East of England MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the East of England 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 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon 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 Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire 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 Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tonbridge 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 Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	19
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	209	244
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.276 %	0.259 %
As % of the category below	33.39 %	38.01 %
Daily rates quoted	45	79
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£297
Average daily rate	£276	£308
% change on same period last year	-10.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£295	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£272
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.96	£15.57
Average hourly rate	£18.02	£17.30
% change on same period last year	+4.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.08	£19.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.78	£17.44
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Applications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	626	642
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.825 %	0.681 %
Daily rates quoted	148	205
Average minimum daily rate	£256	£270
Average daily rate	£273	£281
% change on same period last year	-2.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£292
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	157	119
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.42	£17.68
Average hourly rate	£20.56	£18.97
% change on same period last year	+8.36 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.69	£20.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
MS Excel England

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 East of England 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 East of England region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 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 East of England region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

MS Excel
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Excel within the East of England region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Hertfordshire	-10	81	£295	+5.80 %
Cambridgeshire	-3	46	£291	-16.17 %
Essex	-8	33	£182	-46.90 %
Bedfordshire	+13	20	-	-
Norfolk	-10	15	£342	-32.00 %
Suffolk	-1	9	£325	-7.14 %
East Anglia	-1	6	£300	-40.00 %

MS Excel England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

1 223 (53.10 %) Microsoft 2 160 (38.10 %) MS Office 3 110 (26.19 %) Windows 4 83 (19.76 %) Finance 5 71 (16.90 %) SQL 6 56 (13.33 %) MS PowerPoint 7 55 (13.10 %) MS Project 8 50 (11.90 %) SQL Server 9 49 (11.67 %) MS Exchange 10 47 (11.19 %) .NET 11 46 (10.95 %) PRINCE2 11 46 (10.95 %) Windows XP 11 46 (10.95 %) Project Management 12 43 (10.24 %) Active Directory 13 36 (8.571 %) C#

14 33 (7.857 %) Lotus 14 33 (7.857 %) SQL Server 2005 15 32 (7.619 %) Microsoft Certification 15 32 (7.619 %) MS Access 16 31 (7.381 %) Windows 2000 17 28 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 18 26 (6.190 %) NHS 19 23 (5.476 %) Windows Server 2003 19 23 (5.476 %) MCSE 19 23 (5.476 %) ASP.NET 19 23 (5.476 %) VPN 20 21 (5.000 %) Project Planning 20 21 (5.000 %) SharePoint 21 20 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003 21 20 (4.762 %) Retail

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 47 (11.19 %) .NET 2 23 (5.476 %) ASP.NET 3 18 (4.286 %) HTML 4 10 (2.381 %) XML 5 7 (1.667 %) ASP 5 7 (1.667 %) Middleware 5 7 (1.667 %) WebSphere 6 6 (1.429 %) .NET Framework 6 6 (1.429 %) WPF 7 5 (1.190 %) ADO.NET 7 5 (1.190 %) J2EE 7 5 (1.190 %) CSS 8 4 (0.952 %) WebServices 8 4 (0.952 %) XSLT 9 3 (0.714 %) XHTML 10 2 (0.476 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 2 (0.476 %) MFC 10 2 (0.476 %) XSL 11 1 (0.238 %) DOM 11 1 (0.238 %) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 49 (11.67 %) MS Exchange 2 28 (6.667 %) Lotus Notes 3 21 (5.000 %) SharePoint 4 20 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 13 (3.095 %) Office Project Server 6 10 (2.381 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 9 (2.143 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 8 (1.905 %) BizTalk Server 9 7 (1.667 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 9 7 (1.667 %) Lotus Domino 10 5 (1.190 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 4 (0.952 %) WebLogic 12 3 (0.714 %) IIS 12 3 (0.714 %) CMS 13 2 (0.476 %) GroupWise 13 2 (0.476 %) TeamSite 13 2 (0.476 %) SharePoint Server 2007 14 1 (0.238 %) SharePoint Portal Server 14 1 (0.238 %) CICS 14 1 (0.238 %) SAS
Applications 1 160 (38.10 %) MS Office 2 56 (13.33 %) MS PowerPoint 3 55 (13.10 %) MS Project 4 15 (3.571 %) MS Visio 5 7 (1.667 %) Photoshop 5 7 (1.667 %) FrameMaker 6 5 (1.190 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 2 (0.476 %) CA Clarity 8 1 (0.238 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 4 (0.952 %) Axapta 1 4 (0.952 %) Dynamics AX 2 3 (0.714 %) PeopleSoft HRMS 3 1 (0.238 %) Microsoft CRM 3 1 (0.238 %) assyst 3 1 (0.238 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 23 (5.476 %) VPN 2 19 (4.524 %) LAN 3 16 (3.810 %) TCP/IP 4 13 (3.095 %) Firewall 5 11 (2.619 %) DNS 6 10 (2.381 %) WAN 7 9 (2.143 %) Internet 8 6 (1.429 %) VoIP 9 5 (1.190 %) MPLS 10 4 (0.952 %) SAN 10 4 (0.952 %) WLAN 10 4 (0.952 %) Wireless 10 4 (0.952 %) DVB 10 4 (0.952 %) Cisco PIX 11 3 (0.714 %) DAB 11 3 (0.714 %) VLAN 12 2 (0.476 %) ISDN 12 2 (0.476 %) SNMP 13 1 (0.238 %) Ethernet 13 1 (0.238 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 50 (11.90 %) SQL Server 2 33 (7.857 %) SQL Server 2005 3 32 (7.619 %) MS Access 4 16 (3.810 %) Datawarehouse 5 15 (3.571 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 12 (2.857 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 10 (2.381 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 9 (2.143 %) SQL Server 2000 9 8 (1.905 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 4 (0.952 %) SQL Server 7 10 4 (0.952 %) DTS 10 4 (0.952 %) ETL 10 4 (0.952 %) OLAP 10 4 (0.952 %) Crystal Reports 11 3 (0.714 %) Oracle 9i 11 3 (0.714 %) Oracle 10g 12 2 (0.476 %) BusinessObjects 13 1 (0.238 %) STATISTICA 13 1 (0.238 %) Oracle Discoverer 13 1 (0.238 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 14 (3.333 %) ClearCase 1 14 (3.333 %) ClearQuest 2 9 (2.143 %) Visual Studio 3 4 (0.952 %) MorphX 4 3 (0.714 %) FrontPage 4 3 (0.714 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 3 (0.714 %) TestDirector 4 3 (0.714 %) PeopleTools 5 2 (0.476 %) Flash 5 2 (0.476 %) PVCS 6 1 (0.238 %) Dreamweaver 6 1 (0.238 %) JUnit 6 1 (0.238 %) Selenium 6 1 (0.238 %) Firebug 6 1 (0.238 %) MSI 6 1 (0.238 %) InstallShield 6 1 (0.238 %) Bugzilla	General 1 83 (19.76 %) Finance 2 20 (4.762 %) Retail 3 17 (4.048 %) Health 4 14 (3.333 %) Telecoms 5 11 (2.619 %) Pharmaceutical 5 11 (2.619 %) Education 6 9 (2.143 %) Government 6 9 (2.143 %) Insurance 7 8 (1.905 %) Legal 8 5 (1.190 %) Financial Institution 8 5 (1.190 %) Local Government 9 4 (0.952 %) Manufacturing 9 4 (0.952 %) Military 9 4 (0.952 %) Law 10 3 (0.714 %) Games 10 3 (0.714 %) Automotive 10 3 (0.714 %) Pensions 10 3 (0.714 %) Marketing 11 2 (0.476 %) Back Office 11 2 (0.476 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 142 (33.81 %) Analyst 2 54 (12.86 %) Support Analyst 3 53 (12.62 %) Developer 4 30 (7.143 %) Project Manager 5 25 (5.952 %) Desktop Support 6 23 (5.476 %) Support Engineer 6 23 (5.476 %) Service Analyst 6 23 (5.476 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 21 (5.000 %) Helpdesk Support 8 19 (4.524 %) Project Analyst 9 18 (4.286 %) Project Support Analyst 10 16 (3.810 %) Administrator 11 15 (3.571 %) Helpdesk Analyst 12 13 (3.095 %) Coordinator 13 12 (2.857 %) Business Analyst 14 11 (2.619 %) Data Analyst 14 11 (2.619 %) .NET Developer 15 10 (2.381 %) Desktop Engineer 16 9 (2.143 %) Desktop Support Engineer 17 8 (1.905 %) Project Coordinator	Miscellaneous 1 26 (6.190 %) NHS 2 15 (3.571 %) Blackberry 3 12 (2.857 %) Informatics 4 9 (2.143 %) Mathematics 5 7 (1.667 %) PMI 6 6 (1.429 %) MPEG 6 6 (1.429 %) DTV 6 6 (1.429 %) IPTV 6 6 (1.429 %) PDA 6 6 (1.429 %) Statistics 6 6 (1.429 %) Video Conferencing 7 5 (1.190 %) Data Integration 7 5 (1.190 %) Management Information System 8 4 (0.952 %) Mainframe 8 4 (0.952 %) Client/Server 8 4 (0.952 %) French Language 9 3 (0.714 %) AS400 10 2 (0.476 %) Copywriting 11 1 (0.238 %) Fat Client 11 1 (0.238 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 110 (26.19 %) Windows 2 46 (10.95 %) Windows XP 3 31 (7.381 %) Windows 2000 4 23 (5.476 %) Windows Server 2003 5 16 (3.810 %) Linux 6 15 (3.571 %) Unix 7 13 (3.095 %) Windows NT 8 8 (1.905 %) Solaris 9 6 (1.429 %) Embedded Linux 10 3 (0.714 %) Windows Mobile 11 2 (0.476 %) AIX 11 2 (0.476 %) HPUX 12 1 (0.238 %) VMS 12 1 (0.238 %) OS/2 12 1 (0.238 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 46 (10.95 %) PRINCE2 1 46 (10.95 %) Project Management 2 21 (5.000 %) Project Planning 3 19 (4.524 %) ITIL 4 16 (3.810 %) Time Management 5 12 (2.857 %) Data Analysis 5 12 (2.857 %) Business Development 5 12 (2.857 %) Service Delivery 6 10 (2.381 %) Data Modelling 7 9 (2.143 %) Content Management 7 9 (2.143 %) Information Management 8 7 (1.667 %) Migration 8 7 (1.667 %) Change Management 8 7 (1.667 %) UML 8 7 (1.667 %) Business Intelligence 8 7 (1.667 %) PRINCE 9 6 (1.429 %) Stakeholder Management 9 6 (1.429 %) Security Cleared 10 5 (1.190 %) Business Analysis 10 5 (1.190 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 71 (16.90 %) SQL 2 36 (8.571 %) C# 3 16 (3.810 %) VB.NET 3 16 (3.810 %) VBA 4 13 (3.095 %) C 5 12 (2.857 %) C++ 5 12 (2.857 %) Transact-SQL 6 9 (2.143 %) VB 7 7 (1.667 %) VBScript 8 6 (1.429 %) Java 8 6 (1.429 %) JavaScript 8 6 (1.429 %) Embedded C 8 6 (1.429 %) Embedded C++ 9 4 (0.952 %) VB6 9 4 (0.952 %) X++ 9 4 (0.952 %) PL/SQL 10 3 (0.714 %) VC++ 10 3 (0.714 %) DHTML 11 2 (0.476 %) Perl 11 2 (0.476 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 32 (7.619 %) Microsoft Certification 2 23 (5.476 %) MCSE 3 18 (4.286 %) Degree 4 9 (2.143 %) ISEB 4 9 (2.143 %) MCP 5 7 (1.667 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 4 (0.952 %) HNC 6 4 (0.952 %) ITIL Certification 7 3 (0.714 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 7 3 (0.714 %) HND 7 3 (0.714 %) MCSD 7 3 (0.714 %) PRINCE2 Certification 8 2 (0.476 %) Cisco Certification 8 2 (0.476 %) MCSA 8 2 (0.476 %) CCNA 8 2 (0.476 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 1 (0.238 %) PMI Certification 9 1 (0.238 %) CCVP 9 1 (0.238 %) MCAD 9 1 (0.238 %) OCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (4.048 %) SLA 2 10 (2.381 %) QA 3 2 (0.476 %) ISO9000 4 1 (0.238 %) GMP	System Software 1 43 (10.24 %) Active Directory 2 8 (1.905 %) VMware ESX 3 7 (1.667 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 5 (1.190 %) NDS 5 2 (0.476 %) Backup Exec 5 2 (0.476 %) VMware Workstation 6 1 (0.238 %) NetBackup 6 1 (0.238 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 8 (1.905 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 4 (0.952 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 3 (0.714 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.476 %) Tivoli 4 2 (0.476 %) ZENworks 4 2 (0.476 %) MOM 4 2 (0.476 %) SCOM 5 1 (0.238 %) HP Data Protector 5 1 (0.238 %) DameWare 5 1 (0.238 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager 5 1 (0.238 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 5 1 (0.238 %) Legato	Vendors 1 223 (53.10 %) Microsoft 2 33 (7.857 %) Lotus 3 17 (4.048 %) IBM 4 16 (3.810 %) Dell 4 16 (3.810 %) Novell 5 14 (3.333 %) HP 5 14 (3.333 %) Oracle 5 14 (3.333 %) VMware 6 12 (2.857 %) Cisco 7 9 (2.143 %) Citrix 7 9 (2.143 %) Remedy 8 7 (1.667 %) SAP 9 5 (1.190 %) Intel 10 4 (0.952 %) Symantec 10 4 (0.952 %) PeopleSoft 10 4 (0.952 %) VERITAS 10 4 (0.952 %) EMC 11 3 (0.714 %) CheckPoint 11 3 (0.714 %) Sophos 11 3 (0.714 %) Teradata