Hertfordshire MS Access Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Access
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Ruislip Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staines Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	63
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching contract IT job ads	13	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.017 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	5.652 %	7.524 %
Daily rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum daily rate	£270	£292
Average daily rate	£305	£310
% change on same period last year	-1.55 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£279	£298
% change on same period last year	-6.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£12.88
Average hourly rate	-	£16.44
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.19	£18.58
% change on same period last year	+35.59 %
Database & Business Intelligence Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	230	412
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.307 %	0.417 %
Daily rates quoted	93	170
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£340
Average daily rate	£345	£369
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£399
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	28
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.48	£28.92
Average hourly rate	£27.86	£31.68
% change on same period last year	-12.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.24	£34.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.85	£31.30
% change on same period last year	+4.96 %
MS Access 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 Access
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 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
St Albans	+2	3	£275	+37.50 %
Watford	-	1	£350	-

MS Access East of England

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (40.00 %) SQL 2 11 (31.43 %) Retail 3 9 (25.71 %) MS Excel 4 8 (22.86 %) Finance 5 7 (20.00 %) VB 6 6 (17.14 %) Microsoft 6 6 (17.14 %) Marketing 6 6 (17.14 %) Spreadsheet 7 5 (14.29 %) Search Engine Marketing 7 5 (14.29 %) Email Marketing 7 5 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing 7 5 (14.29 %) Logistics 7 5 (14.29 %) SQL Server 7 5 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 8 4 (11.43 %) VBA

8 4 (11.43 %) .NET 8 4 (11.43 %) C# 8 4 (11.43 %) HTML 8 4 (11.43 %) Security Cleared 9 3 (8.571 %) Data Extraction 9 3 (8.571 %) CMDB 9 3 (8.571 %) BC Cleared 9 3 (8.571 %) 2G 9 3 (8.571 %) .NET Framework 9 3 (8.571 %) Mainframe 9 3 (8.571 %) Service Management 9 3 (8.571 %) ArcGIS 9 3 (8.571 %) HP 9 3 (8.571 %) Nortel 9 3 (8.571 %) Ericsson

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 4 (11.43 %) HTML 1 4 (11.43 %) .NET 2 3 (8.571 %) .NET Framework 2 3 (8.571 %) ASP 2 3 (8.571 %) XML 3 2 (5.714 %) XSL 3 2 (5.714 %) ASP.NET 3 2 (5.714 %) CSS 4 1 (2.857 %) WebServices 4 1 (2.857 %) ActiveX 4 1 (2.857 %) WinForms 4 1 (2.857 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (8.571 %) IIS 1 3 (8.571 %) SAS 1 3 (8.571 %) ArcGIS 2 2 (5.714 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 9 (25.71 %) MS Excel 2 6 (17.14 %) Spreadsheet 3 3 (8.571 %) MATLAB	Business Applications 1 3 (8.571 %) PeopleSoft HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (8.571 %) 3G 1 3 (8.571 %) 2G 2 1 (2.857 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.857 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2 3 (8.571 %) FileMaker 3 2 (5.714 %) Datawarehouse 4 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (2.857 %) OLAP 4 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (2.857 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (2.857 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 3 (8.571 %) PeopleTools 2 1 (2.857 %) Flash	General 1 11 (31.43 %) Retail 2 8 (22.86 %) Finance 3 6 (17.14 %) Marketing 4 2 (5.714 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (5.714 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.857 %) Government 5 1 (2.857 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 12 (34.29 %) Developer 2 7 (20.00 %) Analyst 3 5 (14.29 %) Programmer 4 4 (11.43 %) Administrator 4 4 (11.43 %) Software Developer 5 3 (8.571 %) Data Analyst 5 3 (8.571 %) SAS Programmer 5 3 (8.571 %) Configuration Analyst 5 3 (8.571 %) SAS Developer 5 3 (8.571 %) HR Data Analyst 6 2 (5.714 %) Database Developer 6 2 (5.714 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (2.857 %) Design Engineer 7 1 (2.857 %) Web Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) DBA 7 1 (2.857 %) SQL Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) Access Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) VB Developer 7 1 (2.857 %) ASP Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (8.571 %) Mainframe 1 3 (8.571 %) CMDB 1 3 (8.571 %) Data Extraction 2 2 (5.714 %) Informatics 2 2 (5.714 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 3 (8.571 %) UNIX 2 2 (5.714 %) Windows 3 1 (2.857 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (14.29 %) E-Commerce 1 5 (14.29 %) Logistics 1 5 (14.29 %) Email Marketing 1 5 (14.29 %) Internet Marketing 1 5 (14.29 %) Search Engine Marketing 2 4 (11.43 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (8.571 %) BC Cleared 3 3 (8.571 %) Service Management 3 3 (8.571 %) Configuration Management 4 2 (5.714 %) ITIL 4 2 (5.714 %) Migration 4 2 (5.714 %) OO 5 1 (2.857 %) Use Case 5 1 (2.857 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.857 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.857 %) Data Migration 5 1 (2.857 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.857 %) Business Analysis 5 1 (2.857 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.857 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 14 (40.00 %) SQL 2 7 (20.00 %) VB 3 4 (11.43 %) VBA 3 4 (11.43 %) C# 4 3 (8.571 %) VBScript 5 2 (5.714 %) C++ 5 2 (5.714 %) JavaScript 5 2 (5.714 %) VC++ 5 2 (5.714 %) VB6 6 1 (2.857 %) PHP 6 1 (2.857 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 1 (2.857 %) MCDBA 1 1 (2.857 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (2.857 %) Degree
Vendors 1 6 (17.14 %) Microsoft 2 3 (8.571 %) HP 2 3 (8.571 %) Nortel 2 3 (8.571 %) Ericsson 2 3 (8.571 %) Nokia 2 3 (8.571 %) PeopleSoft 2 3 (8.571 %) Mapinfo 3 2 (5.714 %) Lotus