North West MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the North West 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 10 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 Paisley 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 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	19
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	170	217
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.239 %	0.219 %
As % of the category below	38.46 %	42.80 %
Daily rates quoted	23	36
Average minimum daily rate	£194	£221
Average daily rate	£203	£233
% change on same period last year	-12.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£212	£245
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£236
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	80
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.44	£13.25
Average hourly rate	£13.61	£14.17
% change on same period last year	-3.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.79	£15.09
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.58	£15.93
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Applications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	442	507
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.622 %	0.512 %
Daily rates quoted	88	98
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£252
Average daily rate	£271	£262
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	72	128
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.58	£15.56
Average hourly rate	£18.82	£17.03
% change on same period last year	+10.48 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.05	£18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.53	£19.52
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
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 West 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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 10 October 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 West 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 West region over the 3 months to 10 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 North West region over the 3 months to 10 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
Manchester	-3	63	£174	-33.81 %
Cheshire	-4	39	£146	-22.72 %
Merseyside	-11	32	£298	+70.77 %
Lancashire	-4	10	£200	-14.32 %

MS Office England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 180 (48.00 %) Microsoft 2 162 (43.20 %) Windows 3 140 (37.33 %) MS Excel 4 97 (25.87 %) Windows XP 5 62 (16.53 %) Windows 2000 6 40 (10.67 %) Active Directory 7 37 (9.867 %) Windows Server 2003 7 37 (9.867 %) Finance 8 36 (9.600 %) Project Management 8 36 (9.600 %) MS Exchange 9 25 (6.667 %) ITIL 10 24 (6.400 %) Citrix 11 23 (6.133 %) NHS 11 23 (6.133 %) SQL 11 23 (6.133 %) MS Project

11 23 (6.133 %) MS PowerPoint 12 22 (5.867 %) Lotus Notes 12 22 (5.867 %) SharePoint 12 22 (5.867 %) Lotus 13 20 (5.333 %) SAP 13 20 (5.333 %) French Language 13 20 (5.333 %) Spanish Language 14 19 (5.067 %) XML 14 19 (5.067 %) JavaScript 15 18 (4.800 %) SQL Server 15 18 (4.800 %) PRINCE2 15 18 (4.800 %) Windows Vista 16 17 (4.533 %) Italian Language 16 17 (4.533 %) TCP/IP 17 16 (4.267 %) Novell

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 19 (5.067 %) XML 2 16 (4.267 %) HTML 3 13 (3.467 %) WebServices 4 10 (2.667 %) CSS 5 9 (2.400 %) .NET 5 9 (2.400 %) J2EE 6 8 (2.133 %) XHTML 7 5 (1.333 %) AJAX 7 5 (1.333 %) ASP 7 5 (1.333 %) ASP.NET 8 4 (1.067 %) Servlets 9 2 (0.533 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 2 (0.533 %) SVG 10 1 (0.267 %) Spring 10 1 (0.267 %) XSLT 10 1 (0.267 %) ActiveX 10 1 (0.267 %) .NET Framework 10 1 (0.267 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (0.267 %) SOAP 10 1 (0.267 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 36 (9.600 %) MS Exchange 2 22 (5.867 %) Lotus Notes 2 22 (5.867 %) SharePoint 3 10 (2.667 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 8 (2.133 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 6 (1.600 %) IIS 6 4 (1.067 %) Documentum 6 4 (1.067 %) GroupWise 7 2 (0.533 %) CMS 7 2 (0.533 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (0.533 %) SharePoint Portal Server 7 2 (0.533 %) Joomla! 8 1 (0.267 %) Office Project Server 8 1 (0.267 %) LiveLink 8 1 (0.267 %) eRoom 8 1 (0.267 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 1 (0.267 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 140 (37.33 %) MS Excel 2 23 (6.133 %) MS Project 2 23 (6.133 %) MS PowerPoint 3 13 (3.467 %) MS Visio 4 8 (2.133 %) Photoshop 5 4 (1.067 %) Fireworks 5 4 (1.067 %) Adobe Captivate 6 3 (0.800 %) 3ds Max 6 3 (0.800 %) Adobe Illustrator 6 3 (0.800 %) InDesign 6 3 (0.800 %) AutoCAD 6 3 (0.800 %) Acrobat 7 2 (0.533 %) QuarkXPress 7 2 (0.533 %) CA Clarity 8 1 (0.267 %) Spreadsheet 8 1 (0.267 %) InfoPath 8 1 (0.267 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 2 (0.533 %) SAP SD 2 1 (0.267 %) SAP APO 2 1 (0.267 %) Oracle EBS 2 1 (0.267 %) Line 50 2 1 (0.267 %) SAP HR
Communications & Networking 1 17 (4.533 %) TCP/IP 2 15 (4.000 %) LAN 3 9 (2.400 %) Intranet 4 7 (1.867 %) Internet 4 7 (1.867 %) WAN 5 6 (1.600 %) VPN 6 4 (1.067 %) Ethernet 7 3 (0.800 %) TELNET 7 3 (0.800 %) DNS 7 3 (0.800 %) LDAP 8 2 (0.533 %) DHCP 9 1 (0.267 %) Broadband 9 1 (0.267 %) PBX 9 1 (0.267 %) Firewall 9 1 (0.267 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 18 (4.800 %) SQL Server 2 10 (2.667 %) BusinessObjects 3 8 (2.133 %) SQL Server 2000 3 8 (2.133 %) SQL Server 2005 4 7 (1.867 %) Hyperion Essbase 5 4 (1.067 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (1.067 %) Datawarehouse 5 4 (1.067 %) DTS 6 3 (0.800 %) OLAP 6 3 (0.800 %) MS Access 6 3 (0.800 %) RDBMS 6 3 (0.800 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 2 (0.533 %) Oracle OWB 7 2 (0.533 %) MySQL 7 2 (0.533 %) Adabas 7 2 (0.533 %) ETL 7 2 (0.533 %) BusinessObjects XI 8 1 (0.267 %) Reference Data 8 1 (0.267 %) SAP BW 8 1 (0.267 %) QlikView
Development Applications 1 9 (2.400 %) Dreamweaver 2 7 (1.867 %) ClearQuest 3 6 (1.600 %) Flash 4 4 (1.067 %) FrontPage 5 3 (0.800 %) Subversion 5 3 (0.800 %) Oracle Forms 6 2 (0.533 %) LoadRunner 6 2 (0.533 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 2 (0.533 %) Oracle APEX 7 1 (0.267 %) Visual Studio 7 1 (0.267 %) ClearCase 7 1 (0.267 %) TestDirector	General 1 37 (9.867 %) Finance 2 13 (3.467 %) Health 3 12 (3.200 %) Law 4 10 (2.667 %) Banking 5 8 (2.133 %) Education 5 8 (2.133 %) Government 6 7 (1.867 %) Legal 7 6 (1.600 %) Pharmaceutical 8 5 (1.333 %) Publishing 9 4 (1.067 %) Manufacturing 9 4 (1.067 %) Construction 10 3 (0.800 %) Telecoms 10 3 (0.800 %) Retail 10 3 (0.800 %) Billing 10 3 (0.800 %) Marketing 10 3 (0.800 %) Graphic Design 11 2 (0.533 %) Local Government 12 1 (0.267 %) Pensions 12 1 (0.267 %) Retail Banking 12 1 (0.267 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 123 (32.80 %) Analyst 2 46 (12.27 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 35 (9.333 %) 1st Line Support 4 32 (8.533 %) Helpdesk Support 5 28 (7.467 %) Support Analyst 6 27 (7.200 %) Administrator 7 23 (6.133 %) Desktop Support 8 21 (5.600 %) Developer 9 20 (5.333 %) Business Analyst 10 19 (5.067 %) Support Engineer 11 17 (4.533 %) 2nd Line Support 12 12 (3.200 %) Consultant 13 11 (2.933 %) Coordinator 13 11 (2.933 %) Service Analyst 13 11 (2.933 %) Desktop Analyst 14 10 (2.667 %) Desktop Support Analyst 15 9 (2.400 %) Service Desk Analyst 15 9 (2.400 %) Project Manager 16 8 (2.133 %) SharePoint Consultant 17 7 (1.867 %) Desktop Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 23 (6.133 %) NHS 2 20 (5.333 %) French Language 2 20 (5.333 %) Spanish Language 3 17 (4.533 %) Italian Language 4 13 (3.467 %) Swedish Language 4 13 (3.467 %) Danish Language 4 13 (3.467 %) Dutch Language 4 13 (3.467 %) Statistics 5 12 (3.200 %) German Language 5 12 (3.200 %) Norwegian Language 6 11 (2.933 %) Blackberry 7 8 (2.133 %) Portuguese Language 7 8 (2.133 %) Finnish Language 8 6 (1.600 %) PDA 8 6 (1.600 %) Management Information System 9 5 (1.333 %) Mainframe 10 4 (1.067 %) Client/Server 10 4 (1.067 %) Clustering 11 3 (0.800 %) Replication 11 3 (0.800 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 162 (43.20 %) Windows 2 97 (25.87 %) Windows XP 3 62 (16.53 %) Windows 2000 4 37 (9.867 %) Windows Server 2003 5 18 (4.800 %) Windows Vista 6 16 (4.267 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 15 (4.000 %) Windows NT 8 11 (2.933 %) UNIX 9 4 (1.067 %) NetWare 10 3 (0.800 %) VMS 11 2 (0.533 %) Linux 11 2 (0.533 %) VME 11 2 (0.533 %) Windows Mobile 12 1 (0.267 %) Red Hat Linux 12 1 (0.267 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 36 (9.600 %) Project Management 2 25 (6.667 %) ITIL 3 18 (4.800 %) PRINCE2 4 13 (3.467 %) Business Intelligence 5 11 (2.933 %) Document Management 6 10 (2.667 %) OO 7 9 (2.400 %) OOD 7 9 (2.400 %) SOA 7 9 (2.400 %) Information Management 8 8 (2.133 %) Content Management 8 8 (2.133 %) Migration 9 7 (1.867 %) Validation 9 7 (1.867 %) Project Planning 9 7 (1.867 %) Web Development 9 7 (1.867 %) Security Cleared 10 6 (1.600 %) Asset Management 11 5 (1.333 %) Incident Management 11 5 (1.333 %) Time Management 11 5 (1.333 %) Change Management 11 5 (1.333 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 23 (6.133 %) SQL 2 19 (5.067 %) JavaScript 3 10 (2.667 %) VB 4 9 (2.400 %) VBA 4 9 (2.400 %) Java 5 5 (1.333 %) FoxPro (VFP) 5 5 (1.333 %) PL/SQL 6 3 (0.800 %) C# 7 2 (0.533 %) PHP 7 2 (0.533 %) NATURAL 8 1 (0.267 %) VB6 8 1 (0.267 %) XPath 8 1 (0.267 %) DHTML 8 1 (0.267 %) RPG 8 1 (0.267 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 12 (3.200 %) Microsoft Certification 2 11 (2.933 %) ISEB 3 7 (1.867 %) MCSE 4 4 (1.067 %) MCSA 4 4 (1.067 %) MCP 5 3 (0.800 %) MCDBA 5 3 (0.800 %) Novell Certification 5 3 (0.800 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 3 (0.800 %) Degree 6 2 (0.533 %) CNE 6 2 (0.533 %) ECDL 6 2 (0.533 %) ACCA 6 2 (0.533 %) CIMA 7 1 (0.267 %) MOS 7 1 (0.267 %) ITIL Certification 7 1 (0.267 %) Dell Certification 7 1 (0.267 %) HND 7 1 (0.267 %) Citrix Certification 7 1 (0.267 %) CNA 7 1 (0.267 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (3.733 %) SLA 2 5 (1.333 %) QA 3 4 (1.067 %) WAI 4 3 (0.800 %) WCAG 5 2 (0.533 %) ISO9001 6 1 (0.267 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 40 (10.67 %) Active Directory 2 5 (1.333 %) Backup Exec 3 3 (0.800 %) Novell eDirectory 3 3 (0.800 %) NDS 4 2 (0.533 %) MetaFrame 4 2 (0.533 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 6 (1.600 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (0.800 %) ZENworks 3 2 (0.533 %) DameWare 4 1 (0.267 %) ServiceCenter 4 1 (0.267 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 180 (48.00 %) Microsoft 2 24 (6.400 %) Citrix 3 22 (5.867 %) Lotus 4 20 (5.333 %) SAP 5 16 (4.267 %) Novell 6 15 (4.000 %) Oracle 7 10 (2.667 %) Business Objects 7 10 (2.667 %) HP 7 10 (2.667 %) Remedy 8 9 (2.400 %) Adobe 9 7 (1.867 %) Cisco 9 7 (1.867 %) Hyperion 10 6 (1.600 %) Dell 11 4 (1.067 %) VERITAS 12 3 (0.800 %) Macromedia 13 2 (0.533 %) Vignette 13 2 (0.533 %) Intel 13 2 (0.533 %) Avaya 13 2 (0.533 %) Genesys 13 2 (0.533 %) Agresso