Knutsford MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Knutsford region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
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Rank	10	6
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	5	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	71.43 %	20.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£300
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£400
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£267
% change on same period last year	+8.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.97	£18.47
% change on same period last year	-2.69 %
Applications Knutsford
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.005 %
Daily rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum daily rate	-	£267
Average daily rate	-	£277
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£287
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£284
% change on same period last year	+4.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.61	£19.30
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
MS Excel Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Knutsford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Excel across the Knutsford region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Knutsford region.

MS Excel
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 10 (83.33 %) MS Office 2 9 (75.00 %) Statistics 3 6 (50.00 %) Asset Management 4 3 (25.00 %) Finance 5 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft 5 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 5 2 (16.67 %) VBA 6 1 (8.333 %) .NET 6 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server 6 1 (8.333 %) IIS 6 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint 6 1 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (8.333 %) XML 6 1 (8.333 %) SQL

6 1 (8.333 %) Intranet 6 1 (8.333 %) Content Management

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Knutsford 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 1 (8.333 %) .NET 1 1 (8.333 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (8.333 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 1 (8.333 %) IIS 1 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 10 (83.33 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (8.333 %) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (8.333 %) SQL Server	General 1 3 (25.00 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 5 (41.67 %) 1st Line Support 1 5 (41.67 %) Helpdesk Support 2 4 (33.33 %) Administrator 3 2 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Analyst Developer 4 1 (8.333 %) Team Leader 4 1 (8.333 %) Operations Analyst 4 1 (8.333 %) SharePoint Developer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (75.00 %) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (50.00 %) Asset Management 2 2 (16.67 %) ITIL 3 1 (8.333 %) Business Intelligence 3 1 (8.333 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (16.67 %) VBA 2 1 (8.333 %) SQL
Vendors 1 2 (16.67 %) Microsoft