The first table below looks at the demand for MS Access skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Access over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Database & Business Intelligence category for the West Yorkshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Access
Rank - 70 60
Contract jobs citing MS Access 0 21 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 1.342% 1.689%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category - 5.801% 7.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 14 10
Average daily rate - £371 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.41%
UK excluding London average daily rate £260 £290 £275
% change year-on-year
-10.34% +5.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £20.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+11.11% +6.57%
All Database & Business Intelligence
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Database & Business Intelligence category
319 362 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 25.42% 23.13% 23.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 217 111
Average daily rate £300 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £379 £440 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £335
% change year-on-year
- -1.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 10 6
Average hourly rate £23.75 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.94% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £12.00 £20.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £32.50 £89.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-5.17% -10.76%
MS Access
Yorkshire

MS Access
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Database & Business Intelligence category.

West Yorkshire MS Access Jobs Demand Trend

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Access across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire MS Access Daily Rate Trend

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Access across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire MS Access Hourly Rate Trend

MS Access
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) Oracle
3 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) NHS
4 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
4 3 (37.50%) VBA
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (25.00%) GIS
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) MS Office
5 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
5 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
5 2 (25.00%) Data Conversion
5 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
6 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
6 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (12.50%) VB6
6 1 (12.50%) Data Management
6 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (12.50%) Oracle Spatial
6 1 (12.50%) QA
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
2 2 (25.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (25.00%) GIS
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (12.50%) Data Mining
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Quality Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Manager
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Information Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Data Manager
3 1 (12.50%) VBA Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) NHS
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (25.00%) Data Conversion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Extraction
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
2 1 (12.50%) Data Migration
2 1 (12.50%) EAM
2 1 (12.50%) Data Modelling
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
2 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (12.50%) Change Management
2 1 (12.50%) Quality Management
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
2 3 (37.50%) VBA
3 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB6
4 1 (12.50%) C#
4 1 (12.50%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft