South Yorkshire MS PowerPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft PowerPoint skills within the South Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS PowerPoint over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Alderley Edge Barking Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dover East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Havant Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	40
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	1	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.818 %	4.167 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£160
Average daily rate	-	£165
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£170
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£247
% change on same period last year	+26.65 %
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	£19.75	£21.40
% change on same period last year	-7.70 %
Applications South Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	55	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.073 %	0.048 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£210	£171
Average daily rate	£230	£176
% change on same period last year	+31.04 %
Average maximum daily rate	£251	£181
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.79	£12.52
Average hourly rate	£12.58	£13.22
% change on same period last year	-4.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.36	£13.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
MS PowerPoint Yorkshire

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 PowerPoint
Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 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
Sheffield	-4	1	-	-

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 2 (100.00 %) Finance 2 1 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (50.00 %) NHS 2 1 (50.00 %) Project Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Change Management

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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.

Applications 1 1 (50.00 %) MS Excel	General 1 2 (100.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (50.00 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) Project Management 1 1 (50.00 %) Change Management	Vendors 1 1 (50.00 %) Microsoft