Manchester MS Excel Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Manchester 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 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Teesside Telford Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Weymouth Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	28
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	69	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.044 %
As % of the category below	46.00 %	30.41 %
Daily rates quoted	8	8
Average minimum daily rate	£253	£265
Average daily rate	£267	£293
% change on same period last year	-8.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£281	£321
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£273
% change on same period last year	+5.85 %
Hourly rates quoted	20	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.39	£13.12
Average hourly rate	£18.29	£14.08
% change on same period last year	+29.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.19	£15.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.03	£18.78
% change on same period last year	-3.98 %
Applications Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	150	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.203 %	0.146 %
Daily rates quoted	18	24
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£262
Average daily rate	£272	£285
% change on same period last year	-4.72 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£309
UK excluding London average daily rate	£293	£291
% change on same period last year	+0.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.49	£13.77
Average hourly rate	£16.35	£14.84
% change on same period last year	+10.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.20	£15.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.59	£19.58
% change on same period last year	-5.05 %
MS Excel North West

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 Manchester 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 Manchester region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 Manchester region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Salford	-	5	-	-
Bolton	-1	2	-	-

MS Excel North West

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 88 (54.66 %) Microsoft 2 63 (39.13 %) MS Office 3 38 (23.60 %) Windows 4 27 (16.77 %) Project Management 4 27 (16.77 %) MS Project 4 27 (16.77 %) SQL Server 5 21 (13.04 %) Finance 6 18 (11.18 %) .NET 6 18 (11.18 %) Windows 2000 7 17 (10.56 %) Windows XP 8 16 (9.938 %) SQL 8 16 (9.938 %) XML 8 16 (9.938 %) MS PowerPoint 9 14 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 10 13 (8.075 %) C#

10 13 (8.075 %) Active Directory 10 13 (8.075 %) Banking 11 12 (7.453 %) German Language 11 12 (7.453 %) Telecoms 11 12 (7.453 %) ASP.NET 12 11 (6.832 %) SAP 12 11 (6.832 %) SharePoint 12 11 (6.832 %) NHS 12 11 (6.832 %) Dutch Language 12 11 (6.832 %) SQL Server 2005 13 10 (6.211 %) French Language 13 10 (6.211 %) Spanish Language 14 9 (5.590 %) Windows Server 2003 14 9 (5.590 %) ITIL 15 8 (4.969 %) MS Visio

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (11.18 %) .NET 2 16 (9.938 %) XML 3 12 (7.453 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (3.727 %) J2EE 4 6 (3.727 %) WebServices 4 6 (3.727 %) WebSphere 5 5 (3.106 %) ASP 6 4 (2.484 %) CSS 6 4 (2.484 %) Struts 6 4 (2.484 %) .NET Framework 6 4 (2.484 %) Hibernate 6 4 (2.484 %) ASP.NET 2.0 7 3 (1.863 %) WinForms 7 3 (1.863 %) Silverlight 8 2 (1.242 %) SVG 8 2 (1.242 %) XSL 8 2 (1.242 %) XSLT 8 2 (1.242 %) COM 8 2 (1.242 %) Spring 9 1 (0.621 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 14 (8.696 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (6.832 %) SharePoint 3 5 (3.106 %) SAS 3 5 (3.106 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 4 (2.484 %) Lotus Notes 4 4 (2.484 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 3 (1.863 %) IIS 6 2 (1.242 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 1 (0.621 %) Office Project Server 7 1 (0.621 %) GroupWise
Applications 1 63 (39.13 %) MS Office 2 27 (16.77 %) MS Project 3 16 (9.938 %) MS PowerPoint 4 8 (4.969 %) MS Visio 5 3 (1.863 %) Doxygen 6 1 (0.621 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.242 %) SAP SD
Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.727 %) Intranet 1 6 (3.727 %) RNC 2 5 (3.106 %) Internet 3 3 (1.863 %) LAN 3 3 (1.863 %) WAN 3 3 (1.863 %) SSL 4 2 (1.242 %) VPN 5 1 (0.621 %) DNS 5 1 (0.621 %) ADSL 5 1 (0.621 %) DHCP 5 1 (0.621 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (0.621 %) Extranet 5 1 (0.621 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (16.77 %) SQL Server 2 11 (6.832 %) SQL Server 2005 3 7 (4.348 %) MySQL 4 6 (3.727 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 4 (2.484 %) MS Access 6 3 (1.863 %) Crystal Reports 6 3 (1.863 %) BusinessObjects 6 3 (1.863 %) SQL Server 2000 7 2 (1.242 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 7 2 (1.242 %) SQL Server Integration Services 7 2 (1.242 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 2 (1.242 %) Oracle Reports 7 2 (1.242 %) OLAP 7 2 (1.242 %) Datawarehouse 7 2 (1.242 %) DTS 7 2 (1.242 %) Oracle Discoverer 8 1 (0.621 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 8 (4.969 %) ClearQuest 2 3 (1.863 %) Flash 3 2 (1.242 %) NUnit 3 2 (1.242 %) Selenium 3 2 (1.242 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (0.621 %) Dreamweaver	General 1 21 (13.04 %) Finance 2 13 (8.075 %) Banking 3 12 (7.453 %) Telecoms 4 7 (4.348 %) Education 5 6 (3.727 %) Legal 6 5 (3.106 %) Law 6 5 (3.106 %) Government 7 2 (1.242 %) Health 7 2 (1.242 %) Military 8 1 (0.621 %) Manufacturing 8 1 (0.621 %) Publishing 8 1 (0.621 %) Local Government 8 1 (0.621 %) Pensions 8 1 (0.621 %) Electric 8 1 (0.621 %) Back Office 8 1 (0.621 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 37 (22.98 %) Analyst 2 27 (16.77 %) Developer 3 14 (8.696 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 12 (7.453 %) Project Manager 5 11 (6.832 %) Administrator 6 10 (6.211 %) Business Analyst 6 10 (6.211 %) 1st Line Support 7 8 (4.969 %) Helpdesk Support 8 6 (3.727 %) Project Coordinator 8 6 (3.727 %) Data Analyst 8 6 (3.727 %) Java Developer 8 6 (3.727 %) Coordinator 9 5 (3.106 %) Junior 9 5 (3.106 %) PHP Developer 10 4 (2.484 %) Information Analyst 10 4 (2.484 %) .NET Developer 10 4 (2.484 %) Support Engineer 10 4 (2.484 %) Applications Support 10 4 (2.484 %) 3rd Line Support 10 4 (2.484 %) Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 12 (7.453 %) German Language 2 11 (6.832 %) NHS 2 11 (6.832 %) Dutch Language 3 10 (6.211 %) French Language 3 10 (6.211 %) Spanish Language 4 8 (4.969 %) Portuguese Language 5 7 (4.348 %) Swedish Language 5 7 (4.348 %) Italian Language 5 7 (4.348 %) Danish Language 5 7 (4.348 %) Finnish Language 6 5 (3.106 %) Smartcard 6 5 (3.106 %) Norwegian Language 6 5 (3.106 %) Data Extraction 7 4 (2.484 %) Mainframe 7 4 (2.484 %) Replication 8 3 (1.863 %) NPfIT 9 2 (1.242 %) Blackberry 9 2 (1.242 %) Client/Server 9 2 (1.242 %) Clustering 10 1 (0.621 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 38 (23.60 %) Windows 2 18 (11.18 %) Windows 2000 3 17 (10.56 %) Windows XP 4 9 (5.590 %) Windows Server 2003 5 5 (3.106 %) Windows 2000 Server 6 3 (1.863 %) Windows Vista 6 3 (1.863 %) Windows NT 7 2 (1.242 %) VME 7 2 (1.242 %) MVS 8 1 (0.621 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 27 (16.77 %) Project Management 2 9 (5.590 %) ITIL 3 6 (3.727 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (3.727 %) UML 3 6 (3.727 %) Migration 3 6 (3.727 %) Time Management 4 5 (3.106 %) Security Cleared 4 5 (3.106 %) Validation 5 4 (2.484 %) Data Analysis 6 3 (1.863 %) Data Security 6 3 (1.863 %) Project Planning 6 3 (1.863 %) Web Development 7 2 (1.242 %) Data Modelling 7 2 (1.242 %) Automated Testing 7 2 (1.242 %) Incident Management 7 2 (1.242 %) Requirements Analysis 7 2 (1.242 %) Document Management 8 1 (0.621 %) Stakeholder Management 8 1 (0.621 %) Logistics 8 1 (0.621 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (9.938 %) SQL 2 13 (8.075 %) C# 3 6 (3.727 %) Java 4 5 (3.106 %) PHP 5 4 (2.484 %) C++ 5 4 (2.484 %) Transact-SQL 6 2 (1.242 %) VB 6 2 (1.242 %) VB.NET 6 2 (1.242 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (0.621 %) VBA 7 1 (0.621 %) DHTML 7 1 (0.621 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 8 (4.969 %) Microsoft Certification 2 6 (3.727 %) MCSE 3 5 (3.106 %) Degree 4 4 (2.484 %) MCP 5 2 (1.242 %) MCSA 5 2 (1.242 %) MCDBA 6 1 (0.621 %) CCA 6 1 (0.621 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.621 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (0.621 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (3.106 %) QA 2 1 (0.621 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 13 (8.075 %) Active Directory 2 5 (3.106 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (0.621 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (0.621 %) NDS
Systems Management 1 3 (1.863 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (1.242 %) Unicenter 2 2 (1.242 %) OMEGAMON 3 1 (0.621 %) ZENworks	Vendors 1 88 (54.66 %) Microsoft 2 11 (6.832 %) SAP 3 8 (4.969 %) Oracle 4 7 (4.348 %) Novell 5 6 (3.727 %) Citrix 5 6 (3.727 %) Cisco 6 4 (2.484 %) VERITAS 6 4 (2.484 %) ILOG 6 4 (2.484 %) Lotus 7 3 (1.863 %) Remedy 7 3 (1.863 %) Business Objects 7 3 (1.863 %) Cognos 8 2 (1.242 %) JD Edwards 8 2 (1.242 %) Agresso 8 2 (1.242 %) VMware 9 1 (0.621 %) Mapinfo 9 1 (0.621 %) Websense 9 1 (0.621 %) 3Com 9 1 (0.621 %) Avaya 9 1 (0.621 %) Adobe