North Wales MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the North Wales 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Argyll and Bute Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	8	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	30.00 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£252	£241
% change on same period last year	+4.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.67	£16.32
% change on same period last year	-3.94 %
Applications North Wales
Matching contract IT job ads	10	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.016 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£240	-
Average daily rate	£308	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£375	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£306	£275
% change on same period last year	+11.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£15.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.14	£19.14
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
MS Office Wales

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 Wales 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 Wales 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 North Wales region.

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 North Wales region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Flintshire	-	1	-	-

MS Office Wales

MS Office
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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 7 (77.78 %) Windows 2 5 (55.56 %) Microsoft 3 4 (44.44 %) Windows XP 4 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory 5 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel 5 2 (22.22 %) Information Security Management 5 2 (22.22 %) Security Management 5 2 (22.22 %) Information Security 5 2 (22.22 %) UNIX 6 1 (11.11 %) Government 6 1 (11.11 %) NetWare

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North Wales 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.

Applications 1 2 (22.22 %) MS Excel	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Government
Job Titles 1 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 2 (22.22 %) Technical Support 2 2 (22.22 %) Support Engineer 2 2 (22.22 %) Desktop Support 2 2 (22.22 %) 2nd Line Support 2 2 (22.22 %) Technical Facilitator 3 1 (11.11 %) Desktop Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Desktop Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) XP Rollout Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Rollout Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Desktop Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) 1st Line Support Engineer 3 1 (11.11 %) Service Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (11.11 %) 1st Line Support 3 1 (11.11 %) Support Analyst	Operating Systems 1 7 (77.78 %) Windows 2 4 (44.44 %) Windows XP 3 2 (22.22 %) UNIX 4 1 (11.11 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (22.22 %) Information Security Management 1 2 (22.22 %) Security Management 1 2 (22.22 %) Information Security	System Software 1 3 (33.33 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 5 (55.56 %) Microsoft