The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 15 10 10
Rank change year-on-year
-5 0
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 21 34 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 7.317% 12.88% 13.25%
As % of the Applications category 50.00% 61.82% 70.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 26
Average daily rate £290 £140 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+107.14% -49.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £138 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £325 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £17.50 £8.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -41.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £8.75 £13.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.70 £8.75 £108.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
42 55 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 14.63% 20.83% 18.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 34
Average daily rate £263 £140 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% -48.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £179 £138 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £323 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 7
Average hourly rate £16.00 £10.05 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+59.20% -26.90%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £8.98 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £63.75 £11.06 £46.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
South East

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

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 Kent 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
Maidstone +2 3 £290 -40.51%
Tunbridge Wells - 2 £238 -
Dartford - 2 - -
Gravesend - 1 - -
MS Excel
South East

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 33 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 19 (42.22%) Windows
3 15 (33.33%) Windows 7
4 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (28.89%) Finance
5 10 (22.22%) MCP
6 9 (20.00%) VBScript
6 9 (20.00%) QA
7 8 (17.78%) SCCM
7 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
7 8 (17.78%) Windows XP
7 8 (17.78%) MSI
7 8 (17.78%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
8 7 (15.56%) MS Office
8 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
9 6 (13.33%) Local Government
9 6 (13.33%) SQL
9 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
9 6 (13.33%) Wise Package Studio
10 5 (11.11%) MS Exchange
10 5 (11.11%) Windows Vista
10 5 (11.11%) Performance Management
10 5 (11.11%) Migration
11 4 (8.889%) Clustering
11 4 (8.889%) Microsoft App-V
11 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2007
11 4 (8.889%) Validation
11 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2003
11 4 (8.889%) MS PowerPoint

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 4 (8.889%) .NET
2 2 (4.444%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.222%) COM
3 1 (2.222%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (8.889%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.222%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (2.222%) MQSeries
4 1 (2.222%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Office
2 4 (8.889%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.444%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.222%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.222%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.222%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.222%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) VLAN
1 2 (4.444%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.444%) DNS
2 1 (2.222%) LAN
2 1 (2.222%) WAN
2 1 (2.222%) DHCP
2 1 (2.222%) HTTP
2 1 (2.222%) SAN
2 1 (2.222%) Internet
2 1 (2.222%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server
1 8 (17.78%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (8.889%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (4.444%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.222%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 8 (17.78%) MSI
2 6 (13.33%) Wise Package Studio
3 1 (2.222%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (28.89%) Finance
2 6 (13.33%) Local Government
3 2 (4.444%) Military
4 1 (2.222%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.222%) Games
4 1 (2.222%) Advertising
4 1 (2.222%) Banking
4 1 (2.222%) Retail
4 1 (2.222%) Billing
Job Titles
1 8 (17.78%) Applications Packager
2 7 (15.56%) Analyst
3 5 (11.11%) Developer
4 4 (8.889%) Desktop Support
4 4 (8.889%) 1st Line Support
5 3 (6.667%) Vendor Manager
5 3 (6.667%) DBA
5 3 (6.667%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.444%) Information Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) Desktop Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) .NET Developer
6 2 (4.444%) SQL Server DBA
6 2 (4.444%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.444%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.444%) Consultant
6 2 (4.444%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.444%) Architect
6 2 (4.444%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.889%) Clustering
2 2 (4.444%) NHS
3 1 (2.222%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.222%) Informatics
3 1 (2.222%) Mathematics
3 1 (2.222%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (42.22%) Windows
2 15 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 8 (17.78%) Windows XP
4 5 (11.11%) Windows Vista
5 4 (8.889%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (8.889%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (11.11%) Performance Management
1 5 (11.11%) Migration
2 4 (8.889%) Validation
3 3 (6.667%) High Availability
3 3 (6.667%) ITIL
3 3 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (6.667%) Supply Chain Management
3 3 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (4.444%) Data Analysis
4 2 (4.444%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (4.444%) Resource Management
4 2 (4.444%) Project Management
4 2 (4.444%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (4.444%) CRM
4 2 (4.444%) ERP
4 2 (4.444%) PRINCE2
4 2 (4.444%) Data Entry
5 1 (2.222%) E-Commerce
5 1 (2.222%) Service Management
5 1 (2.222%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) VBScript
2 6 (13.33%) SQL
3 3 (6.667%) C#
4 1 (2.222%) C
4 1 (2.222%) Java
4 1 (2.222%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.222%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.222%) VB
4 1 (2.222%) VB.NET
4 1 (2.222%) VBA
4 1 (2.222%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (28.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (22.22%) MCP
3 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.667%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.444%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.222%) MCT
6 1 (2.222%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (15.56%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.889%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (6.667%) SRDF
4 1 (2.222%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 33 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.444%) VMware
3 1 (2.222%) Oracle
3 1 (2.222%) Cisco
3 1 (2.222%) Citrix
3 1 (2.222%) Veritas
3 1 (2.222%) Tandberg