Milton Keynes MS Office Contracts

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

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Bacup Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester 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 Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport 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 Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallington Walsall Walton-on-Thames Ware Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	20
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	67	65
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.089 %	0.066 %
As % of the category below	55.83 %	44.83 %
Daily rates quoted	6	10
Average minimum daily rate	£133	£164
Average daily rate	£140	£170
% change on same period last year	-17.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£147	£176
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	27	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.21	£12.17
Average hourly rate	£16.96	£13.47
% change on same period last year	+25.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.71	£14.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	120	145
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.160 %	0.147 %
Daily rates quoted	22	25
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£238
Average daily rate	£271	£259
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.59	£16.89
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£18.21
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.28	£19.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 89 (74.79 %) Windows 2 52 (43.70 %) Microsoft 3 48 (40.34 %) Windows XP 4 31 (26.05 %) Government 4 31 (26.05 %) MS Excel 4 31 (26.05 %) SC Cleared 4 31 (26.05 %) Security Cleared 5 23 (19.33 %) Finance 6 20 (16.81 %) Windows NT 6 20 (16.81 %) Internet 7 19 (15.97 %) MS Exchange 8 18 (15.13 %) HTML 9 15 (12.61 %) ASP 9 15 (12.61 %) XML 10 14 (11.76 %) SQL

10 14 (11.76 %) VB 11 13 (10.92 %) .NET 11 13 (10.92 %) Active Directory 12 12 (10.08 %) VB6 12 12 (10.08 %) VB.NET 13 11 (9.244 %) French Language 14 10 (8.403 %) SQL Server 15 8 (6.723 %) Oracle 16 7 (5.882 %) Legal 16 7 (5.882 %) ITIL 16 7 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 16 7 (5.882 %) Citrix 16 7 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence 17 6 (5.042 %) Intranet 17 6 (5.042 %) Novell

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 18 (15.13 %) HTML 2 15 (12.61 %) ASP 2 15 (12.61 %) XML 3 13 (10.92 %) .NET 4 5 (4.202 %) J2EE 5 4 (3.361 %) CSS 5 4 (3.361 %) JSP 5 4 (3.361 %) WebSphere 6 2 (1.681 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (0.840 %) XSL 7 1 (0.840 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 19 (15.97 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (5.042 %) Lotus Notes 3 5 (4.202 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 1 (0.840 %) SharePoint 4 1 (0.840 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 31 (26.05 %) MS Excel 2 6 (5.042 %) MS Project 3 4 (3.361 %) MS PowerPoint 4 3 (2.521 %) MS Visio 5 2 (1.681 %) ImageReady 5 2 (1.681 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (1.681 %) Oracle ERP
Communications & Networking 1 20 (16.81 %) Internet 2 6 (5.042 %) Intranet 2 6 (5.042 %) LAN 2 6 (5.042 %) WAN 2 6 (5.042 %) TCP/IP 3 3 (2.521 %) GPRS 3 3 (2.521 %) Wireless 4 2 (1.681 %) DNS 5 1 (0.840 %) LDAP 5 1 (0.840 %) ATM 5 1 (0.840 %) FTP 5 1 (0.840 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (8.403 %) SQL Server 2 5 (4.202 %) SQL Server 2000 3 3 (2.521 %) SQL Server 7 4 1 (0.840 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 1 (0.840 %) Ant 1 1 (0.840 %) ClearCase 1 1 (0.840 %) Eclipse 1 1 (0.840 %) Dreamweaver 1 1 (0.840 %) ClearQuest 1 1 (0.840 %) JMeter	General 1 31 (26.05 %) Government 2 23 (19.33 %) Finance 3 7 (5.882 %) Legal 4 3 (2.521 %) Banking 4 3 (2.521 %) Health 5 2 (1.681 %) Retail 5 2 (1.681 %) Marketing 5 2 (1.681 %) Auditing 6 1 (0.840 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 68 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 41 (34.45 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 25 (21.01 %) Service Analyst 3 25 (21.01 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 20 (16.81 %) Helpdesk Support 5 18 (15.13 %) Support Analyst 6 17 (14.29 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 7 15 (12.61 %) Developer 8 13 (10.92 %) Applications Developer 9 8 (6.723 %) Support Engineer 9 8 (6.723 %) Team Leader 10 6 (5.042 %) 1st Line Support 11 5 (4.202 %) 2nd Line Support 12 4 (3.361 %) Administrator 12 4 (3.361 %) Project Administrator 12 4 (3.361 %) Problem Analyst 13 3 (2.521 %) Desktop Support 14 2 (1.681 %) Technical Support 14 2 (1.681 %) Lead Developer 14 2 (1.681 %) Project Support Officer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (9.244 %) French Language 2 5 (4.202 %) German Language 2 5 (4.202 %) AS400 3 4 (3.361 %) Italian Language 3 4 (3.361 %) Spanish Language
Operating Systems 1 89 (74.79 %) Windows 2 48 (40.34 %) Windows XP 3 20 (16.81 %) Windows NT 4 5 (4.202 %) NetWare 5 2 (1.681 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.840 %) Linux 6 1 (0.840 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (26.05 %) SC Cleared 1 31 (26.05 %) Security Cleared 2 7 (5.882 %) ITIL 2 7 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (5.882 %) Business Intelligence 3 6 (5.042 %) SSADM 4 5 (4.202 %) Project Management 4 5 (4.202 %) Requirements Analysis 5 4 (3.361 %) Project Planning 5 4 (3.361 %) Problem Management 6 3 (2.521 %) Content Management 6 3 (2.521 %) Business Analysis 6 3 (2.521 %) Incident Management 6 3 (2.521 %) RAD 6 3 (2.521 %) DSDM 7 2 (1.681 %) ERP 7 2 (1.681 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (1.681 %) PRINCE 8 1 (0.840 %) Configuration Management 8 1 (0.840 %) CMMI
Programming Languages 1 14 (11.76 %) SQL 1 14 (11.76 %) VB 2 12 (10.08 %) VB.NET 2 12 (10.08 %) VB6 3 4 (3.361 %) Java 3 4 (3.361 %) PHP 4 1 (0.840 %) C++	Qualifications 1 4 (3.361 %) Microsoft Certification 2 3 (2.521 %) A+ Certification 2 3 (2.521 %) MCDST 3 2 (1.681 %) MCSE 3 2 (1.681 %) CNA 3 2 (1.681 %) Novell Certification 4 1 (0.840 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (0.840 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.840 %) SLA 1 1 (0.840 %) QA	System Software 1 13 (10.92 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (0.840 %) DameWare	Vendors 1 52 (43.70 %) Microsoft 2 8 (6.723 %) Oracle 3 7 (5.882 %) Citrix 4 6 (5.042 %) Novell 4 6 (5.042 %) Lotus 5 5 (4.202 %) JD Edwards 6 4 (3.361 %) FatWire 7 3 (2.521 %) Adobe