The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 19 June 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 England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 19 18 20
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 2859 3336 3407
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.607% 6.300% 5.950%
As % of the Applications category 49.84% 49.40% 47.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1532 1716 1674
Average daily rate £363 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £180 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £532 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 307 374
Average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.03% -1.49%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.00 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £28.50 £36.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
All Applications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
5736 6753 7108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 13.26% 12.75% 12.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 3029 3490 3573
Average daily rate £350 £350 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £519 £501 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £306 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 613 695 868
Average hourly rate £16.50 £15.50 £16.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.45% -6.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.52
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
UK

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England 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 England region.

England MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England MS Excel Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
London -3 1431 £410 +2.50% 440
South East 0 584 £320 -4.47% 273
East of England +8 187 £253 -8.18% 105
Yorkshire -4 131 £330 +10.00% 79
West Midlands 0 129 £275 -8.33% 84
South West +5 123 £318 +0.07% 85
North West 0 121 £300 +5.26% 121
East Midlands +15 106 £288 +4.64% 46
North East -5 16 £325 -7.14% 13
Midlands +8 8 £363 -
South Coast +3 1 - -
MS Excel
UK

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 3346 (61.16%) Microsoft
2 1763 (32.22%) MS Office
3 1491 (27.25%) Windows
4 1407 (25.72%) Finance
5 1260 (23.03%) SQL
6 1125 (20.56%) SQL Server
7 872 (15.94%) MS PowerPoint
8 816 (14.92%) Project Management
9 793 (14.49%) Active Directory
10 783 (14.31%) .NET
11 701 (12.81%) MS Project
12 649 (11.86%) C#
12 649 (11.86%) SharePoint
13 634 (11.59%) Banking
14 595 (10.88%) MS Visio
15 592 (10.82%) Windows 7
16 579 (10.58%) Oracle
17 574 (10.49%) PRINCE2
18 555 (10.14%) ITIL
19 462 (8.445%) Windows XP
20 449 (8.207%) Degree
21 447 (8.170%) Security Cleared
22 419 (7.659%) Migration
23 400 (7.311%) VBA
24 388 (7.092%) MS Exchange
25 385 (7.037%) Windows Server 2008
26 374 (6.836%) Citrix
27 368 (6.726%) MS Access
28 343 (6.269%) Business Intelligence
29 334 (6.105%) Windows Server 2003

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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
1 783 (14.31%) .NET
2 322 (5.886%) ASP.NET
3 306 (5.593%) XML
4 271 (4.953%) HTML
5 208 (3.802%) Web Services
6 181 (3.308%) CSS
7 180 (3.290%) .NET Framework
8 149 (2.723%) WCF
9 142 (2.596%) jQuery
10 101 (1.846%) COM
11 97 (1.773%) WPF
12 89 (1.627%) Ajax
13 84 (1.535%) WebSphere
14 76 (1.389%) SOAP
15 75 (1.371%) ASP.NET MVC
16 65 (1.188%) XSLT
17 64 (1.170%) MDX
18 59 (1.078%) Middleware
19 51 (0.932%) Silverlight
20 49 (0.896%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 649 (11.86%) SharePoint
2 388 (7.092%) MS Exchange
3 180 (3.290%) IIS
4 147 (2.687%) Exchange Server 2010
5 137 (2.504%) SharePoint 2010
6 95 (1.736%) Exchange Server 2003
7 93 (1.700%) IBM Notes
8 84 (1.535%) Exchange Server 2007
9 71 (1.298%) CMS
10 63 (1.152%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 60 (1.097%) SharePoint Server
12 59 (1.078%) Apache
13 58 (1.060%) SAS
14 55 (1.005%) Windows Azure
15 49 (0.896%) Lync
16 47 (0.859%) BizTalk Server
17 30 (0.548%) WebSphere Application Server
18 29 (0.530%) WebLogic
19 25 (0.457%) MS Project Server
20 24 (0.439%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1763 (32.22%) MS Office
2 872 (15.94%) MS PowerPoint
3 701 (12.81%) MS Project
4 595 (10.88%) MS Visio
5 96 (1.755%) Spreadsheet
6 49 (0.896%) InfoPath
7 26 (0.475%) Photoshop
8 23 (0.420%) Office 365
9 22 (0.402%) Acrobat
10 19 (0.347%) PowerPivot
11 12 (0.219%) Adobe Illustrator
12 10 (0.183%) Open Workbench
12 10 (0.183%) FastStats
12 10 (0.183%) SPSS
13 9 (0.165%) Google Apps
14 7 (0.128%) InDesign
14 7 (0.128%) AutoCAD
14 7 (0.128%) Adobe Captivate
15 2 (0.037%) FrameMaker
15 2 (0.037%) Pro/ENGINEER
Business Applications
1 174 (3.180%) Dynamics CRM
2 52 (0.950%) Dynamics AX
3 22 (0.402%) Dynamics NAV
4 20 (0.366%) Agresso
5 14 (0.256%) Oracle EBS
6 13 (0.238%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 12 (0.219%) Google Analytics
8 11 (0.201%) Oracle ERP
8 11 (0.201%) Dynamics GP
9 10 (0.183%) Remedy ITSM
9 10 (0.183%) SAP GRC
9 10 (0.183%) CODA-Financials
9 10 (0.183%) Adaptiv
10 9 (0.165%) Maximo
10 9 (0.165%) Oracle iProcurement
11 8 (0.146%) SAP HR
12 7 (0.128%) Summit
13 6 (0.110%) SAP Business One
13 6 (0.110%) Cognos Business Intelligence
13 6 (0.110%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 197 (3.601%) Internet
2 186 (3.400%) TCP/IP
3 176 (3.217%) LAN
4 160 (2.925%) WAN
5 147 (2.687%) DNS
5 147 (2.687%) SAN
6 139 (2.541%) Firewall
7 102 (1.864%) VPN
8 99 (1.810%) DHCP
9 72 (1.316%) Intranet
10 67 (1.225%) VoIP
11 56 (1.024%) LDAP
12 54 (0.987%) HTTP
13 50 (0.914%) Wireless
14 37 (0.676%) 3G
15 36 (0.658%) NetScaler
16 30 (0.548%) MPLS
17 29 (0.530%) SSL
18 28 (0.512%) Ethernet
18 28 (0.512%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1125 (20.56%) SQL Server
2 368 (6.726%) MS Access
3 332 (6.068%) SQL Server 2008
4 301 (5.502%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 286 (5.228%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 243 (4.442%) Data Warehouse
7 197 (3.601%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 189 (3.455%) SQL Server 2005
9 78 (1.426%) OLAP
10 74 (1.353%) Oracle 8/8i
11 71 (1.298%) Oracle Reports
12 60 (1.097%) Data Mining
13 56 (1.024%) MySQL
14 52 (0.950%) Microsoft Analysis Services
15 50 (0.914%) QlikView
16 48 (0.877%) SQL Server 2012
17 45 (0.823%) RDBMS
18 37 (0.676%) Oracle 10g
19 36 (0.658%) Crystal Reports
20 33 (0.603%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 170 (3.107%) Visual Studio
2 71 (1.298%) Team Foundation Server
3 45 (0.823%) Subversion
4 42 (0.768%) JIRA
5 40 (0.731%) MSI
6 30 (0.548%) InstallShield
7 28 (0.512%) Eclipse
7 28 (0.512%) Oracle Forms
8 26 (0.475%) QuickTest Pro
9 24 (0.439%) Rhino Mocks
9 24 (0.439%) JUnit
10 23 (0.420%) TeamCity
10 23 (0.420%) Selenium
11 21 (0.384%) ClearQuest
11 21 (0.384%) Microsoft Blend
12 20 (0.366%) VSS/SourceSafe
13 19 (0.347%) NUnit
13 19 (0.347%) CruiseControl
13 19 (0.347%) Git (software)
14 17 (0.311%) LoadRunner
General
1 1407 (25.72%) Finance
2 634 (11.59%) Banking
3 260 (4.752%) Investment Banking
4 217 (3.966%) Telecoms
5 201 (3.674%) Retail
6 158 (2.888%) Front Office
7 135 (2.468%) Legal
8 113 (2.065%) Marketing
9 90 (1.645%) Law
9 90 (1.645%) Financial Institution
10 68 (1.243%) Games
11 53 (0.969%) Back Office
12 51 (0.932%) Publishing
13 45 (0.823%) Advertising
14 43 (0.786%) Manufacturing
15 40 (0.731%) Retail Banking
16 33 (0.603%) Billing
17 31 (0.567%) Pharmaceutical
18 30 (0.548%) Corporate Banking
19 27 (0.494%) German Language
Job Titles
1 1590 (29.06%) Analyst
2 877 (16.03%) Developer
3 467 (8.536%) Project Manager
4 397 (7.256%) Business Analyst
5 252 (4.606%) Support Analyst
6 239 (4.368%) Administrator
7 216 (3.948%) Support Engineer
8 197 (3.601%) Data Analyst
9 181 (3.308%) Architect
10 177 (3.235%) Consultant
11 162 (2.961%) Service Analyst
12 152 (2.778%) .NET Developer
13 142 (2.596%) 2nd Line Support
14 136 (2.486%) C# Developer
15 134 (2.449%) Service Desk Analyst
16 124 (2.266%) Desktop Support
17 122 (2.230%) Coordinator
18 94 (1.718%) SQL Developer
19 88 (1.608%) 1st Line Support
20 86 (1.572%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 205 (3.747%) Management Information System
2 171 (3.126%) Blackberry
3 137 (2.504%) Fixed Income
4 132 (2.413%) NHS
5 121 (2.212%) Derivative
6 105 (1.919%) Computer Science
7 95 (1.736%) Credit Risk
8 90 (1.645%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 62 (1.133%) Market Risk
10 57 (1.042%) PMI
11 56 (1.024%) Equities
12 46 (0.841%) Mathematics
13 44 (0.804%) Statistics
13 44 (0.804%) Enterprise Software
14 43 (0.786%) Interest Rate Derivative
15 41 (0.749%) Clustering
16 40 (0.731%) Open Source
17 36 (0.658%) E-Learning
18 34 (0.621%) Fat Client
18 34 (0.621%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 1491 (27.25%) Windows
2 592 (10.82%) Windows 7
3 462 (8.445%) Windows XP
4 385 (7.037%) Windows Server 2008
5 334 (6.105%) Windows Server 2003
6 225 (4.113%) Linux
7 154 (2.815%) UNIX
8 64 (1.170%) Windows Vista
9 53 (0.969%) Windows 2000
10 48 (0.877%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 30 (0.548%) Windows NT
11 30 (0.548%) Mac OS X
11 30 (0.548%) Windows 8
12 25 (0.457%) Solaris
12 25 (0.457%) Oracle Linux
12 25 (0.457%) Android
13 24 (0.439%) Windows Server 2012
14 21 (0.384%) Windows 2000 Server
15 19 (0.347%) Apple iOS
16 10 (0.183%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 816 (14.92%) Project Management
2 574 (10.49%) PRINCE2
3 555 (10.14%) ITIL
4 419 (7.659%) Migration
5 343 (6.269%) Business Intelligence
6 292 (5.337%) Change Management
7 277 (5.063%) CRM
8 273 (4.990%) Stakeholder Management
9 264 (4.825%) Data Analysis
10 236 (4.314%) Agile Software Development
11 228 (4.167%) Business Analysis
12 225 (4.113%) Risk Management
13 222 (4.058%) User Acceptance Testing
14 185 (3.381%) Time Management
15 168 (3.071%) Project Planning
16 166 (3.034%) MVC
16 166 (3.034%) Scrum
17 164 (2.998%) Change Control
18 163 (2.979%) ETL
19 161 (2.943%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1260 (23.03%) SQL
2 649 (11.86%) C#
3 400 (7.311%) VBA
4 250 (4.570%) JavaScript
5 219 (4.003%) T-SQL
6 215 (3.930%) Java
7 195 (3.564%) VB
8 121 (2.212%) C++
9 118 (2.157%) C
10 94 (1.718%) VBScript
11 91 (1.663%) PowerShell
12 80 (1.462%) VB.NET
13 69 (1.261%) PL/SQL
14 68 (1.243%) Python
15 65 (1.188%) Perl
16 33 (0.603%) PHP
17 29 (0.530%) VB6
18 28 (0.512%) Ruby
19 24 (0.439%) Shell Script
20 16 (0.292%) R
Qualifications
1 449 (8.207%) Degree
2 447 (8.170%) Security Cleared
3 290 (5.301%) Microsoft Certification
4 271 (4.953%) SC Cleared
5 129 (2.358%) MCSE
6 119 (2.175%) MCP
7 107 (1.956%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 104 (1.901%) ISEB
9 101 (1.846%) DV Cleared
10 96 (1.755%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 95 (1.736%) PMI Certification
12 84 (1.535%) MCITP
13 59 (1.078%) PMP
14 53 (0.969%) ITIL Certification
15 52 (0.950%) Cisco Certification
16 44 (0.804%) MCSA
17 35 (0.640%) CCNA
18 32 (0.585%) MCDST
19 28 (0.512%) ISTQB
20 25 (0.457%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 183 (3.345%) QA
2 166 (3.034%) SLA
3 45 (0.823%) Data Quality
4 29 (0.530%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (0.439%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 23 (0.420%) COBIT
7 21 (0.384%) ISO 9001
8 20 (0.366%) Basel III
8 20 (0.366%) PCI DSS
9 18 (0.329%) TickIT
9 18 (0.329%) ISO 9000
10 7 (0.128%) BS25999
11 5 (0.091%) Basel II
11 5 (0.091%) FATCA
11 5 (0.091%) JSP 440
12 4 (0.073%) GAAP
13 3 (0.055%) Solvency II
14 1 (0.018%) IAS 39
14 1 (0.018%) ISO 8583
14 1 (0.018%) GCP
System Software
1 793 (14.49%) Active Directory
2 216 (3.948%) VMware Infrastructure
3 94 (1.718%) XenApp
4 77 (1.407%) Microsoft App-V
5 63 (1.152%) VMware ESX
6 56 (1.024%) vSphere
7 51 (0.932%) Hyper-V
8 20 (0.366%) VMware ESXi
8 20 (0.366%) Terminal Services
9 19 (0.347%) XenDesktop
9 19 (0.347%) Oracle RAC
10 15 (0.274%) ISA Server
10 15 (0.274%) Forefront TMG
11 12 (0.219%) VMware Server
11 12 (0.219%) Terminal Server
12 11 (0.201%) UAG
13 10 (0.183%) Xen
14 9 (0.165%) NFS
15 8 (0.146%) XenServer
16 7 (0.128%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 180 (3.290%) SCCM
2 97 (1.773%) HP Quality Center
3 69 (1.261%) SCOM
4 35 (0.640%) WSUS
5 27 (0.494%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 26 (0.475%) OpenView
7 23 (0.420%) BladeLogic
8 21 (0.384%) Control-M
9 19 (0.347%) WMI
10 18 (0.329%) OpenView Configuration Management
11 17 (0.311%) ServiceCenter
12 16 (0.292%) Backup Exec
13 15 (0.274%) DameWare
13 15 (0.274%) Norton AntiVirus
14 12 (0.219%) McAfee ePO
14 12 (0.219%) OVSD
15 11 (0.201%) Unicenter
15 11 (0.201%) CA SiteMinder
16 10 (0.183%) Tivoli
17 8 (0.146%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 3346 (61.16%) Microsoft
2 579 (10.58%) Oracle
3 374 (6.836%) Citrix
4 319 (5.831%) VMware
5 211 (3.857%) HP
6 200 (3.656%) SAP
7 162 (2.961%) Cisco
8 153 (2.797%) Business Objects
9 113 (2.065%) Remedy
10 105 (1.919%) IBM
11 103 (1.883%) Lotus
12 80 (1.462%) Red Hat
13 67 (1.225%) Adobe
14 62 (1.133%) Apple
15 61 (1.115%) Bloomberg
16 59 (1.078%) Sybase
17 58 (1.060%) Symantec
18 53 (0.969%) Altiris
19 52 (0.950%) Dell
20 51 (0.932%) JBoss
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Salary: £9.90 - 9.90 per hour
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Bath, South West
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Bath, South West
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