Staffordshire MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Staffordshire 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 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Argyll and Bute Atherstone Banbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hove Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thirsk Tidworth Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	9
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching contract IT job ads	12	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	41.38 %	40.91 %
Daily rates quoted	3	6
Average minimum daily rate	£70	£318
Average daily rate	£75	£340
% change on same period last year	-77.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£80	£362
UK excluding London average daily rate	£250	£246
% change on same period last year	+1.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£9.77	£19.71
Average hourly rate	£10.43	£22.11
% change on same period last year	-52.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.10	£24.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.68	£16.32
% change on same period last year	-3.91 %
Applications Staffordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	29	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.048 %
Daily rates quoted	6	12
Average minimum daily rate	£135	£273
Average daily rate	£150	£299
% change on same period last year	-49.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£165	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£278
% change on same period last year	+8.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.31	£22.59
Average hourly rate	£11.48	£24.03
% change on same period last year	-52.20 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£12.66	£25.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.11	£19.53
% change on same period last year	-2.11 %
MS Office 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 Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 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 Staffordshire region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office 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
Burton-upon-Trent	-1	2	£78	-
Stafford	-4	2	-	-
Cannock	-	1	-	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-	1	-	-

MS Office West Midlands

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 24 (77.42 %) Windows 2 19 (61.29 %) Windows XP 3 14 (45.16 %) Microsoft 4 11 (35.48 %) Windows Server 2003 5 10 (32.26 %) Active Directory 6 6 (19.35 %) MS Excel 7 4 (12.90 %) Windows 2000 7 4 (12.90 %) TCP/IP 8 3 (9.677 %) SLA 8 3 (9.677 %) Education 9 2 (6.452 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 2 (6.452 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (6.452 %) Finance 9 2 (6.452 %) Health 9 2 (6.452 %) MCP

9 2 (6.452 %) MS Exchange 9 2 (6.452 %) LAN 9 2 (6.452 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (6.452 %) Business Objects 9 2 (6.452 %) BusinessObjects 9 2 (6.452 %) CAD 9 2 (6.452 %) AutoCAD 9 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft Certification 9 2 (6.452 %) Lotus 10 1 (3.226 %) Citrix 10 1 (3.226 %) Dell 10 1 (3.226 %) SAP 10 1 (3.226 %) VBScript 10 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 10 1 (3.226 %) MS Access

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (6.452 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (6.452 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (6.452 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 6 (19.35 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.452 %) AutoCAD 3 1 (3.226 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (3.226 %) Movex	Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.90 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (6.452 %) LAN 3 1 (3.226 %) WAN 3 1 (3.226 %) VPN 3 1 (3.226 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.452 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (3.226 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.226 %) MS Access	General 1 3 (9.677 %) Education 2 2 (6.452 %) Health 2 2 (6.452 %) Finance 3 1 (3.226 %) Manufacturing 3 1 (3.226 %) Billing 3 1 (3.226 %) Government
Job Titles 1 9 (29.03 %) Analyst 1 9 (29.03 %) Support Engineer 2 8 (25.81 %) 2nd Line Support 3 7 (22.58 %) Desktop Engineer 3 7 (22.58 %) Desktop Support Engineer 3 7 (22.58 %) Desktop Support 4 4 (12.90 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 4 (12.90 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (9.677 %) Installations Engineer 6 2 (6.452 %) Rollout Engineer 6 2 (6.452 %) Performance Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 6 2 (6.452 %) Service Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Helpdesk Support 6 2 (6.452 %) Service Desk Analyst 6 2 (6.452 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) Information Analyst 7 1 (3.226 %) Project Engineer 7 1 (3.226 %) Administrator 7 1 (3.226 %) Field Engineer	Operating Systems 1 24 (77.42 %) Windows 2 19 (61.29 %) Windows XP 3 11 (35.48 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (12.90 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (3.226 %) VMS 5 1 (3.226 %) Windows Vista 5 1 (3.226 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (6.452 %) CAD 1 2 (6.452 %) Data Analysis	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.226 %) VBScript
Qualifications 1 2 (6.452 %) MCP 1 2 (6.452 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (9.677 %) SLA
System Software 1 10 (32.26 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 14 (45.16 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.452 %) Business Objects 2 2 (6.452 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.226 %) Mitel 3 1 (3.226 %) SAP 3 1 (3.226 %) Dell 3 1 (3.226 %) Citrix