Devon MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Devon 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire 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 King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham 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 Preston Reading Redditch 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 Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	10
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	35
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	43.90 %	51.47 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£300
Average daily rate	£378	£338
% change on same period last year	+12.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£375
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£267
% change on same period last year	+8.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.13	£13.63
Average hourly rate	£10.88	£14.56
% change on same period last year	-25.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.63	£15.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.96	£18.47
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
Applications Devon
Matching contract IT job ads	41	68
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.054 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	17	5
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£260
Average daily rate	£358	£291
% change on same period last year	+23.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£377	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£10.45	£14.69
Average hourly rate	£11.20	£15.78
% change on same period last year	-29.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£11.95	£16.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.62	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.53 %
MS Excel South West

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 Devon 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 Devon region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Devon region over the 3 months to 21 August 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 Devon region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Devon region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

MS Excel
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the Devon region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Plymouth	-10	7	£369	-
Exeter	+5	6	-	-

MS Excel South West

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 22 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 19 (57.58 %) Microsoft 3 15 (45.45 %) Windows 4 13 (39.39 %) Windows XP 5 11 (33.33 %) Active Directory 6 7 (21.21 %) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (21.21 %) MS Exchange 6 7 (21.21 %) SQL 7 6 (18.18 %) Finance 7 6 (18.18 %) VMware 7 6 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 5 (15.15 %) MS PowerPoint 8 5 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 8 5 (15.15 %) NHS 9 4 (12.12 %) HP

9 4 (12.12 %) Dell 9 4 (12.12 %) Clustering 9 4 (12.12 %) Backup Exec 9 4 (12.12 %) Summit 9 4 (12.12 %) VMware Server 9 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 3 (9.091 %) Government 10 3 (9.091 %) Firewall 10 3 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 10 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 10 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 10 3 (9.091 %) VERITAS 10 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 11 2 (6.061 %) .NET 11 2 (6.061 %) Oracle

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 2 (6.061 %) .NET 1 2 (6.061 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere 2 1 (3.030 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 7 (21.21 %) MS Exchange 2 6 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (6.061 %) WebLogic 3 2 (6.061 %) Documentum 4 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2007 4 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere MQ 4 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 22 (66.67 %) MS Office 2 5 (15.15 %) MS PowerPoint 3 2 (6.061 %) MS Project 3 2 (6.061 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Summit 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (15.15 %) TCP/IP 2 3 (9.091 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.030 %) Wi-Fi 3 1 (3.030 %) ADSL 3 1 (3.030 %) WAN 3 1 (3.030 %) Ethernet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.061 %) DataStage 3 1 (3.030 %) MS Access
General 1 6 (18.18 %) Finance 2 3 (9.091 %) Government 3 2 (6.061 %) Health 4 1 (3.030 %) Criminal Justice 4 1 (3.030 %) Education	Job Titles 1 10 (30.30 %) Analyst 2 6 (18.18 %) 2nd Line Support 3 5 (15.15 %) PC Support 3 5 (15.15 %) Consultant 4 4 (12.12 %) Support Analyst 4 4 (12.12 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 4 (12.12 %) Implementation Consultant 5 3 (9.091 %) Administrator 5 3 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Project Manager 6 2 (6.061 %) 1st Line Support 6 2 (6.061 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) Systems Administrator 6 2 (6.061 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 6 2 (6.061 %) Helpdesk Technician 6 2 (6.061 %) Network Support 6 2 (6.061 %) PC Support Analyst 7 1 (3.030 %) PC Support Engineer 7 1 (3.030 %) Project Officer 7 1 (3.030 %) Requirements Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (15.15 %) NHS 2 4 (12.12 %) Clustering 3 1 (3.030 %) Fat Client 3 1 (3.030 %) NPfIT 3 1 (3.030 %) Thin Client	Operating Systems 1 15 (45.45 %) Windows 2 13 (39.39 %) Windows XP 3 7 (21.21 %) Windows Server 2003 4 4 (12.12 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 3 (9.091 %) UNIX 6 1 (3.030 %) Solaris 6 1 (3.030 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 2 (6.061 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (6.061 %) UML 2 2 (6.061 %) Service Management 2 2 (6.061 %) Project Planning 2 2 (6.061 %) Logistics 2 2 (6.061 %) Asset Management 3 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (3.030 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (3.030 %) Requirements Analysis 3 1 (3.030 %) Risk Management 3 1 (3.030 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 7 (21.21 %) SQL 2 2 (6.061 %) Perl
System Software 1 11 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 4 (12.12 %) Backup Exec 2 4 (12.12 %) VMware Server 3 2 (6.061 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.030 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 3 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (6.061 %) BMC PATROL
Vendors 1 19 (57.58 %) Microsoft 2 6 (18.18 %) VMware 3 4 (12.12 %) HP 3 4 (12.12 %) Dell 4 3 (9.091 %) VERITAS 5 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 5 2 (6.061 %) Intel 5 2 (6.061 %) Citrix 5 2 (6.061 %) BMC 6 1 (3.030 %) Novell 6 1 (3.030 %) Cisco