The first table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spreadsheets
Rank 42 60 50
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -10
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 8 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.463% 0.292% 0.189%
As % of the Applications category 11.59% 3.030% 1.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £171 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £13.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -4.69%
All Applications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
69 66 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 12.61% 9.621% 16.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 23 25
Average daily rate £250 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £95 £213 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £510 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 29
Average hourly rate £20.00 £11.65 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+71.67% -13.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.15 £9.75 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.40 £35.00 £30.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
Spreadsheet
East of England

Spreadsheet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire Spreadsheet Jobs Demand Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Spreadsheet Daily Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Peterborough - 3 £219 -
Cambridge +12 2 - -
Spreadsheet
East of England

Spreadsheet
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet.

1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (40.00%) System Testing
1 4 (40.00%) CODA
2 3 (30.00%) CODA-Financials
2 3 (30.00%) MS Access
3 2 (20.00%) VoIP
3 2 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (20.00%) VPN
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (20.00%) Dell
3 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
3 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (20.00%) Time Management
3 2 (20.00%) iPhone
3 2 (20.00%) iPad
3 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) VoIP
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MS Access
2 2 (20.00%) MySQL
General
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Systems Administrator
1 4 (40.00%) Administrator
2 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Rollout Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Team Leader
2 2 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 2 (20.00%) IT Assistant
2 2 (20.00%) IT Technician
2 2 (20.00%) Help Desk Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) iPhone
1 2 (20.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (40.00%) System Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Service Management
2 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) CODA
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Dell