The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office 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 Liverpool 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 Office
Rank 9 23 13
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs citing MS Office 22 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 14.86% 3.763% 6.875%
As % of the Applications category 73.33% 46.67% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 4
Average daily rate £243 £372 £204
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.76% +82.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £101 £309 £110
10% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £469 £354
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
Average hourly rate £14.79 £14.00 £10.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% +33.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.62 £14.00 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.55 £14.00 £10.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
30 15 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 20.27% 8.065% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 11
Average daily rate £243 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.95% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £97 £308 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £485 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
Average hourly rate £14.79 £14.00 £10.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.62% +33.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.04 £14.00 £10.09
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £59.25 £26.80 £10.89
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
Merseyside

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Office across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Liverpool MS Office Daily Rate Histogram

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Office across the Liverpool region.

Liverpool MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Liverpool MS Office Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool region citing MS Office 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 Office.

1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 17 (42.50%) Software Testing
2 17 (42.50%) QA
3 11 (27.50%) Project Management
4 10 (25.00%) MS Project
4 10 (25.00%) MS Visio
4 10 (25.00%) Supplier Management
5 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
5 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
6 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
7 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
7 6 (15.00%) Migration
7 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
8 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
8 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
9 4 (10.00%) Windows XP
9 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
9 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (7.500%) Programme Management
10 3 (7.500%) SQL
11 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
11 2 (5.000%) Oracle
11 2 (5.000%) PL/SQL
11 2 (5.000%) ODBC
11 2 (5.000%) ITIL
11 2 (5.000%) MCP
11 2 (5.000%) PRINCE2
11 2 (5.000%) UNIX
11 2 (5.000%) MS Exchange
11 2 (5.000%) AIX

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (5.000%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.000%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (25.00%) MS Project
1 10 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (12.50%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.500%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.500%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) LAN
1 2 (5.000%) TCP/IP
1 2 (5.000%) SAN
1 2 (5.000%) Internet
2 1 (2.500%) MPLS
2 1 (2.500%) Firewall
2 1 (2.500%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.500%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.500%) VPN
2 1 (2.500%) DNS
2 1 (2.500%) WAN
2 1 (2.500%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (5.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
General
1 1 (2.500%) Finance
1 1 (2.500%) Games
Job Titles
1 13 (32.50%) Administrator
1 13 (32.50%) IT Administrator
2 6 (15.00%) Architect
2 6 (15.00%) Data Architect
3 4 (10.00%) Coordinator
3 4 (10.00%) Analyst
3 4 (10.00%) Project Coordinator
4 3 (7.500%) Programme Manager
4 3 (7.500%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.000%) 1st Line Support
5 2 (5.000%) Data Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) MI Analyst
5 2 (5.000%) Report Writer
6 1 (2.500%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (2.500%) Tivoli Consultant
6 1 (2.500%) SAN Specialist
6 1 (2.500%) Help Desk Support
6 1 (2.500%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.500%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.500%) Blackberry
1 1 (2.500%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.500%) Clustering
1 1 (2.500%) Smartphone
1 1 (2.500%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 23 (57.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.000%) Tru64
3 2 (5.000%) AIX
3 2 (5.000%) UNIX
3 2 (5.000%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.500%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (42.50%) Software Testing
2 11 (27.50%) Project Management
3 10 (25.00%) Supplier Management
4 6 (15.00%) Migration
4 6 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 6 (15.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (7.500%) Programme Management
6 2 (5.000%) Change Management
6 2 (5.000%) Problem Management
6 2 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (5.000%) PRINCE
6 2 (5.000%) Configuration Management
6 2 (5.000%) ITIL
6 2 (5.000%) PRINCE2
7 1 (2.500%) Service Management
7 1 (2.500%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.500%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.500%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.500%) Security Management
7 1 (2.500%) Financial Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.500%) SQL
2 2 (5.000%) T-SQL
2 2 (5.000%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.500%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) SC Cleared
1 9 (22.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.000%) MCP
2 2 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.500%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.500%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (42.50%) QA
2 1 (2.500%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.500%) Terminal Services
2 1 (2.500%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (2.500%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.500%) XenApp
2 1 (2.500%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (2.500%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.500%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.000%) HP
2 2 (5.000%) Oracle
2 2 (5.000%) Cisco
2 2 (5.000%) Citrix
3 1 (2.500%) NetApp
3 1 (2.500%) Symantec
3 1 (2.500%) Wyse
3 1 (2.500%) VMware
3 1 (2.500%) Brocade
3 1 (2.500%) NETGEAR
3 1 (2.500%) IBM
3 1 (2.500%) SAP
3 1 (2.500%) Dell
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