MS Access Contracts

Microsoft Access
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for MS Access skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited MS Access over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 623 744
Rank change year-on-year +69 +121 -147
Contract jobs citing MS Access 15 72 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.13% 0.10%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 0.21% 0.72% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 56 60
10th Percentile £245 £190 £324
25th Percentile £322 £300 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -28.00% +8.11% +8.82%
75th Percentile £491 £650 £505
90th Percentile £699 £697 £543
UK excluding London median daily rate £338 £288 £425
% change year-on-year +17.39% -32.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 £14.62 -
Median % change year-on-year +2.60% - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £14.24 -
% change year-on-year +5.34% - -

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
UK

MS Access is in the Databases and Business Intelligence category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 7,278 10,040 17,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 17.08% 17.77% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 7,127 12,383
10th Percentile £350 £375 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £663 £650
90th Percentile £775 £759 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 148 178 182
10th Percentile £14.00 £21.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £20.93 £32.32 £22.40
Median hourly rate £40.00 £58.59 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.73% +30.20% +69.81%
75th Percentile £61.53 £73.75 £64.94
90th Percentile £73.25 £82.65 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.50 £56.95 £35.00
% change year-on-year -32.40% +62.71% +45.83%

MS Access
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for MS Access in the UK

MS Access
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for MS Access in the UK

MS Access
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing MS Access over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for MS Access in the UK

MS Access
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for MS Access in the UK

MS Access
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 May 2024. 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
England +54 15 £360 -31.43% 32
UK excluding London +30 8 £338 +17.39% 29
London +56 5 £400 -33.33% 9
Work from Home +106 4 £325 -35.00% 19
South East +13 4 - - 5
Midlands +31 2 £338 +15.29% 3
West Midlands +17 2 £338 +70.45% 3
East of England +10 2 - - 7

MS Access
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (13.33%) Drupal
Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (13.33%) FileZilla
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Visualfiles
2 1 (6.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (13.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) FTP
1 2 (13.33%) WinSCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (33.33%) Power BI
1 5 (33.33%) Tableau
2 4 (26.67%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (20.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (13.33%) KNIME
4 2 (13.33%) MySQL
4 2 (13.33%) RDBMS
4 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
5 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (6.67%) Metadata
5 1 (6.67%) SQL Navigator
5 1 (6.67%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (6.67%) Toad
General
1 9 (60.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Legal
2 6 (40.00%) Retail
3 4 (26.67%) Billing
4 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 1 (6.67%) Local Government
6 1 (6.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 7 (46.67%) Data Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Project Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Consultant
6 1 (6.67%) Data Administrator
6 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Migration Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) Project Planner
6 1 (6.67%) Senior
6 1 (6.67%) Senior Developer
6 1 (6.67%) Tableau Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (6.67%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.67%) WinForms
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) e-Health
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) FMCG
3 1 (6.67%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (46.67%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Data Management
2 5 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (26.67%) Business Case
3 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
3 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
3 4 (26.67%) Regression Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (26.67%) Technical Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
5 2 (13.33%) ETL
5 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 12 (80.00%) SQL
2 5 (33.33%) VBA
3 3 (20.00%) R
4 2 (13.33%) C#
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) VB
5 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) CISA
2 2 (13.33%) CRISC
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (33.33%) Alteryx
2 5 (33.33%) Oracle
3 4 (26.67%) SAP
4 2 (13.33%) LexisNexis
4 2 (13.33%) Sage
5 1 (6.67%) NEC