MS Access Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft Access
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 280 340 453
Rank change year-on-year +60 +113 +141
Contract jobs citing MS Access 24 5 24
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.24% 0.033% 0.093%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 1.14% 0.17% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 18
10th Percentile £288 £324 £413
25th Percentile £363 £341 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £370 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -31.16% +13.16%
75th Percentile £475 £385 £647
90th Percentile £658 £394 £700
UK median daily rate £413 £370 £538
% change year-on-year +11.49% -31.16% +19.44%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 2,098 2,911 4,942
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 21.18% 18.97% 19.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,488 2,137 3,601
10th Percentile £363 £356 £386
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £838 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 37 79
10th Percentile £22.50 £20.06 £22.16
25th Percentile £30.00 £22.61 £43.57
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.00 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.50% -39.39% +46.67%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.50 £75.00
90th Percentile £92.50 £70.25 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £32.96 £40.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.60% -33.33% +41.18%

MS Access
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing MS Access as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

MS Access trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

MS Access
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MS Access.

MS Access daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing MS Access over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

MS Access daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

MS Access
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing MS Access.

MS Access hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

MS Access
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 5 (20.83%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Raiser’s Edge
Cloud Services
1 9 (37.50%) Power Platform
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.17%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 6 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (20.83%) Power BI
3 4 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.33%) Tableau
5 1 (4.17%) Data Hub
5 1 (4.17%) DB2
5 1 (4.17%) Metadata
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (4.17%) RDBMS
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) QARun
1 4 (16.67%) WinRunner
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Finance
4 5 (20.83%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (41.67%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Senior
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 6 (25.00%) Test Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Senior UAT Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) UAT Analyst
4 4 (16.67%) UAT Test Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Data Analyst
5 3 (12.50%) Data Engineer
6 2 (8.33%) Access Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Developer
6 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (4.17%) Derivatives Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Head of Engineering
7 1 (4.17%) Product Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Regulatory Business Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) Regulatory Change Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Middleware
1 6 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Derivative
1 1 (4.17%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Unix
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 7 (29.17%) Agile
3 7 (29.17%) Manual Testing
3 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 6 (25.00%) DevOps
4 6 (25.00%) Logistics
4 6 (25.00%) Microservices
4 6 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 6 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 5 (20.83%) Data Migration
5 5 (20.83%) ETL
5 5 (20.83%) Migration
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Data Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Data Integration
6 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (70.83%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) VBA
3 1 (4.17%) C++
3 1 (4.17%) Python
3 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.17%) VB
3 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.17%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
1 4 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (20.83%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) COREP
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (16.67%) SAP
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (4.17%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (4.17%) Dell
5 1 (4.17%) Kronos
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow