firewall 10 8 (0.983 %) VPN 10 8 (0.983 %) PBX 11 4 (0.491 %) CTI 12 3 (0.369 %) IP Telephony 12 3 (0.369 %) Ethereal 13 2 (0.246 %) VLAN 13 2 (0.246 %) Wireless 13 2 (0.246 %) POP3 13 2 (0.246 %) FTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (3.440 %) SQL Server 2 12 (1.474 %) Oracle Reports 3 11 (1.351 %) Datawarehouse 4 10 (1.229 %) SQL Server 2000 5 9 (1.106 %) Oracle 9i 5 9 (1.106 %) MS Access 6 7 (0.860 %) BusinessObjects 6 7 (0.860 %) Sybase ASE 6 7 (0.860 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (0.614 %) Data Cleansing 8 4 (0.491 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 4 (0.491 %) GIS 8 4 (0.491 %) Oracle Discoverer 9 3 (0.369 %) SQL Server 7 9 3 (0.369 %) Oracle 10g 9 3 (0.369 %) EDRMS 9 3 (0.369 %) Reference Data 10 2 (0.246 %) BusinessObjects XI 10 2 (0.246 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 2 (0.246 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 11 (1.351 %) TestDirector 2 10 (1.229 %) Dreamweaver 3 8 (0.983 %) Flash 4 7 (0.860 %) Oracle Forms 5 6 (0.737 %) ClearCase 5 6 (0.737 %) ClearQuest 6 5 (0.614 %) LoadRunner 7 4 (0.491 %) JIRA 8 3 (0.369 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (0.369 %) FrontPage 8 3 (0.369 %) Bugzilla 9 1 (0.123 %) NUnit 9 1 (0.123 %) LSMW 9 1 (0.123 %) Subversion 9 1 (0.123 %) StarTeam 9 1 (0.123 %) Telelogic DOORS 9 1 (0.123 %) QuickTest Pro 9 1 (0.123 %) Oracle APEX	General 1 242 (29.73 %) Finance 2 167 (20.52 %) Banking 3 156 (19.16 %) Law 4 143 (17.57 %) Legal 5 101 (12.41 %) Investment Banking 6 34 (4.177 %) Front Office 6 34 (4.177 %) Insurance 7 33 (4.054 %) Government 8 29 (3.563 %) Financial Institution 9 20 (2.457 %) Back Office 10 14 (1.720 %) Telecoms 11 10 (1.229 %) Marketing 12 8 (0.983 %) Publishing 13 7 (0.860 %) General Ledger 14 6 (0.737 %) Construction 15 5 (0.614 %) Education 15 5 (0.614 %) Health 16 4 (0.491 %) Corporate Banking 17 3 (0.369 %) Retail 18 2 (0.246 %) Criminal Justice
Job Titles 1 302 (37.10 %) Analyst 2 117 (14.37 %) Support Analyst 3 75 (9.214 %) Desktop Support 4 58 (7.125 %) Developer 5 55 (6.757 %) Trainer 5 55 (6.757 %) Administrator 6 50 (6.143 %) IT Trainer 7 48 (5.897 %) 2nd Line Support 7 48 (5.897 %) Business Analyst 8 40 (4.914 %) Support Engineer 9 39 (4.791 %) Desktop Analyst 10 38 (4.668 %) Desktop Support Analyst 11 36 (4.423 %) Service Analyst 12 33 (4.054 %) Helpdesk Analyst 13 32 (3.931 %) Service Desk Analyst 14 31 (3.808 %) Helpdesk Support 15 28 (3.440 %) Project Manager 16 24 (2.948 %) 1st Line Support 17 23 (2.826 %) Coordinator 18 20 (2.457 %) Desktop Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 65 (7.985 %) Blackberry 2 47 (5.774 %) Fixed Income 3 29 (3.563 %) Derivative 4 18 (2.211 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 12 (1.474 %) Management Information System 5 12 (1.474 %) Asset Management 6 11 (1.351 %) NHS 6 11 (1.351 %) Credit Risk 7 8 (0.983 %) French Language 8 7 (0.860 %) Interest Rate Derivative 8 7 (0.860 %) Equity Derivative 9 6 (0.737 %) Spanish Language 9 6 (0.737 %) Equities 10 5 (0.614 %) Client/Server 10 5 (0.614 %) CMDB 11 4 (0.491 %) Fund Management 11 4 (0.491 %) Italian Language 11 4 (0.491 %) PDA 11 4 (0.491 %) PMI 11 4 (0.491 %) Market Risk
Operating Systems 1 292 (35.87 %) Windows 2 146 (17.94 %) Windows XP 3 66 (8.108 %) Windows 2000 4 53 (6.511 %) UNIX 5 29 (3.563 %) Windows NT 6 26 (3.194 %) Windows Server 2003 7 10 (1.229 %) Solaris 8 8 (0.983 %) Mac OS X 9 7 (0.860 %) Windows Vista 9 7 (0.860 %) Linux 10 6 (0.737 %) Windows Mobile 11 5 (0.614 %) VMS 11 5 (0.614 %) NetWare 12 2 (0.246 %) Mac OS X Server 13 1 (0.123 %) AIX 13 1 (0.123 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 92 (11.30 %) Document Management 2 87 (10.69 %) Project Management 3 86 (10.57 %) ITIL 4 65 (7.985 %) PRINCE2 5 49 (6.020 %) Change Management 6 28 (3.440 %) Business Analysis 6 28 (3.440 %) Migration 7 25 (3.071 %) Service Management 8 24 (2.948 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 23 (2.826 %) Service Delivery 9 23 (2.826 %) Security Cleared 10 21 (2.580 %) Time Management 10 21 (2.580 %) Risk Management 11 19 (2.334 %) UML 11 19 (2.334 %) Project Planning 11 19 (2.334 %) Content Management 12 17 (2.088 %) Data Analysis 13 15 (1.843 %) E-Commerce 14 13 (1.597 %) RUP 15 10 (1.229 %) DSDM
Programming Languages 1 68 (8.354 %) SQL 2 38 (4.668 %) VBA 3 30 (3.686 %) C# 4 22 (2.703 %) VB 5 18 (2.211 %) Shell Script 5 18 (2.211 %) Java 6 14 (1.720 %) VB.NET 7 11 (1.351 %) JavaScript 7 11 (1.351 %) C 8 10 (1.229 %) PL/SQL 8 10 (1.229 %) Perl 9 9 (1.106 %) Transact-SQL 10 5 (0.614 %) VBScript 11 3 (0.369 %) JCL 11 3 (0.369 %) VB6 11 3 (0.369 %) C++ 12 2 (0.246 %) PHP 13 1 (0.123 %) DHTML 13 1 (0.123 %) DCL 13 1 (0.123 %) ABAP	Qualifications 1 58 (7.125 %) MOS 2 41 (5.037 %) Degree 3 39 (4.791 %) Microsoft Certification 4 31 (3.808 %) MCSE 5 20 (2.457 %) ITIL Certification 6 18 (2.211 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 16 (1.966 %) MCP 8 10 (1.229 %) MCSA 9 4 (0.491 %) CCNA 9 4 (0.491 %) Cisco Certification 9 4 (0.491 %) PMP 9 4 (0.491 %) PMI Certification 9 4 (0.491 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 10 3 (0.369 %) CISM 10 3 (0.369 %) CISSP 11 2 (0.246 %) ISEB 11 2 (0.246 %) CCA 11 2 (0.246 %) Citrix Certification 11 2 (0.246 %) CCEA 11 2 (0.246 %) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 19 (2.334 %) SLA 2 5 (0.614 %) ISO17799 2 5 (0.614 %) QA 3 4 (0.491 %) Basel II 4 3 (0.369 %) ISO27001 4 3 (0.369 %) COBIT 5 2 (0.246 %) WAI 5 2 (0.246 %) BS15000 6 1 (0.123 %) JSP 440 6 1 (0.123 %) PCI DSS	System Software 1 149 (18.30 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.737 %) Terminal Server 3 5 (0.614 %) ISA Server 3 5 (0.614 %) NetBackup 4 4 (0.491 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (0.491 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (0.246 %) MetaFrame 6 1 (0.123 %) Terminal Services 6 1 (0.123 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 10 (1.229 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (0.491 %) ARCserve 3 3 (0.369 %) ZENworks 4 2 (0.246 %) BMC PATROL 4 2 (0.246 %) CONTROL-M 5 1 (0.123 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 1 (0.123 %) DameWare 5 1 (0.123 %) WSUS 5 1 (0.123 %) AssetCenter 5 1 (0.123 %) SCCM 5 1 (0.123 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.123 %) Tivoli 5 1 (0.123 %) Tivoli Monitoring 5 1 (0.123 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 309 (37.96 %) Microsoft 2 69 (8.477 %) Lotus 3 56 (6.880 %) Interwoven 4 54 (6.634 %) Bloomberg 5 52 (6.388 %) Hummingbird 6 48 (5.897 %) Oracle 7 35 (4.300 %) Reuters 7 35 (4.300 %) Remedy 8 23 (2.826 %) Citrix 9 20 (2.457 %) Cisco 10 18 (2.211 %) Sybase 11 17 (2.088 %) HP 12 15 (1.843 %) Adobe 13 13 (1.597 %) Fidessa 14 12 (1.474 %) Sun 15 11 (1.351 %) Siebel 16 9 (1.106 %) Dell 17 8 (0.983 %) Novell 17 8 (0.983 %) Open Text 18 7 (0.860 %) Proquote