Hampshire MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Hampshire 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury 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 Dunstable 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 Grays 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 Isleworth Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth 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 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 Thatcham Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham 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 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	32
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	147	134
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.132 %
As % of the category below	44.68 %	35.54 %
Daily rates quoted	14	25
Average minimum daily rate	£251	£253
Average daily rate	£271	£263
% change on same period last year	+2.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£291	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£240	£255
% change on same period last year	-5.97 %
Hourly rates quoted	73	49
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.99	£12.20
Average hourly rate	£14.95	£13.28
% change on same period last year	+12.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.91	£14.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.68	£15.70
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Applications Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	329	377
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.445 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	71	83
Average minimum daily rate	£279	£266
Average daily rate	£294	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	105	137
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.58	£19.29
Average hourly rate	£18.77	£20.79
% change on same period last year	-9.73 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.95	£22.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.59	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
MS Office South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 Hampshire region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 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
Basingstoke	+13	43	£369	-
Portsmouth	+6	26	£500	-
Southampton	+11	17	£250	-
Fareham	+5	6	£128	-
Eastleigh	-	6	-	-
Farnborough	+5	6	£267	-33.33 %
Gosport	-	4	-	-
Winchester	-	3	-	-
Havant	-1	1	-	-

MS Office South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 152 (52.41 %) Windows 2 134 (46.21 %) Microsoft 3 92 (31.72 %) MS Excel 4 86 (29.66 %) Windows XP 5 70 (24.14 %) Active Directory 6 50 (17.24 %) Windows 2000 7 29 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 8 22 (7.586 %) ITIL 9 21 (7.241 %) MS PowerPoint 9 21 (7.241 %) SC Cleared 10 19 (6.552 %) Windows Server 2003 11 18 (6.207 %) MS Project 12 16 (5.517 %) SAP 12 16 (5.517 %) MS Exchange 13 15 (5.172 %) Windows NT

13 15 (5.172 %) Finance 14 13 (4.483 %) WAN 14 13 (4.483 %) NHS 14 13 (4.483 %) VPN 14 13 (4.483 %) Degree 15 12 (4.138 %) MS Visio 15 12 (4.138 %) TCP/IP 15 12 (4.138 %) HP 15 12 (4.138 %) Microsoft Certification 15 12 (4.138 %) .NET 16 11 (3.793 %) LAN 17 10 (3.448 %) SharePoint 17 10 (3.448 %) SQL 17 10 (3.448 %) MCP 17 10 (3.448 %) Project Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 12 (4.138 %) .NET 2 5 (1.724 %) XML 3 3 (1.034 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (1.034 %) Windows SharePoint Services 4 1 (0.345 %) .NET Remoting 4 1 (0.345 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (0.345 %) HTML 4 1 (0.345 %) COM+ 4 1 (0.345 %) DCOM 4 1 (0.345 %) WebServices 4 1 (0.345 %) WSDL 4 1 (0.345 %) WinForms 4 1 (0.345 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 16 (5.517 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (3.448 %) SharePoint 3 9 (3.103 %) Lotus Notes 4 5 (1.724 %) BizTalk Server 5 4 (1.379 %) GroupWise 5 4 (1.379 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 3 (1.034 %) SharePoint Portal Server 6 3 (1.034 %) Rendezvous 6 3 (1.034 %) IIS 6 3 (1.034 %) SAS 7 2 (0.690 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 2 (0.690 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.345 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 1 (0.345 %) Office Project Server 8 1 (0.345 %) Exchange Server 2007 8 1 (0.345 %) Apache 8 1 (0.345 %) MTS 8 1 (0.345 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 92 (31.72 %) MS Excel 2 21 (7.241 %) MS PowerPoint 3 18 (6.207 %) MS Project 4 12 (4.138 %) MS Visio 5 5 (1.724 %) Spreadsheet 6 3 (1.034 %) QuarkXPress 7 2 (0.690 %) Acrobat 8 1 (0.345 %) Photoshop 8 1 (0.345 %) 3ds Max	Business Applications 1 2 (0.690 %) SAP R/3 2 1 (0.345 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 13 (4.483 %) WAN 1 13 (4.483 %) VPN 2 12 (4.138 %) TCP/IP 3 11 (3.793 %) LAN 4 9 (3.103 %) Intranet 5 8 (2.759 %) Internet 6 3 (1.034 %) Firewall 6 3 (1.034 %) Wireless 6 3 (1.034 %) SSL 6 3 (1.034 %) HTTP 6 3 (1.034 %) SSH 7 2 (0.690 %) Cisco PIX 7 2 (0.690 %) VoIP 7 2 (0.690 %) ATM 7 2 (0.690 %) SAN 7 2 (0.690 %) Frame Relay 8 1 (0.345 %) BGP 8 1 (0.345 %) DNS 8 1 (0.345 %) GPRS 8 1 (0.345 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (2.069 %) RDBMS 2 5 (1.724 %) SQL Server 3 3 (1.034 %) Crystal Reports 3 3 (1.034 %) MS Access 3 3 (1.034 %) GIS 4 2 (0.690 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (0.690 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (0.345 %) EDRMS
Development Applications 1 1 (0.345 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (0.345 %) Flash 1 1 (0.345 %) ARTiSAN 1 1 (0.345 %) FrontPage	General 1 15 (5.172 %) Finance 2 10 (3.448 %) Government 2 10 (3.448 %) Telecoms 2 10 (3.448 %) Insurance 3 9 (3.103 %) Health 4 7 (2.414 %) Military 5 6 (2.069 %) Auditing 6 5 (1.724 %) Marketing 7 3 (1.034 %) Publishing 7 3 (1.034 %) Local Government 7 3 (1.034 %) Pensions 8 2 (0.690 %) Multimedia 8 2 (0.690 %) Police 8 2 (0.690 %) Aerospace 8 2 (0.690 %) Electric 8 2 (0.690 %) Electronics 9 1 (0.345 %) Pharmaceutical 9 1 (0.345 %) Legal 9 1 (0.345 %) Manufacturing 9 1 (0.345 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 66 (22.76 %) Analyst 2 34 (11.72 %) 2nd Line Support 2 34 (11.72 %) Administrator 3 28 (9.655 %) 1st Line Support 4 23 (7.931 %) Support Analyst 5 22 (7.586 %) Support Engineer 6 18 (6.207 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 15 (5.172 %) Helpdesk Support 8 13 (4.483 %) Support Technician 8 13 (4.483 %) Desktop Support 9 12 (4.138 %) Developer 10 11 (3.793 %) Project Administrator 11 10 (3.448 %) Consultant 11 10 (3.448 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 12 9 (3.103 %) Service Analyst 12 9 (3.103 %) Service Desk Analyst 12 9 (3.103 %) Desktop Engineer 13 8 (2.759 %) Data Analyst 13 8 (2.759 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 14 7 (2.414 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 13 (4.483 %) NHS 2 7 (2.414 %) AS400 2 7 (2.414 %) Mathematics 3 6 (2.069 %) Physics 4 4 (1.379 %) Data Extraction 4 4 (1.379 %) Client/Server 5 3 (1.034 %) PDA 6 2 (0.690 %) Clustering 7 1 (0.345 %) E-Learning 7 1 (0.345 %) SCORM 7 1 (0.345 %) Replication 7 1 (0.345 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.345 %) Blackberry 7 1 (0.345 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 152 (52.41 %) Windows 2 86 (29.66 %) Windows XP 3 50 (17.24 %) Windows 2000 4 19 (6.552 %) Windows Server 2003 5 15 (5.172 %) Windows NT 6 8 (2.759 %) Windows Vista 7 7 (2.414 %) UNIX 8 6 (2.069 %) Solaris 8 6 (2.069 %) Linux 9 5 (1.724 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 2 (0.690 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (0.690 %) NetWare 11 1 (0.345 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (10.00 %) Security Cleared 2 22 (7.586 %) ITIL 3 21 (7.241 %) SC Cleared 4 10 (3.448 %) Project Management 5 8 (2.759 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (2.414 %) Configuration Management 7 6 (2.069 %) Business Analysis 7 6 (2.069 %) Quality Management 7 6 (2.069 %) QMS 8 5 (1.724 %) UML 8 5 (1.724 %) Change Management 8 5 (1.724 %) Workflow 9 4 (1.379 %) Project Planning 10 3 (1.034 %) Requirements Management 10 3 (1.034 %) Workflow Management 10 3 (1.034 %) Logistics 10 3 (1.034 %) MODAF 10 3 (1.034 %) Programme Management 10 3 (1.034 %) Data Management 10 3 (1.034 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 10 (3.448 %) SQL 2 8 (2.759 %) VB 3 7 (2.414 %) C 4 6 (2.069 %) C# 4 6 (2.069 %) Java 5 5 (1.724 %) VB.NET 5 5 (1.724 %) VBA 6 4 (1.379 %) VB6 7 3 (1.034 %) PL/SQL 7 3 (1.034 %) Python 7 3 (1.034 %) Shell Script 8 1 (0.345 %) JavaScript 8 1 (0.345 %) Perl 8 1 (0.345 %) PHP 8 1 (0.345 %) C++ 8 1 (0.345 %) Transact-SQL 8 1 (0.345 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 13 (4.483 %) Degree 2 12 (4.138 %) Microsoft Certification 3 10 (3.448 %) MCP 4 9 (3.103 %) MCSE 5 6 (2.069 %) CCNA 5 6 (2.069 %) Cisco Certification 6 4 (1.379 %) ITIL Certification 6 4 (1.379 %) ISEB 6 4 (1.379 %) HNC 7 2 (0.690 %) MCSA 7 2 (0.690 %) CCNP 7 2 (0.690 %) CCA 7 2 (0.690 %) Citrix Certification 8 1 (0.345 %) HND 8 1 (0.345 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (2.069 %) SLA 2 5 (1.724 %) QA 3 2 (0.690 %) ISO27001 3 2 (0.690 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 2 (0.690 %) ISO9000 3 2 (0.690 %) ISO9001 4 1 (0.345 %) TickIT 4 1 (0.345 %) GLP	System Software 1 70 (24.14 %) Active Directory 2 6 (2.069 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (1.034 %) NFS
Systems Management 1 8 (2.759 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (1.034 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.345 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.345 %) SCOM 3 1 (0.345 %) Netcool 3 1 (0.345 %) MOM	Vendors 1 134 (46.21 %) Microsoft 2 16 (5.517 %) SAP 3 12 (4.138 %) HP 4 9 (3.103 %) Cisco 4 9 (3.103 %) Lotus 5 7 (2.414 %) Dell 6 6 (2.069 %) Novell 6 6 (2.069 %) Sun 6 6 (2.069 %) VERITAS 7 5 (1.724 %) Citrix 7 5 (1.724 %) Oracle 7 5 (1.724 %) Symantec 7 5 (1.724 %) Remedy 7 5 (1.724 %) McAfee Security 8 4 (1.379 %) Hummingbird 8 4 (1.379 %) SIMUL8 8 4 (1.379 %) Adobe 9 3 (1.034 %) IBM 9 3 (1.034 %) TIBCO 9 3 (1.034 %) Quark