East of England Spreadsheet Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheets 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 jobs that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spreadsheets
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Canary Wharf Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Clevedon Corsham Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	111	136
Rank change on same period last year	+25
Matching contract IT job ads	23	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	4.137 %	2.901 %
Daily rates quoted	7	8
Average minimum daily rate	£129	£276
Average daily rate	£139	£287
% change on same period last year	-51.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£148	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£227	£268
% change on same period last year	-15.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.04	£21.67
Average hourly rate	£15.19	£22.83
% change on same period last year	-33.47 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.34	£24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£12.99	£15.50
% change on same period last year	-16.17 %
Applications East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	556	724
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.783 %	0.732 %
Daily rates quoted	164	217
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£281
Average daily rate	£268	£295
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Average maximum daily rate	£286	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	160	145
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.19	£19.61
Average hourly rate	£20.50	£20.55
% change on same period last year	-0.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.80	£21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.53	£19.52
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Spreadsheet 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.

Spreadsheet
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet across the East of England region.

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spreadsheet across the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the East of England region.

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spreadsheet across the East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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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 East of England region over the 3 months to 10 October 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	+19	11	£139	-46.88 %
Essex	+15	10	-	-
Norfolk	-	1	-	-
Suffolk	+13	1	-	-

Spreadsheet England

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 19 (45.24 %) MS Excel 2 10 (23.81 %) Microsoft 3 9 (21.43 %) MS Project 4 8 (19.05 %) MS Office 4 8 (19.05 %) Finance 4 8 (19.05 %) MS PowerPoint 5 5 (11.90 %) Internet 6 4 (9.524 %) MS Access 6 4 (9.524 %) HTML 6 4 (9.524 %) Migration 6 4 (9.524 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (7.143 %) Marketing 7 3 (7.143 %) CMS 7 3 (7.143 %) Publishing 7 3 (7.143 %) Telecoms

7 3 (7.143 %) E-Commerce 7 3 (7.143 %) Content Management 8 2 (4.762 %) Danish Language 8 2 (4.762 %) Italian Language 8 2 (4.762 %) Polish Language 8 2 (4.762 %) Portuguese Language 8 2 (4.762 %) MetaFrame 8 2 (4.762 %) NHS 8 2 (4.762 %) SQL 8 2 (4.762 %) VBA 8 2 (4.762 %) Windows 8 2 (4.762 %) SAP 8 2 (4.762 %) Management Information System 8 2 (4.762 %) Project Planning 9 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint Server 2007

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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.

Application Development 1 4 (9.524 %) HTML 2 1 (2.381 %) CSS 2 1 (2.381 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.143 %) CMS 2 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 1 (2.381 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 19 (45.24 %) MS Excel 2 9 (21.43 %) MS Project 3 8 (19.05 %) MS Office 3 8 (19.05 %) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (2.381 %) CA Clarity 4 1 (2.381 %) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Oracle General Ledger
Communications & Networking 1 5 (11.90 %) Internet 2 1 (2.381 %) Broadband	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (9.524 %) MS Access 2 1 (2.381 %) RDBMS 2 1 (2.381 %) MySQL 2 1 (2.381 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 1 (2.381 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 8 (19.05 %) Finance 2 3 (7.143 %) Telecoms 2 3 (7.143 %) Publishing 2 3 (7.143 %) Marketing 3 1 (2.381 %) Auditing 3 1 (2.381 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.381 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 10 (23.81 %) Analyst 2 7 (16.67 %) Administrator 3 4 (9.524 %) Data Analyst 3 4 (9.524 %) Developer 4 3 (7.143 %) Web Content Editor 4 3 (7.143 %) Content Editor 4 3 (7.143 %) Coordinator 4 3 (7.143 %) Web Editor 5 2 (4.762 %) Project Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Access Developer 5 2 (4.762 %) Project Administrator 5 2 (4.762 %) Financial Analyst 5 2 (4.762 %) Procurement Officer 5 2 (4.762 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Information Analyst 6 1 (2.381 %) Junior 6 1 (2.381 %) Web Developer 6 1 (2.381 %) DBA 6 1 (2.381 %) IT Administrator 6 1 (2.381 %) Project Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.762 %) Management Information System 1 2 (4.762 %) Danish Language 1 2 (4.762 %) Italian Language 1 2 (4.762 %) Polish Language 1 2 (4.762 %) Portuguese Language 1 2 (4.762 %) NHS 2 1 (2.381 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (4.762 %) Windows 2 1 (2.381 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (9.524 %) Migration 1 4 (9.524 %) Data Analysis 2 3 (7.143 %) Content Management 2 3 (7.143 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (4.762 %) Project Planning 4 1 (2.381 %) Project Management 4 1 (2.381 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (2.381 %) Workflow 4 1 (2.381 %) Validation 4 1 (2.381 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.762 %) SQL 1 2 (4.762 %) VBA 2 1 (2.381 %) VB 2 1 (2.381 %) C 2 1 (2.381 %) JavaScript 2 1 (2.381 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 1 (2.381 %) Degree
System Software 1 2 (4.762 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 10 (23.81 %) Microsoft 2 2 (4.762 %) SAP 3 1 (2.381 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.381 %) Tridion 3 1 (2.381 %) CheckPoint