The first table below looks at the demand for PowerPivot skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited PowerPivot over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft PowerPivot
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing PowerPivot 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - - -
As % of the Applications category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Applications
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
108 130 119
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 16.80% 13.43% 13.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 38 40
Average daily rate £325 £350 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +32.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £144 £160 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £433 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 32 41
Average hourly rate £17.50 £12.02 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+45.65% -24.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.09 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £36.80 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
PowerPivot
East of England

PowerPivot
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire PowerPivot Jobs Demand Trend

PowerPivot
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing PowerPivot 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 PowerPivot.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) PerformancePoint
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (50.00%) FrontPage
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) MDX
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports

PowerPivot
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing PowerPivot 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 PowerPivot. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) ASP
1 1 (50.00%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (100.00%) PerformancePoint
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) OLAP
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (50.00%) MS Access
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) FrontPage
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft