Edinburgh MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Edinburgh 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	32	23
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	25	51
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.052 %
As % of the category below	27.47 %	43.22 %
Daily rates quoted	1	17
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£213
Average daily rate	£415	£217
% change on same period last year	+90.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£222
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.63
Average hourly rate	-	£14.75
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	91	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	14	33
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£216
Average daily rate	£286	£223
% change on same period last year	+28.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£229
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.54	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£39.97	£14.83
% change on same period last year	+169.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.40	£15.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office Scotland

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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

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 Edinburgh region.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 28 (53.85 %) Finance 2 21 (40.38 %) MS Excel 3 17 (32.69 %) Microsoft 4 14 (26.92 %) MS Project 5 9 (17.31 %) Windows 5 9 (17.31 %) Banking 6 7 (13.46 %) MS Visio 6 7 (13.46 %) ITIL 7 6 (11.54 %) VB 7 6 (11.54 %) Retail 8 5 (9.615 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 5 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (9.615 %) Financial Institution 9 4 (7.692 %) Internet 9 4 (7.692 %) DHCP

9 4 (7.692 %) DNS 9 4 (7.692 %) NetApp 9 4 (7.692 %) Pensions 9 4 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 3 (5.769 %) Statistics 10 3 (5.769 %) MS PowerPoint 10 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 10 3 (5.769 %) Data Analysis 10 3 (5.769 %) Systems Analysis 10 3 (5.769 %) Lotus 10 3 (5.769 %) Windows 2000 10 3 (5.769 %) Lotus Notes 10 3 (5.769 %) MOM 10 3 (5.769 %) MIMEsweeper 10 3 (5.769 %) Windows XP

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (1.923 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 5 (9.615 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (9.615 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (5.769 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (1.923 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 21 (40.38 %) MS Excel 2 14 (26.92 %) MS Project 3 7 (13.46 %) MS Visio 4 3 (5.769 %) MS PowerPoint	Communications & Networking 1 4 (7.692 %) DHCP 1 4 (7.692 %) DNS 1 4 (7.692 %) Internet 2 1 (1.923 %) LAN 2 1 (1.923 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.923 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (1.923 %) MS Access 1 1 (1.923 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) TestDirector
General 1 28 (53.85 %) Finance 2 9 (17.31 %) Banking 3 6 (11.54 %) Retail 4 5 (9.615 %) Financial Institution 5 4 (7.692 %) Pensions 6 2 (3.846 %) Retail Banking 6 2 (3.846 %) Insurance 6 2 (3.846 %) Law 7 1 (1.923 %) Legal 7 1 (1.923 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.923 %) Government	Job Titles 1 21 (40.38 %) Analyst 2 5 (9.615 %) Project Analyst 3 4 (7.692 %) Programme Office Analyst 3 4 (7.692 %) Programme Office Support 3 4 (7.692 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (5.769 %) Coordinator 4 3 (5.769 %) Junior 4 3 (5.769 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (5.769 %) Administrator 4 3 (5.769 %) Project Office Analyst 4 3 (5.769 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) Project Support Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) Service Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) Procurement Consultant 5 2 (3.846 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) Systems Analyst 5 2 (3.846 %) Consultant 5 2 (3.846 %) PMO Assistant 6 1 (1.923 %) Project Manager 6 1 (1.923 %) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) Statistics 2 1 (1.923 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.923 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 9 (17.31 %) Windows 2 3 (5.769 %) Windows 2000 2 3 (5.769 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.923 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (13.46 %) ITIL 2 3 (5.769 %) Service Management 2 3 (5.769 %) Change Management 2 3 (5.769 %) Data Analysis 2 3 (5.769 %) Systems Analysis 3 2 (3.846 %) Business Analysis 3 2 (3.846 %) Project Planning 3 2 (3.846 %) Investment Management 3 2 (3.846 %) Stakeholder Management 3 2 (3.846 %) Programme Management 3 2 (3.846 %) Asset Management 3 2 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (3.846 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.923 %) Process Management 4 1 (1.923 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (1.923 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (1.923 %) Migration 4 1 (1.923 %) Time Management 4 1 (1.923 %) Security Cleared 4 1 (1.923 %) Risk Analysis	Programming Languages 1 6 (11.54 %) VB 2 2 (3.846 %) SQL 3 1 (1.923 %) VBScript 3 1 (1.923 %) VBA
Qualifications 1 2 (3.846 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.923 %) MCAD 2 1 (1.923 %) MCSD	System Software 1 2 (3.846 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 3 (5.769 %) MOM 1 3 (5.769 %) MIMEsweeper	Vendors 1 17 (32.69 %) Microsoft 2 4 (7.692 %) NetApp 3 3 (5.769 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.923 %) Apple 4 1 (1.923 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.923 %) PeopleSoft