Manchester MS Access Contracts

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

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Greenford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Ruislip Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	63
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	7	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	2.583 %	2.469 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£300
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£275	£297
% change on same period last year	-7.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.00	£13.00
Average hourly rate	£25.50	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+70.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.00	£17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.61	£19.56
% change on same period last year	+25.82 %
Database & Business Intelligence Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	271	243
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.357 %	0.254 %
Daily rates quoted	36	48
Average minimum daily rate	£284	£286
Average daily rate	£302	£307
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£321	£328
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	20
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.04	£21.56
Average hourly rate	£27.26	£22.88
% change on same period last year	+19.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.49	£24.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.64	£30.90
% change on same period last year	+5.62 %
MS Access North West

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 Access
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 14 (53.85 %) MS Excel 2 13 (50.00 %) NHS 3 9 (34.62 %) SQL 4 7 (26.92 %) SQL Server 5 6 (23.08 %) Service Management 6 5 (19.23 %) Finance 6 5 (19.23 %) MS PowerPoint 6 5 (19.23 %) Incident Management 6 5 (19.23 %) Configuration Management 6 5 (19.23 %) ITIL 6 5 (19.23 %) Microsoft 7 4 (15.38 %) VB 7 4 (15.38 %) NPfIT 7 4 (15.38 %) Smartcard 8 3 (11.54 %) Data Extraction

8 3 (11.54 %) Transact-SQL 8 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8 3 (11.54 %) SLA 9 2 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 9 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (7.692 %) XML 9 2 (7.692 %) SharePoint 9 2 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (7.692 %) Business Objects 9 2 (7.692 %) HTML 9 2 (7.692 %) Java 9 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 9 2 (7.692 %) Web Development 9 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 1 (3.846 %) VB6

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, 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 2 (7.692 %) XML 1 2 (7.692 %) HTML 2 1 (3.846 %) .NET 2 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (3.846 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.846 %) Oracle BPEL 2 1 (3.846 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 14 (53.85 %) MS Excel 2 5 (19.23 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (3.846 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (26.92 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.692 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (7.692 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server 7
General 1 5 (19.23 %) Finance 2 1 (3.846 %) Education 2 1 (3.846 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 10 (38.46 %) Analyst 2 6 (23.08 %) Report Analyst 3 4 (15.38 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (11.54 %) Developer 5 2 (7.692 %) Information Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) SQL DBA 6 1 (3.846 %) Technical Designer 6 1 (3.846 %) Services Delivery Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Integration Manager 6 1 (3.846 %) .NET Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) SQL Server DBA 6 1 (3.846 %) VB.NET Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) Integration Analyst 6 1 (3.846 %) Report Writer 6 1 (3.846 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 1 (3.846 %) Coordinator 6 1 (3.846 %) Junior 6 1 (3.846 %) DBA 6 1 (3.846 %) Development Manager
Miscellaneous 1 13 (50.00 %) NHS 2 4 (15.38 %) NPfIT 2 4 (15.38 %) Smartcard 3 3 (11.54 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (3.846 %) Statistics	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (23.08 %) Service Management 2 5 (19.23 %) Incident Management 2 5 (19.23 %) Configuration Management 2 5 (19.23 %) ITIL 3 2 (7.692 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.846 %) Data Management 4 1 (3.846 %) BPEL 4 1 (3.846 %) Data Analysis 4 1 (3.846 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (3.846 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 9 (34.62 %) SQL 2 4 (15.38 %) VB 3 3 (11.54 %) Transact-SQL 4 2 (7.692 %) Java 5 1 (3.846 %) VB6 5 1 (3.846 %) JavaScript 5 1 (3.846 %) PL/SQL 5 1 (3.846 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (11.54 %) SLA	Vendors 1 5 (19.23 %) Microsoft 2 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 3 2 (7.692 %) Business Objects 4 1 (3.846 %) SeeBeyond