London MS Visio Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Visio skills within the London region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Visio over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Visio
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham Ealing East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huntingdon Inverness Isle of Man Kendal Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Prescot Reading Renfrewshire Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weymouth Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	123
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	526	607
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.693 %	0.635 %
As % of the category below	14.88 %	14.23 %
Daily rates quoted	269	188
Average minimum daily rate	£380	£385
Average daily rate	£401	£404
% change on same period last year	-0.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£338
% change on same period last year	+3.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	32
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.39	£20.75
Average hourly rate	£21.70	£21.77
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£22.78
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.56	£26.78
% change on same period last year	-30.69 %
Applications London
Matching contract IT job ads	3534	4267
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	4.659 %	4.462 %
Daily rates quoted	1335	1363
Average minimum daily rate	£318	£313
Average daily rate	£340	£330
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£348
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	478	559
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.04	£18.75
Average hourly rate	£20.68	£19.88
% change on same period last year	+3.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.31	£21.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.91	£19.06
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
MS Visio 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 Visio
Demand Trend

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

MS Visio
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Visio
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Visio across the London region over the 3 months to 8 July 2008.

MS Visio
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Visio within the London region over the 3 months to 8 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
City of London	+17	121	£405	+3.47 %
Docklands, London	+19	20	£388	+7.30 %
Canary Wharf	+16	19	£440	-7.36 %
Hounslow	+2	6	£340	+21.42 %
Hammersmith	-2	5	£298	-
Ealing	-	3	£370	-
Hayes	-	3	£175	-
Brentford	-	1	-	-
Luton	-	1	£341	-
Enfield	-	1	-	-

MS Visio England

MS Visio
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MS Visio 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 Visio.

1 282 (26.36 %) MS Office 2 276 (25.79 %) Finance 3 249 (23.27 %) MS Excel 4 233 (21.78 %) MS Project 5 231 (21.59 %) MS PowerPoint 6 194 (18.13 %) Microsoft 7 174 (16.26 %) Project Management 8 172 (16.07 %) Banking 9 151 (14.11 %) PRINCE2 10 99 (9.252 %) SQL 11 97 (9.065 %) Investment Banking 12 95 (8.879 %) Business Analysis 13 87 (8.131 %) Government 14 66 (6.168 %) Windows 15 63 (5.888 %) XML

16 62 (5.794 %) ITIL 17 58 (5.421 %) UML 18 57 (5.327 %) Change Management 18 57 (5.327 %) Oracle 19 55 (5.140 %) .NET 20 52 (4.860 %) JavaScript 20 52 (4.860 %) CSS 21 50 (4.673 %) Data Modelling 22 49 (4.579 %) Retail 23 44 (4.112 %) SQL Server 23 44 (4.112 %) User Acceptance Testing 24 43 (4.019 %) Marketing 24 43 (4.019 %) HTML 25 42 (3.925 %) Stakeholder Management 25 42 (3.925 %) Security Cleared

MS Visio
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MS Visio 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 Visio. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 63 (5.888 %) XML 2 55 (5.140 %) .NET 3 52 (4.860 %) CSS 4 43 (4.019 %) HTML 5 25 (2.336 %) XHTML 6 23 (2.150 %) AJAX 7 16 (1.495 %) Hibernate 7 16 (1.495 %) XSLT 7 16 (1.495 %) ASP 8 13 (1.215 %) ASP.NET 8 13 (1.215 %) XSL 9 11 (1.028 %) Spring 10 10 (0.935 %) SOAP 10 10 (0.935 %) Adobe Flex 11 9 (0.841 %) JavaBeans 12 8 (0.748 %) WebServices 12 8 (0.748 %) JSON 13 7 (0.654 %) J2EE 14 5 (0.467 %) iBATIS 14 5 (0.467 %) Java SE	Application Platforms 1 34 (3.178 %) Lotus Notes 2 23 (2.150 %) SharePoint 3 16 (1.495 %) CMS 4 14 (1.308 %) SAS 5 12 (1.121 %) MS Exchange 6 10 (0.935 %) Apache 6 10 (0.935 %) Oracle Application Server 6 10 (0.935 %) Oracle 10gAS 7 9 (0.841 %) IIS 8 4 (0.374 %) LiveLink 8 4 (0.374 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 3 (0.280 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 3 (0.280 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 3 (0.280 %) Office Project Server 9 3 (0.280 %) Tomcat 9 3 (0.280 %) ColdFusion 10 2 (0.187 %) MQSeries 10 2 (0.187 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 1 (0.093 %) Immediacy CMS 11 1 (0.093 %) ESB
Applications 1 282 (26.36 %) MS Office 2 249 (23.27 %) MS Excel 3 233 (21.78 %) MS Project 4 231 (21.59 %) MS PowerPoint 5 28 (2.617 %) Photoshop 6 17 (1.589 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 7 (0.654 %) Fireworks 7 7 (0.654 %) Acrobat 8 6 (0.561 %) RoboHelp 9 5 (0.467 %) CA Clarity 10 3 (0.280 %) AutoCAD 11 1 (0.093 %) InfoPath 11 1 (0.093 %) Quicktime 11 1 (0.093 %) DeltaView 11 1 (0.093 %) Paint Shop Pro	Business Applications 1 31 (2.897 %) VisionPLUS 2 10 (0.935 %) Salerio 3 8 (0.748 %) Loan IQ 4 4 (0.374 %) SAP Business One 5 3 (0.280 %) Oracle EBS 6 2 (0.187 %) Singl.eView 6 2 (0.187 %) SAP R/3 6 2 (0.187 %) Oracle 11i 6 2 (0.187 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 6 2 (0.187 %) SalesLogix 6 2 (0.187 %) SAP Retail 6 2 (0.187 %) MultiFonds 7 1 (0.093 %) HFM 7 1 (0.093 %) FRONT ARENA 7 1 (0.093 %) Academy Housing 7 1 (0.093 %) arcHouse 7 1 (0.093 %) TIBCO iProcess 7 1 (0.093 %) SAP ERP 7 1 (0.093 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 7 1 (0.093 %) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking 1 34 (3.178 %) Internet 2 23 (2.150 %) TCP/IP 3 22 (2.056 %) LAN 4 20 (1.869 %) WAN 5 16 (1.495 %) Intranet 6 10 (0.935 %) IP Telephony 6 10 (0.935 %) DHCP 7 9 (0.841 %) WINS 7 9 (0.841 %) DNS 7 9 (0.841 %) SAN 7 9 (0.841 %) Firewall 8 8 (0.748 %) CTI 9 6 (0.561 %) FTP 9 6 (0.561 %) SSH 10 4 (0.374 %) BSS 10 4 (0.374 %) 3G 10 4 (0.374 %) HTTP 10 4 (0.374 %) Cisco IOS 10 4 (0.374 %) Network Security 11 3 (0.280 %) SMTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 44 (4.112 %) SQL Server 2 23 (2.150 %) Datawarehouse 3 21 (1.963 %) ETL 3 21 (1.963 %) MS Access 4 17 (1.589 %) SQL Server 2005 5 15 (1.402 %) BusinessObjects 6 14 (1.308 %) Reference Data 7 13 (1.215 %) SQL Server 2000 8 12 (1.121 %) MySQL 9 11 (1.028 %) Oracle 10g 10 7 (0.654 %) Star Schema 11 6 (0.561 %) EDRMS 12 5 (0.467 %) Data Cleansing 12 5 (0.467 %) Data Mining 13 4 (0.374 %) TOAD 13 4 (0.374 %) SAS Enterprise Miner 13 4 (0.374 %) Database Marketing 13 4 (0.374 %) Text Mining 14 3 (0.280 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 14 3 (0.280 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 33 (3.084 %) Flash 2 23 (2.150 %) Rational Rose 3 20 (1.869 %) TestDirector 4 15 (1.402 %) RequisitePro 5 14 (1.308 %) ERwin 6 9 (0.841 %) JUnit 7 8 (0.748 %) Dreamweaver 8 7 (0.654 %) AllFusion 9 6 (0.561 %) Ant 10 5 (0.467 %) FrontPage 10 5 (0.467 %) MSI 11 4 (0.374 %) Visual Studio 12 3 (0.280 %) Visual Studio Team System 13 2 (0.187 %) Eclipse 14 1 (0.093 %) JIRA 14 1 (0.093 %) ClearCase 14 1 (0.093 %) Bugzilla	General 1 276 (25.79 %) Finance 2 172 (16.07 %) Banking 3 97 (9.065 %) Investment Banking 4 87 (8.131 %) Government 5 49 (4.579 %) Retail 6 43 (4.019 %) Marketing 7 31 (2.897 %) Health 8 27 (2.523 %) Insurance 9 24 (2.243 %) Financial Institution 9 24 (2.243 %) Front Office 9 24 (2.243 %) Telecoms 10 19 (1.776 %) Publishing 11 17 (1.589 %) Local Government 11 17 (1.589 %) Back Office 12 16 (1.495 %) FMCG 13 15 (1.402 %) Legal 14 13 (1.215 %) Education 15 10 (0.935 %) Police 15 10 (0.935 %) Retail Banking 16 9 (0.841 %) Interactive Media
Job Titles 1 352 (32.90 %) Analyst 2 233 (21.78 %) Business Analyst 3 112 (10.47 %) Project Manager 4 82 (7.664 %) Architect 5 58 (5.421 %) Consultant 6 48 (4.486 %) Developer 7 38 (3.551 %) Test Manager 8 33 (3.084 %) Programme Manager 9 30 (2.804 %) Systems Analyst 9 30 (2.804 %) Support Analyst 10 29 (2.710 %) Coordinator 11 28 (2.617 %) Administrator 12 26 (2.430 %) Investment Banking Business Analyst 13 24 (2.243 %) Technical Author 13 24 (2.243 %) Author 14 22 (2.056 %) Process Analyst 15 21 (1.963 %) Banking Business Analyst 15 21 (1.963 %) Business Manager 16 20 (1.869 %) Information Architect 17 18 (1.682 %) Junior	Miscellaneous 1 31 (2.897 %) Fixed Income 2 30 (2.804 %) NHS 3 23 (2.150 %) Derivative 4 20 (1.869 %) Asset Management 5 19 (1.776 %) Management Information System 6 16 (1.495 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 7 14 (1.308 %) Data Integration 8 13 (1.215 %) Web 2.0 8 13 (1.215 %) Equities 9 10 (0.935 %) French Language 10 9 (0.841 %) Computer Science 10 9 (0.841 %) Mainframe 11 8 (0.748 %) Blackberry 12 7 (0.654 %) Credit Risk 13 6 (0.561 %) PMI 13 6 (0.561 %) Statistics 14 5 (0.467 %) PDA 14 5 (0.467 %) Market Risk 14 5 (0.467 %) EPoS 15 4 (0.374 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 66 (6.168 %) Windows 2 23 (2.150 %) Windows XP 3 20 (1.869 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (1.308 %) Unix 4 14 (1.308 %) Linux 5 7 (0.654 %) VMS 5 7 (0.654 %) Windows Server 2003 6 4 (0.374 %) Windows NT 7 3 (0.280 %) Mac OS X 8 2 (0.187 %) Solaris 9 1 (0.093 %) Windows Mobile 9 1 (0.093 %) Windows Vista 9 1 (0.093 %) Mac OS X Server 9 1 (0.093 %) NetWare 9 1 (0.093 %) AIX 9 1 (0.093 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.093 %) SUSE 9 1 (0.093 %) Fedora	Processes & Methodologies 1 174 (16.26 %) Project Management 2 151 (14.11 %) PRINCE2 3 95 (8.879 %) Business Analysis 4 62 (5.794 %) ITIL 5 58 (5.421 %) UML 6 57 (5.327 %) Change Management 7 50 (4.673 %) Data Modelling 8 44 (4.112 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 42 (3.925 %) Stakeholder Management 9 42 (3.925 %) Security Cleared 10 37 (3.458 %) BPR 11 36 (3.364 %) OO 12 34 (3.178 %) Agile Software Development 13 32 (2.991 %) Migration 13 32 (2.991 %) Workflow 14 31 (2.897 %) Risk Management 15 29 (2.710 %) Programme Management 16 28 (2.617 %) RUP 17 27 (2.523 %) Use Case 17 27 (2.523 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 99 (9.252 %) SQL 2 52 (4.860 %) JavaScript 3 39 (3.645 %) Java 4 21 (1.963 %) C# 5 13 (1.215 %) PHP 6 12 (1.121 %) VB 7 11 (1.028 %) PL/SQL 8 10 (0.935 %) ActionScript 9 8 (0.748 %) VB.NET 9 8 (0.748 %) C 10 6 (0.561 %) DCL 11 4 (0.374 %) C++ 11 4 (0.374 %) VBA 12 3 (0.280 %) XPath 12 3 (0.280 %) DHTML 12 3 (0.280 %) JCL 13 2 (0.187 %) Shell Script 13 2 (0.187 %) PowerHouse 14 1 (0.093 %) COBOL 14 1 (0.093 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 36 (3.364 %) Degree 2 25 (2.336 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 21 (1.963 %) ISEB 4 18 (1.682 %) Microsoft Certification 5 14 (1.308 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 13 (1.215 %) Cisco Certification 7 10 (0.935 %) MCSE 8 7 (0.654 %) CCNA 9 6 (0.561 %) PMP 9 6 (0.561 %) PMI Certification 9 6 (0.561 %) MCDBA 10 5 (0.467 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 5 (0.467 %) ISTQB 10 5 (0.467 %) MCITP 11 4 (0.374 %) ACCA 11 4 (0.374 %) ECDL 12 3 (0.280 %) MCP 12 3 (0.280 %) ITIL Certification 13 2 (0.187 %) CISA 13 2 (0.187 %) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 29 (2.710 %) QA 2 18 (1.682 %) SLA 3 11 (1.028 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 8 (0.748 %) Basel II 5 6 (0.561 %) PCI DSS 6 2 (0.187 %) ISO9000 6 2 (0.187 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.187 %) COBIT 6 2 (0.187 %) ISO27001	System Software 1 19 (1.776 %) Active Directory 2 8 (0.748 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (0.467 %) Terminal Server 4 3 (0.280 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (0.280 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.093 %) Oracle RAC 5 1 (0.093 %) Novell eDirectory 5 1 (0.093 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.093 %) VMware Server 5 1 (0.093 %) MetaFrame 5 1 (0.093 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.093 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 6 (0.561 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 6 (0.561 %) ServiceCenter 2 3 (0.280 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 3 (0.280 %) OpenView 2 3 (0.280 %) OVSD 3 1 (0.093 %) EMC NetWorker 3 1 (0.093 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 1 (0.093 %) ZENworks 3 1 (0.093 %) MOM 3 1 (0.093 %) OpenView Configuration Management	Vendors 1 194 (18.13 %) Microsoft 2 57 (5.327 %) Oracle 3 34 (3.178 %) Lotus 4 26 (2.430 %) Cisco 5 22 (2.056 %) IBM 5 22 (2.056 %) HP 6 21 (1.963 %) SAP 7 19 (1.776 %) Remedy 8 18 (1.682 %) Citrix 9 17 (1.589 %) Adobe 10 15 (1.402 %) Business Objects 11 14 (1.308 %) Bloomberg 11 14 (1.308 %) Sybase 12 12 (1.121 %) Sun 13 11 (1.028 %) GoldenSource 14 9 (0.841 %) Reuters 15 8 (0.748 %) VMware 15 8 (0.748 %) CheckPoint 15 8 (0.748 %) Symantec 15 8 (0.748 %) Siebel