Stevenage MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Stevenage 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Argyll and Bute Atherstone Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Barry Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beccles Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Broxbourne Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Dover Dudley Dunbar Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Isleworth Johnstone Kegworth Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Pershore Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Scunthorpe Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wakefield Wales Walsall Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	13	14
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	1	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	11.11 %	41.67 %
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	£242	£236
% change on same period last year	+2.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£13.67
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+150.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	£14.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.58	£15.93
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Applications Stevenage
Matching contract IT job ads	9	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.012 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£320
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£340
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.29	£17.88
Average hourly rate	£33.86	£18.04
% change on same period last year	+87.66 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.43	£18.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.53	£19.52
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
MS Office Hertfordshire

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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

MS Office
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB 2 1 (33.33 %) Electric 2 1 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Physics 2 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (33.33 %) VB 2 1 (33.33 %) Windows 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 2 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Stevenage 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 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel 1 1 (33.33 %) MATLAB 1 1 (33.33 %) MS PowerPoint
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Electric 1 1 (33.33 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Systems Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support 1 1 (33.33 %) Service Desk Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 1 1 (33.33 %) Desktop Engineer 1 1 (33.33 %) Performance Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Physics	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (33.33 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) VB
Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Microsoft