MS Office Contracts in Lancashire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category for the Lancashire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 15 33 23
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -10
Contract jobs citing MS Office 15 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 7.653% 2.546% 3.571%
As % of the Applications category 57.69% 28.95% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 5
Average daily rate - £155 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -50.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.04 - £160.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 26 38 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 13.27% 8.796% 8.482%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 9
Average daily rate £300 £388 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +24.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 6
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -45.20%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £20.00 £23.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.50 £29.15 £160.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
North West

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Lancashire MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Office across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Preston +19 6 - -
Blackpool +4 2 - -
MS Office
North West

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (53.33%) Windows
3 12 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
5 10 (33.33%) SCCM
6 9 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
7 8 (26.67%) Citrix
7 8 (26.67%) Blackberry
7 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
8 7 (23.33%) Windows Vista
9 6 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
9 6 (20.00%) Software Deployment
9 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
9 6 (20.00%) ITIL
9 6 (20.00%) CA
10 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
10 5 (16.67%) SLA
10 5 (16.67%) Lumension
10 5 (16.67%) AppSense
11 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
11 4 (13.33%) Migration
12 3 (10.00%) Finance
12 3 (10.00%) Sage
12 3 (10.00%) TQM
12 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (10.00%) MCSE
12 3 (10.00%) MCDST
12 3 (10.00%) Marketing
13 2 (6.667%) Photography

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 (6.667%) HTML
2 1 (3.333%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (3.333%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) FrameMaker
2 2 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (6.667%) InDesign
2 2 (6.667%) Photoshop
2 2 (6.667%) MS Project
3 1 (3.333%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) VPN
1 1 (3.333%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
1 3 (10.00%) Marketing
2 2 (6.667%) Avionics
2 2 (6.667%) Electronics
2 2 (6.667%) Automotive
2 2 (6.667%) Military
3 1 (3.333%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 11 (36.67%) Support Engineer
2 11 (36.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Graphic Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Graduate
5 2 (6.667%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Author
5 2 (6.667%) Technical Author
5 2 (6.667%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.667%) Designer
5 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Manager
5 2 (6.667%) Financial Analyst
5 2 (6.667%) Data Migration Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Data Manager
6 1 (3.333%) Data Migration Manager
6 1 (3.333%) 2nd Line Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (6.667%) Photography
3 1 (3.333%) NHS
3 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Windows
2 12 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 9 (30.00%) Windows XP
4 7 (23.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) ITIL
1 6 (20.00%) Software Deployment
2 4 (13.33%) Migration
2 4 (13.33%) Data Migration
3 3 (10.00%) TQM
4 2 (6.667%) B2B
5 1 (3.333%) Service Management
5 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.333%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (36.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) MCSE
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (10.00%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.67%) SLA
2 2 (6.667%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (6.667%) GAAP
System Software
1 9 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (3.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Citrix
3 6 (20.00%) CA
4 5 (16.67%) AppSense
4 5 (16.67%) Lumension
5 3 (10.00%) Sage
6 2 (6.667%) Oracle
6 2 (6.667%) SAP
6 2 (6.667%) Adobe
7 1 (3.333%) HP
7 1 (3.333%) Dell
7 1 (3.333%) Cisco
7 1 (3.333%) Avaya
7 1 (3.333%) McAfee
7 1 (3.333%) Lotus
7 1 (3.333%) Altiris
7 1 (3.333%) LANDesk
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