Surrey MS Office Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Surrey 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Aylesbury Ayr Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent 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 Darlington Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dunbar 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 Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Immingham Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kegworth Kendal Kent King's Lynn Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston Llandudno London Lowestoft Luton 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 Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Ayrshire South East South Shields South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Torfaen Torpoint Trowbridge 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 Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Winchester Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Wymondham Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	15
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	125	171
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.165 %	0.170 %
As % of the category below	44.01 %	49.00 %
Daily rates quoted	17	26
Average minimum daily rate	£218	£219
Average daily rate	£227	£228
% change on same period last year	-0.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£236	£237
UK excluding London average daily rate	£243	£251
% change on same period last year	-3.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	38	62
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.76	£13.45
Average hourly rate	£14.48	£14.09
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.21	£14.74
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.75	£15.70
% change on same period last year	+0.28 %
Applications Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	284	349
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.375 %	0.348 %
Daily rates quoted	54	59
Average minimum daily rate	£237	£280
Average daily rate	£257	£293
% change on same period last year	-12.44 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£307
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	64	101
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.69	£14.66
Average hourly rate	£16.63	£15.47
% change on same period last year	+7.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.58	£16.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Office South East

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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Surrey region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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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 Office within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Sunbury-on-Thames	+6	31	-	-
Guildford	-2	12	-	-
Weybridge	+4	8	-	-
Epsom	-3	6	-	-
Dorking	+1	4	£174	-
Camberley	+1	4	£110	-
Leatherhead	-9	2	-	-
Farnham	-	2	-	-
Windlesham	0	2	-	-
Tadworth	-	2	-	-
Chertsey	-4	1	-	-
Redhill	+12	1	-	-
Walton-on-Thames	-	1	-	-
Woking	-	1	-	-

MS Office South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 128 (40.51 %) Windows 2 125 (39.56 %) MS Excel 3 121 (38.29 %) Microsoft 4 76 (24.05 %) Windows XP 5 57 (18.04 %) Active Directory 6 54 (17.09 %) MS PowerPoint 7 35 (11.08 %) Windows 2000 8 33 (10.44 %) MS Project 9 29 (9.177 %) MS Exchange 10 27 (8.544 %) Project Management 11 26 (8.228 %) Microsoft Certification 12 25 (7.911 %) Finance 13 23 (7.278 %) E-Procurement 13 23 (7.278 %) Spreadsheet 14 22 (6.962 %) Degree

14 22 (6.962 %) Windows Server 2003 14 22 (6.962 %) SAP 15 21 (6.646 %) MCP 15 21 (6.646 %) PRINCE2 16 18 (5.696 %) PMP 16 18 (5.696 %) PMI Certification 17 17 (5.380 %) HP 17 17 (5.380 %) LAN 18 16 (5.063 %) Telecoms 18 16 (5.063 %) MCSE 18 16 (5.063 %) ITIL 19 15 (4.747 %) Citrix 19 15 (4.747 %) TCP/IP 19 15 (4.747 %) SQL 19 15 (4.747 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Development 1 5 (1.582 %) Windows SharePoint Services 2 4 (1.266 %) XML 2 4 (1.266 %) .NET 3 3 (0.949 %) J2EE 4 2 (0.633 %) COM 5 1 (0.316 %) CSS 5 1 (0.316 %) XSLT 5 1 (0.316 %) ASP 5 1 (0.316 %) ASP.NET 5 1 (0.316 %) XHTML 5 1 (0.316 %) WSH 5 1 (0.316 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 29 (9.177 %) MS Exchange 2 10 (3.165 %) SharePoint 3 8 (2.532 %) Lotus Notes 4 7 (2.215 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 6 (1.899 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 4 (1.266 %) GroupWise 7 3 (0.949 %) Documentum 8 2 (0.633 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 1 (0.316 %) IIS 9 1 (0.316 %) SAS 9 1 (0.316 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 1 (0.316 %) CMS 9 1 (0.316 %) LiveLink
Applications 1 125 (39.56 %) MS Excel 2 54 (17.09 %) MS PowerPoint 3 33 (10.44 %) MS Project 4 23 (7.278 %) Spreadsheet 5 10 (3.165 %) MS Visio 5 10 (3.165 %) Photoshop 6 1 (0.316 %) SPSS 6 1 (0.316 %) CA Clarity 6 1 (0.316 %) InfoPath 6 1 (0.316 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 3 (0.949 %) Remedy AR System 1 3 (0.949 %) Line 50
Communications & Networking 1 17 (5.380 %) LAN 2 15 (4.747 %) TCP/IP 3 13 (4.114 %) Intranet 3 13 (4.114 %) Internet 4 12 (3.797 %) WAN 5 9 (2.848 %) VPN 6 8 (2.532 %) Wireless 7 5 (1.582 %) Ethernet 8 4 (1.266 %) TELNET 9 3 (0.949 %) VLAN 9 3 (0.949 %) Firewall 10 2 (0.633 %) VoIP 10 2 (0.633 %) 3G 11 1 (0.316 %) Cisco PIX 11 1 (0.316 %) SAN 11 1 (0.316 %) DNS 11 1 (0.316 %) SSL	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (0.949 %) MS Access 2 2 (0.633 %) TOAD 2 2 (0.633 %) SQL Server 3 1 (0.316 %) EDRMS 3 1 (0.316 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (0.316 %) RDBMS 3 1 (0.316 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (0.633 %) WinRunner 1 2 (0.633 %) TestDirector 1 2 (0.633 %) QARun 2 1 (0.316 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (0.316 %) ProC 2 1 (0.316 %) RequisitePro 2 1 (0.316 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (0.316 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (0.316 %) Flash 2 1 (0.316 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 25 (7.911 %) Finance 2 16 (5.063 %) Telecoms 3 13 (4.114 %) Pharmaceutical 4 12 (3.797 %) Insurance 5 9 (2.848 %) Legal 6 8 (2.532 %) Marketing 7 7 (2.215 %) Law 7 7 (2.215 %) Manufacturing 8 6 (1.899 %) Publishing 8 6 (1.899 %) Health 9 4 (1.266 %) Education 10 3 (0.949 %) Government 10 3 (0.949 %) Electronics 10 3 (0.949 %) Games 11 2 (0.633 %) Back Office 11 2 (0.633 %) Music 12 1 (0.316 %) Banking 12 1 (0.316 %) Retail 12 1 (0.316 %) Investment Banking 12 1 (0.316 %) Chemicals
Job Titles 1 86 (27.22 %) Analyst 2 51 (16.14 %) Desktop Support 3 42 (13.29 %) Support Analyst 4 31 (9.810 %) Support Engineer 5 29 (9.177 %) 2nd Line Support 6 26 (8.228 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 26 (8.228 %) Administrator 7 23 (7.278 %) Desktop Engineer 8 21 (6.646 %) Project Manager 9 19 (6.013 %) Desktop Support Engineer 10 18 (5.696 %) Helpdesk Support 11 17 (5.380 %) Desktop Analyst 12 16 (5.063 %) Desktop Support Analyst 12 16 (5.063 %) Coordinator 13 14 (4.430 %) Service Analyst 14 13 (4.114 %) 1st Line Support 15 12 (3.797 %) Deployment Manager 15 12 (3.797 %) Deployment Project Manager 16 11 (3.481 %) Service Desk Analyst 17 10 (3.165 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 9 (2.848 %) Blackberry 2 5 (1.582 %) Management Information System 3 3 (0.949 %) Dutch Language 3 3 (0.949 %) NHS 3 3 (0.949 %) Client/Server 3 3 (0.949 %) PDA 4 2 (0.633 %) Data Protection Act 4 2 (0.633 %) French Language 4 2 (0.633 %) Informatics 5 1 (0.316 %) Mathematics 5 1 (0.316 %) Physics 5 1 (0.316 %) Computer Science 5 1 (0.316 %) Life Science 5 1 (0.316 %) Video Conferencing 5 1 (0.316 %) PMI 5 1 (0.316 %) HACMP 5 1 (0.316 %) W3C 5 1 (0.316 %) PACS 5 1 (0.316 %) PKI 5 1 (0.316 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 128 (40.51 %) Windows 2 76 (24.05 %) Windows XP 3 35 (11.08 %) Windows 2000 4 22 (6.962 %) Windows Server 2003 5 12 (3.797 %) Windows Vista 6 8 (2.532 %) UNIX 7 4 (1.266 %) Windows NT 8 2 (0.633 %) Solaris 8 2 (0.633 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 1 (0.316 %) Mac OS X 9 1 (0.316 %) Linux 9 1 (0.316 %) HPUX 9 1 (0.316 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (8.544 %) Project Management 2 23 (7.278 %) E-Procurement 3 21 (6.646 %) PRINCE2 4 16 (5.063 %) ITIL 5 14 (4.430 %) Six Sigma 6 13 (4.114 %) Stakeholder Management 6 13 (4.114 %) Business Analysis 7 10 (3.165 %) Risk Assessment 8 7 (2.215 %) Document Management 8 7 (2.215 %) Change Management 9 6 (1.899 %) PRINCE 10 5 (1.582 %) Incident Management 10 5 (1.582 %) Service Management 10 5 (1.582 %) ITSM 10 5 (1.582 %) Migration 11 4 (1.266 %) Information Management 11 4 (1.266 %) Systems Analysis 11 4 (1.266 %) RUP 11 4 (1.266 %) CRM 11 4 (1.266 %) Performance Management
Programming Languages 1 15 (4.747 %) SQL 2 3 (0.949 %) C 2 3 (0.949 %) Java 3 1 (0.316 %) C# 3 1 (0.316 %) JavaScript 3 1 (0.316 %) Perl 3 1 (0.316 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (0.316 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (0.316 %) VBScript 3 1 (0.316 %) VB 3 1 (0.316 %) VB.NET 3 1 (0.316 %) ActionScript 3 1 (0.316 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 26 (8.228 %) Microsoft Certification 2 22 (6.962 %) Degree 3 21 (6.646 %) MCP 4 18 (5.696 %) PMP 4 18 (5.696 %) PMI Certification 5 16 (5.063 %) MCSE 6 15 (4.747 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 5 (1.582 %) MCSA 8 3 (0.949 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 2 (0.633 %) MOS 9 2 (0.633 %) MCT 10 1 (0.316 %) NVQ Level 4 10 1 (0.316 %) ISEB 10 1 (0.316 %) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.582 %) SLA 2 2 (0.633 %) ISO9000 2 2 (0.633 %) QA	System Software 1 57 (18.04 %) Active Directory 2 7 (2.215 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (0.633 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 1 (0.316 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 13 (4.114 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (1.266 %) ZENworks 3 3 (0.949 %) MOM 3 3 (0.949 %) MAILsweeper 4 1 (0.316 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 121 (38.29 %) Microsoft 2 22 (6.962 %) SAP 3 17 (5.380 %) HP 4 15 (4.747 %) Citrix 5 12 (3.797 %) Remedy 6 10 (3.165 %) Oracle 7 8 (2.532 %) Lotus 8 7 (2.215 %) VERITAS 9 6 (1.899 %) Adobe 10 5 (1.582 %) Novell 11 4 (1.266 %) Compaq 12 3 (0.949 %) Dell 12 3 (0.949 %) Sage 12 3 (0.949 %) 3Com 13 2 (0.633 %) Planview 13 2 (0.633 %) Avaya 13 2 (0.633 %) Sun 14 1 (0.316 %) Tandberg 14 1 (0.316 %) Nortel 14 1 (0.316 %) Niku