The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 23 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 Chester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 15 15 12
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing MS Office 10 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.092% 6.034% 7.317%
As % of the Applications category 90.91% 35.00% 54.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 5
Average daily rate £123 £200 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.75% -29.82%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
All Applications
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
11 20 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 7.801% 17.24% 13.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 11
Average daily rate £123 £350 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-65.00% -3.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £33.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
Cheshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Chester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Chester MS Office Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing MS Office 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 Office.

1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) MS Excel
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
3 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
4 7 (31.82%) ITIL
4 7 (31.82%) Service Management
5 6 (27.27%) AIX
5 6 (27.27%) UNIX
5 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
6 5 (22.73%) Digital Media
6 5 (22.73%) CSS
6 5 (22.73%) HTML
6 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
6 5 (22.73%) Intranet
6 5 (22.73%) CMS
6 5 (22.73%) Change Management
6 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
6 5 (22.73%) Tru64
7 4 (18.18%) Remedy
7 4 (18.18%) Project Management
7 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
7 4 (18.18%) VMware
7 4 (18.18%) Citrix
7 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
7 4 (18.18%) Linux
7 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
8 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
8 3 (13.64%) Clustering
9 2 (9.091%) SAP R/3

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing MS Office 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 Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (22.73%) CSS
1 5 (22.73%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) SharePoint
2 5 (22.73%) CMS
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 9 (40.91%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS Project
3 1 (4.545%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (9.091%) SAP R/3
2 1 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Intranet
2 2 (9.091%) DNS
3 1 (4.545%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (4.545%) Banking
1 1 (4.545%) Local Government
1 1 (4.545%) Finance
1 1 (4.545%) Law
1 1 (4.545%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Content Editor
1 5 (22.73%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Web Editor
3 3 (13.64%) Web Content Editor
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Support
4 2 (9.091%) Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) IT Support
4 2 (9.091%) UNIX Specialist
4 2 (9.091%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Storage Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX Engineer
5 1 (4.545%) Services Delivery Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Technology Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Project Coordinator
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Digital Media
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) AIX
2 6 (27.27%) UNIX
2 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
3 5 (22.73%) Tru64
4 4 (18.18%) Linux
5 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (31.82%) ITIL
1 7 (31.82%) Service Management
2 5 (22.73%) Change Management
2 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
3 4 (18.18%) Project Management
4 3 (13.64%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.091%) Project Planning
6 1 (4.545%) Matrix Management
6 1 (4.545%) Critical Path Analysis
6 1 (4.545%) Change Control
6 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
6 1 (4.545%) CRM
6 1 (4.545%) PRINCE
6 1 (4.545%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
2 4 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.545%) Degree
1 1 (4.545%) CCNA
1 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) Active Directory
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.091%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (9.091%) VMware ESX
2 2 (9.091%) XenApp
2 2 (9.091%) PowerHA
3 1 (4.545%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (9.091%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.545%) SCCM
2 1 (4.545%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Remedy
2 4 (18.18%) VMware
2 4 (18.18%) Citrix
3 3 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 2 (9.091%) SAP
5 1 (4.545%) Brocade
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle
5 1 (4.545%) Cisco
5 1 (4.545%) IBM
5 1 (4.545%) HP
5 1 (4.545%) NetApp
5 1 (4.545%) Veritas
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