The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Erskine 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 Erskine 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 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 11.29% - -
As % of the Applications category 58.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £355 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Erskine
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
12 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Erskine 19.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 0 0
Average daily rate £355 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
Renfrewshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Erskine 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 Erskine region.

Erskine MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
2 15 (93.75%) MS Office
3 8 (50.00%) QMS
4 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
5 6 (37.50%) Windows
5 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
6 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
6 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
6 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
6 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
6 5 (31.25%) XML
6 5 (31.25%) MCP
6 5 (31.25%) .NET
6 5 (31.25%) VBScript
6 5 (31.25%) Windows XP
6 5 (31.25%) XML Schema
6 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (25.00%) Service Management
7 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
7 4 (25.00%) Migration
7 4 (25.00%) C
7 4 (25.00%) Taxonomies
7 4 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (25.00%) Document Management
8 3 (18.75%) Finance
9 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
9 2 (12.50%) SAP
9 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (12.50%) Telecoms

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Erskine 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 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
1 5 (31.25%) XML
1 5 (31.25%) .NET
1 5 (31.25%) XML Schema
2 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 15 (93.75%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) StarTeam
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Author
1 8 (50.00%) Technical Author
2 5 (31.25%) Build Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Senior Build Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Design Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Financial Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Cryptography
2 4 (25.00%) Taxonomies
3 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
1 6 (37.50%) Windows 7
2 5 (31.25%) Windows XP
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (6.250%) UNIX
3 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) QMS
2 5 (31.25%) Security Architecture
3 4 (25.00%) Service Management
3 4 (25.00%) Migration
3 4 (25.00%) Document Management
4 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (6.250%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) PowerShell
1 5 (31.25%) VBScript
2 4 (25.00%) C
3 1 (6.250%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 16 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (93.75%) SC Cleared
3 5 (31.25%) MCP
3 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (12.50%) CIMA
5 1 (6.250%) CISSP
5 1 (6.250%) MCSE
System Software
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Microsoft
2 2 (12.50%) Business Objects
2 2 (12.50%) SAP
3 1 (6.250%) Borland
3 1 (6.250%) Citrix