Staines MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Staines 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Dagenham Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Grantham Grays Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Kegworth Kendal Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset 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 Thatcham Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	16
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	1	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	7.143 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£256
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
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	£15.56	£15.72
% change on same period last year	-1.00 %
Applications Staines
Matching contract IT job ads	14	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.009 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£500
Average daily rate	£325	£500
% change on same period last year	-35.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£500
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£292
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.12	-
Average hourly rate	£13.03	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.93	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.45	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
MS Office Surrey

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 Staines 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 Staines region.

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 Staines region.

MS Office
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 5 (71.43 %) MS Excel 2 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL 2 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Migration 3 2 (28.57 %) Insurance 3 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 2 (28.57 %) Finance 3 2 (28.57 %) Data Migration 3 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (28.57 %) LAN

3 2 (28.57 %) WAN 4 1 (14.29 %) RDBMS 4 1 (14.29 %) ProC 4 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (14.29 %) C 4 1 (14.29 %) Perl 4 1 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 4 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 4 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (14.29 %) Korn 4 1 (14.29 %) Programme Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Staines 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 (28.57 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (28.57 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 5 (71.43 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) LAN 1 2 (28.57 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) ProC	General 1 2 (28.57 %) Finance 1 2 (28.57 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Business Analyst 1 2 (28.57 %) Desktop Support 1 2 (28.57 %) PC Support 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Data Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Developer 2 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Data Analyst 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Coordinator 2 1 (14.29 %) Project Administrator 2 1 (14.29 %) Coordinator	Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) UNIX 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Migration 2 2 (28.57 %) Data Migration 3 1 (14.29 %) Programme Management 3 1 (14.29 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL 2 1 (14.29 %) Korn 2 1 (14.29 %) C 2 1 (14.29 %) Perl 2 1 (14.29 %) PL/SQL
System Software 1 2 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Citrix 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle