Edinburgh MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Edinburgh 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead 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 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 Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough 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 Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	23	26
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	41	44
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.055 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	45.05 %	37.29 %
Daily rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£218
Average daily rate	£348	£231
% change on same period last year	+50.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£244
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£43.16	£14.42
Average hourly rate	£46.96	£14.92
% change on same period last year	+214.68 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£50.76	£15.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.88	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Applications Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	91	118
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.121 %	0.119 %
Daily rates quoted	14	33
Average minimum daily rate	£273	£216
Average daily rate	£286	£223
% change on same period last year	+28.57 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£229
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.54	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£39.97	£14.83
% change on same period last year	+169.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.40	£15.66
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Excel Scotland

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 Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 25 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 Edinburgh region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 22 (34.38 %) Microsoft 2 21 (32.81 %) MS Office 3 20 (31.25 %) Finance 4 17 (26.56 %) Windows 5 13 (20.31 %) SQL 5 13 (20.31 %) MS Project 6 12 (18.75 %) .NET 7 10 (15.63 %) C# 7 10 (15.63 %) ASP.NET 7 10 (15.63 %) MS Access 8 9 (14.06 %) SQL Server 8 9 (14.06 %) AJAX 9 8 (12.50 %) Visual Studio 9 8 (12.50 %) Citrix 9 8 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)

10 7 (10.94 %) Active Directory 10 7 (10.94 %) CSS 10 7 (10.94 %) VBA 10 7 (10.94 %) Oracle 10 7 (10.94 %) HTML 10 7 (10.94 %) JavaScript 10 7 (10.94 %) VMware 11 6 (9.375 %) Financial Institution 11 6 (9.375 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 6 (9.375 %) Banking 11 6 (9.375 %) VB 11 6 (9.375 %) MS Exchange 11 6 (9.375 %) Project Planning 12 5 (7.813 %) MS Visio 12 5 (7.813 %) PL/SQL

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 12 (18.75 %) .NET 2 10 (15.63 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (14.06 %) AJAX 4 7 (10.94 %) CSS 4 7 (10.94 %) HTML 5 5 (7.813 %) J2EE 5 5 (7.813 %) Microsoft Enterprise Library 6 2 (3.125 %) jQuery 6 2 (3.125 %) XHTML 6 2 (3.125 %) XML 7 1 (1.563 %) XSLT 7 1 (1.563 %) ODBC 7 1 (1.563 %) ADO 7 1 (1.563 %) CAML 7 1 (1.563 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 6 (9.375 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (9.375 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (6.250 %) SharePoint 3 3 (4.688 %) IIS 4 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes 4 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.563 %) SAS 5 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 21 (32.81 %) MS Office 2 13 (20.31 %) MS Project 3 5 (7.813 %) MS Visio 4 3 (4.688 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.563 %) Siebel Analytics
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.563 %) DHCP 1 1 (1.563 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (1.563 %) DNS 1 1 (1.563 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (15.63 %) MS Access 2 9 (14.06 %) SQL Server 3 4 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 3 4 (6.250 %) SQL Server Integration Services 4 3 (4.688 %) Oracle 9i 4 3 (4.688 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 3 (4.688 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (3.125 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 2 (3.125 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (3.125 %) Crystal Reports 5 2 (3.125 %) Oracle Reports 5 2 (3.125 %) Datawarehouse 5 2 (3.125 %) Oracle BI EE 6 1 (1.563 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 8 (12.50 %) Visual Studio	General 1 20 (31.25 %) Finance 2 6 (9.375 %) Financial Institution 2 6 (9.375 %) Banking 3 5 (7.813 %) Pensions 4 4 (6.250 %) Back Office 5 2 (3.125 %) Telecoms 5 2 (3.125 %) Retail 5 2 (3.125 %) Law 6 1 (1.563 %) Legal 6 1 (1.563 %) Education 6 1 (1.563 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 20 (31.25 %) Developer 2 17 (26.56 %) Analyst 3 5 (7.813 %) Project Analyst 4 4 (6.250 %) Data Analyst 4 4 (6.250 %) Oracle Developer 4 4 (6.250 %) Web Developer 5 3 (4.688 %) Consultant 5 3 (4.688 %) Project Manager 5 3 (4.688 %) Junior 5 3 (4.688 %) Support Engineer 5 3 (4.688 %) Administrator 5 3 (4.688 %) .NET Developer 5 3 (4.688 %) Project Office Analyst 5 3 (4.688 %) MI Analyst 6 2 (3.125 %) Programme Office Analyst 6 2 (3.125 %) Report Developer 6 2 (3.125 %) Programme Office Support 6 2 (3.125 %) Network Support Engineer 6 2 (3.125 %) Database Developer 6 2 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (4.688 %) Statistics 2 1 (1.563 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.563 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 17 (26.56 %) Windows 2 2 (3.125 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (9.375 %) Project Planning 2 3 (4.688 %) Data Analysis 3 2 (3.125 %) Web Development 3 2 (3.125 %) Resource Management 3 2 (3.125 %) ITIL 3 2 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (3.125 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (3.125 %) Project Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Service Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Service Delivery 4 1 (1.563 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (1.563 %) GAP Analysis 4 1 (1.563 %) Workflow 4 1 (1.563 %) Migration 4 1 (1.563 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Programme Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Asset Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (1.563 %) Time Management 4 1 (1.563 %) Business Analysis
Programming Languages 1 13 (20.31 %) SQL 2 10 (15.63 %) C# 3 7 (10.94 %) JavaScript 3 7 (10.94 %) VBA 4 6 (9.375 %) VB 5 5 (7.813 %) PL/SQL 6 4 (6.250 %) Transact-SQL 7 3 (4.688 %) Java 8 1 (1.563 %) VBScript 8 1 (1.563 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 2 (3.125 %) Degree 2 1 (1.563 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.563 %) COBIT	System Software 1 7 (10.94 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 8 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (4.688 %) OpenView 3 1 (1.563 %) Tivoli 3 1 (1.563 %) AssetCenter	Vendors 1 22 (34.38 %) Microsoft 2 8 (12.50 %) Citrix 3 7 (10.94 %) Oracle 3 7 (10.94 %) VMware 4 4 (6.250 %) Novell 4 4 (6.250 %) Business Objects 5 3 (4.688 %) HP 5 3 (4.688 %) VERITAS 6 2 (3.125 %) Lotus 6 2 (3.125 %) PeopleSoft 7 1 (1.563 %) Siebel 7 1 (1.563 %) Cisco 7 1 (1.563 %) NetApp 7 1 (1.563 %) Apple 7 1 (1.563 %) Peregrine 7 1 (1.563 %) Planview