Norfolk MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Norfolk 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Argyll and Bute Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	24
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	27	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.038 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	41.54 %	45.16 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£110	£195
Average daily rate	£110	£195
% change on same period last year	-43.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£110	£195
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£236
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.31	£16.60
Average hourly rate	£16.49	£18.24
% change on same period last year	-9.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.68	£19.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.55	£15.85
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Applications Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	65	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.092 %	0.031 %
Daily rates quoted	13	9
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£201
Average daily rate	£298	£216
% change on same period last year	+37.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£313	£232
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.65	£14.44
Average hourly rate	£17.94	£16.58
% change on same period last year	+8.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.22	£18.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.55	£19.44
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
MS Office East of England

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 Norfolk 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 Norfolk region.

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 Norfolk region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 13 October 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
Norwich	-6	15	£110	-43.58 %
Great Yarmouth	-	3	-	-
King's Lynn	-	1	-	-

MS Office East of England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 35 (71.43 %) Windows 2 30 (61.22 %) Windows XP 3 27 (55.10 %) Microsoft 4 25 (51.02 %) Windows 2000 5 18 (36.73 %) Windows Server 2003 6 17 (34.69 %) Active Directory 7 14 (28.57 %) Cisco 8 13 (26.53 %) MS Exchange 9 12 (24.49 %) MS Excel 10 11 (22.45 %) Windows 2000 Server 11 10 (20.41 %) Network Design 11 10 (20.41 %) ITIL 12 9 (18.37 %) Service Delivery 12 9 (18.37 %) Firewall 12 9 (18.37 %) TCP/IP

12 9 (18.37 %) Novell 12 9 (18.37 %) Cisco PIX 12 9 (18.37 %) Video Conferencing 13 6 (12.24 %) Government 13 6 (12.24 %) Security Cleared 14 5 (10.20 %) ZENworks 14 5 (10.20 %) VPN 15 4 (8.163 %) Telecoms 15 4 (8.163 %) CTC Cleared 16 3 (6.122 %) Electronics 16 3 (6.122 %) Remedy 16 3 (6.122 %) WAN 16 3 (6.122 %) HP 17 2 (4.082 %) Citrix 17 2 (4.082 %) Lotus

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk 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 (2.041 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 13 (26.53 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (4.082 %) Lotus Notes 2 2 (4.082 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.041 %) CMS 3 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 5.5 3 1 (2.041 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 12 (24.49 %) MS Excel 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Visio 2 2 (4.082 %) MS Project 3 1 (2.041 %) Photoshop 3 1 (2.041 %) Fireworks 3 1 (2.041 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 9 (18.37 %) TCP/IP 1 9 (18.37 %) Firewall 1 9 (18.37 %) Cisco PIX 2 5 (10.20 %) VPN 3 3 (6.122 %) WAN 4 2 (4.082 %) LAN 5 1 (2.041 %) SAN 5 1 (2.041 %) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.041 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 1 (2.041 %) Flash 1 1 (2.041 %) Dreamweaver
General 1 6 (12.24 %) Government 2 4 (8.163 %) Telecoms 3 3 (6.122 %) Electronics 4 2 (4.082 %) Insurance 4 2 (4.082 %) Finance 5 1 (2.041 %) Multimedia 5 1 (2.041 %) Graphic Design 5 1 (2.041 %) Video Editing	Job Titles 1 10 (20.41 %) Desktop Support 2 7 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 6 (12.24 %) 2nd Line Support 3 6 (12.24 %) Analyst 4 5 (10.20 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (10.20 %) Desktop Engineer 5 4 (8.163 %) Technical Support 5 4 (8.163 %) Field Service Engineer 5 4 (8.163 %) Field Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (4.082 %) Desktop Analyst 6 2 (4.082 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 6 2 (4.082 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) Trainer 6 2 (4.082 %) Desktop Support Analyst 6 2 (4.082 %) Desktop Support Engineer 6 2 (4.082 %) IT Support Engineer 7 1 (2.041 %) Installations Engineer 7 1 (2.041 %) IT Administrator 7 1 (2.041 %) Network Support
Miscellaneous 1 9 (18.37 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (4.082 %) Clustering 3 1 (2.041 %) Fat Client 3 1 (2.041 %) Client/Server 3 1 (2.041 %) NHS 3 1 (2.041 %) Thin Client 3 1 (2.041 %) Blackberry 3 1 (2.041 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 35 (71.43 %) Windows 2 30 (61.22 %) Windows XP 3 25 (51.02 %) Windows 2000 4 18 (36.73 %) Windows Server 2003 5 11 (22.45 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (2.041 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (20.41 %) ITIL 1 10 (20.41 %) Network Design 2 9 (18.37 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (12.24 %) Security Cleared 4 4 (8.163 %) CTC Cleared 5 2 (4.082 %) Time Management 5 2 (4.082 %) TQM 5 2 (4.082 %) Data Management 5 2 (4.082 %) Six Sigma 5 2 (4.082 %) BPR 6 1 (2.041 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.041 %) Disaster Recovery 6 1 (2.041 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.041 %) JavaScript 1 1 (2.041 %) ActionScript
Qualifications 1 2 (4.082 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (2.041 %) MCP 2 1 (2.041 %) MCSE 2 1 (2.041 %) CCNA 2 1 (2.041 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (2.041 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.082 %) SLA 1 2 (4.082 %) EFQM
System Software 1 17 (34.69 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.041 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (2.041 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 5 (10.20 %) ZENworks
Vendors 1 27 (55.10 %) Microsoft 2 14 (28.57 %) Cisco 3 9 (18.37 %) Novell 4 3 (6.122 %) HP 4 3 (6.122 %) Remedy 5 2 (4.082 %) Minitab 5 2 (4.082 %) Citrix 5 2 (4.082 %) Lotus 5 2 (4.082 %) Symantec 6 1 (2.041 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (2.041 %) NetApp 6 1 (2.041 %) Dell 6 1 (2.041 %) Kaspersky 6 1 (2.041 %) VMware