Salford MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Salford 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury 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 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 Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£150	-
Average daily rate	£175	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£200	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£251
% change on same period last year	-3.14 %
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	£15.70
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Applications Salford
Matching contract IT job ads	6	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£150	£200
Average daily rate	£175	£200
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£200	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
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	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
MS Office Manchester

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 Salford 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 Salford 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 Salford region.

MS Office
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 2 (33.33 %) SLA 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 2 1 (16.67 %) LAN 2 1 (16.67 %) WAN 2 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (16.67 %) DNS 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Project 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Lotus 2 1 (16.67 %) ECDL 2 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 2 1 (16.67 %) MOS

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 1 (16.67 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) LAN 1 1 (16.67 %) WAN 1 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (16.67 %) DNS	Job Titles 1 1 (16.67 %) Coordinator 1 1 (16.67 %) Trainer 1 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 1 1 (16.67 %) Project Coordinator 1 1 (16.67 %) IT Trainer 1 1 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) Project Management
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ECDL 1 1 (16.67 %) MOS	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (33.33 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 1 1 (16.67 %) Lotus