Tyne and Wear MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Tyne and Wear 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 15 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 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 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 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 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 Stoke-on-Trent 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 Welwyn Garden City 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 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	31
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	20	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.029 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	40.82 %	33.33 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£153
Average daily rate	£175	£153
% change on same period last year	+14.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£175	£153
UK excluding London average daily rate	£241	£233
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.50	£31.97
Average hourly rate	£12.88	£35.13
% change on same period last year	-63.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.25	£38.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.59	£15.89
% change on same period last year	-1.90 %
Applications Tyne and Wear
Matching contract IT job ads	49	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	8	12
Average minimum daily rate	£266	£295
Average daily rate	£269	£298
% change on same period last year	-9.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£272	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£278
% change on same period last year	+5.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.18	£24.30
Average hourly rate	£15.91	£29.52
% change on same period last year	-46.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.64	£34.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.52	£19.38
% change on same period last year	-4.42 %
MS Office North 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 15 October 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 15 October 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
Newcastle	+8	8	-	-
Newcastle Upon Tyne	+12	8	-	-
Gateshead	-	2	-	-
Tyneside	-	1	-	-

MS Office North East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 19 (57.58 %) Microsoft 2 14 (42.42 %) Windows 3 10 (30.30 %) MS Excel 3 10 (30.30 %) Active Directory 4 8 (24.24 %) Windows XP 5 6 (18.18 %) MOS 6 4 (12.12 %) Windows Vista 6 4 (12.12 %) Legal 6 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft Certification 7 3 (9.091 %) Finance 7 3 (9.091 %) Dell 7 3 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 8 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 8 2 (6.061 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (6.061 %) Project Management

8 2 (6.061 %) ERD 8 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 2 (6.061 %) BusinessObjects 8 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 8 2 (6.061 %) Adobe 8 2 (6.061 %) MS Visio 8 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint 8 2 (6.061 %) MCSE 8 2 (6.061 %) PL/SQL 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL 8 2 (6.061 %) VB 8 2 (6.061 %) .NET 8 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 8 2 (6.061 %) Business Objects

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 2 (6.061 %) .NET 1 2 (6.061 %) ASP 2 1 (3.030 %) WAP	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint 1 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.030 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 10 (30.30 %) MS Excel 2 2 (6.061 %) MS Visio 2 2 (6.061 %) Adobe Illustrator 3 1 (3.030 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.061 %) Intranet 1 2 (6.061 %) Internet 1 2 (6.061 %) Firewall 2 1 (3.030 %) Wi-Fi 2 1 (3.030 %) HSDPA 2 1 (3.030 %) ADSL 2 1 (3.030 %) GPRS 2 1 (3.030 %) GSM 2 1 (3.030 %) LAN 2 1 (3.030 %) UMTS 2 1 (3.030 %) VoIP 2 1 (3.030 %) WAN 2 1 (3.030 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 1 2 (6.061 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server Integration Services	General 1 4 (12.12 %) Legal 2 3 (9.091 %) Finance 3 2 (6.061 %) Education 3 2 (6.061 %) Government 3 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 4 1 (3.030 %) Billing 4 1 (3.030 %) Law
Job Titles 1 11 (33.33 %) Desktop Support 2 7 (21.21 %) Trainer 2 7 (21.21 %) 2nd Line Support 3 6 (18.18 %) Analyst 4 5 (15.15 %) IT Trainer 5 3 (9.091 %) Desktop Support Analyst 5 3 (9.091 %) Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Support Technician 5 3 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (9.091 %) Desktop Analyst 5 3 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 6 2 (6.061 %) Desktop Support Technician 6 2 (6.061 %) Helpdesk Technician 6 2 (6.061 %) SharePoint Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Support Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) 3rd Line Support 7 1 (3.030 %) Senior Developer 7 1 (3.030 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Desktop Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Helpdesk Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) Blackberry 1 1 (3.030 %) E-Learning 1 1 (3.030 %) VLE 1 1 (3.030 %) IPTV 1 1 (3.030 %) Dutch Language 1 1 (3.030 %) French Language 1 1 (3.030 %) German Language
Operating Systems 1 14 (42.42 %) Windows 2 8 (24.24 %) Windows XP 3 4 (12.12 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (6.061 %) ERD 2 2 (6.061 %) ITIL 2 2 (6.061 %) Project Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Change Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 3 1 (3.030 %) Migration 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (3.030 %) Information Security 3 1 (3.030 %) Document Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Performance Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Data Migration
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.061 %) PL/SQL 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL 1 2 (6.061 %) VB 2 1 (3.030 %) C	Qualifications 1 6 (18.18 %) MOS 2 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (6.061 %) MCSE 4 1 (3.030 %) CCA 4 1 (3.030 %) Citrix Certification 4 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (3.030 %) MCP 4 1 (3.030 %) Degree
System Software 1 10 (30.30 %) Active Directory 2 1 (3.030 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (3.030 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 19 (57.58 %) Microsoft 2 3 (9.091 %) Dell 3 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 3 2 (6.061 %) Adobe 3 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 3 2 (6.061 %) Business Objects 3 2 (6.061 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.030 %) Sage 4 1 (3.030 %) Symantec 4 1 (3.030 %) Hummingbird 4 1 (3.030 %) Cisco 4 1 (3.030 %) HP 4 1 (3.030 %) Interwoven