Gloucester MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Gloucester 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grantham Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury 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 Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	12	12
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	9	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	64.29 %	52.38 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£125
Average daily rate	-	£125
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£125
UK excluding London average daily rate	£240	£255
% change on same period last year	-5.90 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.63	£17.13
Average hourly rate	£14.87	£19.28
% change on same period last year	-22.89 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.11	£21.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.72	£15.74
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Applications Gloucester
Matching contract IT job ads	14	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.021 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£217
Average daily rate	£330	£223
% change on same period last year	+47.98 %
Average maximum daily rate	£380	£229
UK excluding London average daily rate	£296	£289
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£13.72
Average hourly rate	£17.17	£15.57
% change on same period last year	+10.30 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.47	£17.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.51
% change on same period last year	-4.60 %
MS Office Gloucestershire

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 Gloucester 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 Gloucester 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 Gloucester region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Gloucester region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

MS Office
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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 7 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 4 (36.36 %) Windows 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 3 3 (27.27 %) E-Learning 3 3 (27.27 %) Multimedia 3 3 (27.27 %) Avionics 4 2 (18.18 %) HP 5 1 (9.091 %) Finance 5 1 (9.091 %) Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Citrix 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 5 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP 5 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 5 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection Act

5 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration 5 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection 5 1 (9.091 %) MS Project 5 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucester 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.

Applications 1 3 (27.27 %) MS Excel 2 1 (9.091 %) MS Project	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Multimedia 1 3 (27.27 %) Avionics 2 1 (9.091 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 2 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 1 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 1 2 (18.18 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Business Systems Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Coordinator 2 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support 2 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Support Team Leader 2 1 (9.091 %) Desktop Team Leader 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Coordinator 2 1 (9.091 %) Team Leader 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Installations Engineer 2 1 (9.091 %) Support Team Leader 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (27.27 %) E-Learning 2 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (9.091 %) Migration 1 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Migration 1 1 (9.091 %) Data Protection
System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 7 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) HP 3 1 (9.091 %) Citrix