The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Basingstoke 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 23 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -1
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 15 16 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 7.538% 8.556% 8.889%
As % of the Applications category 65.22% 51.61% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 5
Average daily rate £388 £550 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.54% +69.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £550 £104
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £550 £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
Average hourly rate - £13.50 £13.54
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -0.29%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.38 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.94% -3.90%
All Applications
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
23 31 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 11.56% 16.58% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 9
Average daily rate £245 £110 £120
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+122.72% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £90 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £505 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £304 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.88% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 11
Average hourly rate £18.00 £13.50 £13.27
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.33% +1.73%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
Hampshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Basingstoke MS Excel Daily Rate Histogram

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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 9 (28.13%) Web Services
3 9 (28.13%) UML
4 7 (21.88%) VMware
4 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (21.88%) Java EE
4 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
5 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (18.75%) Spring
5 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
5 6 (18.75%) BizTalk Server
5 6 (18.75%) Linux
5 6 (18.75%) SQL
5 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
6 5 (15.63%) CSS
6 5 (15.63%) MS Office
6 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
6 5 (15.63%) Change Management
6 5 (15.63%) SUSE
6 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
6 5 (15.63%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (15.63%) VMware Server
6 5 (15.63%) jQuery
7 4 (12.50%) Git (software)
7 4 (12.50%) MVC
7 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (12.50%) QA
7 4 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
7 4 (12.50%) JavaScript

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 9 (28.13%) Web Services
2 7 (21.88%) Java EE
3 6 (18.75%) Spring
4 5 (15.63%) CSS
4 5 (15.63%) jQuery
5 4 (12.50%) HTML
6 3 (9.375%) SOAP
6 3 (9.375%) JMS
6 3 (9.375%) WSDL
6 3 (9.375%) JAXB
6 3 (9.375%) JTA
6 3 (9.375%) WebSphere
6 3 (9.375%) EJB
6 3 (9.375%) Hibernate
6 3 (9.375%) Spring Security
6 3 (9.375%) Spring Web Flow
6 3 (9.375%) JSON
6 3 (9.375%) Spring MVC
6 3 (9.375%) KML
6 3 (9.375%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Process Server
2 3 (9.375%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (9.375%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Message Broker
3 2 (6.250%) ESB
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Office
2 4 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 4 (12.50%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (3.125%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.250%) LAN
1 2 (6.250%) WAN
1 2 (6.250%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.125%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (9.375%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 5 (15.63%) Visual Studio
1 5 (15.63%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (12.50%) Git (software)
3 3 (9.375%) JBehave
3 3 (9.375%) Mockito
3 3 (9.375%) Rational Application Developer
3 3 (9.375%) Maven
3 3 (9.375%) JUnit
3 3 (9.375%) Selenium
4 1 (3.125%) JIRA
4 1 (3.125%) MSBuild
4 1 (3.125%) SpecFlow
General
1 11 (34.38%) Finance
2 3 (9.375%) Telecoms
2 3 (9.375%) Marketing
3 1 (3.125%) Financial Institution
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.125%) Publishing
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
3 1 (3.125%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (25.00%) Developer
1 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (9.375%) Author
2 3 (9.375%) Technical Author
2 3 (9.375%) Support Analyst
2 3 (9.375%) Java Developer
2 3 (9.375%) Consultant
2 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Developer
2 3 (9.375%) Designer
3 2 (6.250%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (6.250%) QA Analyst
3 2 (6.250%) Quality Analyst
3 2 (6.250%) Infrastructure Designer
3 2 (6.250%) Administrator
3 2 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (3.125%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (3.125%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.125%) Junior
4 1 (3.125%) Project Planner
4 1 (3.125%) Process Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.375%) Wiki
2 2 (6.250%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.125%) AS400
3 1 (3.125%) Statistics
3 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.75%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) SUSE
3 3 (9.375%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (9.375%) Windows
4 2 (6.250%) Solaris
5 1 (3.125%) Windows XP
5 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (3.125%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (28.13%) UML
2 7 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (21.88%) Unit Testing
3 5 (15.63%) Change Management
4 4 (12.50%) MVC
4 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (12.50%) OOD
4 4 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 3 (9.375%) Pair Programming
5 3 (9.375%) Web Development
5 3 (9.375%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (9.375%) System Testing
5 3 (9.375%) Dependency Injection
5 3 (9.375%) Software Architecture
5 3 (9.375%) BDD
6 2 (6.250%) Usability Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Performance Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Security Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Volume Testing
6 2 (6.250%) OO
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) SQL
2 4 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 4 (12.50%) C#
3 3 (9.375%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.125%) HNC
2 1 (3.125%) HND
2 1 (3.125%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.125%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (9.375%) TickIT
2 3 (9.375%) ISO 9001
3 1 (3.125%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (15.63%) VMware Server
3 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.125%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.375%) Tivoli
1 3 (9.375%) Tivoli Identity Manager
2 1 (3.125%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 20 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (21.88%) VMware
3 6 (18.75%) Red Hat
4 3 (9.375%) Citrix
4 3 (9.375%) Oracle
4 3 (9.375%) JBoss
4 3 (9.375%) IBM
4 3 (9.375%) Twitter
5 2 (6.250%) HP
6 1 (3.125%) NetApp
6 1 (3.125%) Remedy
6 1 (3.125%) Primavera
6 1 (3.125%) Sencha
Basingstoke, Hampshire
Significant experience with object-oriented OOD software development methodologies and practices. Qualifications / experience * Demonstrable strong systems analysis background including proficiency with a mixture of C#, MSSQL,.NET, JavaEE...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: competitive
Posted: 14 June 2013