MS Access Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills across the UK with a comparison to our Database & Business Intelligence category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Access
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barking Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cumbria Darlington Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Feltham Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Redhill Rickmansworth Ross-on-Wye Rugby Scarborough Scotland Shropshire Skipton Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	171	179
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	636	904
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.899 %	0.915 %
As % of the category below	4.612 %	4.544 %
Daily rates quoted	201	233
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£337
Average daily rate	£324	£358
% change on same period last year	-9.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£291	£303
% change on same period last year	-4.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	83	176
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.97	£19.27
Average hourly rate	£21.81	£21.20
% change on same period last year	+2.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.65	£23.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.60	£19.57
% change on same period last year	+10.36 %
Database & Business Intelligence UK
Matching contract IT job ads	13791	19896
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	19.50 %	20.14 %
Daily rates quoted	4298	5780
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£369
Average daily rate	£376	£393
% change on same period last year	-4.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£350
% change on same period last year	-2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	929	1482
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.15	£28.88
Average hourly rate	£30.11	£30.85
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.06	£32.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.90	£31.89
% change on same period last year	-6.24 %

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 Access
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Access within the UK.

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Access within the UK.

MS Access
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access within the UK over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

MS Access
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the UK over the 3 months to 13 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
England	+11	596	£326	-9.74 %
London	-40	252	£349	-7.15 %
South East	+65	115	£272	-18.31 %
City of London	-28	82	£389	-5.49 %
West Midlands	+18	47	£270	-
Yorkshire	+41	47	£333	+12.35 %
South West	+40	42	£233	-19.34 %
East of England	+15	41	£391	+74.15 %
North West	-1	37	£251	-39.09 %
Berkshire	+46	34	£277	-4.41 %
West Yorkshire	+20	34	£333	+8.40 %
Leeds	+5	27	£340	+10.56 %
Hampshire	+29	18	£275	-5.37 %
Scotland	+1	18	£320	+35.59 %
Wales	+13	17	£278	-
Hertfordshire	+14	17	£426	+64.59 %
South Wales	-	16	£278	-
Cardiff	-	14	£280	-
Reading	+4	13	£286	-12.37 %
Docklands, London	+28	12	£221	-36.76 %
Basingstoke	-	11	£238	-
Surrey	+30	11	-	-
Devon	-	10	-	-
Birmingham	+6	10	-	-
Cambridgeshire	+15	10	£450	-
Essex	+5	9	£200	+10.34 %
Edinburgh	+18	8	-	-
Bristol	+4	8	£252	-4.12 %
Buckinghamshire	+14	8	£192	-44.48 %
West Sussex	+20	8	£270	-32.50 %

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MS Access 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 Access.

1 689 (55.74 %) MS Excel 2 521 (42.15 %) SQL 3 320 (25.89 %) SQL Server 4 307 (24.84 %) Microsoft 5 252 (20.39 %) VBA 6 220 (17.80 %) Finance 7 184 (14.89 %) Oracle 8 172 (13.92 %) VB 9 170 (13.75 %) NHS 10 147 (11.89 %) Banking 11 131 (10.60 %) .NET 12 123 (9.951 %) Data Analysis 13 117 (9.466 %) MS Office 14 101 (8.172 %) BusinessObjects 14 101 (8.172 %) Business Objects

15 90 (7.282 %) Investment Banking 16 87 (7.039 %) Crystal Reports 17 86 (6.958 %) Migration 18 79 (6.392 %) Government 19 73 (5.906 %) Windows 20 72 (5.825 %) XML 20 72 (5.825 %) MS PowerPoint 21 68 (5.502 %) HTML 22 66 (5.340 %) Transact-SQL 23 63 (5.097 %) Telecoms 24 59 (4.773 %) Health 25 57 (4.612 %) SQL Server 2000 25 57 (4.612 %) Spreadsheet 26 56 (4.531 %) ASP 27 55 (4.450 %) VB.NET

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing MS Access 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 Access. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 131 (10.60 %) .NET 2 72 (5.825 %) XML 3 68 (5.502 %) HTML 4 56 (4.531 %) ASP 5 51 (4.126 %) ASP.NET 6 38 (3.074 %) CSS 6 38 (3.074 %) ODBC 7 16 (1.294 %) .NET Framework 8 13 (1.052 %) AJAX 9 12 (0.971 %) WebServices 10 10 (0.809 %) XSL 11 9 (0.728 %) XSLT 11 9 (0.728 %) ADO 12 8 (0.647 %) J2EE 13 7 (0.566 %) SOAP 13 7 (0.566 %) JSP 14 6 (0.485 %) ActiveX 14 6 (0.485 %) WinForms 15 5 (0.405 %) XHTML 16 4 (0.324 %) XML Schema	Application Platforms 1 37 (2.994 %) SharePoint 2 32 (2.589 %) SAS 3 14 (1.133 %) IIS 3 14 (1.133 %) Lotus Notes 4 12 (0.971 %) ArcGIS 5 11 (0.890 %) CMS 6 9 (0.728 %) MS Exchange 7 6 (0.485 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 4 (0.324 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 4 (0.324 %) Apache 9 3 (0.243 %) Tomcat 10 2 (0.162 %) Oracle Spatial 10 2 (0.162 %) Oracle Workflow 10 2 (0.162 %) Oracle Application Server 10 2 (0.162 %) Exchange Server 2000 11 1 (0.081 %) ArcSDE 11 1 (0.081 %) Oracle BPEL 11 1 (0.081 %) ArcIMS
Applications 1 689 (55.74 %) MS Excel 2 117 (9.466 %) MS Office 3 72 (5.825 %) MS PowerPoint 4 57 (4.612 %) Spreadsheet 5 41 (3.317 %) MS Project 6 39 (3.155 %) MS Visio 7 21 (1.699 %) Photoshop 8 18 (1.456 %) SPSS 9 4 (0.324 %) Acrobat 10 3 (0.243 %) ArcView 11 1 (0.081 %) CA Clarity 11 1 (0.081 %) Fireworks 11 1 (0.081 %) MATLAB 11 1 (0.081 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 1 (0.081 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 9 (0.728 %) SalesLogix 2 6 (0.485 %) SAP HR 3 4 (0.324 %) Oracle Financials 3 4 (0.324 %) SAP R/3 4 3 (0.243 %) Summit 5 2 (0.162 %) SAP FI 5 2 (0.162 %) SoftGrid 5 2 (0.162 %) Oracle 11i 5 2 (0.162 %) SAP PLM 5 2 (0.162 %) Oracle Financial Analyzer 5 2 (0.162 %) SAP FI-CA 6 1 (0.081 %) BPCS 6 1 (0.081 %) Siebel Analytics 6 1 (0.081 %) PeopleSoft Financials 6 1 (0.081 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 6 1 (0.081 %) Teamcenter 6 1 (0.081 %) LabWindows 6 1 (0.081 %) SAP Retail 6 1 (0.081 %) SAP Oil and Gas 6 1 (0.081 %) arcHouse
Communications & Networking 1 15 (1.214 %) Intranet 2 14 (1.133 %) LAN 3 13 (1.052 %) Internet 4 11 (0.890 %) WAN 4 11 (0.890 %) TCP/IP 5 9 (0.728 %) 3G 6 6 (0.485 %) Ethernet 6 6 (0.485 %) SDH 6 6 (0.485 %) ATM 7 5 (0.405 %) GSM 7 5 (0.405 %) VoIP 7 5 (0.405 %) 2G 8 4 (0.324 %) IP Telephony 8 4 (0.324 %) DMS-100 8 4 (0.324 %) C7 8 4 (0.324 %) MPLS 8 4 (0.324 %) UMTS 9 3 (0.243 %) Broadband 9 3 (0.243 %) IIOP 9 3 (0.243 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 320 (25.89 %) SQL Server 2 101 (8.172 %) BusinessObjects 3 87 (7.039 %) Crystal Reports 4 57 (4.612 %) SQL Server 2000 5 53 (4.288 %) SQL Server 2005 6 49 (3.964 %) Datawarehouse 7 42 (3.398 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 38 (3.074 %) GIS 9 35 (2.832 %) Reference Data 10 33 (2.670 %) Oracle 10g 11 27 (2.184 %) DTS 12 24 (1.942 %) Oracle Reports 13 23 (1.861 %) Oracle 9i 14 22 (1.780 %) Data Mining 14 22 (1.780 %) ETL 15 15 (1.214 %) TOAD 16 13 (1.052 %) SQL Server Integration Services 17 12 (0.971 %) SAP BW 18 9 (0.728 %) OLAP 19 8 (0.647 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 28 (2.265 %) Visual Studio 2 27 (2.184 %) Dreamweaver 3 9 (0.728 %) Flash 4 8 (0.647 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 8 (0.647 %) FrontPage 5 7 (0.566 %) PowerBuilder 5 7 (0.566 %) Oracle Forms 6 5 (0.405 %) TestDirector 7 4 (0.324 %) Oracle APEX 8 3 (0.243 %) Eclipse 8 3 (0.243 %) StarTeam 9 2 (0.162 %) ReSharper 9 2 (0.162 %) NUnit 9 2 (0.162 %) LSMW 9 2 (0.162 %) LoadRunner 9 2 (0.162 %) ClearCase 10 1 (0.081 %) PVCS	General 1 220 (17.80 %) Finance 2 147 (11.89 %) Banking 3 90 (7.282 %) Investment Banking 4 79 (6.392 %) Government 5 63 (5.097 %) Telecoms 6 59 (4.773 %) Health 7 34 (2.751 %) Front Office 8 26 (2.104 %) Retail 8 26 (2.104 %) Marketing 9 20 (1.618 %) Education 9 20 (1.618 %) Billing 10 18 (1.456 %) Financial Institution 11 17 (1.375 %) Back Office 12 13 (1.052 %) Pensions 13 12 (0.971 %) Local Government 14 10 (0.809 %) Insurance 14 10 (0.809 %) International Banking 14 10 (0.809 %) Publishing 15 9 (0.728 %) Legal 15 9 (0.728 %) Aerospace
Job Titles 1 535 (43.28 %) Analyst 2 397 (32.12 %) Developer 3 160 (12.94 %) Data Analyst 4 137 (11.08 %) Access Developer 5 111 (8.981 %) Information Analyst 6 102 (8.252 %) Business Analyst 7 54 (4.369 %) Administrator 8 48 (3.883 %) DBA 9 38 (3.074 %) NHS Information Analyst 10 37 (2.994 %) Analyst Developer 11 35 (2.832 %) VBA Developer 12 34 (2.751 %) SQL Developer 13 32 (2.589 %) .NET Developer 13 32 (2.589 %) Programmer 14 30 (2.427 %) Support Analyst 15 28 (2.265 %) Report Analyst 15 28 (2.265 %) Excel Developer 16 27 (2.184 %) Systems Analyst 17 25 (2.023 %) Applications Support 18 24 (1.942 %) Web Developer	Miscellaneous 1 170 (13.75 %) NHS 2 31 (2.508 %) Derivative 3 30 (2.427 %) Management Information System 3 30 (2.427 %) Credit Risk 4 29 (2.346 %) Statistics 5 17 (1.375 %) Client/Server 6 16 (1.294 %) Equities 6 16 (1.294 %) Data Integration 7 15 (1.214 %) Equity Derivative 8 14 (1.133 %) Data Extraction 9 13 (1.052 %) Interest Rate Derivative 10 12 (0.971 %) Credit Derivative 11 11 (0.890 %) Mainframe 12 10 (0.809 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 13 7 (0.566 %) French Language 14 6 (0.485 %) Market Risk 14 6 (0.485 %) E-Learning 14 6 (0.485 %) Mathematics 15 5 (0.405 %) Chemistry 15 5 (0.405 %) Biology
Operating Systems 1 73 (5.906 %) Windows 2 36 (2.913 %) UNIX 3 24 (1.942 %) Windows XP 4 22 (1.780 %) Windows Server 2003 5 16 (1.294 %) Windows 2000 6 9 (0.728 %) Solaris 7 8 (0.647 %) Windows Vista 7 8 (0.647 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 6 (0.485 %) AIX 9 5 (0.405 %) NetWare 10 3 (0.243 %) Linux 11 1 (0.081 %) Windows NT 11 1 (0.081 %) VMS 11 1 (0.081 %) Windows Mobile 11 1 (0.081 %) Windows Server 2008	Processes & Methodologies 1 123 (9.951 %) Data Analysis 2 86 (6.958 %) Migration 3 53 (4.288 %) Security Cleared 4 51 (4.126 %) Data Modelling 5 46 (3.722 %) Project Management 6 41 (3.317 %) ITIL 7 40 (3.236 %) Business Analysis 8 35 (2.832 %) Data Migration 9 32 (2.589 %) RAD 10 28 (2.265 %) Service Management 10 28 (2.265 %) Change Management 10 28 (2.265 %) Data Management 11 27 (2.184 %) Validation 12 26 (2.104 %) CRM 12 26 (2.104 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 24 (1.942 %) SC Cleared 14 19 (1.537 %) Workflow 15 18 (1.456 %) Statistical Analysis 15 18 (1.456 %) Business Intelligence 15 18 (1.456 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 521 (42.15 %) SQL 2 252 (20.39 %) VBA 3 172 (13.92 %) VB 4 66 (5.340 %) Transact-SQL 5 55 (4.450 %) VB.NET 5 55 (4.450 %) VB6 6 53 (4.288 %) C# 7 45 (3.641 %) PL/SQL 8 41 (3.317 %) JavaScript 9 22 (1.780 %) C 10 20 (1.618 %) Java 10 20 (1.618 %) VBScript 11 17 (1.375 %) C++ 12 13 (1.052 %) Perl 13 11 (0.890 %) PHP 14 8 (0.647 %) ABAP 15 7 (0.566 %) COBOL 16 5 (0.405 %) Shell Script 17 4 (0.324 %) FoxPro (VFP) 18 3 (0.243 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 21 (1.699 %) Degree 2 9 (0.728 %) ISEB 2 9 (0.728 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (0.485 %) ECDL 4 4 (0.324 %) ISTQB 5 3 (0.243 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (0.243 %) CIMA 5 3 (0.243 %) MCP 6 2 (0.162 %) MCDBA 6 2 (0.162 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 2 (0.162 %) ACCA 7 1 (0.081 %) SAS Certification 7 1 (0.081 %) MBA 7 1 (0.081 %) Network+ Certification 7 1 (0.081 %) Server+ Certification 7 1 (0.081 %) A+ Certification 7 1 (0.081 %) CNA 7 1 (0.081 %) CNE 7 1 (0.081 %) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 21 (1.699 %) SLA 2 16 (1.294 %) QA 3 14 (1.133 %) Basel II 4 3 (0.243 %) BS7666 4 3 (0.243 %) ISO9001 5 2 (0.162 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 1 (0.081 %) GMP	System Software 1 15 (1.214 %) Active Directory 2 5 (0.405 %) Novell eDirectory 3 4 (0.324 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (0.162 %) Oracle RMAN 4 2 (0.162 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 1 (0.081 %) RACF
Systems Management 1 2 (0.162 %) AutoSys 1 2 (0.162 %) ServiceCenter 1 2 (0.162 %) SCCM 2 1 (0.081 %) ARCserve 2 1 (0.081 %) DameWare 2 1 (0.081 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 307 (24.84 %) Microsoft 2 184 (14.89 %) Oracle 3 101 (8.172 %) Business Objects 4 42 (3.398 %) SAP 5 23 (1.861 %) Sybase 6 22 (1.780 %) Cognos 7 18 (1.456 %) Adobe 8 17 (1.375 %) Macromedia 9 15 (1.214 %) Lotus 10 13 (1.052 %) Citrix 10 13 (1.052 %) ESRI 11 9 (0.728 %) Mapinfo 11 9 (0.728 %) RedDot 12 8 (0.647 %) HP 13 7 (0.566 %) Nortel 13 7 (0.566 %) Nokia 14 6 (0.485 %) Informatica 14 6 (0.485 %) Sun 14 6 (0.485 %) Northgate 15 5 (0.405 %) Progress