The first table below looks at the demand for MS Access skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 21 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 Database & Business Intelligence category for the Manchester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Access
Rank 63 84 73
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -11
Contract jobs citing MS Access 10 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.059% 0.385% 0.099%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 4.292% 1.684% 0.467%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £375 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £9.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.45 £21.86 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+16.42% +15.05%
All Database & Business Intelligence
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
233 297 214
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 24.68% 22.85% 21.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 173 113
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £225 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £405 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £333 £335
% change year-on-year
-2.25% -0.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 19
Average hourly rate £40.50 £33.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +46.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £190.00 £43.50 £34.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £26.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+3.77% -18.46%
MS Access
North West

MS Access
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

Manchester MS Access Jobs Demand Trend

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester MS Access Daily Rate Trend

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester MS Access Hourly Rate Trend

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MS Access 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 Access.

1 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) VBA
3 6 (50.00%) VB
4 4 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (25.00%) Business Objects
5 3 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
6 2 (16.67%) RedPrairie
6 2 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
6 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 2 (16.67%) Baan
7 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
7 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
7 1 (8.333%) Migration
7 1 (8.333%) CMS
7 1 (8.333%) Replication
7 1 (8.333%) Clustering
7 1 (8.333%) Information Security
7 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (8.333%) ETL
7 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
7 1 (8.333%) Dell
7 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (8.333%) SAN
7 1 (8.333%) .NET

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MS Access 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 Access. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) CMS
1 1 (8.333%) Umbraco
Applications
1 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SAP Data Services
2 2 (16.67%) BusinessObjects XI
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (8.333%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
1 1 (8.333%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (8.333%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (83.33%) Developer
2 5 (41.67%) MI Developer
3 3 (25.00%) Excel Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Report Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Business Objects Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Access Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Business Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) DBA
5 1 (8.333%) Administrator
5 1 (8.333%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) VBA Developer
5 1 (8.333%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) SQL DBA
5 1 (8.333%) SAP Data Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Teradata DBA
5 1 (8.333%) Data Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) SAP Data Migration Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Umbraco Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.333%) Replication
1 1 (8.333%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (8.333%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Information Security
2 1 (8.333%) ETL
2 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (8.333%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) VBA
2 6 (50.00%) VB
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.333%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) Business Objects
3 2 (16.67%) RedPrairie
3 2 (16.67%) Baan
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) SAP
4 1 (8.333%) Twitter