Northampton MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Northampton 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	22	17
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	11	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.015 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	28.95 %	17.65 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£300
Average daily rate	£350	£300
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.80	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£12.20	£10.50
% change on same period last year	+16.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.60	£11.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications Northampton
Matching contract IT job ads	38	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.051 %	0.034 %
Daily rates quoted	11	13
Average minimum daily rate	£391	£305
Average daily rate	£431	£351
% change on same period last year	+22.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£471	£397
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.72	£18.13
Average hourly rate	£16.58	£19.37
% change on same period last year	-14.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.44	£20.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office Northamptonshire

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 Northampton 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 Northampton 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 Northampton region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 18 (46.15 %) Windows 2 15 (38.46 %) Microsoft 3 13 (33.33 %) MS Excel 4 12 (30.77 %) Active Directory 5 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 6 9 (23.08 %) Stakeholder Management 7 8 (20.51 %) MS Exchange 7 8 (20.51 %) MS PowerPoint 8 7 (17.95 %) Project Management 9 6 (15.38 %) Finance 10 5 (12.82 %) Government 10 5 (12.82 %) Windows XP 10 5 (12.82 %) BPR 10 5 (12.82 %) Local Government 11 4 (10.26 %) Banking

12 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 12 3 (7.692 %) Windows NT 12 3 (7.692 %) MCSE 12 3 (7.692 %) MS Project 12 3 (7.692 %) Retail 12 3 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 2 (5.128 %) Retail Banking 13 2 (5.128 %) Data Management 13 2 (5.128 %) Telecoms 13 2 (5.128 %) Open Workbench 13 2 (5.128 %) CA Clarity 13 2 (5.128 %) Spreadsheet 13 2 (5.128 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 2 (5.128 %) ITIL 13 2 (5.128 %) MCP

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northampton 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 Platforms 1 8 (20.51 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (7.692 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (5.128 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 13 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 8 (20.51 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (7.692 %) MS Project 4 2 (5.128 %) Open Workbench 4 2 (5.128 %) CA Clarity 4 2 (5.128 %) Spreadsheet
Business Applications 1 1 (2.564 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 2 (5.128 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (5.128 %) SAN 2 1 (2.564 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.564 %) Internet 2 1 (2.564 %) 3G 2 1 (2.564 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.564 %) GSM
General 1 6 (15.38 %) Finance 2 5 (12.82 %) Government 2 5 (12.82 %) Local Government 3 4 (10.26 %) Banking 4 3 (7.692 %) Retail 5 2 (5.128 %) Retail Banking 5 2 (5.128 %) Telecoms 6 1 (2.564 %) Financial Institution 6 1 (2.564 %) Law	Job Titles 1 14 (35.90 %) Analyst 2 9 (23.08 %) Support Analyst 3 5 (12.82 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 5 (12.82 %) 2nd Line Support 4 4 (10.26 %) Helpdesk Support 4 4 (10.26 %) Project Manager 4 4 (10.26 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 5 3 (7.692 %) Helpdesk Technician 5 3 (7.692 %) Service Desk Analyst 5 3 (7.692 %) Service Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) Project Planner 6 2 (5.128 %) Administrator 6 2 (5.128 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (5.128 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (5.128 %) Support Engineer 7 1 (2.564 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (2.564 %) Desktop Support 7 1 (2.564 %) Trainer 7 1 (2.564 %) Senior Analyst 7 1 (2.564 %) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.564 %) Blackberry 1 1 (2.564 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 18 (46.15 %) Windows 2 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 3 5 (12.82 %) Windows XP 4 3 (7.692 %) Windows NT 5 1 (2.564 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (23.08 %) Stakeholder Management 2 7 (17.95 %) Project Management 3 5 (12.82 %) BPR 4 2 (5.128 %) ITIL 4 2 (5.128 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (5.128 %) PRINCE 4 2 (5.128 %) Data Management 4 2 (5.128 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Network Planning 5 1 (2.564 %) Incident Management 5 1 (2.564 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.564 %) Migration 5 1 (2.564 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (5.128 %) C
Qualifications 1 3 (7.692 %) MCSE 1 3 (7.692 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) MCP 3 1 (2.564 %) HNC 3 1 (2.564 %) MCSA 3 1 (2.564 %) CNA 3 1 (2.564 %) Novell Certification 3 1 (2.564 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (5.128 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (30.77 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.564 %) ISA Server	Vendors 1 15 (38.46 %) Microsoft 2 1 (2.564 %) Nokia 2 1 (2.564 %) CheckPoint 2 1 (2.564 %) Cisco