Reading MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Reading 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	16	25
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	78	59
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	42.39 %	32.60 %
Daily rates quoted	16	17
Average minimum daily rate	£278	£331
Average daily rate	£314	£378
% change on same period last year	-16.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£425
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.23	£16.54
Average hourly rate	£19.73	£17.54
% change on same period last year	+12.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.23	£18.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	184	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.245 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	43	46
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£331
Average daily rate	£278	£365
% change on same period last year	-23.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.45	£21.71
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£23.09
% change on same period last year	-12.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.15	£24.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Reading 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 Reading 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 91 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 77 (53.85 %) Windows 3 42 (29.37 %) MS Excel 4 26 (18.18 %) Windows XP 5 25 (17.48 %) Microsoft Certification 6 21 (14.69 %) Windows Server 2003 6 21 (14.69 %) Windows 2000 7 20 (13.99 %) VB 7 20 (13.99 %) Security Cleared 8 19 (13.29 %) DNS 8 19 (13.29 %) SharePoint 9 18 (12.59 %) HP 10 16 (11.19 %) MS Project 11 15 (10.49 %) Java 12 14 (9.790 %) VBA

12 14 (9.790 %) IIS 12 14 (9.790 %) SharePoint Portal Server 12 14 (9.790 %) Network Load Balancing 12 14 (9.790 %) Government 13 13 (9.091 %) .NET 14 12 (8.392 %) C# 14 12 (8.392 %) HTML 15 11 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 15 11 (7.692 %) Finance 15 11 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 10 (6.993 %) ITIL 16 10 (6.993 %) C 16 10 (6.993 %) VBScript 16 10 (6.993 %) MSDE 16 10 (6.993 %) Project Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 13 (9.091 %) .NET 2 12 (8.392 %) HTML 3 11 (7.692 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (4.196 %) J2EE 4 6 (4.196 %) WebSphere 5 5 (3.497 %) XML 5 5 (3.497 %) JRules 6 3 (2.098 %) Software Packaging 7 2 (1.399 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 2 (1.399 %) ASP 7 2 (1.399 %) CSS 8 1 (0.699 %) WebServices 8 1 (0.699 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 19 (13.29 %) SharePoint 2 14 (9.790 %) IIS 2 14 (9.790 %) SharePoint Portal Server 3 11 (7.692 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 6 (4.196 %) Lotus Notes 4 6 (4.196 %) WebSphere Application Server 4 6 (4.196 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (2.797 %) Office Project Server 6 3 (2.098 %) GroupWise 7 2 (1.399 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 1 (0.699 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 1 (0.699 %) Oracle Application Server 8 1 (0.699 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 42 (29.37 %) MS Excel 2 16 (11.19 %) MS Project 3 9 (6.294 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (4.196 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (0.699 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 1 (0.699 %) SAP R/3 1 1 (0.699 %) SoftGrid 1 1 (0.699 %) SAP PM
Communications & Networking 1 19 (13.29 %) DNS 2 9 (6.294 %) HTTP 3 8 (5.594 %) Wireless 4 7 (4.895 %) VPN 5 6 (4.196 %) TCP/IP 6 4 (2.797 %) Internet 7 2 (1.399 %) SAN 7 2 (1.399 %) Intranet 7 2 (1.399 %) Broadband 8 1 (0.699 %) GPRS 8 1 (0.699 %) 3G 8 1 (0.699 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (6.993 %) MSDE 2 6 (4.196 %) RDBMS 2 6 (4.196 %) DB2 3 5 (3.497 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 4 4 (2.797 %) GIS 5 2 (1.399 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.699 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (0.699 %) MS Access 6 1 (0.699 %) Datawarehouse 6 1 (0.699 %) SAP BW 6 1 (0.699 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (1.399 %) TestDirector 1 2 (1.399 %) StarTeam	General 1 14 (9.790 %) Government 2 11 (7.692 %) Finance 3 2 (1.399 %) Banking 3 2 (1.399 %) Health 3 2 (1.399 %) Law 4 1 (0.699 %) Legal 4 1 (0.699 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 25 (17.48 %) Analyst 2 14 (9.790 %) Administrator 3 12 (8.392 %) Support Engineer 3 12 (8.392 %) Desktop Support 4 11 (7.692 %) Developer 4 11 (7.692 %) Coordinator 5 9 (6.294 %) Consultant 5 9 (6.294 %) 2nd Line Support 6 8 (5.594 %) Desktop Engineer 6 8 (5.594 %) Server Engineer 7 6 (4.196 %) Java Developer 7 6 (4.196 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 6 (4.196 %) J2EE Developer 7 6 (4.196 %) Applications Support 7 6 (4.196 %) Test Analyst 7 6 (4.196 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 5 (3.497 %) Programme Coordinator 8 5 (3.497 %) 1st Line Support 8 5 (3.497 %) Microsoft Consultant 9 4 (2.797 %) Windows Server Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (5.594 %) Blackberry 2 7 (4.895 %) Management Information System 3 5 (3.497 %) French Language 4 4 (2.797 %) Replication 4 4 (2.797 %) Clustering 5 1 (0.699 %) Client/Server 5 1 (0.699 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 77 (53.85 %) Windows 2 26 (18.18 %) Windows XP 3 21 (14.69 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (14.69 %) Windows 2000 4 3 (2.098 %) Solaris 5 2 (1.399 %) UNIX 6 1 (0.699 %) Linux 6 1 (0.699 %) Tru64 6 1 (0.699 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (13.99 %) Security Cleared 2 14 (9.790 %) Network Load Balancing 3 10 (6.993 %) ITIL 3 10 (6.993 %) Project Management 4 9 (6.294 %) Migration 5 6 (4.196 %) PRINCE2 5 6 (4.196 %) UML 5 6 (4.196 %) OO 5 6 (4.196 %) RUP 6 5 (3.497 %) Automated Testing 7 4 (2.797 %) Disaster Recovery 7 4 (2.797 %) Configuration Management 7 4 (2.797 %) Load Balancing 8 3 (2.098 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (1.399 %) Performance Management 9 2 (1.399 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 2 (1.399 %) Web Development 9 2 (1.399 %) PRINCE 10 1 (0.699 %) CAD 10 1 (0.699 %) Service Delivery
Programming Languages 1 20 (13.99 %) VB 2 15 (10.49 %) Java 3 14 (9.790 %) VBA 4 12 (8.392 %) C# 5 10 (6.993 %) C 5 10 (6.993 %) VBScript 6 9 (6.294 %) SQL 7 2 (1.399 %) JavaScript 8 1 (0.699 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.699 %) VB6	Qualifications 1 25 (17.48 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (5.594 %) Degree 3 5 (3.497 %) MCSE 4 4 (2.797 %) MOS 5 3 (2.098 %) MCDST 6 2 (1.399 %) MCSD 6 2 (1.399 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 1 (0.699 %) MCP 7 1 (0.699 %) MCSA 7 1 (0.699 %) A+ Certification 7 1 (0.699 %) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (4.196 %) QA 2 1 (0.699 %) ISO9000 2 1 (0.699 %) SLA	System Software 1 8 (5.594 %) Active Directory 2 1 (0.699 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 7 (4.895 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 3 (2.098 %) OpenView 3 1 (0.699 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.699 %) ServiceCenter 3 1 (0.699 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 91 (63.64 %) Microsoft 2 18 (12.59 %) HP 3 9 (6.294 %) Oracle 4 8 (5.594 %) SAP 5 7 (4.895 %) IBM 5 7 (4.895 %) Altiris 6 6 (4.196 %) Lotus 7 5 (3.497 %) ILOG 8 4 (2.797 %) VMware 9 3 (2.098 %) ESRI 9 3 (2.098 %) Citrix 9 3 (2.098 %) Novell 10 2 (1.399 %) Borland 10 2 (1.399 %) Remedy 11 1 (0.699 %) Primavera 11 1 (0.699 %) Red Hat 11 1 (0.699 %) Dell 11 1 (0.699 %) Adobe