Basingstoke MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Basingstoke region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	24
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	53	26
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.070 %	0.026 %
As % of the category below	46.49 %	24.53 %
Daily rates quoted	11	8
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£363
Average daily rate	£324	£367
% change on same period last year	-11.79 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£267
% change on same period last year	+8.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.07	£21.82
Average hourly rate	£14.61	£22.18
% change on same period last year	-34.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.14	£22.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.97	£18.47
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
Applications Basingstoke
Matching contract IT job ads	114	106
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.150 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	20	16
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£354
Average daily rate	£354	£366
% change on same period last year	-3.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£377
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.96	£26.62
Average hourly rate	£15.66	£27.23
% change on same period last year	-42.49 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.35	£27.84
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
MS Excel Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

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

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 45 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 41 (41.41 %) Windows 3 29 (29.29 %) MS Office 4 18 (18.18 %) ITIL 5 17 (17.17 %) Active Directory 6 16 (16.16 %) MS Access 6 16 (16.16 %) Windows XP 7 15 (15.15 %) SQL 7 15 (15.15 %) Finance 8 11 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 8 11 (11.11 %) .NET 8 11 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 9 9 (9.091 %) SAS 9 9 (9.091 %) Legal 10 8 (8.081 %) Health

10 8 (8.081 %) NHS 11 7 (7.071 %) HTML 11 7 (7.071 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (6.061 %) Content Management 12 6 (6.061 %) Photoshop 12 6 (6.061 %) SharePoint 12 6 (6.061 %) Internet 13 5 (5.051 %) Project Management 13 5 (5.051 %) C# 13 5 (5.051 %) Banking 13 5 (5.051 %) Data Extraction 14 4 (4.040 %) SQL Server 14 4 (4.040 %) PRINCE2 14 4 (4.040 %) UNIX 14 4 (4.040 %) XML

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 11 (11.11 %) .NET 2 7 (7.071 %) HTML 2 7 (7.071 %) ASP.NET 3 4 (4.040 %) XML 4 3 (3.030 %) XHTML 4 3 (3.030 %) CSS 5 2 (2.020 %) WebServices 6 1 (1.010 %) J2EE 6 1 (1.010 %) XSLT 6 1 (1.010 %) ADO.NET 6 1 (1.010 %) ASP 6 1 (1.010 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (1.010 %) MDX 6 1 (1.010 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 9 (9.091 %) SAS 2 6 (6.061 %) SharePoint 3 3 (3.030 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.010 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (1.010 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.010 %) IIS 4 1 (1.010 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 29 (29.29 %) MS Office 2 11 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 3 6 (6.061 %) Photoshop 4 3 (3.030 %) MS Visio 4 3 (3.030 %) MS Project 5 1 (1.010 %) Spreadsheet 5 1 (1.010 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.061 %) Internet 2 2 (2.020 %) Intranet 2 2 (2.020 %) Wireless 3 1 (1.010 %) 2G 3 1 (1.010 %) Firewall 3 1 (1.010 %) NetScreen 3 1 (1.010 %) 3G 3 1 (1.010 %) MPLS 3 1 (1.010 %) ATM 3 1 (1.010 %) GSM 3 1 (1.010 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (1.010 %) DNS 3 1 (1.010 %) RNC
Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (16.16 %) MS Access 2 4 (4.040 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.030 %) RDBMS 3 3 (3.030 %) Data Mining 3 3 (3.030 %) OLAP 4 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (2.020 %) DB2 5 1 (1.010 %) Hyperion Essbase 5 1 (1.010 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.010 %) ROLAP 5 1 (1.010 %) Star Schema 5 1 (1.010 %) MOLAP 5 1 (1.010 %) ETL 5 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 5 1 (1.010 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) TestDirector 1 1 (1.010 %) Visual Studio
General 1 15 (15.15 %) Finance 2 9 (9.091 %) Legal 3 8 (8.081 %) Health 4 5 (5.051 %) Banking 5 3 (3.030 %) Marketing 5 3 (3.030 %) Insurance 5 3 (3.030 %) Multimedia 6 1 (1.010 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.010 %) Government 6 1 (1.010 %) Graphic Design 6 1 (1.010 %) Retail	Job Titles 1 24 (24.24 %) Analyst 2 15 (15.15 %) 2nd Line Support 3 9 (9.091 %) Data Analyst 4 8 (8.081 %) Developer 5 7 (7.071 %) Support Technician 5 7 (7.071 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 6 6 (6.061 %) Web Editor 6 6 (6.061 %) Administrator 6 6 (6.061 %) Project Manager 7 5 (5.051 %) Team Leader 8 4 (4.040 %) Risk Analyst 8 4 (4.040 %) Information Analyst 8 4 (4.040 %) Quality Analyst 8 4 (4.040 %) Data Quality Analyst 8 4 (4.040 %) Architect 8 4 (4.040 %) Service Analyst 8 4 (4.040 %) Service Desk Analyst 9 3 (3.030 %) Support Engineer 9 3 (3.030 %) Quality Manager 9 3 (3.030 %) Tester
Miscellaneous 1 8 (8.081 %) NHS 2 5 (5.051 %) Data Extraction 3 3 (3.030 %) Mainframe 4 2 (2.020 %) PKI 4 2 (2.020 %) Informatics 5 1 (1.010 %) Replication 5 1 (1.010 %) Clustering 5 1 (1.010 %) Blackberry 5 1 (1.010 %) Client/Server 5 1 (1.010 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 41 (41.41 %) Windows 2 16 (16.16 %) Windows XP 3 11 (11.11 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (4.040 %) UNIX 5 2 (2.020 %) Windows Vista 5 2 (2.020 %) Windows Mobile 5 2 (2.020 %) AIX 6 1 (1.010 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (18.18 %) ITIL 2 6 (6.061 %) Content Management 3 5 (5.051 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.040 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (4.040 %) Business Intelligence 4 4 (4.040 %) Quality Management 5 3 (3.030 %) Statistical Analysis 6 2 (2.020 %) Web Development 6 2 (2.020 %) Internet Marketing 6 2 (2.020 %) Usability Testing 6 2 (2.020 %) Time Management 6 2 (2.020 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (2.020 %) Service Delivery 6 2 (2.020 %) Validation 7 1 (1.010 %) Migration 7 1 (1.010 %) Scrum 7 1 (1.010 %) Programme Management 7 1 (1.010 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.010 %) OO 7 1 (1.010 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 15 (15.15 %) SQL 2 5 (5.051 %) C# 3 2 (2.020 %) JavaScript 3 2 (2.020 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.010 %) VB 4 1 (1.010 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.010 %) Perl 4 1 (1.010 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (3.030 %) ITIL Certification 1 3 (3.030 %) MCSE 2 2 (2.020 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.010 %) Sun Certification 3 1 (1.010 %) IBM AIX Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.020 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.010 %) QA
System Software 1 17 (17.17 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (2.020 %) SCCM 1 2 (2.020 %) OpenView 1 2 (2.020 %) Tivoli 2 1 (1.010 %) Netcool 2 1 (1.010 %) BMC PATROL 2 1 (1.010 %) CONTROL-M 2 1 (1.010 %) CA SiteMinder
Vendors 1 45 (45.45 %) Microsoft 2 4 (4.040 %) HP 3 2 (2.020 %) Alterian 3 2 (2.020 %) SAP 3 2 (2.020 %) Oracle 3 2 (2.020 %) Sun 3 2 (2.020 %) Dell 3 2 (2.020 %) Novell 3 2 (2.020 %) Cisco 4 1 (1.010 %) Radware 4 1 (1.010 %) McAfee Security 4 1 (1.010 %) CheckPoint 4 1 (1.010 %) Lotus 4 1 (1.010 %) Citrix 4 1 (1.010 %) Ericsson 4 1 (1.010 %) MicroStrategy 4 1 (1.010 %) Nokia 4 1 (1.010 %) Siebel 4 1 (1.010 %) Business Objects