The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford 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 Guildford 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 11 19 7
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -12
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 26 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 11.93% 2.479% 10.53%
As % of the Applications category 57.78% 30.00% 53.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 6
Average daily rate £130 £192 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.37% -14.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £108 £122 £194
10% offered a daily rate of more than £328 £262 £255
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
45 10 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 20.64% 8.264% 19.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 10
Average daily rate £175 £309 £166
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-43.31% +85.99%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £99 £117 £126
10% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £368 £249
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
Average hourly rate £34.88 £18.00 £11.73
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+93.75% +53.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.28 £18.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.00 £13.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
Surrey

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford 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 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 12 (31.58%) MS Office
2 12 (31.58%) Games
2 12 (31.58%) Degree
3 11 (28.95%) C#
4 10 (26.32%) SQL
4 10 (26.32%) Windows
5 9 (23.68%) Scrum
6 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
6 8 (21.05%) MS Visio
6 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (18.42%) Python
7 7 (18.42%) VBA
7 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
7 7 (18.42%) MS PowerPoint
7 7 (18.42%) Finance
7 7 (18.42%) Game Development
7 7 (18.42%) Analytics
8 6 (15.79%) Kinect
8 6 (15.79%) Software Architecture
8 6 (15.79%) Process Architecture
8 6 (15.79%) Test Strategy
8 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (15.79%) Windows Azure
8 6 (15.79%) Automated Testing
8 6 (15.79%) C++
8 6 (15.79%) C
8 6 (15.79%) Data Mining
8 6 (15.79%) Code Coverage

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (13.16%) .NET
2 3 (7.895%) HTML
3 2 (5.263%) REST
3 2 (5.263%) WCF
3 2 (5.263%) Web Services
4 1 (2.632%) Velocity
4 1 (2.632%) MapReduce
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (15.79%) Windows Azure
2 4 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.895%) MS Exchange
4 2 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (5.263%) CMS
4 2 (5.263%) IIS
5 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (31.58%) MS Office
2 8 (21.05%) MS Visio
3 7 (18.42%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (10.53%) MS Project
5 3 (7.895%) Photoshop
6 2 (5.263%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.53%) Intranet
2 2 (5.263%) DHCP
2 2 (5.263%) DNS
2 2 (5.263%) SAN
3 1 (2.632%) LAN
3 1 (2.632%) WAN
3 1 (2.632%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.79%) Data Mining
2 5 (13.16%) MS Access
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (7.895%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (5.263%) OLAP
5 2 (5.263%) TOAD
6 1 (2.632%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (2.632%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (2.632%) Big Data
6 1 (2.632%) Hadoop
6 1 (2.632%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 2 (5.263%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (31.58%) Games
2 7 (18.42%) Finance
3 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
3 2 (5.263%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.632%) Back Office
4 1 (2.632%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) Analyst
2 6 (15.79%) Development Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.895%) Business Analyst
4 3 (7.895%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (7.895%) IT Support
5 2 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) MI Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 2 (5.263%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.263%) Developer
5 2 (5.263%) Analyst Programmer
5 2 (5.263%) Programmer
5 2 (5.263%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.263%) Database Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (2.632%) Project Planner
6 1 (2.632%) Business Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Computer Science
2 6 (15.79%) Kinect
3 5 (13.16%) Online Games
3 5 (13.16%) Visualisation
4 4 (10.53%) Streaming Video
5 2 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.263%) Mathematics
5 2 (5.263%) Clustering
5 2 (5.263%) PMI
6 1 (2.632%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Windows 8
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (7.895%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (2.632%) UNIX
4 1 (2.632%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.632%) Windows Vista
4 1 (2.632%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Scrum
2 8 (21.05%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (18.42%) Game Development
3 7 (18.42%) Analytics
4 6 (15.79%) Software Architecture
4 6 (15.79%) Process Architecture
4 6 (15.79%) Test Strategy
4 6 (15.79%) Test Automation
4 6 (15.79%) Automated Testing
4 6 (15.79%) Code Coverage
5 5 (13.16%) ITIL
5 5 (13.16%) Data Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) Release Management
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.53%) Project Planning
6 4 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 4 (10.53%) Regression Testing
6 4 (10.53%) CRM
6 4 (10.53%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.95%) C#
2 10 (26.32%) SQL
3 7 (18.42%) Python
3 7 (18.42%) VBA
3 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.79%) C++
4 6 (15.79%) C
5 3 (7.895%) Ruby
6 2 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Degree
2 2 (5.263%) ISTQB
2 2 (5.263%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.632%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (2.632%) MCP
3 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.895%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) SLA
2 1 (2.632%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
2 3 (7.895%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.263%) DFS Replication
3 2 (5.263%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.263%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) SCOM
2 1 (2.632%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.632%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (65.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.263%) Planview
2 2 (5.263%) VMware
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle
2 2 (5.263%) Cognos
2 2 (5.263%) CommVault
3 1 (2.632%) Symantec
3 1 (2.632%) McAfee
3 1 (2.632%) IBM
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