Leicester MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Leicester 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 21 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Argyll and Bute Atherstone Banbury Barking 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 Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston 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 Preston 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 Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells 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 Lothian 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 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	11
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	100.00 %	51.72 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£75
Average daily rate	£111	£75
% change on same period last year	+48.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£123	£75
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£247
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£9.23
Average hourly rate	£12.50	£10.07
% change on same period last year	+24.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.00	£10.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.58	£16.32
% change on same period last year	-4.49 %
Applications Leicester
Matching contract IT job ads	7	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£100	£267
Average daily rate	£111	£300
% change on same period last year	-62.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£123	£333
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£278
% change on same period last year	+8.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£9.04
Average hourly rate	£12.83	£10.34
% change on same period last year	+24.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.67	£11.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.11	£19.56
% change on same period last year	-2.32 %
MS Office Leicestershire

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 Leicester 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 Leicester region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 21 November 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 Leicester region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 21 November 2008.

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 11 (78.57 %) Windows 2 9 (64.29 %) Windows XP 2 9 (64.29 %) Microsoft 3 7 (50.00 %) MS Excel 4 6 (42.86 %) Back Office 4 6 (42.86 %) Finance 4 6 (42.86 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (42.86 %) Windows NT 4 6 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (14.29 %) NHS 5 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory 6 1 (7.143 %) HP 6 1 (7.143 %) Novell 6 1 (7.143 %) C 6 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2

6 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 6 1 (7.143 %) Windows Vista

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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.

Applications 1 7 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 6 (42.86 %) MS PowerPoint	General 1 6 (42.86 %) Back Office 1 6 (42.86 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) 1st Line Support 2 6 (42.86 %) Helpdesk Support 3 3 (21.43 %) Desktop Engineer 3 3 (21.43 %) Desktop Support 3 3 (21.43 %) Support Engineer 3 3 (21.43 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 2 (14.29 %) Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Team Leader 5 1 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Team Leader 5 1 (7.143 %) Desktop Team Leader 5 1 (7.143 %) 1st Line Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 11 (78.57 %) Windows 2 9 (64.29 %) Windows XP 3 6 (42.86 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (42.86 %) Windows NT 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 1 1 (7.143 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) C	System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 9 (64.29 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.143 %) HP 2 1 (7.143 %) Novell