The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 18 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 Hemel Hempstead 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 12 6 9
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +3
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 1 15 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 2.083% 15.96% 7.273%
As % of the Applications category 16.67% 65.22% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 1
Average daily rate - £298 £298
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.38 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.94% -3.90%
All Applications
Hemel Hempstead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6 23 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 12.50% 24.47% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £85 £270 £130
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.51% +107.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £304 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.88% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.28% +20.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
Hertfordshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hemel Hempstead 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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

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 Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (33.33%) vSphere
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) LTE
3 2 (33.33%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (33.33%) Acronis
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Ericsson
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (33.33%) Symantec
3 2 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (33.33%) Sophos
3 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) IIS
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
3 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead 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 Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) 2G
1 2 (33.33%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) MS Access
General
1 4 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Blackberry
1 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (33.33%) Data Management
1 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
2 1 (16.67%) GAP Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) BC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) Ericsson
2 2 (33.33%) Symantec
2 2 (33.33%) Sophos
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Acronis
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle