M4 Corridor Spreadsheet Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheets skills within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 1 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Spreadsheets
Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chesterfield Chichester City of London Clevedon County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derbyshire Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunstable East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh England Essex Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rugby Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	16.67 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£303	£240
% change on same period last year	+26.22 %
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	£13.85	£18.64
% change on same period last year	-25.71 %
Applications M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	6	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.007 %
Daily rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum daily rate	-	£250
Average daily rate	-	£258
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£265
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£274
% change on same period last year	+11.10 %
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	£19.08	£19.23
% change on same period last year	-0.75 %
Spreadsheet South East

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.

Spreadsheet
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet across the M4 Corridor region.

Spreadsheet
Top 2 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet.

1 1 (100.00 %) Data Management 1 1 (100.00 %) QA

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Coordinator	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) Data Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (100.00 %) QA