The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 23 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 Leicester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 11 9 25
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 10 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 10.10% 9.091% 0.943%
As % of the Applications category 38.46% 40.00% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Average daily rate £475 £475 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -3.22%
All Applications
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
26 20 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 26.26% 22.73% 4.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 0
Average daily rate £475 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.71% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 £8.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.94% -29.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Excel
Leicestershire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (55.17%) MS Office
3 15 (51.72%) MS PowerPoint
4 12 (41.38%) SQL Server
4 12 (41.38%) .NET
5 11 (37.93%) C#
6 8 (27.59%) SQL
7 7 (24.14%) Internet
7 7 (24.14%) TickIT
7 7 (24.14%) ISO 9001
7 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
8 6 (20.69%) NetScaler
8 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
8 6 (20.69%) vSphere
8 6 (20.69%) Altiris
8 6 (20.69%) SCOM
8 6 (20.69%) Citrix
8 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (20.69%) Windows
8 6 (20.69%) UML
8 6 (20.69%) VBScript
8 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
8 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
8 6 (20.69%) Web Services
8 6 (20.69%) Change Management
8 6 (20.69%) VMware
9 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (17.24%) Project Management
9 5 (17.24%) MCP
9 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 12 (41.38%) .NET
2 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET
2 6 (20.69%) Web Services
3 3 (10.34%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.897%) XML
5 1 (3.448%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 4 (13.79%) IIS
2 2 (6.897%) Lync
3 1 (3.448%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (3.448%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 16 (55.17%) MS Office
2 15 (51.72%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) Internet
2 6 (20.69%) NetScaler
3 5 (17.24%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.897%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) Star Schema
3 1 (3.448%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.448%) OLAP
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (17.24%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Trainer
2 7 (24.14%) Project Manager
2 7 (24.14%) IT Trainer
3 6 (20.69%) Developer
3 6 (20.69%) Systems Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Support Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Systems Support
4 4 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Project Manager
5 3 (10.34%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Development Project Manager
6 2 (6.897%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Lead Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Development Manager
6 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.897%) Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) Desktop Support
7 1 (3.448%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.448%) Architect
7 1 (3.448%) Data Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Computer Science
1 4 (13.79%) Clustering
2 1 (3.448%) EPoS
2 1 (3.448%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (3.448%) Linux
3 1 (3.448%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Data Protection
2 6 (20.69%) UML
2 6 (20.69%) Change Management
3 5 (17.24%) Project Management
4 2 (6.897%) Incident Management
4 2 (6.897%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (6.897%) E-Commerce
4 2 (6.897%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.448%) Data Modelling
5 1 (3.448%) ETL
5 1 (3.448%) ITIL
5 1 (3.448%) ITSM
5 1 (3.448%) Migration
5 1 (3.448%) Data Entry
5 1 (3.448%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.448%) Data Analysis
5 1 (3.448%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (37.93%) C#
2 8 (27.59%) SQL
3 6 (20.69%) PowerShell
3 6 (20.69%) VBScript
4 1 (3.448%) VB
4 1 (3.448%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.448%) PL/SQL
4 1 (3.448%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.24%) MCP
3 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 4 (13.79%) MCSE
4 1 (3.448%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) TickIT
1 7 (24.14%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) vSphere
2 4 (13.79%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) SCOM
2 1 (3.448%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 25 (86.21%) Microsoft
2 6 (20.69%) Altiris
2 6 (20.69%) Citrix
2 6 (20.69%) VMware
3 1 (3.448%) Peregrine
3 1 (3.448%) Lotus
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle