Scotland MS PowerPoint Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS PowerPoint skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS PowerPoint over the 3 months to 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category for the Scotland region.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Ipswich Kent Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Potters Bar Pudsey Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 22 Mar 2010	Same period 2009	Same period 2008
Rank	57	68	78
Rank change year-on-year	+11 +10
Matching contract IT job ads	37	14	26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland	1.895 %	0.941 %	0.921 %
As % of the Applications category	16.67 %	9.524 %	9.123 %
Daily rates quoted	12	1	10
Average daily rate	£238	£180	£258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	+31.94 % -30.09 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£202	£180	£125
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£414	£180	£339
UK excluding London average daily rate	£248	£276	£250
% change year-on-year	-10.40 % +10.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2	7
Average hourly rate	£9.00	£11.00	£10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-18.18 % +10.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.50	£15.00	£15.00
% change year-on-year	-10.00 % -
All Applications Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Applications category	222	147	285
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland	11.37 %	9.879 %	10.10 %
Daily rates quoted	60	30	48
Average daily rate	£275	£300	£225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-8.330 % +33.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£194	£135	£119
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£420	£425	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£265	£310	£300
% change year-on-year	-14.51 % +3.330 %
Hourly rates quoted	26	34	62
Average hourly rate	£10.00	£15.00	£13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-33.33 % +15.38 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£8.80	£9.00	£9.90
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£20.60	£41.70	£31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£14.73	£15.00	£15.00
% change year-on-year	-1.830 % -
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Daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

MS PowerPoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Scotland region.

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010.

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the Scotland region.

MS PowerPoint
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 March 2010. 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
Edinburgh	+8	30	£240	-
Glasgow	-5	4	£225	+25.13 %
West Lothian	-	1	-	-
Aberdeen	-	1	£105	-

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MS PowerPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint.

1 46 (77.97 %) Finance 2 34 (57.63 %) MS Excel 3 22 (37.29 %) Microsoft 4 15 (25.42 %) Project Management 5 14 (23.73 %) MS Project 6 13 (22.03 %) SharePoint 7 12 (20.34 %) MS Visio 8 11 (18.64 %) MS Office 8 11 (18.64 %) Banking 9 9 (15.25 %) Change Management 10 8 (13.56 %) Business Analysis 11 6 (10.17 %) PRINCE2 11 6 (10.17 %) C 12 5 (8.475 %) Flash 12 5 (8.475 %) Stakeholder Management

12 5 (8.475 %) Retail 13 4 (6.780 %) Retail Banking 13 4 (6.780 %) Planview 13 4 (6.780 %) BPR 13 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 14 3 (5.085 %) Photoshop 14 3 (5.085 %) Chordiant 14 3 (5.085 %) IBM 14 3 (5.085 %) Adobe 14 3 (5.085 %) Nortel 14 3 (5.085 %) Avaya 14 3 (5.085 %) Genesys 14 3 (5.085 %) Acrobat 14 3 (5.085 %) Financial Institution 14 3 (5.085 %) IVR

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (8.475 %) Flash 2 2 (3.390 %) WebSphere 2 2 (3.390 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 13 (22.03 %) SharePoint 2 2 (3.390 %) SAS
Applications 1 34 (57.63 %) MS Excel 2 14 (23.73 %) MS Project 3 12 (20.34 %) MS Visio 4 11 (18.64 %) MS Office 5 3 (5.085 %) Photoshop 5 3 (5.085 %) Acrobat 6 1 (1.695 %) CorelDRAW 6 1 (1.695 %) Spreadsheet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.695 %) Oracle Reports
Development Applications 1 2 (3.390 %) ClearCase	General 1 46 (77.97 %) Finance 2 11 (18.64 %) Banking 3 5 (8.475 %) Retail 4 4 (6.780 %) Retail Banking 5 3 (5.085 %) Financial Institution 6 2 (3.390 %) Marketing 6 2 (3.390 %) Pensions 7 1 (1.695 %) Back Office 7 1 (1.695 %) Publishing 7 1 (1.695 %) Insurance 7 1 (1.695 %) Corporate Banking
Job Titles 1 31 (52.54 %) Analyst 2 14 (23.73 %) Business Analyst 3 13 (22.03 %) PMO Analyst 4 5 (8.475 %) Programme Manager 4 5 (8.475 %) Programme Office Manager 5 4 (6.780 %) Senior Analyst 5 4 (6.780 %) Support Analyst 5 4 (6.780 %) Project Manager 6 3 (5.085 %) Architect 6 3 (5.085 %) Junior 6 3 (5.085 %) Project Analyst 6 3 (5.085 %) Designer 7 2 (3.390 %) IT Assistant 7 2 (3.390 %) Marketing Assistant 7 2 (3.390 %) Project Coordinator 7 2 (3.390 %) Junior Project Manager 7 2 (3.390 %) Project Support Analyst 7 2 (3.390 %) Solutions Architect 7 2 (3.390 %) Solutions Designer 7 2 (3.390 %) Senior Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.085 %) IVR 2 2 (3.390 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.695 %) E-Learning 3 1 (1.695 %) Economics
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (25.42 %) Project Management 2 9 (15.25 %) Change Management 3 8 (13.56 %) Business Analysis 4 6 (10.17 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (8.475 %) Stakeholder Management 6 4 (6.780 %) BPR 7 3 (5.085 %) Resource Management 8 2 (3.390 %) Email Marketing 8 2 (3.390 %) Market Research 8 2 (3.390 %) Logistics 8 2 (3.390 %) Programme Management 8 2 (3.390 %) Validation 8 2 (3.390 %) Programme Office Management 8 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE 8 2 (3.390 %) CRM 9 1 (1.695 %) Project Planning	Programming Languages 1 6 (10.17 %) C 2 2 (3.390 %) Java 2 2 (3.390 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.695 %) Degree 2 1 (1.695 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 22 (37.29 %) Microsoft 2 4 (6.780 %) Planview 2 4 (6.780 %) Oracle 3 3 (5.085 %) Chordiant 3 3 (5.085 %) IBM 3 3 (5.085 %) Adobe 3 3 (5.085 %) Nortel 3 3 (5.085 %) Avaya 3 3 (5.085 %) Genesys 4 2 (3.390 %) Remedy 5 1 (1.695 %) Quark