East Midlands MS Access Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the East Midlands region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Greenford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	80
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	20	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	4.728 %	2.452 %
Daily rates quoted	4	2
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£170
Average daily rate	£180	£170
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£180	£170
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£297
% change on same period last year	-7.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£18.33	£17.25
% change on same period last year	+6.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.67	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.19	£19.61
% change on same period last year	+23.34 %
Database & Business Intelligence East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	423	367
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.558 %	0.389 %
Daily rates quoted	80	48
Average minimum daily rate	£346	£301
Average daily rate	£360	£314
% change on same period last year	+14.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£374	£326
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£354
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.59	£25.35
Average hourly rate	£31.03	£26.97
% change on same period last year	+15.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.47	£28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.43	£30.86
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
MS Access 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Access within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 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
Leicestershire	+7	10	£180	+5.88 %
Northamptonshire	-5	5	-	-
Derbyshire	-	1	-	-
Lincolnshire	-	1	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-11	1	-	-

MS Access England

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 21 (58.33 %) MS Excel 2 11 (30.56 %) Data Analysis 2 11 (30.56 %) Microsoft 2 11 (30.56 %) NHS 2 11 (30.56 %) VBA 3 10 (27.78 %) SQL Server 4 6 (16.67 %) Information Management 5 5 (13.89 %) Chemistry 5 5 (13.89 %) Biology 5 5 (13.89 %) SQL 5 5 (13.89 %) RAD 6 4 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (11.11 %) MS Office 6 4 (11.11 %) SAP 6 4 (11.11 %) Validation

6 4 (11.11 %) Migration 7 3 (8.333 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (8.333 %) VBScript 7 3 (8.333 %) VB 7 3 (8.333 %) VB.NET 7 3 (8.333 %) .NET 7 3 (8.333 %) C# 7 3 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 7 3 (8.333 %) WebServices 8 2 (5.556 %) SAP BW 8 2 (5.556 %) MS PowerPoint 8 2 (5.556 %) Health 9 1 (2.778 %) Management Information System 9 1 (2.778 %) Workflow

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 (8.333 %) .NET 1 3 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 1 3 (8.333 %) WebServices 2 1 (2.778 %) HTML 2 1 (2.778 %) CSS 2 1 (2.778 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.778 %) IIS 1 1 (2.778 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 21 (58.33 %) MS Excel 2 4 (11.11 %) MS Office 3 2 (5.556 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (2.778 %) Photoshop 4 1 (2.778 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) Misys Midas
Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (27.78 %) SQL Server 2 4 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (5.556 %) SAP BW 4 1 (2.778 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (2.778 %) Ingres 4 1 (2.778 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.778 %) Flash
General 1 3 (8.333 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (5.556 %) Health 3 1 (2.778 %) Multimedia 3 1 (2.778 %) Finance 3 1 (2.778 %) Government	Job Titles 1 19 (52.78 %) Analyst 2 10 (27.78 %) Developer 3 9 (25.00 %) Information Analyst 4 4 (11.11 %) Data Analyst 4 4 (11.11 %) Trainer 5 3 (8.333 %) Access Developer 5 3 (8.333 %) Systems Developer 6 2 (5.556 %) Administrator 6 2 (5.556 %) Data Administrator 6 2 (5.556 %) NHS Information Analyst 6 2 (5.556 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (2.778 %) Project Manager 7 1 (2.778 %) Systems Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Web Developer 7 1 (2.778 %) Analyst Programmer 7 1 (2.778 %) Programmer 7 1 (2.778 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) Desktop Analyst 7 1 (2.778 %) VBA Developer
Miscellaneous 1 11 (30.56 %) NHS 2 5 (13.89 %) Chemistry 2 5 (13.89 %) Biology 3 1 (2.778 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.778 %) Informatics 3 1 (2.778 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.778 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (30.56 %) Data Analysis 2 6 (16.67 %) Information Management 3 5 (13.89 %) RAD 4 4 (11.11 %) Validation 4 4 (11.11 %) Migration 5 1 (2.778 %) Content Management 5 1 (2.778 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (2.778 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.778 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 11 (30.56 %) VBA 2 5 (13.89 %) SQL 3 3 (8.333 %) VBScript 3 3 (8.333 %) VB 3 3 (8.333 %) VB.NET 3 3 (8.333 %) C# 4 1 (2.778 %) COBOL 4 1 (2.778 %) VB6 4 1 (2.778 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 1 (2.778 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.778 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors 1 11 (30.56 %) Microsoft 2 4 (11.11 %) SAP 3 1 (2.778 %) Business Objects