The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 19 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 Bedford 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 5 6 9
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +3
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 2 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 9.091% 11.54% 18.18%
As % of the Applications category 66.67% 75.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £158 £425 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-62.94% +142.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £10.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
All Applications
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
3 4 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 13.64% 15.38% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £190 £425 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-55.29% +142.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £306 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
Bedfordshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 2 (50.00%) MS Project
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) QlikView
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (50.00%) QlikView
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Project Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Report Developer
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Project Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft