MS Access Contracts in England

Microsoft Access
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring MS Access skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited MS Access over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 475 513 555
Rank change year-on-year +38 +42 +150
Contract jobs citing MS Access 28 20 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.10% 0.060% 0.12%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.56% 0.33% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 8 43
10th Percentile £284 £109 £180
25th Percentile £363 £152 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £334 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -33.30% +5.26%
75th Percentile £475 £388 £650
90th Percentile £700 £504 £685
UK median daily rate £375 £334 £500
% change year-on-year +12.44% -33.30% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £27.69 £14.55 £21.12
25th Percentile £28.58 £15.00 £30.31
Median hourly rate £29.07 £15.98 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +81.91% -67.38% +210.09%
75th Percentile - £20.00 £52.37
90th Percentile - £25.25 £52.37
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £15.98 £49.00
% change year-on-year +81.91% -67.38% +210.09%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
England

MS Access falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 5,044 6,144 7,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 18.16% 18.32% 17.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,490 4,403 5,548
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £675
90th Percentile £763 £825 £760
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.95% -1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 91 145
10th Percentile £18.69 £14.25 £21.02
25th Percentile £23.50 £20.38 £32.40
Median hourly rate £34.65 £37.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -31.82% +32.16%
75th Percentile £64.38 £60.78 £73.75
90th Percentile £77.74 £71.50 £79.19
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -4.11% -33.64% +35.04%

MS Access
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing MS Access as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for MS Access in England

MS Access
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MS Access in England.

Daily rate trend for MS Access in England

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MS Access in England over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MS Access in England

MS Access
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MS Access in England.

Hourly rate trend for MS Access in England

MS Access
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Access within the England region over the 6 months to 2 August 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +25 20 £413 +10.00% 12
South East +28 7 £375 - 6
South West - 1 - -
MS Access
UK

MS Access
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Drupal
1 1 (3.57%) SAS
1 1 (3.57%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (3.57%) FileZilla
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.57%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Primavera
1 1 (3.57%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Power Platform
2 2 (7.14%) Azure
2 2 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.57%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) FTP
1 1 (3.57%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (28.57%) Power BI
2 5 (17.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (14.29%) BusinessObjects
3 4 (14.29%) Power Query
3 4 (14.29%) Relational Database
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
4 2 (7.14%) MySQL
5 1 (3.57%) Data Hub
5 1 (3.57%) DB2
5 1 (3.57%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) QARun
1 3 (10.71%) WinRunner
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (3.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (32.14%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Legal
5 2 (7.14%) Local Government
5 2 (7.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.57%) Aviation
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Senior
2 6 (21.43%) Senior Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Senior Test Analyst
2 6 (21.43%) Test Analyst
3 5 (17.86%) Business Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Information Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Banking Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Banking Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Change Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Data Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Data Engineer
5 3 (10.71%) Derivatives Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Product Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Regulatory Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) UAT Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Middleware
1 6 (21.43%) Web Services
2 2 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
3 1 (3.57%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.57%) ODBC
3 1 (3.57%) OLE
3 1 (3.57%) React
3 1 (3.57%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Derivative
1 3 (10.71%) Market Risk
2 2 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) NHS
3 1 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (21.43%) Unix
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 9 (32.14%) Data Analysis
4 7 (25.00%) Logistics
4 7 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 6 (21.43%) Actionable Insight
5 6 (21.43%) Microservices
5 6 (21.43%) Migration
5 6 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 6 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (21.43%) Test Planning
6 5 (17.86%) Analytics
6 5 (17.86%) DevOps
6 5 (17.86%) Manual Testing
6 5 (17.86%) Process Improvement
6 5 (17.86%) Requirements Gathering
6 5 (17.86%) Test Automation
7 4 (14.29%) Data Analytics
7 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
7 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (78.57%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) VBA
3 1 (3.57%) Python
3 1 (3.57%) VB
3 1 (3.57%) VB.NET
3 1 (3.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
1 5 (17.86%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.71%) HNC
3 1 (3.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.57%) CBAP
3 1 (3.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (14.29%) QA
2 3 (10.71%) COREP
Vendors
1 12 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Citrix
3 5 (17.86%) Oracle
4 4 (14.29%) SAP
5 1 (3.57%) Ab Initio
5 1 (3.57%) Calypso
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) LexisNexis
5 1 (3.57%) NEC
5 1 (3.57%) Sage
5 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) Twitter