MS Excel Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedfordshire 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 14 11 26
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +15
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 17 26 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 8.995% 9.319% 5.461%
As % of the Applications category 60.71% 59.09% 51.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 6
Average daily rate £325 £350 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +66.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £183 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £418 £380 £238
UK excluding London average daily rate £319 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
All Applications
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 28 44 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 14.81% 15.77% 10.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 10
Average daily rate £325 £280 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.07% +24.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £185 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £375 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £22.00 £29.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% +163.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Excel
East of England

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton 0 9 £325 +75.67%
Bedford - 4 £245 -
MS Excel
East of England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) Windows
3 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
4 7 (29.17%) .NET
4 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
5 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
5 6 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 6 (25.00%) Migration
5 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
5 6 (25.00%) Windows 7
6 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (20.83%) SCOM
6 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
6 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
6 5 (20.83%) TDD
6 5 (20.83%) Change Management
6 5 (20.83%) Publishing
6 5 (20.83%) MS Visio
6 5 (20.83%) DHCP
6 5 (20.83%) FTP
6 5 (20.83%) ITIL
6 5 (20.83%) SQL
6 5 (20.83%) IIS
6 5 (20.83%) MS Office
6 5 (20.83%) Web Services
6 5 (20.83%) DNS
6 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
7 4 (16.67%) Internet
7 4 (16.67%) XML
7 4 (16.67%) MS Project

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 7 (29.17%) .NET
2 5 (20.83%) Web Services
3 4 (16.67%) XML
3 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
4 2 (8.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (20.83%) IIS
3 2 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (4.167%) MSMQ
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) MS Visio
1 5 (20.83%) MS Office
2 4 (16.67%) MS Project
3 2 (8.333%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) DHCP
1 5 (20.83%) FTP
1 5 (20.83%) DNS
2 4 (16.67%) Internet
3 2 (8.333%) HTTP
4 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (8.333%) MS Access
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (8.333%) QlikView
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.167%) GIS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.167%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.167%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.167%) Selenium
2 1 (4.167%) JIRA
2 1 (4.167%) NUnit
2 1 (4.167%) MSI
2 1 (4.167%) AdminStudio
General
1 5 (20.83%) Publishing
2 2 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (4.167%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Architect
4 2 (8.333%) Administrator
4 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 2 (8.333%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (8.333%) Project Administrator
5 1 (4.167%) Desktop Technician
5 1 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Web Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Deployment Project Manager
5 1 (4.167%) Report Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (4.167%) Deployment Manager
5 1 (4.167%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 4 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.167%) Digital Media
2 1 (4.167%) PACS
2 1 (4.167%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (54.17%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Windows XP
2 6 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.167%) Windows Vista
4 1 (4.167%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Migration
2 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (20.83%) Refactoring
2 5 (20.83%) Unit Testing
2 5 (20.83%) TDD
2 5 (20.83%) Change Management
2 5 (20.83%) ITIL
2 5 (20.83%) Configuration Management
3 4 (16.67%) SOA
3 4 (16.67%) AOP
4 3 (12.50%) ETL
5 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (8.333%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (8.333%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.167%) Data Transformation
6 1 (4.167%) Portfolio Management
6 1 (4.167%) Software Deployment
6 1 (4.167%) Data Migration
6 1 (4.167%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.167%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.167%) VBScript
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) ISEB
2 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (4.167%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
2 1 (4.167%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
2 1 (4.167%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.167%) DICOM
System Software
1 7 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.167%) XenApp
2 1 (4.167%) XenDesktop
2 1 (4.167%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (4.167%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) SCOM
2 1 (4.167%) AppDNA
2 1 (4.167%) SCCM
2 1 (4.167%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (4.167%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 20 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
3 2 (8.333%) Citrix
4 1 (4.167%) AppSense
4 1 (4.167%) Novell
4 1 (4.167%) Symantec
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