Manchester MS PowerPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft PowerPoint skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS PowerPoint over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	49
Rank change on same period last year	-18
Matching contract IT job ads	14	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	7.955 %	13.19 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£134
Average daily rate	£350	£155
% change on same period last year	+125.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£176
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£255
% change on same period last year	+20.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.57	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£13.07	£12.50
% change on same period last year	+4.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.57	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.44	£21.25
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Applications Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	176	144
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.235 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	22	22
Average minimum daily rate	£292	£206
Average daily rate	£313	£224
% change on same period last year	+39.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£243
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	48	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.76	£12.49
Average hourly rate	£14.70	£13.51
% change on same period last year	+8.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.64	£14.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint
Demand Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS PowerPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint.

1 18 (75.00 %) MS Excel 2 16 (66.67 %) Microsoft 3 13 (54.17 %) MS Project 3 13 (54.17 %) MS Office 4 11 (45.83 %) Banking 5 10 (41.67 %) Project Management 6 8 (33.33 %) ClearQuest 6 8 (33.33 %) SAP 7 6 (25.00 %) ITIL 8 4 (16.67 %) Finance 8 4 (16.67 %) SAS 8 4 (16.67 %) Data Extraction 9 3 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 9 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 9 3 (12.50 %) Service Management

10 2 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 10 2 (8.333 %) Health 10 2 (8.333 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 10 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 10 2 (8.333 %) MS Access 10 2 (8.333 %) Incident Management 10 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 11 1 (4.167 %) Statistical Analysis 11 1 (4.167 %) Time Management 11 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 11 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design 11 1 (4.167 %) Animation 11 1 (4.167 %) OMEGAMON 11 1 (4.167 %) E-Learning

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (4.167 %) CSS 1 1 (4.167 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (16.67 %) SAS 2 1 (4.167 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 18 (75.00 %) MS Excel 2 13 (54.17 %) MS Project 2 13 (54.17 %) MS Office 3 3 (12.50 %) MS Visio 4 1 (4.167 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 1 (4.167 %) Photoshop	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 8 (33.33 %) ClearQuest 2 1 (4.167 %) Flash	General 1 11 (45.83 %) Banking 2 4 (16.67 %) Finance 3 2 (8.333 %) Health 3 2 (8.333 %) Insurance 4 1 (4.167 %) Graphic Design 4 1 (4.167 %) Animation 4 1 (4.167 %) Education 4 1 (4.167 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (29.17 %) Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Administrator 3 4 (16.67 %) Report Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) PMO Administrator 3 4 (16.67 %) PMO Assistant 4 3 (12.50 %) Data Analyst 5 2 (8.333 %) Service Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 5 2 (8.333 %) Service Desk Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Project Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) E-Learning Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Capacity Manager 6 1 (4.167 %) Developer 6 1 (4.167 %) Service Analyst 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Administrator 6 1 (4.167 %) Infrastructure Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (16.67 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (4.167 %) NHS 2 1 (4.167 %) Mainframe 2 1 (4.167 %) E-Learning 2 1 (4.167 %) SCORM
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (41.67 %) Project Management 2 6 (25.00 %) ITIL 3 3 (12.50 %) Data Analysis 3 3 (12.50 %) Service Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Service Delivery 4 2 (8.333 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Incident Management 4 2 (8.333 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 5 1 (4.167 %) Time Management 5 1 (4.167 %) Statistical Analysis 5 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (4.167 %) E-Commerce
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) Java 1 1 (4.167 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.167 %) SLA	Systems Management 1 1 (4.167 %) Unicenter 1 1 (4.167 %) OMEGAMON
Vendors 1 16 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 8 (33.33 %) SAP 3 2 (8.333 %) Adobe 4 1 (4.167 %) Lotus