Merseyside MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Merseyside 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 Office over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Coalville Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halesowen Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Kegworth Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tonbridge Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Ware Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	6
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching contract IT job ads	27	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	47.37 %	67.31 %
Daily rates quoted	2	10
Average minimum daily rate	£131	£140
Average daily rate	£131	£141
% change on same period last year	-7.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£131	£142
UK excluding London average daily rate	£254	£255
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.11	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£12.98	£10.63
% change on same period last year	+22.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.86	£11.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.20	£14.86
% change on same period last year	+2.28 %
Applications Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	57	52
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.075 %	0.054 %
Daily rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£168
Average daily rate	£277	£173
% change on same period last year	+59.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£296	£179
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£283
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.41	£12.00
Average hourly rate	£15.39	£13.55
% change on same period last year	+13.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.37	£15.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.91	£19.06
% change on same period last year	-6.04 %
MS Office 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 Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Office within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-9	16	£131	-7.44 %
St Helens	-1	4	-	-

MS Office North West

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 25 (59.52 %) Windows 2 23 (54.76 %) Microsoft 3 15 (35.71 %) Windows XP 4 10 (23.81 %) French Language 4 10 (23.81 %) Italian Language 5 9 (21.43 %) Spanish Language 6 7 (16.67 %) Lotus 6 7 (16.67 %) NHS 6 7 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 6 7 (16.67 %) MS Excel 7 5 (11.90 %) Law 7 5 (11.90 %) TCP/IP 8 4 (9.524 %) Windows 2000 8 4 (9.524 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 4 (9.524 %) MS Exchange

8 4 (9.524 %) Windows NT 9 3 (7.143 %) Document Management 9 3 (7.143 %) Swedish Language 9 3 (7.143 %) Norwegian Language 9 3 (7.143 %) Danish Language 9 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (7.143 %) Blackberry 9 3 (7.143 %) Project Management 10 2 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 10 2 (4.762 %) Change Management 10 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (4.762 %) Active Directory 10 2 (4.762 %) Dell 10 2 (4.762 %) ITIL 10 2 (4.762 %) VBA

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

Application Development 1 1 (2.381 %) .NET Framework 1 1 (2.381 %) XHTML 1 1 (2.381 %) .NET 1 1 (2.381 %) ADO 1 1 (2.381 %) ASP 1 1 (2.381 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (2.381 %) CSS 1 1 (2.381 %) SOAP 1 1 (2.381 %) XML 1 1 (2.381 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 7 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 2 4 (9.524 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.381 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint 3 1 (2.381 %) IIS
Applications 1 7 (16.67 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.381 %) Photoshop 2 1 (2.381 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.381 %) DeltaView	Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.90 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.381 %) Reference Data 1 1 (2.381 %) MS Access 1 1 (2.381 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (2.381 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.381 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 5 (11.90 %) Law 2 2 (4.762 %) Legal 2 2 (4.762 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (4.762 %) Finance 3 1 (2.381 %) Billing 3 1 (2.381 %) Health 3 1 (2.381 %) Home Office	Job Titles 1 13 (30.95 %) Analyst 2 9 (21.43 %) 1st Line Support 3 7 (16.67 %) Desktop Support 3 7 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 7 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Support 4 5 (11.90 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (9.524 %) Support Technician 5 4 (9.524 %) Desktop Analyst 6 3 (7.143 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 3 (7.143 %) Junior 7 2 (4.762 %) Support Engineer 7 2 (4.762 %) Coordinator 7 2 (4.762 %) Tester 7 2 (4.762 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (4.762 %) Service Manager 7 2 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Operator 7 2 (4.762 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 2 (4.762 %) Junior Tester 7 2 (4.762 %) Helpdesk Technician 7 2 (4.762 %) Desktop Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 10 (23.81 %) French Language 1 10 (23.81 %) Italian Language 2 9 (21.43 %) Spanish Language 3 7 (16.67 %) NHS 4 3 (7.143 %) Swedish Language 4 3 (7.143 %) Norwegian Language 4 3 (7.143 %) Danish Language 4 3 (7.143 %) Blackberry 5 1 (2.381 %) Finnish Language 5 1 (2.381 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 25 (59.52 %) Windows 2 15 (35.71 %) Windows XP 3 4 (9.524 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (9.524 %) Windows NT 4 1 (2.381 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.381 %) Linux 4 1 (2.381 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (7.143 %) Document Management 1 3 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (7.143 %) Project Management 2 2 (4.762 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (4.762 %) Change Management 2 2 (4.762 %) ITIL 3 1 (2.381 %) Content Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Incident Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Migration 3 1 (2.381 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (2.381 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE	Programming Languages 1 2 (4.762 %) VBA 2 1 (2.381 %) JavaScript 2 1 (2.381 %) VBScript 2 1 (2.381 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (4.762 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.381 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.381 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.381 %) MCP 2 1 (2.381 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.381 %) Dell Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.762 %) SLA 1 2 (4.762 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (4.762 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 4 (9.524 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 23 (54.76 %) Microsoft 2 7 (16.67 %) Lotus 3 2 (4.762 %) Dell 4 1 (2.381 %) Cisco 4 1 (2.381 %) Sun 4 1 (2.381 %) EMC 4 1 (2.381 %) HP 4 1 (2.381 %) Red Hat 4 1 (2.381 %) Remedy