Hertfordshire MS PowerPoint Contracts

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

Microsoft PowerPoint
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	69
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	15	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	6.757 %	8.621 %
Daily rates quoted	4	12
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£213
Average daily rate	£357	£228
% change on same period last year	+56.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£243
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£255
% change on same period last year	+20.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.50	£17.42
Average hourly rate	£16.13	£17.42
% change on same period last year	-7.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.75	£17.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.44	£21.25
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Applications Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	222	290
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.296 %	0.293 %
Daily rates quoted	72	131
Average minimum daily rate	£268	£260
Average daily rate	£287	£267
% change on same period last year	+7.20 %
Average maximum daily rate	£305	£274
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	60	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.78	£16.62
Average hourly rate	£21.51	£17.65
% change on same period last year	+21.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.25	£18.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint
Demand Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS PowerPoint
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint 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
Rickmansworth	-	2	-	-
Watford	+6	2	£351	+55.77 %
St Albans	-	1	-	-

MS PowerPoint East of England

MS PowerPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint.

1 20 (74.07 %) MS Excel 2 18 (66.67 %) MS Office 3 14 (51.85 %) Microsoft 4 7 (25.93 %) Finance 5 5 (18.52 %) Service Delivery 5 5 (18.52 %) ClearCase 5 5 (18.52 %) ClearQuest 5 5 (18.52 %) SAP 5 5 (18.52 %) QA 6 4 (14.81 %) Office Project Server 6 4 (14.81 %) Spreadsheet 6 4 (14.81 %) ITIL 6 4 (14.81 %) SQL 6 4 (14.81 %) Project Management 6 4 (14.81 %) MS Project

7 3 (11.11 %) Quality Management 7 3 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (7.407 %) Windows 8 2 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 8 2 (7.407 %) C 8 2 (7.407 %) Perl 8 2 (7.407 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (7.407 %) ERP 8 2 (7.407 %) MS Visio 8 2 (7.407 %) Windows NT 8 2 (7.407 %) Time Management 8 2 (7.407 %) Business Development 8 2 (7.407 %) Degree 9 1 (3.704 %) Citrix Presentation Server 9 1 (3.704 %) IBM Mainframe

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.704 %) ISPF	Application Platforms 1 4 (14.81 %) Office Project Server 2 1 (3.704 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.704 %) SAS 2 1 (3.704 %) CICS
Applications 1 20 (74.07 %) MS Excel 2 18 (66.67 %) MS Office 3 4 (14.81 %) MS Project 3 4 (14.81 %) Spreadsheet 4 2 (7.407 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.704 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.704 %) DB2 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 8/8i 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 5 (18.52 %) ClearCase 1 5 (18.52 %) ClearQuest
General 1 7 (25.93 %) Finance 2 1 (3.704 %) Aerospace 2 1 (3.704 %) Education 2 1 (3.704 %) Health 2 1 (3.704 %) Military 2 1 (3.704 %) Retail 2 1 (3.704 %) Billing 2 1 (3.704 %) FMCG 2 1 (3.704 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 11 (40.74 %) Analyst 2 5 (18.52 %) QA Analyst 2 5 (18.52 %) Quality Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) Administrator 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Support Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) DBA 6 1 (3.704 %) Developer 6 1 (3.704 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (3.704 %) Design Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) Change Manager 6 1 (3.704 %) Oracle DBA 6 1 (3.704 %) SQL Server DBA 6 1 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Support 6 1 (3.704 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.704 %) Mainframe 1 1 (3.704 %) Replication 1 1 (3.704 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 2 (7.407 %) Windows 1 2 (7.407 %) Windows 2000 1 2 (7.407 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (18.52 %) Service Delivery 2 4 (14.81 %) ITIL 2 4 (14.81 %) Project Management 3 3 (11.11 %) Quality Management 3 3 (11.11 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (7.407 %) ERP 4 2 (7.407 %) Business Development 4 2 (7.407 %) Time Management 5 1 (3.704 %) Six Sigma 5 1 (3.704 %) Change Management 5 1 (3.704 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (3.704 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 4 (14.81 %) SQL 2 2 (7.407 %) C 2 2 (7.407 %) Perl 2 2 (7.407 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (3.704 %) COBOL
Qualifications 1 2 (7.407 %) Degree 2 1 (3.704 %) OCP 2 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Certification 2 1 (3.704 %) MCITP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (18.52 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (3.704 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle RMAN 1 1 (3.704 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.704 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors 1 14 (51.85 %) Microsoft 2 5 (18.52 %) SAP 3 1 (3.704 %) IBM 3 1 (3.704 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.704 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.704 %) Oracle