West Yorkshire MS PowerPoint Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft PowerPoint skills within the West Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS PowerPoint over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft PowerPoint
Location Abingdon Alderley Edge Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dover East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hackney Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Sherborne Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Bromwich West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	71
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	20	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	6.920 %	10.04 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£254	£60
Average daily rate	£279	£60
% change on same period last year	+364.58 %
Average maximum daily rate	£303	£60
UK excluding London average daily rate	£307	£255
% change on same period last year	+20.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£51.20
Average hourly rate	£16.25	£51.20
% change on same period last year	-68.26 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.50	£51.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.44	£21.25
% change on same period last year	-13.22 %
Applications West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	289	249
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.385 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	73	41
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£232
Average daily rate	£273	£252
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£289	£272
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	38
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.14	£23.63
Average hourly rate	£17.33	£24.54
% change on same period last year	-29.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.52	£25.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS PowerPoint
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS PowerPoint
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS PowerPoint within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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	-10	20	£279	+364.58 %

MS PowerPoint Yorkshire

MS PowerPoint
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint.

1 35 (79.55 %) MS Excel 2 18 (40.91 %) Finance 3 15 (34.09 %) Microsoft 3 15 (34.09 %) NHS 4 13 (29.55 %) MS Office 5 10 (22.73 %) MS Project 6 7 (15.91 %) Health 7 6 (13.64 %) PRINCE2 7 6 (13.64 %) Cognos 8 5 (11.36 %) Project Management 9 4 (9.091 %) Internet 9 4 (9.091 %) Primavera 9 4 (9.091 %) MS Visio 10 3 (6.818 %) Business Intelligence 10 3 (6.818 %) Adobe

10 3 (6.818 %) Cognos Powerplay 10 3 (6.818 %) MS Access 10 3 (6.818 %) Business Objects 10 3 (6.818 %) OLAP 10 3 (6.818 %) BusinessObjects 10 3 (6.818 %) Programme Management 10 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 11 2 (4.545 %) ITIL 11 2 (4.545 %) Service Management 11 2 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 11 2 (4.545 %) Pharmaceutical 11 2 (4.545 %) Macromedia 11 2 (4.545 %) Degree 11 2 (4.545 %) QA 12 1 (2.273 %) Email Marketing

MS PowerPoint
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing MS PowerPoint 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 PowerPoint. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 35 (79.55 %) MS Excel 2 13 (29.55 %) MS Office 3 10 (22.73 %) MS Project 4 4 (9.091 %) MS Visio 5 1 (2.273 %) Adobe Illustrator 5 1 (2.273 %) InDesign 5 1 (2.273 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (2.273 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.091 %) Internet 2 1 (2.273 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (6.818 %) OLAP 1 3 (6.818 %) MS Access 1 3 (6.818 %) Cognos Powerplay 1 3 (6.818 %) BusinessObjects	Development Applications 1 1 (2.273 %) Flash
General 1 18 (40.91 %) Finance 2 7 (15.91 %) Health 3 2 (4.545 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (2.273 %) Law 4 1 (2.273 %) Marketing	Job Titles 1 12 (27.27 %) Analyst 2 6 (13.64 %) Project Officer 3 5 (11.36 %) Project Support Officer 4 4 (9.091 %) Administrator 5 3 (6.818 %) Developer 5 3 (6.818 %) Trainer 5 3 (6.818 %) Cognos Developer 5 3 (6.818 %) Information Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) PMO Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Management Information Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Coordinator 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Consultant 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Coordinator 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Project Administrator 7 1 (2.273 %) IT Project Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Technical Project Manager 7 1 (2.273 %) Support Analyst 7 1 (2.273 %) Report Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 15 (34.09 %) NHS 2 1 (2.273 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.273 %) Client/Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (13.64 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (11.36 %) Project Management 3 3 (6.818 %) Business Intelligence 3 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 3 3 (6.818 %) Programme Management 4 2 (4.545 %) ITIL 4 2 (4.545 %) Service Management 4 2 (4.545 %) Service Delivery 5 1 (2.273 %) Migration 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Analysis 5 1 (2.273 %) Logistics 5 1 (2.273 %) Project Planning 5 1 (2.273 %) Operations Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Email Marketing 5 1 (2.273 %) Time Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Migration 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Mapping
Qualifications 1 2 (4.545 %) Degree 2 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) QA
Vendors 1 15 (34.09 %) Microsoft 2 6 (13.64 %) Cognos 3 4 (9.091 %) Primavera 4 3 (6.818 %) Adobe 4 3 (6.818 %) Business Objects 5 2 (4.545 %) Macromedia 6 1 (2.273 %) SAP