Staffordshire MS Access Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the Staffordshire region with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Access
Location Aberdeen Barking Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Cumbria Dalkeith Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rugby Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	24
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching contract IT job ads	4	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	5.000 %	2.632 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£200	-
Average daily rate	£200	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£200	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£272
% change on same period last year	+6.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£17.50	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-12.50 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.50	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.27	£20.23
% change on same period last year	+0.22 %
Database & Business Intelligence Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	80	38
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.125 %	0.041 %
Daily rates quoted	40	11
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£325
Average daily rate	£299	£352
% change on same period last year	-15.11 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£346
% change on same period last year	-2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.24	£30.50
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£32.09
% change on same period last year	-28.69 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.52	£33.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.31	£31.85
% change on same period last year	-14.24 %
MS Access West Midlands

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 Access
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Access
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 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
Stafford	-	1	-	-

MS Access West Midlands

MS Access
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing MS Access 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 Access.

1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 3 (50.00 %) Oracle Forms 2 3 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 3 (50.00 %) PL/SQL 2 3 (50.00 %) SQL 2 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g 3 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 4 1 (16.67 %) VB 4 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 4 1 (16.67 %) NHS 4 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP 4 1 (16.67 %) LAN 4 1 (16.67 %) WAN

4 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (16.67 %) VPN 4 1 (16.67 %) MS Office 4 1 (16.67 %) SAP 4 1 (16.67 %) UNIX 4 1 (16.67 %) Windows 4 1 (16.67 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (16.67 %) Education 4 1 (16.67 %) Government 4 1 (16.67 %) Validation 4 1 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 4 1 (16.67 %) Local Government 4 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing MS Access 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 Access. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Excel 2 1 (16.67 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) LAN 1 1 (16.67 %) WAN 1 1 (16.67 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (16.67 %) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Education 1 1 (16.67 %) Government 1 1 (16.67 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) Lead Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) Administrator 3 1 (16.67 %) Information Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Access Developer 3 1 (16.67 %) IT Administrator 3 1 (16.67 %) NHS Information Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (16.67 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) UNIX 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) Project Management 1 1 (16.67 %) Service Delivery 1 1 (16.67 %) Validation 1 1 (16.67 %) Systems Analysis 1 1 (16.67 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 3 (50.00 %) PL/SQL 1 3 (50.00 %) SQL 2 1 (16.67 %) VB
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Oracle 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (16.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (16.67 %) SAP