Essex MS Visio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visio skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Visio over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visio
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chalfont St Giles Chatham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hendon Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Kendal Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	22
Rank change on same period last year	-21
Matching contract IT job ads	15	43
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	10.00 %	29.25 %
Daily rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum daily rate	£322	£325
Average daily rate	£341	£345
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£339
% change on same period last year	+6.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.60	£22.75
Average hourly rate	£17.30	£22.93
% change on same period last year	-24.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.00	£23.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.61	£25.04
% change on same period last year	-29.70 %
Applications Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	150	147
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	57	35
Average minimum daily rate	£180	£328
Average daily rate	£187	£350
% change on same period last year	-46.65 %
Average maximum daily rate	£193	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.91	£19.75
Average hourly rate	£20.78	£20.18
% change on same period last year	+2.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.65	£20.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Visio East of 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 Visio
Demand Trend

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

MS Visio
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Visio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Visio within the Essex region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Harlow	+9	1	£375	-

MS Visio East of England

MS Visio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing MS Visio 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 Visio.

1 7 (25.93 %) MS PowerPoint 1 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 2 5 (18.52 %) Migration 3 4 (14.81 %) Finance 3 4 (14.81 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (14.81 %) PRINCE2 3 4 (14.81 %) MS Excel 3 4 (14.81 %) Client/Server 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Management 4 3 (11.11 %) MS Project 4 3 (11.11 %) MS Office 5 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 5 2 (7.407 %) UNIX 5 2 (7.407 %) Solaris 5 2 (7.407 %) Sun

5 2 (7.407 %) SAN 5 2 (7.407 %) Apache 5 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 11i 5 2 (7.407 %) Military 5 2 (7.407 %) Data Mapping 5 2 (7.407 %) Data Integration 5 2 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 5 2 (7.407 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (7.407 %) Spreadsheet 5 2 (7.407 %) Business Development 5 2 (7.407 %) Oracle RAC 6 1 (3.704 %) Business Continuity 6 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.704 %) Business Analysis

MS Visio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing MS Visio 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 Visio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.704 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.407 %) Apache
Applications 1 7 (25.93 %) MS PowerPoint 2 4 (14.81 %) MS Excel 3 3 (11.11 %) MS Project 3 3 (11.11 %) MS Office 4 2 (7.407 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 2 (7.407 %) SAN 2 1 (3.704 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 9i
Development Applications 1 1 (3.704 %) LoadRunner	General 1 4 (14.81 %) Finance 2 2 (7.407 %) Military 3 1 (3.704 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 11 (40.74 %) Analyst 2 9 (33.33 %) Business Analyst 3 5 (18.52 %) Project Manager 4 2 (7.407 %) Test Manager 4 2 (7.407 %) Business Systems Analyst 4 2 (7.407 %) Systems Analyst 4 2 (7.407 %) Project Support Analyst 4 2 (7.407 %) Project Officer 4 2 (7.407 %) Architect 4 2 (7.407 %) Support Analyst 4 2 (7.407 %) Project Analyst 5 1 (3.704 %) Programme Coordinator 5 1 (3.704 %) Systems Architect 5 1 (3.704 %) IT Support Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Network Support 5 1 (3.704 %) Test Team Leader 5 1 (3.704 %) Network Support Engineer 5 1 (3.704 %) Business Consultant 5 1 (3.704 %) Team Leader 5 1 (3.704 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (14.81 %) Client/Server 2 2 (7.407 %) Data Integration 3 1 (3.704 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (3.704 %) PDA 3 1 (3.704 %) Mainframe 3 1 (3.704 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 2 (7.407 %) UNIX 1 2 (7.407 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.704 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (18.52 %) Migration 2 4 (14.81 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 4 (14.81 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (11.11 %) Project Management 4 2 (7.407 %) Data Mapping 4 2 (7.407 %) SC Cleared 4 2 (7.407 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (7.407 %) Business Development 5 1 (3.704 %) Business Continuity 5 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.704 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (3.704 %) Software Testing 5 1 (3.704 %) Stakeholder Management 5 1 (3.704 %) Volume Testing 5 1 (3.704 %) Test Scripting 5 1 (3.704 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (3.704 %) UML
System Software 1 2 (7.407 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 7 (25.93 %) Microsoft 2 2 (7.407 %) Oracle 2 2 (7.407 %) Sun 3 1 (3.704 %) Brocade 3 1 (3.704 %) IBM 3 1 (3.704 %) VERITAS 3 1 (3.704 %) iSOFT 3 1 (3.704 %) McAfee Security