MS Access Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Access
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 372 399
Rank change year-on-year +19 +27 +74
Contract jobs citing MS Access 10 16 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.067% 0.080% 0.14%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.44% 0.62% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 27
10th Percentile £310 £132 £179
25th Percentile - £152 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £244 £425
Median % change year-on-year +53.75% -42.61% -
75th Percentile £494 £346 £500
90th Percentile £566 £361 £515
UK median daily rate £375 £334 £500
% change year-on-year +12.44% -33.30% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - £14.55 £45.62
25th Percentile £27.11 £15.00 £45.62
Median hourly rate £27.76 £15.98 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.72% -67.39% +210.11%
75th Percentile £28.42 £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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,276 2,582 3,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.27% 12.98% 14.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,515 1,781 2,344
10th Percentile £300 £313 £332
25th Percentile £392 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £576 £600
90th Percentile £625 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 84 104
10th Percentile £18.55 £13.69 £20.93
25th Percentile £21.20 £17.50 £26.21
Median hourly rate £32.05 £31.25 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -39.02% +46.43%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.37 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £69.45 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £38.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.60% -30.00% +32.16%

MS Access
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MS Access as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MS Access in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MS Access in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MS Access in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MS Access in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for MS Access in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MS Access in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MS Access in the UK excluding London

MS Access
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
South East +43 7 £375 - 4
South West - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £630 - 1
Scotland - 1 £513 -
MS Access
UK

MS Access
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (10.00%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Google Sheets
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (10.00%) Data Hub
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
1 1 (10.00%) InterSystems Cache
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) MySQL
1 1 (10.00%) QlikView
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aviation
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Development Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Planner
4 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Middleware
1 3 (30.00%) Web Services
2 2 (20.00%) ODBC
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
3 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (30.00%) Unix
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Logistics
3 3 (30.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Microservices
3 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Validation
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) Data Management
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) VB
2 2 (20.00%) VB6
2 2 (20.00%) VBA
3 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) Ab Initio
4 1 (10.00%) Alteryx
4 1 (10.00%) Google
4 1 (10.00%) InterSystems
4 1 (10.00%) NEC
4 1 (10.00%) Twitter