The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category for the Aberdeen region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 17 14 12
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -2
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 10 14 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 6.250% 7.368% 8.718%
As % of the Applications category 50.00% 29.17% 60.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 7
Average daily rate £250 £388 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.48% +40.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £308 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £468 £344
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
Average hourly rate £28.32 - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Applications
Aberdeen
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
20 48 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Aberdeen 12.50% 25.26% 14.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 12
Average daily rate £263 £316 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.93% +14.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £144 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £475 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 7
Average hourly rate £28.32 - £10.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 - £9.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 - £16.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Excel
Scotland

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Aberdeen MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Excel across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Aberdeen MS Excel Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MS Excel 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 Excel.

1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 8 (44.44%) MS Office
2 8 (44.44%) Windows
3 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 6 (33.33%) MS Project
4 4 (22.22%) Citrix
5 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco
5 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
5 3 (16.67%) Degree
5 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) XenApp
6 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
6 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
6 2 (11.11%) MCTS
6 2 (11.11%) MCITP
6 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (11.11%) Finance
6 2 (11.11%) Altiris
6 2 (11.11%) Content Management
6 2 (11.11%) Document Management
6 2 (11.11%) Logistics
6 2 (11.11%) CommVault
6 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
6 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 2 (11.11%) Documentum
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing MS Excel 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 Excel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) HTML
1 1 (5.556%) CSS
1 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) Documentum
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.556%) IIS
3 1 (5.556%) Apache
3 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (5.556%) LiveLink
Applications
1 8 (44.44%) MS Office
2 6 (33.33%) MS Project
3 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 2 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Maximo
1 1 (5.556%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.556%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) DHCP
1 1 (5.556%) FTP
1 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.556%) VPN
1 1 (5.556%) DNS
1 1 (5.556%) Intranet
1 1 (5.556%) Internet
1 1 (5.556%) NetScreen
1 1 (5.556%) Firewall
1 1 (5.556%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.556%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) PMO Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Coordinator
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (5.556%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Training Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Buyer
4 1 (5.556%) Commodity Buyer
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Systems Support
4 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Desktop Support Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (5.556%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
1 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
1 1 (5.556%) Data Integration
1 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows XP
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Project Management
1 2 (11.11%) Migration
1 2 (11.11%) Content Management
1 2 (11.11%) Document Management
1 2 (11.11%) Logistics
1 2 (11.11%) Project Planning
1 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (5.556%) Project Governance
2 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (5.556%) Risk Management
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2
2 1 (5.556%) ERP
2 1 (5.556%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) C
2 1 (5.556%) Java
2 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) MCSE
2 2 (11.11%) MCTS
2 2 (11.11%) MCITP
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) XenApp
2 1 (5.556%) vSphere
2 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCCM
1 1 (5.556%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Citrix
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco
4 2 (11.11%) Primavera
4 2 (11.11%) VMware
4 2 (11.11%) Altiris
4 2 (11.11%) CommVault
4 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 2 (11.11%) SAP
5 1 (5.556%) Dell
5 1 (5.556%) Symantec
5 1 (5.556%) Juniper
5 1 (5.556%) Kofax
5 1 (5.556%) Open Text
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