Yorkshire MS Office Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the 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 Office over the 3 months to 13 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 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 New Malden 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 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 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 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	31
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	190	161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.269 %	0.163 %
As % of the category below	43.58 %	43.16 %
Daily rates quoted	26	12
Average minimum daily rate	£239	£211
Average daily rate	£254	£220
% change on same period last year	+15.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£229
UK excluding London average daily rate	£242	£236
% change on same period last year	+2.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	53	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.31	£13.50
Average hourly rate	£13.17	£14.61
% change on same period last year	-9.81 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.04	£15.71
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£15.55	£15.85
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Applications Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	436	373
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.617 %	0.378 %
Daily rates quoted	73	59
Average minimum daily rate	£281	£267
Average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£295
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	88	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.38	£18.92
Average hourly rate	£15.59	£20.17
% change on same period last year	-22.71 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.80	£21.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.55	£19.44
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
MS Office England

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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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 Yorkshire region.

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 13 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 Yorkshire region 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
West Yorkshire	+10	108	£236	+2.26 %
North Yorkshire	+10	43	£256	+13.74 %
South Yorkshire	+1	23	£216	+10.68 %
East Yorkshire	+4	9	-	-

MS Office England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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.

1 179 (44.42 %) Windows 2 167 (41.44 %) Microsoft 3 144 (35.73 %) MS Excel 4 119 (29.53 %) Active Directory 5 117 (29.03 %) Windows XP 6 59 (14.64 %) Windows Server 2003 7 57 (14.14 %) NHS 8 56 (13.90 %) PRINCE2 9 46 (11.41 %) Project Management 10 43 (10.67 %) Windows 2000 11 39 (9.677 %) Finance 12 36 (8.933 %) Health 12 36 (8.933 %) MS Project 13 35 (8.685 %) MS Visio 14 31 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint

15 30 (7.444 %) MS Exchange 15 30 (7.444 %) TCP/IP 15 30 (7.444 %) SharePoint 16 29 (7.196 %) ITIL 16 29 (7.196 %) Windows Vista 17 24 (5.955 %) SQL 18 21 (5.211 %) SQL Server 19 20 (4.963 %) Microsoft Certification 19 20 (4.963 %) Office Project Server 20 17 (4.218 %) Migration 20 17 (4.218 %) Citrix 20 17 (4.218 %) WAN 21 16 (3.970 %) Lotus Notes 21 16 (3.970 %) HP 21 16 (3.970 %) Lotus

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 15 (3.722 %) .NET 2 10 (2.481 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (2.233 %) CSS 3 9 (2.233 %) XML 3 9 (2.233 %) Middleware 4 8 (1.985 %) HTML 5 6 (1.489 %) XML Schema 5 6 (1.489 %) XSLT 5 6 (1.489 %) .NET Framework 6 5 (1.241 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 3 (0.744 %) XHTML 8 2 (0.496 %) ASP 9 1 (0.248 %) Application Packaging 9 1 (0.248 %) Spring	Application Platforms 1 30 (7.444 %) SharePoint 1 30 (7.444 %) MS Exchange 2 20 (4.963 %) Office Project Server 3 16 (3.970 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 16 (3.970 %) Lotus Notes 4 8 (1.985 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 4 (0.993 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 3 (0.744 %) CMS 6 3 (0.744 %) IIS 6 3 (0.744 %) Documentum 7 2 (0.496 %) GroupWise 7 2 (0.496 %) Exchange Server 5.5 8 1 (0.248 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 1 (0.248 %) Office Communications Server 8 1 (0.248 %) WebLogic 8 1 (0.248 %) Apache 8 1 (0.248 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 144 (35.73 %) MS Excel 2 36 (8.933 %) MS Project 3 35 (8.685 %) MS Visio 4 31 (7.692 %) MS PowerPoint 5 4 (0.993 %) AutoCAD 5 4 (0.993 %) Spreadsheet 6 1 (0.248 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 1 (0.248 %) assyst 1 1 (0.248 %) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking 1 30 (7.444 %) TCP/IP 2 17 (4.218 %) WAN 3 13 (3.226 %) LAN 4 8 (1.985 %) Internet 5 7 (1.737 %) VPN 6 5 (1.241 %) Firewall 7 3 (0.744 %) Broadband 7 3 (0.744 %) VoIP 8 2 (0.496 %) ATM 8 2 (0.496 %) DNS 8 2 (0.496 %) SAN 9 1 (0.248 %) CTI 9 1 (0.248 %) Extranet 9 1 (0.248 %) LDAP 9 1 (0.248 %) PBX 9 1 (0.248 %) SMS 9 1 (0.248 %) DHCP 9 1 (0.248 %) SNMP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 21 (5.211 %) SQL Server 2 11 (2.730 %) MS Access 3 7 (1.737 %) EDRMS 4 6 (1.489 %) SQL Server 2005 5 5 (1.241 %) SQL Server 2000 6 4 (0.993 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 3 (0.744 %) Datawarehouse 7 3 (0.744 %) BusinessObjects 7 3 (0.744 %) Crystal Reports 8 2 (0.496 %) ETL 8 2 (0.496 %) GIS 8 2 (0.496 %) SQL Server Integration Services 8 2 (0.496 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 9 1 (0.248 %) Data Cleansing 9 1 (0.248 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 9 1 (0.248 %) Oracle 8/8i 9 1 (0.248 %) OLAP 9 1 (0.248 %) SQL Server 7 9 1 (0.248 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 14 (3.474 %) ClearCase 1 14 (3.474 %) ClearQuest 2 7 (1.737 %) Flash 3 2 (0.496 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (0.248 %) Rational Rose 4 1 (0.248 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 39 (9.677 %) Finance 2 36 (8.933 %) Health 3 12 (2.978 %) Publishing 4 11 (2.730 %) Government 5 8 (1.985 %) Banking 6 5 (1.241 %) Construction 7 4 (0.993 %) Education 7 4 (0.993 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (0.744 %) Insurance 8 3 (0.744 %) Pensions 9 2 (0.496 %) Marketing 9 2 (0.496 %) Auditing 9 2 (0.496 %) Legal 9 2 (0.496 %) Telecoms 9 2 (0.496 %) Pharmaceutical 10 1 (0.248 %) Electric 10 1 (0.248 %) Automotive 10 1 (0.248 %) Manufacturing 10 1 (0.248 %) Law 10 1 (0.248 %) Billing
Job Titles 1 107 (26.55 %) Analyst 2 45 (11.17 %) Support Analyst 3 41 (10.17 %) Desktop Support 4 40 (9.926 %) Support Engineer 5 30 (7.444 %) Developer 6 28 (6.948 %) Project Manager 6 28 (6.948 %) 2nd Line Support 7 21 (5.211 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 19 (4.715 %) 1st Line Support 9 17 (4.218 %) Desktop Engineer 10 15 (3.722 %) Administrator 10 15 (3.722 %) Helpdesk Support 11 14 (3.474 %) Service Analyst 12 13 (3.226 %) Project Analyst 12 13 (3.226 %) Rollout Engineer 12 13 (3.226 %) Project Support Analyst 13 11 (2.730 %) Desktop Analyst 13 11 (2.730 %) Service Desk Analyst 14 10 (2.481 %) Desktop Support Engineer 14 10 (2.481 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 57 (14.14 %) NHS 2 7 (1.737 %) E-Learning 2 7 (1.737 %) SCORM 3 6 (1.489 %) Management Information System 3 6 (1.489 %) PDA 4 5 (1.241 %) German Language 4 5 (1.241 %) NPfIT 5 4 (0.993 %) Blackberry 5 4 (0.993 %) AS400 5 4 (0.993 %) Data Protection Act 5 4 (0.993 %) Freedom of Information Act 5 4 (0.993 %) Informatics 5 4 (0.993 %) Computer Science 5 4 (0.993 %) Freedom of Information 6 2 (0.496 %) Video Conferencing 6 2 (0.496 %) Smartcard 7 1 (0.248 %) Client/Server 7 1 (0.248 %) N-Tier 7 1 (0.248 %) Dutch Language 7 1 (0.248 %) IVR
Operating Systems 1 179 (44.42 %) Windows 2 117 (29.03 %) Windows XP 3 59 (14.64 %) Windows Server 2003 4 43 (10.67 %) Windows 2000 5 29 (7.196 %) Windows Vista 6 10 (2.481 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 8 (1.985 %) Solaris 8 7 (1.737 %) NetWare 9 5 (1.241 %) Windows Mobile 10 2 (0.496 %) Windows NT 10 2 (0.496 %) Linux 10 2 (0.496 %) HPUX 11 1 (0.248 %) Windows Server 2008 11 1 (0.248 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (13.90 %) PRINCE2 2 46 (11.41 %) Project Management 3 29 (7.196 %) ITIL 4 17 (4.218 %) Migration 5 14 (3.474 %) Project Planning 6 12 (2.978 %) Service Management 6 12 (2.978 %) PRINCE 6 12 (2.978 %) Data Migration 7 10 (2.481 %) Business Development 7 10 (2.481 %) Document Management 8 8 (1.985 %) Time Management 9 7 (1.737 %) Data Analysis 9 7 (1.737 %) Business Analysis 10 6 (1.489 %) Supplier Management 11 5 (1.241 %) Data Protection 11 5 (1.241 %) Problem Management 12 4 (0.993 %) Test Scripting 12 4 (0.993 %) Manual Testing 12 4 (0.993 %) Change Management 13 3 (0.744 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 24 (5.955 %) SQL 2 11 (2.730 %) C# 3 7 (1.737 %) VBA 4 5 (1.241 %) C 5 4 (0.993 %) PHP 6 3 (0.744 %) JavaScript 7 1 (0.248 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.248 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (0.248 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 20 (4.963 %) Microsoft Certification 2 12 (2.978 %) Degree 3 10 (2.481 %) MCP 4 9 (2.233 %) MCSE 5 8 (1.985 %) ITIL Certification 6 4 (0.993 %) ISEB 7 3 (0.744 %) MCSA 8 2 (0.496 %) HNC 8 2 (0.496 %) CNA 8 2 (0.496 %) Novell Certification 8 2 (0.496 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 2 (0.496 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 2 (0.496 %) MOS 8 2 (0.496 %) MCDST 9 1 (0.248 %) CIPD 9 1 (0.248 %) MBA 9 1 (0.248 %) Network+ Certification 9 1 (0.248 %) CNE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (1.241 %) BS15000 2 4 (0.993 %) QA 3 2 (0.496 %) SLA 4 1 (0.248 %) EFQM	System Software 1 119 (29.53 %) Active Directory 2 7 (1.737 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 6 (1.489 %) Novell eDirectory 3 6 (1.489 %) VMware ESX 4 4 (0.993 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (0.993 %) Terminal Services 5 2 (0.496 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 1 (0.248 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 12 (2.978 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 9 (2.233 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 3 (0.744 %) ARCserve 4 2 (0.496 %) ZENworks 4 2 (0.496 %) OpenView 5 1 (0.248 %) DameWare 5 1 (0.248 %) SCCM 5 1 (0.248 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 167 (41.44 %) Microsoft 2 17 (4.218 %) Citrix 3 16 (3.970 %) Lotus 3 16 (3.970 %) HP 4 12 (2.978 %) Oracle 5 10 (2.481 %) Dell 6 9 (2.233 %) Symantec 6 9 (2.233 %) VMware 7 8 (1.985 %) IBM 8 5 (1.241 %) Novell 9 4 (0.993 %) Compaq 9 4 (0.993 %) Remedy 9 4 (0.993 %) Meridio 10 3 (0.744 %) Altiris 10 3 (0.744 %) Business Objects 10 3 (0.744 %) SAP 10 3 (0.744 %) Cognos 11 2 (0.496 %) Cisco 11 2 (0.496 %) Intel 11 2 (0.496 %) Siemens