The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 18 7 14
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +7
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 32 65 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 7.960% 15.66% 9.949%
As % of the Applications category 44.44% 61.90% 55.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 25 19
Average daily rate £265 £200 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.50% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £107 £143
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £345 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 8
Average hourly rate £23.09 £17.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.82% -37.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.10 £16.68 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.60 £21.00 £39.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
72 105 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 17.91% 25.30% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 27
Average daily rate £250 £170 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+47.05% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £105 £111
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £377 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 21
Average hourly rate £28.00 £17.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+64.70% -37.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £13.76 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.45 £27.63 £80.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
East of England

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Brentwood -6 5 £245 -
Witham 0 3 - -
Harlow -2 1 - -
Basildon -6 1 - -
Chelmsford -9 1 £290 +0.86%
Colchester -11 1 - -
Stanford-le-Hope - 1 - -
Thurrock - 1 - -
MS Excel
East of England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 39 (49.37%) Microsoft
2 31 (39.24%) MS Office
3 24 (30.38%) Windows
4 23 (29.11%) Active Directory
5 14 (17.72%) Windows XP
6 13 (16.46%) ITIL
6 13 (16.46%) Finance
7 12 (15.19%) SQL
7 12 (15.19%) Windows 7
8 11 (13.92%) HP
9 10 (12.66%) NHS
9 10 (12.66%) MS Visio
10 9 (11.39%) Project Management
11 8 (10.13%) Change Management
11 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
11 8 (10.13%) MS Project
11 8 (10.13%) SLA
11 8 (10.13%) Degree
12 7 (8.861%) Business Analysis
12 7 (8.861%) MS PowerPoint
12 7 (8.861%) MS Access
13 6 (7.595%) MS Exchange
13 6 (7.595%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (7.595%) Project Planning
13 6 (7.595%) SCCM
13 6 (7.595%) Security Cleared
14 5 (6.329%) User Acceptance Testing
14 5 (6.329%) MCDST
14 5 (6.329%) MCP
14 5 (6.329%) PRINCE2

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (2.532%) XML
1 2 (2.532%) .NET
1 2 (2.532%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.266%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (1.266%) jQuery
2 1 (1.266%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.266%) WCF
2 1 (1.266%) WF
2 1 (1.266%) LINQ
2 1 (1.266%) COM
2 1 (1.266%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.595%) MS Exchange
2 4 (5.063%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (2.532%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.266%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.266%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.266%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (39.24%) MS Office
2 10 (12.66%) MS Visio
3 8 (10.13%) MS Project
4 7 (8.861%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (2.532%) AutoCAD
6 1 (1.266%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.266%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 4 (5.063%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.532%) Sage 200
3 1 (1.266%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.797%) LAN
2 2 (2.532%) CTI
2 2 (2.532%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.266%) SSH
3 1 (1.266%) SAN
3 1 (1.266%) Intranet
3 1 (1.266%) Internet
3 1 (1.266%) FTP
3 1 (1.266%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.861%) MS Access
3 6 (7.595%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (3.797%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.532%) OLAP
5 2 (2.532%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (2.532%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (2.532%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.266%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (16.46%) Finance
2 5 (6.329%) Legal
3 3 (3.797%) Retail
3 3 (3.797%) Automotive
4 2 (2.532%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.532%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.532%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.532%) Billing
4 2 (2.532%) Banking
5 1 (1.266%) German Language
5 1 (1.266%) Back Office
5 1 (1.266%) Law
Job Titles
1 32 (40.51%) Analyst
2 11 (13.92%) Support Analyst
3 9 (11.39%) Project Manager
3 9 (11.39%) Trainer
4 8 (10.13%) Service Analyst
4 8 (10.13%) Service Desk Analyst
5 7 (8.861%) Help Desk Support
5 7 (8.861%) Business Analyst
6 6 (7.595%) 2nd Line Support
7 5 (6.329%) Help Desk Analyst
7 5 (6.329%) 1st Line Support
7 5 (6.329%) Desktop Support
7 5 (6.329%) IT Trainer
8 4 (5.063%) Help Desk Support Analyst
8 4 (5.063%) Help Desk Engineer
8 4 (5.063%) Developer
8 4 (5.063%) DBA
8 4 (5.063%) Administrator
9 3 (3.797%) Service Desk Engineer
9 3 (3.797%) Development Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.66%) NHS
2 4 (5.063%) Blackberry
3 2 (2.532%) E-Learning
3 2 (2.532%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.532%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.532%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.266%) PMI
4 1 (1.266%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.38%) Windows
2 14 (17.72%) Windows XP
3 12 (15.19%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.797%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.266%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.266%) Linux
5 1 (1.266%) Windows 2000
5 1 (1.266%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (16.46%) ITIL
2 9 (11.39%) Project Management
3 8 (10.13%) Change Management
4 7 (8.861%) Business Analysis
5 6 (7.595%) Project Planning
6 5 (6.329%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (6.329%) PRINCE2
7 4 (5.063%) Service Delivery
7 4 (5.063%) CRM
7 4 (5.063%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (3.797%) Release Management
8 3 (3.797%) Test Scripting
8 3 (3.797%) Time Management
8 3 (3.797%) Data Protection
8 3 (3.797%) Document Management
8 3 (3.797%) Data Modelling
8 3 (3.797%) E-Commerce
8 3 (3.797%) PRINCE
8 3 (3.797%) Workflow
9 2 (2.532%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.19%) SQL
2 3 (3.797%) VB
3 2 (2.532%) T-SQL
3 2 (2.532%) C#
4 1 (1.266%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.13%) Degree
2 6 (7.595%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.329%) MCDST
3 5 (6.329%) MCP
3 5 (6.329%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.797%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.266%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.266%) MCSE
5 1 (1.266%) CCNP
5 1 (1.266%) PMP
5 1 (1.266%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.266%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.13%) SLA
2 1 (1.266%) Data Quality
System Software
1 23 (29.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (7.595%) SCCM
2 4 (5.063%) OpenView
2 4 (5.063%) OVSD
3 1 (1.266%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 39 (49.37%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) HP
3 5 (6.329%) Business Objects
3 5 (6.329%) Cisco
4 4 (5.063%) Dell
4 4 (5.063%) Citrix
4 4 (5.063%) McAfee
5 3 (3.797%) ATG
6 2 (2.532%) Adobe
6 2 (2.532%) Juniper
6 2 (2.532%) Genesys
6 2 (2.532%) Hyperion
6 2 (2.532%) Siemens
6 2 (2.532%) Apple
6 2 (2.532%) Sage
7 1 (1.266%) Telerik
7 1 (1.266%) Oracle
Harlow, South East
The client is looking for someone with a mixture of 1st/2nd line experience: Essential Skills: 3+ years experience of providing IT/desktop support (ideally related to product...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chelmsford, South East
The role will involve various aspects of information management including leading on the transition of our reporting to the new structure. The ideal candidate must have previous experience...
Working for Essex
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
Essex, South East
Technical Trainers - ePCR - NHS*Must have extensive training experience, preferably within an NHS environment.*Experience of developing lesson plans and reference manuals in a clear concise manner.*Experience...
Hudson
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013