MS Excel Contracts in Edinburgh
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 24 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 Edinburgh 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 29 15 17
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +2
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 29 62 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.481% 5.704% 5.869%
As % of the Applications category 46.77% 44.60% 46.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 29 34
Average daily rate £318 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.30% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £235 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £399 £425 £446
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
Average hourly rate £9.85 £13.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.03% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 62 139 162
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 7.443% 12.79% 12.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 75 86
Average daily rate £310 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £129 £198 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £396 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 11
Average hourly rate £20.25 £13.50 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.08 £9.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £24.00 £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
Scotland

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Edinburgh MS Excel Daily Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 34 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (45.00%) MS Office
3 25 (41.67%) Finance
4 21 (35.00%) Windows
5 16 (26.67%) Active Directory
6 14 (23.33%) MS Project
7 12 (20.00%) Banking
8 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
8 9 (15.00%) Windows 7
8 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (13.33%) Citrix
9 8 (13.33%) MS Exchange
10 7 (11.67%) Windows XP
10 7 (11.67%) HP
10 7 (11.67%) ITIL
10 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
11 6 (10.00%) SQL
11 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
11 6 (10.00%) DNS
11 6 (10.00%) Project Management
12 5 (8.333%) Migration
12 5 (8.333%) VMware
12 5 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (8.333%) MS Access
12 5 (8.333%) Solaris
12 5 (8.333%) Linux
12 5 (8.333%) Change Control
12 5 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
13 4 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
13 4 (6.667%) assyst

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 (3.333%) .NET
2 1 (1.667%) COM
2 1 (1.667%) CSS
2 1 (1.667%) XML
2 1 (1.667%) HTML
2 1 (1.667%) J2EE
2 1 (1.667%) WebSphere
2 1 (1.667%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 8 (13.33%) MS Exchange
2 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
3 4 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (3.333%) Joomla!
4 2 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
4 2 (3.333%) CMS
5 1 (1.667%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (1.667%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (1.667%) WebLogic
5 1 (1.667%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 27 (45.00%) MS Office
2 14 (23.33%) MS Project
3 9 (15.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (5.000%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.333%) Photoshop
5 2 (3.333%) Acrobat
6 1 (1.667%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 4 (6.667%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 6 (10.00%) DNS
2 4 (6.667%) Internet
3 3 (5.000%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (5.000%) DHCP
4 2 (3.333%) Network Security
4 2 (3.333%) LAN
4 2 (3.333%) WAN
4 2 (3.333%) Intranet
4 2 (3.333%) SAN
4 2 (3.333%) Firewall
5 1 (1.667%) MPLS
5 1 (1.667%) Wireless
5 1 (1.667%) VPN
5 1 (1.667%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.333%) MS Access
2 3 (5.000%) Data Mining
2 3 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.667%) OLAP
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 25 (41.67%) Finance
2 12 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (6.667%) Retail
4 3 (5.000%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.333%) Retail Banking
5 2 (3.333%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (3.333%) Publishing
6 1 (1.667%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Analyst
2 6 (10.00%) Administrator
2 6 (10.00%) Developer
3 5 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (8.333%) Support Analyst
3 5 (8.333%) Desktop Support
3 5 (8.333%) PMO Analyst
4 4 (6.667%) Designer
4 4 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (5.000%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.000%) IT Administrator
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Administrator
5 3 (5.000%) Excel Developer
6 2 (3.333%) Senior Desktop Support
6 2 (3.333%) Technical Designer
6 2 (3.333%) Desktop Analyst
6 2 (3.333%) Developer Analyst
6 2 (3.333%) IT Support
6 2 (3.333%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.000%) Mainframe
2 2 (3.333%) Replication
2 2 (3.333%) Clustering
2 2 (3.333%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.667%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.667%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 21 (35.00%) Windows
2 9 (15.00%) Windows 7
3 7 (11.67%) Windows XP
4 5 (8.333%) Solaris
4 5 (8.333%) Linux
4 5 (8.333%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.000%) UNIX
6 3 (5.000%) Windows 2000
7 2 (3.333%) Windows Vista
7 2 (3.333%) AIX
7 2 (3.333%) HPUX
8 1 (1.667%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.667%) Windows Phone
8 1 (1.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (11.67%) ITIL
3 6 (10.00%) Project Management
4 5 (8.333%) Migration
4 5 (8.333%) Change Control
5 4 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (6.667%) Data Management
5 4 (6.667%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (6.667%) Change Management
6 3 (5.000%) Content Management
6 3 (5.000%) Project Planning
6 3 (5.000%) Resource Management
6 3 (5.000%) Investment Management
7 2 (3.333%) Financial Modelling
7 2 (3.333%) Incident Management
7 2 (3.333%) Business Analysis
7 2 (3.333%) Project Governance
7 2 (3.333%) ETL
7 2 (3.333%) Data Modelling
7 2 (3.333%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (3.333%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.333%) VBScript
2 2 (3.333%) VB
2 2 (3.333%) VBA
2 2 (3.333%) Perl
2 2 (3.333%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.667%) C
3 1 (1.667%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (6.667%) MCP
2 4 (6.667%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.333%) Degree
4 1 (1.667%) ISEB
4 1 (1.667%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (1.667%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.667%) Basel II
1 1 (1.667%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.000%) Samba
3 2 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.333%) XenApp
3 2 (3.333%) DFS Replication
3 2 (3.333%) Terminal Services
3 2 (3.333%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.667%) vSphere
4 1 (1.667%) XenServer
4 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (5.000%) SCOM
3 2 (3.333%) ServiceCenter
3 2 (3.333%) SCCM
3 2 (3.333%) WMI
3 2 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (3.333%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 34 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Citrix
3 7 (11.67%) HP
4 5 (8.333%) VMware
5 4 (6.667%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.333%) Oracle
6 2 (3.333%) Adobe
6 2 (3.333%) Lotus
7 1 (1.667%) Charles River
7 1 (1.667%) Ab Initio
7 1 (1.667%) CommVault
7 1 (1.667%) Salesforce.com
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco
7 1 (1.667%) IBM
7 1 (1.667%) Business Objects
7 1 (1.667%) JBoss
7 1 (1.667%) Cadis
7 1 (1.667%) Planview
7 1 (1.667%) Postini
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