North East MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the North East 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	26	37
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	34	37
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.037 %
As % of the category below	37.78 %	41.57 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£356	£230
Average daily rate	£359	£243
% change on same period last year	+48.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£255
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	14
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£9.73
Average hourly rate	£15.90	£10.26
% change on same period last year	+54.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.80	£10.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications North East
Matching contract IT job ads	90	89
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.090 %
Daily rates quoted	20	19
Average minimum daily rate	£314	£248
Average daily rate	£332	£255
% change on same period last year	+30.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£262
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.88	£10.47
Average hourly rate	£16.70	£11.27
% change on same period last year	+48.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.52	£12.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office 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 North East 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 North East region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the North East 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 North East region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the North East region over the 3 months to 25 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
Tyne and Wear	-4	12	-	-
Durham	0	9	£359	-
Teesside	-	1	-	-

MS Office England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 41 (57.75 %) Microsoft 2 33 (46.48 %) Windows 3 26 (36.62 %) Windows XP 4 24 (33.80 %) Active Directory 5 17 (23.94 %) MS Excel 6 13 (18.31 %) TCP/IP 6 13 (18.31 %) LAN 7 9 (12.68 %) Linux 7 9 (12.68 %) Windows 2000 7 9 (12.68 %) MS Project 8 8 (11.27 %) WAN 8 8 (11.27 %) MS Exchange 8 8 (11.27 %) SLA 9 7 (9.859 %) Agresso 9 7 (9.859 %) GIS

10 6 (8.451 %) AutoCAD 10 6 (8.451 %) Microsoft Certification 10 6 (8.451 %) ITIL 10 6 (8.451 %) SQL 11 5 (7.042 %) VMware 11 5 (7.042 %) Applix 11 5 (7.042 %) PVCS 11 5 (7.042 %) UNIX 11 5 (7.042 %) LDAP 11 5 (7.042 %) Windows NT 11 5 (7.042 %) Citrix 11 5 (7.042 %) Configuration Management 12 4 (5.634 %) Lotus 12 4 (5.634 %) SAN 12 4 (5.634 %) NetApp

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East 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 3 (4.225 %) .NET 2 2 (2.817 %) XML 3 1 (1.408 %) XSLT 3 1 (1.408 %) ActiveX 3 1 (1.408 %) JMS 3 1 (1.408 %) WAP 3 1 (1.408 %) Hibernate 3 1 (1.408 %) Spring 3 1 (1.408 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.408 %) Java EE 3 1 (1.408 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.408 %) ASP 3 1 (1.408 %) COM+ 3 1 (1.408 %) EJB 3 1 (1.408 %) JDBC 3 1 (1.408 %) JSP 3 1 (1.408 %) Struts 3 1 (1.408 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.408 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 8 (11.27 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (5.634 %) Documentum 3 3 (4.225 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (2.817 %) GroupWise 4 2 (2.817 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 2 (2.817 %) TPMS 4 2 (2.817 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.408 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (1.408 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.408 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.408 %) MTS 5 1 (1.408 %) WebLogic 5 1 (1.408 %) IIS
Applications 1 17 (23.94 %) MS Excel 2 9 (12.68 %) MS Project 3 6 (8.451 %) AutoCAD 4 3 (4.225 %) MS Visio 5 2 (2.817 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 1 (1.408 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (1.408 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 2 (2.817 %) Staffware
Communications & Networking 1 13 (18.31 %) LAN 1 13 (18.31 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (11.27 %) WAN 3 5 (7.042 %) LDAP 4 4 (5.634 %) SAN 4 4 (5.634 %) iSCSI 5 3 (4.225 %) Firewall 6 2 (2.817 %) Internet 7 1 (1.408 %) Wi-Fi 7 1 (1.408 %) HSDPA 7 1 (1.408 %) Intranet 7 1 (1.408 %) VPN 7 1 (1.408 %) DNS 7 1 (1.408 %) ADSL 7 1 (1.408 %) GPRS 7 1 (1.408 %) GSM 7 1 (1.408 %) DHCP 7 1 (1.408 %) UMTS 7 1 (1.408 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (9.859 %) GIS 2 3 (4.225 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 8/8i 3 1 (1.408 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (1.408 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.408 %) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications 1 5 (7.042 %) PVCS 2 4 (5.634 %) ClearCase 3 1 (1.408 %) Rational Rose 3 1 (1.408 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.408 %) InterDev 3 1 (1.408 %) Ant 3 1 (1.408 %) JUnit 3 1 (1.408 %) Visual Studio	General 1 3 (4.225 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.408 %) Finance 2 1 (1.408 %) Education 2 1 (1.408 %) Government 2 1 (1.408 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 15 (21.13 %) Desktop Support 2 14 (19.72 %) Analyst 2 14 (19.72 %) 2nd Line Support 3 11 (15.49 %) Support Analyst 4 10 (14.08 %) Support Engineer 5 9 (12.68 %) Desktop Engineer 6 6 (8.451 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 5 (7.042 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 7 5 (7.042 %) Infrastructure Analyst 8 4 (5.634 %) Support Technician 8 4 (5.634 %) Developer 8 4 (5.634 %) Storage Engineer 9 3 (4.225 %) Desktop Analyst 9 3 (4.225 %) Server Engineer 9 3 (4.225 %) Release Manager 9 3 (4.225 %) Desktop Support Analyst 10 2 (2.817 %) Helpdesk Support 10 2 (2.817 %) Desktop Support Technician 10 2 (2.817 %) Technical Support 10 2 (2.817 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 4 (5.634 %) German Language 2 3 (4.225 %) NHS 3 2 (2.817 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.817 %) AS400 3 2 (2.817 %) Norwegian Language 4 1 (1.408 %) Video Conferencing 4 1 (1.408 %) Client/Server 4 1 (1.408 %) VLE 4 1 (1.408 %) IPTV 4 1 (1.408 %) Dutch Language
Operating Systems 1 33 (46.48 %) Windows 2 26 (36.62 %) Windows XP 3 9 (12.68 %) Linux 3 9 (12.68 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (7.042 %) Windows NT 4 5 (7.042 %) UNIX 5 4 (5.634 %) VME 5 4 (5.634 %) Solaris 6 2 (2.817 %) NetWare 7 1 (1.408 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (8.451 %) ITIL 2 5 (7.042 %) Configuration Management 3 4 (5.634 %) Release Management 4 2 (2.817 %) Project Management 4 2 (2.817 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (2.817 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (1.408 %) Project Planning 5 1 (1.408 %) Service Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (1.408 %) Change Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Migration 5 1 (1.408 %) Unified Process 5 1 (1.408 %) Information Security 5 1 (1.408 %) Programme Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Document Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Time Management 5 1 (1.408 %) Performance Management 5 1 (1.408 %) ERD 5 1 (1.408 %) Data Migration 5 1 (1.408 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 6 (8.451 %) SQL 2 4 (5.634 %) Perl 3 2 (2.817 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (2.817 %) C# 3 2 (2.817 %) Java 3 2 (2.817 %) VB 4 1 (1.408 %) VC++ 4 1 (1.408 %) C 4 1 (1.408 %) JavaScript 4 1 (1.408 %) C++ 4 1 (1.408 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 6 (8.451 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (5.634 %) MCP 3 2 (2.817 %) MCSE 4 1 (1.408 %) CCA 4 1 (1.408 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (1.408 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.408 %) Sun Certification 4 1 (1.408 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (1.408 %) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (11.27 %) SLA 2 2 (2.817 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 24 (33.80 %) Active Directory 2 4 (5.634 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (1.408 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (1.408 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 41 (57.75 %) Microsoft 2 7 (9.859 %) Agresso 3 5 (7.042 %) VMware 3 5 (7.042 %) Applix 3 5 (7.042 %) Citrix 4 4 (5.634 %) NetApp 4 4 (5.634 %) Oracle 4 4 (5.634 %) Lotus 5 2 (2.817 %) ICL 5 2 (2.817 %) Cognos 5 2 (2.817 %) Cisco 5 2 (2.817 %) Adobe 5 2 (2.817 %) HP 5 2 (2.817 %) Novell 5 2 (2.817 %) iSOFT 6 1 (1.408 %) webMethods 6 1 (1.408 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.408 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.408 %) BEA 6 1 (1.408 %) Intel