West Yorkshire MS Access Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Access skills within the West Yorkshire region 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bridgwater Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheshire Chester City of London Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glamorgan Glasgow Greenford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Ruislip Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Wiltshire Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	74
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	35	20
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.047 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	7.848 %	4.975 %
Daily rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum daily rate	£233	£298
Average daily rate	£250	£316
% change on same period last year	-20.81 %
Average maximum daily rate	£267	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£278	£298
% change on same period last year	-6.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.46	-
Average hourly rate	£18.05	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.63	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.33	£18.71
% change on same period last year	+35.36 %
Database & Business Intelligence West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	446	402
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.594 %	0.408 %
Daily rates quoted	93	34
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£341
Average daily rate	£310	£362
% change on same period last year	-14.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£327	£382
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	26
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.51	£24.35
Average hourly rate	£28.95	£25.29
% change on same period last year	+14.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.39	£26.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.81	£31.09
% change on same period last year	+5.51 %
MS Access Yorkshire

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 a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Access across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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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 Access within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Leeds	+11	32	£250	-20.81 %
Wakefield	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 45 (80.36 %) MS Excel 2 23 (41.07 %) NHS 2 23 (41.07 %) SQL 2 23 (41.07 %) SQL Server 3 22 (39.29 %) Microsoft 4 16 (28.57 %) Health 5 15 (26.79 %) SQL Server 2000 6 11 (19.64 %) Data Analysis 6 11 (19.64 %) MS Office 6 11 (19.64 %) VB 7 9 (16.07 %) VBScript 8 8 (14.29 %) ASP 8 8 (14.29 %) XML 9 7 (12.50 %) VBA 9 7 (12.50 %) .NET

9 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 9 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 10 5 (8.929 %) Statistical Analysis 11 4 (7.143 %) Spreadsheet 11 4 (7.143 %) MS Visio 12 3 (5.357 %) Primavera 12 3 (5.357 %) Government 12 3 (5.357 %) Windows 12 3 (5.357 %) VB.NET 12 3 (5.357 %) MS PowerPoint 12 3 (5.357 %) QA 12 3 (5.357 %) Validation 13 2 (3.571 %) Migration 13 2 (3.571 %) Advertising 13 2 (3.571 %) Novell eDirectory

MS Access
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 8 (14.29 %) ASP 1 8 (14.29 %) XML 2 7 (12.50 %) .NET 3 2 (3.571 %) ASP.NET 2.0 4 1 (1.786 %) HTML 4 1 (1.786 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.786 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (3.571 %) SharePoint 1 2 (3.571 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (3.571 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 45 (80.36 %) MS Excel 2 11 (19.64 %) MS Office 3 4 (7.143 %) MS Visio 3 4 (7.143 %) Spreadsheet 4 3 (5.357 %) MS PowerPoint 5 2 (3.571 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.786 %) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (41.07 %) SQL Server 2 15 (26.79 %) SQL Server 2000 3 7 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (3.571 %) Reference Data 4 2 (3.571 %) BusinessObjects 4 2 (3.571 %) SQL Server 7 4 2 (3.571 %) Crystal Reports 5 1 (1.786 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.786 %) TOAD 5 1 (1.786 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 1 (1.786 %) OLAP	General 1 16 (28.57 %) Health 2 3 (5.357 %) Government 3 2 (3.571 %) Advertising 4 1 (1.786 %) Finance 4 1 (1.786 %) Education
Job Titles 1 32 (57.14 %) Analyst 2 22 (39.29 %) Developer 3 15 (26.79 %) Data Analyst 4 12 (21.43 %) Information Analyst 5 4 (7.143 %) Test Analyst 6 3 (5.357 %) Junior 6 3 (5.357 %) .NET Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) VB.NET Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) Applications Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) Access Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) Excel Developer 6 3 (5.357 %) Report Analyst 7 2 (3.571 %) Excel Specialist 7 2 (3.571 %) Junior Developer 7 2 (3.571 %) Junior .NET Developer 7 2 (3.571 %) Analyst Developer 7 2 (3.571 %) Database Developer 7 2 (3.571 %) Business Analyst 7 2 (3.571 %) Business Developer 8 1 (1.786 %) Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 23 (41.07 %) NHS 2 1 (1.786 %) Blackberry 2 1 (1.786 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.786 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.357 %) Windows 2 2 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (3.571 %) NetWare 3 1 (1.786 %) Solaris 3 1 (1.786 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (19.64 %) Data Analysis 2 5 (8.929 %) Statistical Analysis 3 3 (5.357 %) Validation 4 2 (3.571 %) Migration 4 2 (3.571 %) Data Migration 4 2 (3.571 %) Data Validation 4 2 (3.571 %) Quality Management 5 1 (1.786 %) TDD 5 1 (1.786 %) OO 5 1 (1.786 %) CRM 5 1 (1.786 %) Benchmarking 5 1 (1.786 %) Manual Testing 5 1 (1.786 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 23 (41.07 %) SQL 2 11 (19.64 %) VB 3 9 (16.07 %) VBScript 4 7 (12.50 %) VBA 5 3 (5.357 %) VB.NET 6 2 (3.571 %) VB6 7 1 (1.786 %) Shell Script 7 1 (1.786 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.786 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (1.786 %) ISEB 1 1 (1.786 %) CNA 1 1 (1.786 %) CNE 1 1 (1.786 %) Novell Certification 1 1 (1.786 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (5.357 %) QA	System Software 1 2 (3.571 %) Active Directory 1 2 (3.571 %) Novell eDirectory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.786 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 22 (39.29 %) Microsoft 2 7 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 3 (5.357 %) Primavera 4 2 (3.571 %) Lotus 4 2 (3.571 %) Business Objects 5 1 (1.786 %) Sun 5 1 (1.786 %) HP 5 1 (1.786 %) Novell