Dorset MS PowerPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft PowerPoint skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS PowerPoint over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	46
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	14	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	24.14 %	2.273 %
Daily rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£250
Average daily rate	£391	£350
% change on same period last year	+11.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£450
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£255
% change on same period last year	+20.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	-
Average hourly rate	£33.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.44	£21.25
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Applications Dorset
Matching contract IT job ads	58	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.045 %
Daily rates quoted	20	13
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£329
Average daily rate	£341	£349
% change on same period last year	-2.36 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.94	£15.01
Average hourly rate	£18.73	£16.76
% change on same period last year	+11.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.53	£18.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS PowerPoint South West

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 PowerPoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Weymouth	-	5	-	-
Poole	-	3	£400	-
Sherborne	-	1	-	-
Bournemouth	+7	1	-	-

MS PowerPoint South West

MS PowerPoint
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint.

1 14 (87.50 %) MS Excel 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Project 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 3 6 (37.50 %) Project Planning 4 5 (31.25 %) Finance 5 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 6 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 6 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 6 3 (18.75 %) Programme Management 6 3 (18.75 %) Pensions 6 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 6 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 7 2 (12.50 %) Military 7 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared

7 2 (12.50 %) Government 7 2 (12.50 %) Health 7 2 (12.50 %) Intranet 7 2 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 8 1 (6.250 %) CMS 8 1 (6.250 %) Retail 8 1 (6.250 %) Content Management 8 1 (6.250 %) ANSYS 8 1 (6.250 %) NASTRAN

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) CMS	Applications 1 14 (87.50 %) MS Excel 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Project 2 7 (43.75 %) MS Office 3 1 (6.250 %) NASTRAN
Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) Intranet	General 1 5 (31.25 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Pensions 2 3 (18.75 %) Marketing 3 2 (12.50 %) Government 3 2 (12.50 %) Health 3 2 (12.50 %) Military 4 1 (6.250 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 5 (31.25 %) Project Manager 2 3 (18.75 %) Communications Manager 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Office Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Coordinator 3 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Coordinator 3 1 (6.250 %) Project Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Project Planning 2 3 (18.75 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (18.75 %) Project Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Stakeholder Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Programme Management 2 3 (18.75 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (12.50 %) Six Sigma 3 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (6.250 %) Content Management
Vendors 1 4 (25.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (6.250 %) ANSYS