South East MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the South East 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	21	26
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	749	834
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.998 %	0.844 %
As % of the category below	41.73 %	38.19 %
Daily rates quoted	97	150
Average minimum daily rate	£243	£256
Average daily rate	£257	£272
% change on same period last year	-5.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£271	£289
UK excluding London average daily rate	£246	£252
% change on same period last year	-2.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	273	240
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.65	£14.07
Average hourly rate	£16.55	£15.01
% change on same period last year	+10.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.44	£15.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.43	£15.00
% change on same period last year	+2.91 %
Applications South East
Matching contract IT job ads	1795	2184
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.393 %	2.210 %
Daily rates quoted	346	419
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£273
Average daily rate	£291	£289
% change on same period last year	+0.82 %
Average maximum daily rate	£307	£304
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	470	485
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.20	£18.56
Average hourly rate	£18.32	£19.83
% change on same period last year	-7.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.45	£21.11
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Office England

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 South East 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 South East region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

MS Office
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the South East region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Berkshire	+5	178	£298	-7.06 %
Hampshire	+12	157	£281	+10.95 %
Surrey	+4	139	£224	+1.31 %
Buckinghamshire	+9	115	£208	+22.91 %
Kent	+20	42	£231	-34.10 %
West Sussex	+10	34	£238	-22.65 %
Oxfordshire	+4	29	£300	-
Middlesex	-9	21	£366	+79.75 %
East Sussex	+11	16	£425	-
Home Counties	+8	4	£150	-
Thames Valley	+6	1	£100	-35.48 %

MS Office England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 828 (48.91 %) Windows 2 746 (44.06 %) Microsoft 3 565 (33.37 %) MS Excel 4 316 (18.67 %) Windows XP 5 273 (16.13 %) Active Directory 6 218 (12.88 %) Windows 2000 7 205 (12.11 %) MS Exchange 8 163 (9.628 %) Security Cleared 9 162 (9.569 %) MS PowerPoint 9 162 (9.569 %) MS Project 10 142 (8.387 %) Finance 11 141 (8.328 %) SQL 12 123 (7.265 %) Windows NT 13 110 (6.497 %) Project Management 14 107 (6.320 %) Microsoft Certification

15 104 (6.143 %) TCP/IP 15 104 (6.143 %) SC Cleared 16 99 (5.848 %) ITIL 17 95 (5.611 %) Oracle 18 87 (5.139 %) SharePoint 19 83 (4.903 %) Telecoms 19 83 (4.903 %) SAP 19 83 (4.903 %) HP 19 83 (4.903 %) Degree 20 80 (4.725 %) Government 21 78 (4.607 %) PRINCE2 22 77 (4.548 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 23 75 (4.430 %) MS Visio 24 73 (4.312 %) .NET 25 67 (3.957 %) Citrix

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 73 (4.312 %) .NET 2 59 (3.485 %) XML 3 47 (2.776 %) HTML 4 39 (2.304 %) J2EE 5 27 (1.595 %) ASP.NET 6 23 (1.359 %) ASP 7 17 (1.004 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 16 (0.945 %) WebSphere 9 8 (0.473 %) JRules 9 8 (0.473 %) Application Packaging 9 8 (0.473 %) CSS 10 6 (0.354 %) MAPI 11 4 (0.236 %) JSP 11 4 (0.236 %) WebServices 11 4 (0.236 %) Software Packaging 11 4 (0.236 %) .NET Framework 11 4 (0.236 %) AJAX 12 3 (0.177 %) COM 12 3 (0.177 %) Middleware 12 3 (0.177 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 205 (12.11 %) MS Exchange 2 87 (5.139 %) SharePoint 3 66 (3.898 %) Lotus Notes 4 55 (3.249 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 38 (2.245 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 33 (1.949 %) Exchange Server 5.5 6 33 (1.949 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 26 (1.536 %) GroupWise 8 25 (1.477 %) IIS 9 19 (1.122 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 13 (0.768 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 11 (0.650 %) WebSphere Application Server 12 8 (0.473 %) Office Project Server 13 6 (0.354 %) CMS 13 6 (0.354 %) Documentum 13 6 (0.354 %) SAS 14 5 (0.295 %) BizTalk Server 14 5 (0.295 %) Office Communications Server 15 4 (0.236 %) Commerce Server 2007 15 4 (0.236 %) ArcGIS
Applications 1 565 (33.37 %) MS Excel 2 162 (9.569 %) MS Project 2 162 (9.569 %) MS PowerPoint 3 75 (4.430 %) MS Visio 4 41 (2.422 %) Spreadsheet 5 16 (0.945 %) Photoshop 6 8 (0.473 %) Acrobat 7 4 (0.236 %) FrameMaker 7 4 (0.236 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 3 (0.177 %) InfoPath 8 3 (0.177 %) CA Clarity 8 3 (0.177 %) QuarkXPress 9 2 (0.118 %) AutoCAD 9 2 (0.118 %) ImageReady 9 2 (0.118 %) 3ds Max 10 1 (0.059 %) Pro/ENGINEER 10 1 (0.059 %) SPSS	Business Applications 1 5 (0.295 %) SAP FI 1 5 (0.295 %) SAP IS-U 2 3 (0.177 %) Remedy AR System 2 3 (0.177 %) SAP FI-CA 2 3 (0.177 %) Line 50 3 2 (0.118 %) VisionPLUS 3 2 (0.118 %) SAP SD 3 2 (0.118 %) Oracle ERP 3 2 (0.118 %) SAP FI/CO 3 2 (0.118 %) Summit 3 2 (0.118 %) SAP CO 4 1 (0.059 %) SAP PM 4 1 (0.059 %) SoftGrid 4 1 (0.059 %) SAP R/3 4 1 (0.059 %) SAP MM 4 1 (0.059 %) Microsoft CRM 4 1 (0.059 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 104 (6.143 %) TCP/IP 2 64 (3.780 %) Internet 3 61 (3.603 %) DNS 4 60 (3.544 %) VPN 5 55 (3.249 %) LAN 6 49 (2.894 %) WAN 7 43 (2.540 %) Intranet 8 34 (2.008 %) Wireless 9 24 (1.418 %) DHCP 10 21 (1.240 %) HTTP 11 16 (0.945 %) Firewall 12 14 (0.827 %) SAN 13 12 (0.709 %) VoIP 14 11 (0.650 %) TELNET 15 8 (0.473 %) LDAP 15 8 (0.473 %) Ethernet 16 7 (0.413 %) SSL 17 6 (0.354 %) VLAN 18 5 (0.295 %) GPRS 18 5 (0.295 %) ISDN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 59 (3.485 %) SQL Server 2 21 (1.240 %) Oracle Reports 2 21 (1.240 %) MS Access 2 21 (1.240 %) RDBMS 3 14 (0.827 %) SQL Server 7 3 14 (0.827 %) DB2 3 14 (0.827 %) MSDE 4 13 (0.768 %) SQL Server 2000 5 11 (0.650 %) Crystal Reports 5 11 (0.650 %) SQL Server 2005 6 10 (0.591 %) GIS 6 10 (0.591 %) BusinessObjects 7 7 (0.413 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 6 (0.354 %) EDRMS 9 5 (0.295 %) Informix 10 3 (0.177 %) TOAD 11 2 (0.118 %) SAP BW 11 2 (0.118 %) Cognos Impromptu 11 2 (0.118 %) Oracle 8/8i 11 2 (0.118 %) InterBase
Development Applications 1 25 (1.477 %) ClearQuest 2 21 (1.240 %) ClearCase 2 21 (1.240 %) Eclipse 3 20 (1.181 %) Ant 4 10 (0.591 %) JMeter 5 9 (0.532 %) VSS/SourceSafe 6 8 (0.473 %) Rational Rose 6 8 (0.473 %) ProC 6 8 (0.473 %) WinRunner 7 7 (0.413 %) QuickTest Pro 8 5 (0.295 %) TestDirector 9 4 (0.236 %) Flash 9 4 (0.236 %) FrontPage 9 4 (0.236 %) QARun 10 3 (0.177 %) Visual Studio 10 3 (0.177 %) Dreamweaver 10 3 (0.177 %) ARTiSAN 11 2 (0.118 %) StarTeam 12 1 (0.059 %) TestPartner 12 1 (0.059 %) MSI	General 1 142 (8.387 %) Finance 2 83 (4.903 %) Telecoms 3 80 (4.725 %) Government 4 57 (3.367 %) Pharmaceutical 5 42 (2.481 %) Insurance 6 39 (2.304 %) Marketing 7 34 (2.008 %) Health 8 27 (1.595 %) Legal 9 24 (1.418 %) Banking 10 23 (1.359 %) Publishing 11 16 (0.945 %) Manufacturing 11 16 (0.945 %) Education 12 14 (0.827 %) Retail 13 11 (0.650 %) Auditing 13 11 (0.650 %) Law 14 10 (0.591 %) Pensions 15 8 (0.473 %) Military 15 8 (0.473 %) Electronics 15 8 (0.473 %) Aerospace 16 7 (0.413 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 459 (27.11 %) Analyst 2 171 (10.10 %) Support Analyst 3 152 (8.978 %) Desktop Support 4 147 (8.683 %) Support Engineer 5 146 (8.624 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 144 (8.506 %) 2nd Line Support 7 142 (8.387 %) Administrator 8 110 (6.497 %) Helpdesk Support 9 87 (5.139 %) 1st Line Support 10 77 (4.548 %) Developer 11 74 (4.371 %) Desktop Engineer 12 67 (3.957 %) Service Analyst 13 63 (3.721 %) Service Desk Analyst 14 57 (3.367 %) Coordinator 15 56 (3.308 %) Desktop Support Engineer 16 50 (2.953 %) Project Manager 17 47 (2.776 %) Trainer 18 46 (2.717 %) Consultant 19 45 (2.658 %) Business Analyst 20 41 (2.422 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 33 (1.949 %) NHS 2 31 (1.831 %) French Language 3 30 (1.772 %) Blackberry 4 19 (1.122 %) Client/Server 4 19 (1.122 %) German Language 5 17 (1.004 %) Dutch Language 6 16 (0.945 %) AS400 7 14 (0.827 %) PDA 7 14 (0.827 %) Management Information System 7 14 (0.827 %) Data Conversion 8 13 (0.768 %) Clustering 8 13 (0.768 %) PMI 9 8 (0.473 %) Mathematics 10 6 (0.354 %) Replication 11 5 (0.295 %) Spanish Language 11 5 (0.295 %) HACMP 12 4 (0.236 %) Italian Language 12 4 (0.236 %) Physics 12 4 (0.236 %) SCADA 12 4 (0.236 %) Handset
Operating Systems 1 828 (48.91 %) Windows 2 316 (18.67 %) Windows XP 3 218 (12.88 %) Windows 2000 4 123 (7.265 %) Windows NT 5 63 (3.721 %) UNIX 6 59 (3.485 %) Windows Server 2003 7 53 (3.131 %) Linux 8 21 (1.240 %) NetWare 9 20 (1.181 %) Solaris 10 8 (0.473 %) AIX 11 5 (0.295 %) HPUX 12 3 (0.177 %) Windows Mobile 12 3 (0.177 %) Windows Vista 12 3 (0.177 %) VxWorks 13 1 (0.059 %) Tru64 13 1 (0.059 %) Debian 13 1 (0.059 %) Mac OS X	Processes & Methodologies 1 163 (9.628 %) Security Cleared 2 110 (6.497 %) Project Management 3 104 (6.143 %) SC Cleared 4 99 (5.848 %) ITIL 5 78 (4.607 %) PRINCE2 6 65 (3.839 %) Migration 7 47 (2.776 %) UML 8 39 (2.304 %) Change Management 9 35 (2.067 %) RUP 10 30 (1.772 %) Time Management 11 29 (1.713 %) E-Procurement 11 29 (1.713 %) Business Analysis 12 27 (1.595 %) Data Migration 13 25 (1.477 %) Software Testing 13 25 (1.477 %) Service Delivery 14 24 (1.418 %) CMMI 14 24 (1.418 %) Service Management 15 21 (1.240 %) Configuration Management 15 21 (1.240 %) DV Cleared 16 20 (1.181 %) PRINCE
Programming Languages 1 141 (8.328 %) SQL 2 61 (3.603 %) VB 3 59 (3.485 %) Java 4 49 (2.894 %) C 5 39 (2.304 %) C# 5 39 (2.304 %) C++ 6 31 (1.831 %) VBA 7 30 (1.772 %) VB.NET 8 29 (1.713 %) VBScript 9 17 (1.004 %) VB6 10 12 (0.709 %) Perl 10 12 (0.709 %) PL/SQL 11 11 (0.650 %) VC++ 11 11 (0.650 %) Korn 12 5 (0.295 %) PHP 12 5 (0.295 %) JavaScript 13 3 (0.177 %) Python 13 3 (0.177 %) Shell Script 14 2 (0.118 %) Jython 14 2 (0.118 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 107 (6.320 %) Microsoft Certification 2 83 (4.903 %) Degree 3 52 (3.071 %) MCP 4 43 (2.540 %) MCSE 5 25 (1.477 %) PMP 5 25 (1.477 %) PMI Certification 6 23 (1.359 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 23 (1.359 %) ISEB 7 16 (0.945 %) Cisco Certification 8 15 (0.886 %) CCNA 9 14 (0.827 %) ITIL Certification 10 13 (0.768 %) MCSA 11 11 (0.650 %) HNC 11 11 (0.650 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 8 (0.473 %) MOS 12 8 (0.473 %) MCDST 13 7 (0.413 %) A+ Certification 14 6 (0.354 %) ECDL 15 5 (0.295 %) HND 16 3 (0.177 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 50 (2.953 %) QA 2 23 (1.359 %) SLA 3 5 (0.295 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 4 (0.236 %) ISO9000 5 3 (0.177 %) ISO9001 6 2 (0.118 %) 21 CFR Part 11 6 2 (0.118 %) ISO27001 7 1 (0.059 %) TickIT 7 1 (0.059 %) GLP 7 1 (0.059 %) GxP	System Software 1 273 (16.13 %) Active Directory 2 17 (1.004 %) Backup Exec 3 5 (0.295 %) NFS 4 3 (0.177 %) Terminal Services 4 3 (0.177 %) ISA Server 5 2 (0.118 %) Novell eDirectory 5 2 (0.118 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 2 (0.118 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (0.059 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (0.059 %) Squid 6 1 (0.059 %) NDS 6 1 (0.059 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 77 (4.548 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 9 (0.532 %) OpenView 3 8 (0.473 %) MOM 4 7 (0.413 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 6 (0.354 %) ZENworks 5 6 (0.354 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 5 (0.295 %) BMC Marimba 6 5 (0.295 %) Legato 7 4 (0.236 %) ServiceCenter 8 3 (0.177 %) MAILsweeper 9 2 (0.118 %) DameWare 9 2 (0.118 %) WSUS 9 2 (0.118 %) OMEGAMON 9 2 (0.118 %) CA SiteMinder 9 2 (0.118 %) SCCM 10 1 (0.059 %) SCOM 10 1 (0.059 %) Netcool 10 1 (0.059 %) CiscoWorks 10 1 (0.059 %) EMC NetWorker 10 1 (0.059 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 746 (44.06 %) Microsoft 2 95 (5.611 %) Oracle 3 83 (4.903 %) SAP 3 83 (4.903 %) HP 4 67 (3.957 %) Citrix 5 66 (3.898 %) Lotus 6 50 (2.953 %) Novell 7 35 (2.067 %) Remedy 8 32 (1.890 %) Dell 9 23 (1.359 %) IBM 10 22 (1.299 %) Adobe 11 20 (1.181 %) VERITAS 12 15 (0.886 %) Cisco 13 13 (0.768 %) Intel 14 12 (0.709 %) McAfee Security 15 11 (0.650 %) Symantec 15 11 (0.650 %) Altiris 16 10 (0.591 %) VMware 16 10 (0.591 %) Sun 16 10 (0.591 %) Business Objects