Kent MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Kent 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	15
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching contract IT job ads	54	40
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.043 %
As % of the category below	63.53 %	43.48 %
Daily rates quoted	8	6
Average minimum daily rate	£224	£179
Average daily rate	£234	£183
% change on same period last year	+27.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£244	£188
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£241
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.23	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£16.79	£14.82
% change on same period last year	+13.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.35	£15.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.67	£16.32
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Applications Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	85	92
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.099 %
Daily rates quoted	14	14
Average minimum daily rate	£246	£185
Average daily rate	£258	£190
% change on same period last year	+35.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£275
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.36	£18.44
Average hourly rate	£17.28	£19.97
% change on same period last year	-13.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.19	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.14	£19.14
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
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 Kent 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 Kent region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Sandwich	+3	13	-	-
Maidstone	+1	6	-	-
Folkestone	+1	3	-	-
Canterbury	-2	2	-	-
West Malling	-	2	-	-
Chatham	+4	1	£200	-
Sittingbourne	-	1	-	-

MS Office South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 58 (69.88 %) Microsoft 2 54 (65.06 %) Windows 3 29 (34.94 %) Windows 2000 4 24 (28.92 %) MS Excel 5 23 (27.71 %) TCP/IP 6 19 (22.89 %) Windows XP 6 19 (22.89 %) UNIX 7 18 (21.69 %) HPUX 7 18 (21.69 %) Solaris 7 18 (21.69 %) Linux 7 18 (21.69 %) Pharmaceutical 8 12 (14.46 %) Active Directory 9 9 (10.84 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (10.84 %) SQL 10 8 (9.639 %) Windows NT

10 8 (9.639 %) MS Exchange 10 8 (9.639 %) Validation 10 8 (9.639 %) Exchange Server 2000 10 8 (9.639 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 7 (8.434 %) Degree 11 7 (8.434 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 7 (8.434 %) Finance 12 6 (7.229 %) SSL 12 6 (7.229 %) VPN 12 6 (7.229 %) Blackberry 12 6 (7.229 %) Project Management 12 6 (7.229 %) SharePoint 12 6 (7.229 %) IIS 12 6 (7.229 %) MS Project 12 6 (7.229 %) PDA

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (2.410 %) HTML 1 2 (2.410 %) .NET 1 2 (2.410 %) CSS 2 1 (1.205 %) J2EE 2 1 (1.205 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 8 (9.639 %) MS Exchange 1 8 (9.639 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 8 (9.639 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (7.229 %) IIS 2 6 (7.229 %) SharePoint 3 4 (4.819 %) Documentum 4 2 (2.410 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.205 %) JBoss 5 1 (1.205 %) CMS
Applications 1 24 (28.92 %) MS Excel 2 6 (7.229 %) MS Project 2 6 (7.229 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (3.614 %) MS Visio 4 2 (2.410 %) Fireworks 4 2 (2.410 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 3 (3.614 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 23 (27.71 %) TCP/IP 2 6 (7.229 %) VPN 2 6 (7.229 %) SSL 3 3 (3.614 %) Internet 4 2 (2.410 %) FTP 5 1 (1.205 %) HTTP 5 1 (1.205 %) LAN 5 1 (1.205 %) WAN 5 1 (1.205 %) Ethernet 5 1 (1.205 %) SAN 5 1 (1.205 %) DNS 5 1 (1.205 %) TELNET 5 1 (1.205 %) iSCSI	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.024 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (2.410 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.205 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (1.205 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 2 (2.410 %) Dreamweaver 2 1 (1.205 %) ProC	General 1 18 (21.69 %) Pharmaceutical 2 7 (8.434 %) Finance 3 4 (4.819 %) Health 3 4 (4.819 %) Insurance 4 3 (3.614 %) Legal 5 2 (2.410 %) Banking 6 1 (1.205 %) Marketing 6 1 (1.205 %) Education 6 1 (1.205 %) Government
Job Titles 1 17 (20.48 %) Analyst 2 12 (14.46 %) Desktop Support 2 12 (14.46 %) Support Engineer 2 12 (14.46 %) 2nd Line Support 3 10 (12.05 %) Support Analyst 4 7 (8.434 %) Desktop Engineer 4 7 (8.434 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 5 6 (7.229 %) Sharepoint Specialist 5 6 (7.229 %) Technical Specialist 5 6 (7.229 %) Administrator 5 6 (7.229 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 5 (6.024 %) Deskside Support 7 4 (4.819 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 7 4 (4.819 %) Helpdesk Support 7 4 (4.819 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 3 (3.614 %) Applications Support 8 3 (3.614 %) Desktop Analyst 9 2 (2.410 %) Web Administrator 9 2 (2.410 %) Rollout Engineer 9 2 (2.410 %) Installations Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (7.229 %) Blackberry 1 6 (7.229 %) PDA 2 4 (4.819 %) Computer Science 3 3 (3.614 %) NHS 4 2 (2.410 %) Management Information System 5 1 (1.205 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 54 (65.06 %) Windows 2 29 (34.94 %) Windows 2000 3 19 (22.89 %) Windows XP 3 19 (22.89 %) UNIX 4 18 (21.69 %) HPUX 4 18 (21.69 %) Solaris 4 18 (21.69 %) Linux 5 9 (10.84 %) Windows Server 2003 6 8 (9.639 %) Windows NT 7 7 (8.434 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 1 (1.205 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (9.639 %) Validation 2 6 (7.229 %) Project Management 3 2 (2.410 %) Service Delivery 3 2 (2.410 %) Regression Testing 3 2 (2.410 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (2.410 %) Programme Management 3 2 (2.410 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 2 (2.410 %) Load Testing 3 2 (2.410 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (1.205 %) Data Migration 4 1 (1.205 %) Document Management 4 1 (1.205 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (1.205 %) Business Analysis 4 1 (1.205 %) Web Development 4 1 (1.205 %) Release Management 4 1 (1.205 %) CRM 4 1 (1.205 %) Business Intelligence 4 1 (1.205 %) B2B 4 1 (1.205 %) B2C 4 1 (1.205 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 9 (10.84 %) SQL 2 2 (2.410 %) VBA 2 2 (2.410 %) C 2 2 (2.410 %) Perl 3 1 (1.205 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (1.205 %) C# 3 1 (1.205 %) Java 3 1 (1.205 %) Korn 3 1 (1.205 %) VB	Qualifications 1 7 (8.434 %) Degree 2 2 (2.410 %) MCSA 2 2 (2.410 %) ISEB 2 2 (2.410 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.205 %) MCP 3 1 (1.205 %) MCSE 3 1 (1.205 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
System Software 1 12 (14.46 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.205 %) NetBackup 2 1 (1.205 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (1.205 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 3 (3.614 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 58 (69.88 %) Microsoft 2 5 (6.024 %) Business Objects 3 4 (4.819 %) HP 3 4 (4.819 %) Ariba 4 2 (2.410 %) Oracle 4 2 (2.410 %) IBM 4 2 (2.410 %) Lotus 5 1 (1.205 %) Symantec 5 1 (1.205 %) Hummingbird 5 1 (1.205 %) VMware 5 1 (1.205 %) Citrix 5 1 (1.205 %) NetApp