The first table below looks at the demand for MS PowerPoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS PowerPoint 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 Applications category for the Milton Keynes 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 PowerPoint
Rank 32 53 48
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -5
Contract jobs citing MS PowerPoint 23 9 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 4.389% 1.253% 1.176%
As % of the Applications category 20.35% 8.491% 6.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 1
Average daily rate £135 £263 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% +38.15%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £314 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.94% +4.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
Average hourly rate £10.09 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
All Applications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
113 106 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 21.56% 14.76% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 34 35
Average daily rate £260 £225 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.55% -15.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £160 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £392
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 32
Average hourly rate £13.75 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.04 £11.52 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £17.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS PowerPoint
Buckinghamshire

MS PowerPoint
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Milton Keynes MS PowerPoint Jobs Demand Trend

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MS PowerPoint Daily Rate Trend

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes MS PowerPoint Hourly Rate Trend

MS PowerPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 30 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 25 (69.44%) Microsoft
3 19 (52.78%) Remedy
4 17 (47.22%) Active Directory
5 13 (36.11%) MS Office
6 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
6 6 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
7 5 (13.89%) ITIL
8 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
8 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
8 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
9 3 (8.333%) DV Cleared
9 3 (8.333%) Finance
10 2 (5.556%) Migration
10 2 (5.556%) Business Continuity
10 2 (5.556%) Information Security
10 2 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
10 2 (5.556%) SQL
10 2 (5.556%) VBA
10 2 (5.556%) Project Management
11 1 (2.778%) BCP
11 1 (2.778%) EMC
11 1 (2.778%) Citrix
11 1 (2.778%) SAN
11 1 (2.778%) Terminal Server
11 1 (2.778%) Service Delivery
11 1 (2.778%) Management Information System
11 1 (2.778%) Telecoms
11 1 (2.778%) .NET

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (2.778%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.778%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 30 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 13 (36.11%) MS Office
3 6 (16.67%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (11.11%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) SAN
1 1 (2.778%) LDAP
1 1 (2.778%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.778%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.778%) MS Access
1 1 (2.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.778%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 3 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (2.778%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.778%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 18 (50.00%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Administrator
3 5 (13.89%) Support Assistant
3 5 (13.89%) Project Administrator
4 4 (11.11%) Project Support Assistant
5 2 (5.556%) Business Continuity Analyst
5 2 (5.556%) IT Administrator
5 2 (5.556%) Business Analyst
6 1 (2.778%) Developer
6 1 (2.778%) Technical Support
6 1 (2.778%) Help Desk Analyst
6 1 (2.778%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (2.778%) Security Administrator
6 1 (2.778%) Access Developer
6 1 (2.778%) IT Security Administrator
6 1 (2.778%) Project Officer
6 1 (2.778%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (2.778%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (2.778%) Project Support Administrator
6 1 (2.778%) Windows Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.778%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.778%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.778%) Windows
1 1 (2.778%) Windows XP
1 1 (2.778%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (13.89%) ITIL
2 2 (5.556%) Migration
2 2 (5.556%) Business Continuity
2 2 (5.556%) Information Security
2 2 (5.556%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (2.778%) BCP
3 1 (2.778%) Service Delivery
3 1 (2.778%) ETL
3 1 (2.778%) WFM
3 1 (2.778%) Data Migration
3 1 (2.778%) Data Protection
3 1 (2.778%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (2.778%) Information Management
3 1 (2.778%) Ethical Hacking
3 1 (2.778%) Data Analysis
3 1 (2.778%) Incident Management
3 1 (2.778%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (2.778%) Portfolio Management
3 1 (2.778%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.556%) SQL
1 2 (5.556%) VBA
2 1 (2.778%) VBScript
2 1 (2.778%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.333%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) QA
System Software
1 17 (47.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.778%) Terminal Server
2 1 (2.778%) VMware ESX
2 1 (2.778%) VMware Workstation
2 1 (2.778%) vSphere
2 1 (2.778%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.778%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.778%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (69.44%) Microsoft
2 19 (52.78%) Remedy
3 1 (2.778%) EMC
3 1 (2.778%) Citrix
3 1 (2.778%) Business Objects
3 1 (2.778%) Computacenter
3 1 (2.778%) VMware
3 1 (2.778%) Veeam
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