Oxfordshire MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Oxfordshire 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 9 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Calderdale Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Evesham Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hoddesdon Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Kegworth Kent Kidderminster Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Prestwick Queensferry Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Rugby Runcorn Sale Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thirsk Tidworth Torpoint Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	31	20
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	18	32
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.039 %
As % of the category below	25.00 %	40.51 %
Daily rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£350
Average daily rate	£153	£375
% change on same period last year	-59.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£157	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£262	£262
% change on same period last year	-0.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.13	£11.80
Average hourly rate	£14.27	£12.70
% change on same period last year	+12.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.42	£13.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.61	£16.15
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Applications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	72	79
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.145 %	0.097 %
Daily rates quoted	21	7
Average minimum daily rate	£299	£296
Average daily rate	£319	£316
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£285
% change on same period last year	+10.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.60	£13.26
Average hourly rate	£20.76	£14.49
% change on same period last year	+43.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.93	£15.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.64	£18.42
% change on same period last year	+6.63 %
MS Office South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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 Oxfordshire region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009.

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 9 January 2009. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+1	7	-	-
Banbury	-	1	-	-

MS Office South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 30 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 28 (46.67 %) Windows 3 21 (35.00 %) Windows XP 4 17 (28.33 %) MS Excel 5 14 (23.33 %) Windows 2000 6 12 (20.00 %) Active Directory 7 11 (18.33 %) MS Exchange 8 10 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 9 9 (15.00 %) SharePoint 10 7 (11.67 %) C# 10 7 (11.67 %) .NET 10 7 (11.67 %) ASP.NET 10 7 (11.67 %) Cisco 10 7 (11.67 %) Commerce Server 10 7 (11.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007

10 7 (11.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 11 6 (10.00 %) DNS 11 6 (10.00 %) DHCP 11 6 (10.00 %) HTML 11 6 (10.00 %) LAN 12 5 (8.333 %) WAN 12 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server 12 5 (8.333 %) ITIL 12 5 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 12 5 (8.333 %) Internet 12 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 13 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 13 4 (6.667 %) XML 13 4 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 14 3 (5.000 %) WebServices

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 9 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (11.67 %) .NET 1 7 (11.67 %) ASP.NET 2 6 (10.00 %) HTML 3 4 (6.667 %) XML 4 3 (5.000 %) WebServices 5 1 (1.667 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 11 (18.33 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (15.00 %) SharePoint 3 7 (11.67 %) Commerce Server 3 7 (11.67 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 7 (11.67 %) Commerce Server 2007 4 5 (8.333 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 3 (5.000 %) IIS 6 2 (3.333 %) Lotus Notes 6 2 (3.333 %) CMS 6 2 (3.333 %) Office Communications Server 7 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 1 (1.667 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (1.667 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 17 (28.33 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.000 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (3.333 %) MS Visio 3 2 (3.333 %) MS Project 4 1 (1.667 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (3.333 %) Remedy AR System 2 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (1.667 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 6 (10.00 %) LAN 1 6 (10.00 %) DHCP 1 6 (10.00 %) DNS 2 5 (8.333 %) TCP/IP 2 5 (8.333 %) WAN 2 5 (8.333 %) Internet 3 3 (5.000 %) Firewall 3 3 (5.000 %) Intranet 4 1 (1.667 %) Broadband 4 1 (1.667 %) SAN 4 1 (1.667 %) VPN 4 1 (1.667 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2 3 (5.000 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.667 %) Oracle Discoverer
General 1 3 (5.000 %) Finance 1 3 (5.000 %) Marketing 2 2 (3.333 %) Pharmaceutical 2 2 (3.333 %) Telecoms 2 2 (3.333 %) Government 3 1 (1.667 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (1.667 %) Publishing 3 1 (1.667 %) Military 3 1 (1.667 %) Automotive 3 1 (1.667 %) Education	Job Titles 1 15 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 10 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 3 7 (11.67 %) Developer 4 6 (10.00 %) Administrator 4 6 (10.00 %) IT Support Analyst 5 5 (8.333 %) Desktop Support 6 4 (6.667 %) Support Engineer 6 4 (6.667 %) Support Technician 6 4 (6.667 %) Applications Support 6 4 (6.667 %) 2nd Line Support 7 3 (5.000 %) .NET Developer 7 3 (5.000 %) Systems Developer 7 3 (5.000 %) Business Developer 8 2 (3.333 %) Sales Executive 8 2 (3.333 %) Coordinator 8 2 (3.333 %) Desktop Engineer 8 2 (3.333 %) Team Leader 8 2 (3.333 %) IT Support Engineer 8 2 (3.333 %) Helpdesk Team Leader 8 2 (3.333 %) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous 1 2 (3.333 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.667 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.667 %) French Language 2 1 (1.667 %) German Language 2 1 (1.667 %) Italian Language 2 1 (1.667 %) Spanish Language 2 1 (1.667 %) Data Conversion 2 1 (1.667 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 28 (46.67 %) Windows 2 21 (35.00 %) Windows XP 3 14 (23.33 %) Windows 2000 4 10 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (5.000 %) UNIX 5 3 (5.000 %) Linux 6 2 (3.333 %) HPUX 6 2 (3.333 %) Solaris 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows NT 6 2 (3.333 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.667 %) Windows Server 2008 7 1 (1.667 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (1.667 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (8.333 %) ITIL 2 2 (3.333 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (3.333 %) CRM 2 2 (3.333 %) Project Management 2 2 (3.333 %) Migration 2 2 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Stress Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Integration Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) System Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Penetration Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Software Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Use Case 3 1 (1.667 %) Quality Management 3 1 (1.667 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (1.667 %) Validation 3 1 (1.667 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (1.667 %) PRINCE	Programming Languages 1 7 (11.67 %) C# 2 2 (3.333 %) VB 3 1 (1.667 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (6.667 %) Microsoft Certification 1 4 (6.667 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (5.000 %) Degree 2 3 (5.000 %) MCSE 3 2 (3.333 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (1.667 %) CTC Cleared 4 1 (1.667 %) MCP 4 1 (1.667 %) CCIE 4 1 (1.667 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.667 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.667 %) SLA 1 1 (1.667 %) QA
System Software 1 12 (20.00 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.000 %) Backup Exec	Systems Management 1 1 (1.667 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 30 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 7 (11.67 %) Cisco 3 3 (5.000 %) Citrix 3 3 (5.000 %) Remedy 4 2 (3.333 %) Lotus 4 2 (3.333 %) Novell 4 2 (3.333 %) Oracle 4 2 (3.333 %) Sun 4 2 (3.333 %) HP 5 1 (1.667 %) Dell 5 1 (1.667 %) VERITAS 5 1 (1.667 %) Sophos 5 1 (1.667 %) LANDesk