Docklands, London MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Docklands, London 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 25 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 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 Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran 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 Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead 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 Scarborough 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 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	27	51
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	50	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	45.05 %	24.74 %
Daily rates quoted	35	27
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£251
Average daily rate	£303	£261
% change on same period last year	+16.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£271
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£33.33
Average hourly rate	£15.00	£33.33
% change on same period last year	-54.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£33.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications Docklands, London
Matching contract IT job ads	111	194
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.148 %	0.196 %
Daily rates quoted	63	102
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£374
Average daily rate	£323	£398
% change on same period last year	-18.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£422
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.13	£26.40
Average hourly rate	£17.63	£26.40
% change on same period last year	-33.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.13	£26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
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 Docklands, 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 Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 25 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 Docklands, London region.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 36 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 34 (34.34 %) IBM 3 33 (33.33 %) OO 3 33 (33.33 %) RUP 4 31 (31.31 %) RequisitePro 5 29 (29.29 %) Rational Rose 6 28 (28.28 %) XML 7 27 (27.27 %) Use Case 8 26 (26.26 %) OOA/OOD 8 26 (26.26 %) MS Project 8 26 (26.26 %) SQL 9 25 (25.25 %) Microsoft 9 25 (25.25 %) Unified Process 10 23 (23.23 %) MS Excel 10 23 (23.23 %) PRINCE2

11 22 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 12 20 (20.20 %) Oracle 10g 13 19 (19.19 %) Finance 14 18 (18.18 %) Java 15 17 (17.17 %) XSL 15 17 (17.17 %) JavaBeans 15 17 (17.17 %) Banking 16 16 (16.16 %) Oracle 10gAS 16 16 (16.16 %) Altova 16 16 (16.16 %) Oracle Application Server 16 16 (16.16 %) UML 17 15 (15.15 %) Hibernate 18 14 (14.14 %) Windows 18 14 (14.14 %) SOAP 18 14 (14.14 %) JUnit

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 28 (28.28 %) XML 2 17 (17.17 %) XSL 2 17 (17.17 %) JavaBeans 3 15 (15.15 %) Hibernate 4 14 (14.14 %) J2EE 4 14 (14.14 %) SOAP 5 9 (9.091 %) HTML 6 8 (8.081 %) ODBC 7 7 (7.071 %) ASP 8 6 (6.061 %) DCOM 8 6 (6.061 %) ActiveX 9 3 (3.030 %) CSS 9 3 (3.030 %) JSP 10 2 (2.020 %) Struts 10 2 (2.020 %) Swing 11 1 (1.010 %) Spring 11 1 (1.010 %) EJB	Application Platforms 1 16 (16.16 %) Oracle Application Server 1 16 (16.16 %) Oracle 10gAS 2 9 (9.091 %) Documentum 3 8 (8.081 %) IIS 3 8 (8.081 %) MS Exchange 4 6 (6.061 %) CMS 5 4 (4.040 %) Lotus Notes 6 3 (3.030 %) SharePoint 7 1 (1.010 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 7 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (1.010 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 26 (26.26 %) MS Project 2 23 (23.23 %) MS Excel 3 14 (14.14 %) MS Visio 4 12 (12.12 %) MS PowerPoint 5 1 (1.010 %) CA Clarity 5 1 (1.010 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) Global One
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.030 %) LAN 1 3 (3.030 %) CTI 1 3 (3.030 %) Firewall 2 2 (2.020 %) ISDN 2 2 (2.020 %) SSL 2 2 (2.020 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (2.020 %) Cisco IOS 3 1 (1.010 %) VPN 3 1 (1.010 %) DNS 3 1 (1.010 %) FTP 3 1 (1.010 %) SSH	Database & Business Intelligence 1 20 (20.20 %) Oracle 10g 2 11 (11.11 %) Oracle 9i 3 5 (5.051 %) MS Access 4 2 (2.020 %) TOAD 5 1 (1.010 %) SQL Navigator 5 1 (1.010 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.010 %) BODI 5 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 31 (31.31 %) RequisitePro 2 29 (29.29 %) Rational Rose 3 14 (14.14 %) JUnit 4 7 (7.071 %) Visual Studio 5 5 (5.051 %) ClearQuest 6 3 (3.030 %) Rational Robot 7 2 (2.020 %) Eclipse 7 2 (2.020 %) LoadRunner 8 1 (1.010 %) Flash	General 1 19 (19.19 %) Finance 2 17 (17.17 %) Banking 3 13 (13.13 %) Investment Banking 4 7 (7.071 %) Legal 5 6 (6.061 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (2.020 %) Front Office 6 2 (2.020 %) Publishing 6 2 (2.020 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (1.010 %) Retail Banking 7 1 (1.010 %) Retail 7 1 (1.010 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 25 (25.25 %) Analyst 2 19 (19.19 %) Project Manager 3 10 (10.10 %) Systems Analyst 4 9 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 9 (9.091 %) Developer 5 8 (8.081 %) Administrator 5 8 (8.081 %) Desktop Support 6 6 (6.061 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 6 (6.061 %) Desktop Analyst 7 5 (5.051 %) Support Engineer 7 5 (5.051 %) Oracle Developer 7 5 (5.051 %) VB Developer 7 5 (5.051 %) Project Administrator 8 4 (4.040 %) IT Trainer 8 4 (4.040 %) 2nd Line Support 8 4 (4.040 %) Trainer 8 4 (4.040 %) PL/SQL Developer 8 4 (4.040 %) SQL Developer 9 3 (3.030 %) Desktop Engineer 9 3 (3.030 %) Voice Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.061 %) Blackberry 1 6 (6.061 %) Management Information System 2 2 (2.020 %) W3C 2 2 (2.020 %) Video Conferencing 3 1 (1.010 %) PMI 3 1 (1.010 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 1 (1.010 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.010 %) SCORM 3 1 (1.010 %) Derivative 3 1 (1.010 %) Blog
Operating Systems 1 14 (14.14 %) Windows 2 7 (7.071 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.030 %) Windows Vista 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (2.020 %) Windows NT 5 1 (1.010 %) Linux 5 1 (1.010 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 33 (33.33 %) OO 1 33 (33.33 %) RUP 2 27 (27.27 %) Use Case 3 26 (26.26 %) OOA/OOD 4 25 (25.25 %) Unified Process 5 23 (23.23 %) PRINCE2 6 16 (16.16 %) UML 7 10 (10.10 %) Data Modelling 7 10 (10.10 %) Project Management 8 9 (9.091 %) OOD 8 9 (9.091 %) ITIL 8 9 (9.091 %) Content Management 9 4 (4.040 %) Migration 10 3 (3.030 %) Programme Management 10 3 (3.030 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 3 (3.030 %) Performance Testing 10 3 (3.030 %) Web Testing 10 3 (3.030 %) Test Scripting 10 3 (3.030 %) System Testing 10 3 (3.030 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 26 (26.26 %) SQL 2 22 (22.22 %) PL/SQL 3 18 (18.18 %) Java 4 12 (12.12 %) VB 5 10 (10.10 %) VBA 6 8 (8.081 %) VB6 7 4 (4.040 %) JavaScript 8 2 (2.020 %) XQuery 9 1 (1.010 %) ActionScript 9 1 (1.010 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 4 (4.040 %) MCP 1 4 (4.040 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (2.020 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 2 (2.020 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (2.020 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (1.010 %) PMI Certification 3 1 (1.010 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.030 %) ISO9001 1 3 (3.030 %) SLA	System Software 1 3 (3.030 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 36 (36.36 %) Oracle 2 34 (34.34 %) IBM 3 25 (25.25 %) Microsoft 4 16 (16.16 %) Altova 5 4 (4.040 %) Lotus 6 3 (3.030 %) Cisco 6 3 (3.030 %) Reuters 6 3 (3.030 %) Bloomberg 6 3 (3.030 %) Macromedia 6 3 (3.030 %) Citrix 7 2 (2.020 %) Remedy 7 2 (2.020 %) Niku 7 2 (2.020 %) Planview 8 1 (1.010 %) Red Hat 8 1 (1.010 %) Lucent 8 1 (1.010 %) Nokia 8 1 (1.010 %) Business Objects 8 1 (1.010 %) Progress 8 1 (1.010 %) SunGard