Canary Wharf MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Canary Wharf region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Ascot Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough 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 Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	22
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	24	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	41.38 %	57.38 %
Daily rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum daily rate	£378	£450
Average daily rate	£401	£469
% change on same period last year	-14.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£424	£488
UK excluding London average daily rate	£283	£275
% change on same period last year	+3.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.00	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£13.50	£21.88
% change on same period last year	-38.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.00	£23.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£17.63
% change on same period last year	+2.25 %
Applications Canary Wharf
Matching contract IT job ads	58	61
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.063 %
Daily rates quoted	34	12
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£406
Average daily rate	£385	£422
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£438
UK excluding London average daily rate	£301	£284
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£11.20	£21.25
Average hourly rate	£13.00	£23.03
% change on same period last year	-43.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.80	£24.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.25	£19.10
% change on same period last year	-4.45 %
MS Excel London

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 Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 18 July 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 Canary Wharf region.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 18 (40.91 %) Microsoft 2 16 (36.36 %) Finance 3 10 (22.73 %) Banking 3 10 (22.73 %) SQL 4 8 (18.18 %) SQL Server 4 8 (18.18 %) MS Project 4 8 (18.18 %) Project Management 4 8 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 5 7 (15.91 %) MS Office 5 7 (15.91 %) Windows 6 6 (13.64 %) VB 6 6 (13.64 %) C++ 6 6 (13.64 %) MS PowerPoint 7 5 (11.36 %) Reuters 7 5 (11.36 %) C#

7 5 (11.36 %) VBA 7 5 (11.36 %) .NET 7 5 (11.36 %) MS Access 7 5 (11.36 %) PRINCE2 7 5 (11.36 %) SharePoint 8 4 (9.091 %) UNIX 8 4 (9.091 %) XML 9 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 9 3 (6.818 %) PeopleSoft 9 3 (6.818 %) CRM 9 3 (6.818 %) Sybase 9 3 (6.818 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 9 3 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 9 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory 9 3 (6.818 %) Calypso

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (11.36 %) .NET 2 4 (9.091 %) XML 3 2 (4.545 %) Middleware 3 2 (4.545 %) MFC 4 1 (2.273 %) ASP 4 1 (2.273 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.273 %) STL 4 1 (2.273 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (2.273 %) Software Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (11.36 %) SharePoint 2 3 (6.818 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (4.545 %) TIBCO EMS 4 1 (2.273 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (2.273 %) Office Communications Server 4 1 (2.273 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (2.273 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 1 (2.273 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (2.273 %) IIS
Applications 1 8 (18.18 %) MS Project 2 7 (15.91 %) MS Office 3 6 (13.64 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (4.545 %) Adobe Captivate 5 1 (2.273 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 3 (6.818 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 2 1 (2.273 %) MarketView 2 1 (2.273 %) RMDS 2 1 (2.273 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (4.545 %) VPN 1 2 (4.545 %) Intranet 2 1 (2.273 %) Firewall 2 1 (2.273 %) IP Telephony 2 1 (2.273 %) Intrusion Detection 2 1 (2.273 %) VLAN 2 1 (2.273 %) SAN 2 1 (2.273 %) LAN 2 1 (2.273 %) VoIP 2 1 (2.273 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2 5 (11.36 %) MS Access 3 1 (2.273 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (2.273 %) DTS 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 7 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.273 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (2.273 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 1 (2.273 %) TestDirector	General 1 16 (36.36 %) Finance 2 10 (22.73 %) Banking 3 8 (18.18 %) Investment Banking 4 2 (4.545 %) Marketing 4 2 (4.545 %) Front Office 4 2 (4.545 %) Back Office 5 1 (2.273 %) Telecoms 5 1 (2.273 %) Construction 5 1 (2.273 %) General Ledger
Job Titles 1 14 (31.82 %) Analyst 2 6 (13.64 %) Developer 2 6 (13.64 %) Administrator 3 5 (11.36 %) Project Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) Coordinator 5 3 (6.818 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (4.545 %) Programmer 6 2 (4.545 %) Development Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Architect 6 2 (4.545 %) Release Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Data Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) C++ Developer 6 2 (4.545 %) Access Developer 6 2 (4.545 %) Development Project Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Operations Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) MI Analyst 6 2 (4.545 %) Project Administrator 6 2 (4.545 %) Applications Support 7 1 (2.273 %) Junior Project Manager	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.818 %) Derivative 2 2 (4.545 %) Equity Derivative 2 2 (4.545 %) Blackberry 2 2 (4.545 %) AS400 2 2 (4.545 %) E-Learning 3 1 (2.273 %) Equities 3 1 (2.273 %) Credit Derivative 3 1 (2.273 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 1 (2.273 %) Fixed Income 3 1 (2.273 %) Management Information System 3 1 (2.273 %) Computer Science 3 1 (2.273 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2 4 (9.091 %) UNIX 3 2 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (2.273 %) Solaris 4 1 (2.273 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (18.18 %) Project Management 2 5 (11.36 %) PRINCE2 3 3 (6.818 %) CRM 3 3 (6.818 %) Business Analysis 3 3 (6.818 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (4.545 %) Project Planning 4 2 (4.545 %) Resource Management 4 2 (4.545 %) SWOT Analysis 4 2 (4.545 %) Risk Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Migration 5 1 (2.273 %) Programme Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Information Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Release Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Test Management 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Architecture 5 1 (2.273 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (2.273 %) Business Intelligence 5 1 (2.273 %) RDF 5 1 (2.273 %) UML 5 1 (2.273 %) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages 1 10 (22.73 %) SQL 2 6 (13.64 %) VB 2 6 (13.64 %) C++ 3 5 (11.36 %) C# 3 5 (11.36 %) VBA 4 2 (4.545 %) C 4 2 (4.545 %) Java 5 1 (2.273 %) Perl 5 1 (2.273 %) VB.NET 5 1 (2.273 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (2.273 %) VBScript 5 1 (2.273 %) VC++ 5 1 (2.273 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (4.545 %) MCSE 1 2 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.273 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 1 (2.273 %) MCTS 2 1 (2.273 %) MCITP 2 1 (2.273 %) Degree 2 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (2.273 %) CCNP 2 1 (2.273 %) CCNA 2 1 (2.273 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.545 %) Basel II 2 1 (2.273 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (6.818 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.545 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (2.273 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (2.273 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 2 (4.545 %) Tivoli 2 1 (2.273 %) BMC Performance Manager	Vendors 1 18 (40.91 %) Microsoft 2 5 (11.36 %) Reuters 3 3 (6.818 %) Calypso 3 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 3 3 (6.818 %) Sybase 3 3 (6.818 %) PeopleSoft 4 2 (4.545 %) Adobe 4 2 (4.545 %) VMware 4 2 (4.545 %) TIBCO 5 1 (2.273 %) ION Trading 5 1 (2.273 %) Planview 5 1 (2.273 %) Sun 5 1 (2.273 %) Murex 5 1 (2.273 %) Siebel 5 1 (2.273 %) Progress 5 1 (2.273 %) Cisco 5 1 (2.273 %) IBM 5 1 (2.273 %) HP 5 1 (2.273 %) Avaya 5 1 (2.273 %) BMC