Birmingham MS Excel Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Birmingham 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 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth 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 Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire 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 Potters Bar 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 Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	28
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	46	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.062 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	49.46 %	37.19 %
Daily rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum daily rate	£237	£299
Average daily rate	£265	£322
% change on same period last year	-17.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.82 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.05	£11.85
Average hourly rate	£10.88	£12.51
% change on same period last year	-13.03 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.71	£13.17
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.93	£18.70
% change on same period last year	-4.12 %
Applications Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	93	121
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.126 %	0.120 %
Daily rates quoted	21	23
Average minimum daily rate	£224	£258
Average daily rate	£247	£273
% change on same period last year	-9.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£270	£288
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£292
% change on same period last year	+0.56 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.00	£10.47
Average hourly rate	£14.49	£11.33
% change on same period last year	+27.95 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.99	£12.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.45	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
MS Excel West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 Birmingham region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 55 (57.89 %) Microsoft 2 36 (37.89 %) MS Office 3 23 (24.21 %) Windows 4 16 (16.84 %) MS Project 5 15 (15.79 %) SQL Server 5 15 (15.79 %) Windows XP 6 14 (14.74 %) SQL 7 13 (13.68 %) VB 7 13 (13.68 %) .NET 7 13 (13.68 %) Windows 2000 7 13 (13.68 %) PRINCE2 7 13 (13.68 %) MS PowerPoint 8 11 (11.58 %) Intranet 8 11 (11.58 %) Migration 8 11 (11.58 %) ASP.NET

9 10 (10.53 %) ASP 9 10 (10.53 %) C# 9 10 (10.53 %) Active Directory 9 10 (10.53 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 9 10 (10.53 %) Project Management 10 9 (9.474 %) Retail 10 9 (9.474 %) HTML 11 8 (8.421 %) Transact-SQL 11 8 (8.421 %) Windows NT 11 8 (8.421 %) SharePoint 11 8 (8.421 %) Lotus 12 7 (7.368 %) Internet 12 7 (7.368 %) Finance 12 7 (7.368 %) SQL Server 2005 12 7 (7.368 %) Banking

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 13 (13.68 %) .NET 2 11 (11.58 %) ASP.NET 3 10 (10.53 %) ASP 4 9 (9.474 %) HTML 5 7 (7.368 %) CSS 6 6 (6.316 %) XML 7 1 (1.053 %) XHTML 7 1 (1.053 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 1 (1.053 %) WebSphere 7 1 (1.053 %) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.053 %) J2EE 7 1 (1.053 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 8 (8.421 %) SharePoint 2 7 (7.368 %) Lotus Notes 3 4 (4.211 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (4.211 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (3.158 %) Exchange Server 5.5 5 2 (2.105 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 2 (2.105 %) SAS 6 1 (1.053 %) TPMS 6 1 (1.053 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (1.053 %) SharePoint Portal Server
Applications 1 36 (37.89 %) MS Office 2 16 (16.84 %) MS Project 3 13 (13.68 %) MS PowerPoint 4 6 (6.316 %) CA Clarity 5 3 (3.158 %) MS Visio 6 2 (2.105 %) InfoPath 7 1 (1.053 %) Spreadsheet	Communications & Networking 1 11 (11.58 %) Intranet 2 7 (7.368 %) Internet 3 2 (2.105 %) Firewall 3 2 (2.105 %) Wireless 3 2 (2.105 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (1.053 %) LAN 4 1 (1.053 %) WAN 4 1 (1.053 %) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 15 (15.79 %) SQL Server 2 7 (7.368 %) MS Access 2 7 (7.368 %) SQL Server 2005 3 5 (5.263 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (2.105 %) BusinessObjects 5 1 (1.053 %) GIS 5 1 (1.053 %) Oracle OWB 5 1 (1.053 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 1 (1.053 %) Oracle 11g 5 1 (1.053 %) Datawarehouse 5 1 (1.053 %) Oracle 10g 5 1 (1.053 %) Oracle Reports	Development Applications 1 1 (1.053 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (9.474 %) Retail 2 7 (7.368 %) Finance 2 7 (7.368 %) Banking 3 4 (4.211 %) Back Office 3 4 (4.211 %) Government 4 3 (3.158 %) Health 5 2 (2.105 %) Manufacturing 5 2 (2.105 %) Insurance 5 2 (2.105 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.053 %) Retail Banking 6 1 (1.053 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.053 %) Construction 6 1 (1.053 %) Criminal Justice 6 1 (1.053 %) Home Office 6 1 (1.053 %) Games 6 1 (1.053 %) Law 6 1 (1.053 %) Legal	Job Titles 1 32 (33.68 %) Analyst 2 16 (16.84 %) Developer 3 7 (7.368 %) .NET Developer 4 6 (6.316 %) Applications Packager 5 5 (5.263 %) Programmer 5 5 (5.263 %) 2nd Line Support 5 5 (5.263 %) Project Planner 5 5 (5.263 %) Desktop Support 5 5 (5.263 %) Information Analyst 6 4 (4.211 %) Business Analyst 6 4 (4.211 %) Coordinator 6 4 (4.211 %) Support Engineer 6 4 (4.211 %) Data Analyst 6 4 (4.211 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 4 (4.211 %) MI Analyst 7 3 (3.158 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 7 3 (3.158 %) Support Analyst 7 3 (3.158 %) Field Engineer 7 3 (3.158 %) Administrator 7 3 (3.158 %) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.316 %) Client/Server 2 2 (2.105 %) EPoS 2 2 (2.105 %) Mainframe 2 2 (2.105 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.053 %) Fat Client 3 1 (1.053 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.053 %) AS400 3 1 (1.053 %) Statistics 3 1 (1.053 %) Mathematics 3 1 (1.053 %) NHS 3 1 (1.053 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 23 (24.21 %) Windows 2 15 (15.79 %) Windows XP 3 13 (13.68 %) Windows 2000 4 8 (8.421 %) Windows NT 5 7 (7.368 %) NetWare 6 4 (4.211 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (1.053 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 1 (1.053 %) zOS 7 1 (1.053 %) MVS 7 1 (1.053 %) Windows Server 2003 7 1 (1.053 %) VMS
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (13.68 %) PRINCE2 2 11 (11.58 %) Migration 3 10 (10.53 %) Project Management 4 4 (4.211 %) Project Planning 4 4 (4.211 %) Resource Management 4 4 (4.211 %) ITIL 5 3 (3.158 %) Document Management 6 2 (2.105 %) Data Analysis 6 2 (2.105 %) Data Security 6 2 (2.105 %) PRINCE 6 2 (2.105 %) RAD 7 1 (1.053 %) ERP 7 1 (1.053 %) Business Intelligence 7 1 (1.053 %) OO 7 1 (1.053 %) Configuration Management 7 1 (1.053 %) Service Management 7 1 (1.053 %) ITSM 7 1 (1.053 %) Risk Management 7 1 (1.053 %) Validation 7 1 (1.053 %) Programme Management	Programming Languages 1 14 (14.74 %) SQL 2 13 (13.68 %) VB 3 10 (10.53 %) C# 4 8 (8.421 %) Transact-SQL 5 6 (6.316 %) JavaScript 6 4 (4.211 %) VBA 7 2 (2.105 %) COBOL 8 1 (1.053 %) Java 8 1 (1.053 %) C 8 1 (1.053 %) VB.NET 8 1 (1.053 %) MUMPS 8 1 (1.053 %) JCL
Qualifications 1 5 (5.263 %) Degree 2 3 (3.158 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (2.105 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (2.105 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 2 (2.105 %) MCSE 3 2 (2.105 %) ISEB 4 1 (1.053 %) CCA 4 1 (1.053 %) Citrix Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.105 %) SLA 2 1 (1.053 %) QA
System Software 1 10 (10.53 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.053 %) RACF 2 1 (1.053 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 10 (10.53 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 55 (57.89 %) Microsoft 2 8 (8.421 %) Lotus 3 6 (6.316 %) Citrix 4 4 (4.211 %) HP 5 3 (3.158 %) IBM 5 3 (3.158 %) Dell 5 3 (3.158 %) Oracle 6 2 (2.105 %) Business Objects 6 2 (2.105 %) Novell 6 2 (2.105 %) VERITAS 6 2 (2.105 %) Remedy 7 1 (1.053 %) Sophos 7 1 (1.053 %) VMware 7 1 (1.053 %) ICL 7 1 (1.053 %) PeopleSoft 7 1 (1.053 %) Cisco 7 1 (1.053 %) Compaq