The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 24 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 Merseyside 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 11 19 14
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing MS Office 21 16 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 10.40% 6.130% 8.065%
As % of the Applications category 50.00% 33.33% 64.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 3
Average daily rate £243 £310 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.89% +12.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £123 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £458 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £263 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.76% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
Average hourly rate £16.72 £14.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.42% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.83 £12.16 £9.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £67.40 £15.13 £48.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
All Applications
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
42 48 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 20.79% 18.39% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 11
Average daily rate £248 £319 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.46% -0.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £397 £480 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 16 9
Average hourly rate £16.72 £15.00 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.46% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.25 £11.37 £8.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.10 £21.86 £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Office
North West

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Merseyside MS Office Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Liverpool +15 19 £243 -34.76%
Birkenhead - 1 - -
Bootle - 1 - -
MS Office
North West

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 17 (39.53%) Software Testing
2 17 (39.53%) QA
3 11 (25.58%) Project Management
4 10 (23.26%) MS Project
4 10 (23.26%) MS Visio
4 10 (23.26%) Supplier Management
5 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
5 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
5 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
6 7 (16.28%) MS Excel
7 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
7 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
7 6 (13.95%) Migration
8 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
8 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
8 5 (11.63%) Windows XP
9 4 (9.302%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 3 (6.977%) Programme Management
10 3 (6.977%) Windows 7
10 3 (6.977%) Change Management
10 3 (6.977%) SQL
11 2 (4.651%) T-SQL
11 2 (4.651%) Oracle
11 2 (4.651%) PL/SQL
11 2 (4.651%) ODBC
11 2 (4.651%) ITIL
11 2 (4.651%) MCP
11 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2
11 2 (4.651%) UNIX

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (4.651%) ODBC
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.651%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (23.26%) MS Project
1 10 (23.26%) MS Visio
2 7 (16.28%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.326%) SAP R/3
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.651%) LAN
1 2 (4.651%) TCP/IP
1 2 (4.651%) SAN
1 2 (4.651%) Internet
2 1 (2.326%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.326%) IP Telephony
2 1 (2.326%) MPLS
2 1 (2.326%) Firewall
2 1 (2.326%) VPN
2 1 (2.326%) DNS
2 1 (2.326%) WAN
2 1 (2.326%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.302%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (4.651%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (4.651%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (2.326%) French Language
1 1 (2.326%) Italian Language
1 1 (2.326%) Spanish Language
1 1 (2.326%) Games
1 1 (2.326%) Finance
1 1 (2.326%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (30.23%) Administrator
1 13 (30.23%) IT Administrator
2 6 (13.95%) Architect
2 6 (13.95%) Data Architect
3 5 (11.63%) Analyst
4 4 (9.302%) Coordinator
4 4 (9.302%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (6.977%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (6.977%) Programme Manager
6 2 (4.651%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (4.651%) Data Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) MI Analyst
6 2 (4.651%) Report Writer
7 1 (2.326%) PMO Analyst
7 1 (2.326%) IT Trainer
7 1 (2.326%) Help Desk Support
7 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Consultant
7 1 (2.326%) SAN Specialist
7 1 (2.326%) Trainer
7 1 (2.326%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.326%) Smartphone
1 1 (2.326%) Mathematics
1 1 (2.326%) Clustering
1 1 (2.326%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.326%) Blackberry
1 1 (2.326%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.326%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 25 (58.14%) Windows
2 5 (11.63%) Windows XP
3 3 (6.977%) Windows 7
4 2 (4.651%) UNIX
4 2 (4.651%) AIX
4 2 (4.651%) Tru64
5 1 (2.326%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (39.53%) Software Testing
2 11 (25.58%) Project Management
3 10 (23.26%) Supplier Management
4 6 (13.95%) Data Modelling
4 6 (13.95%) Data Migration
4 6 (13.95%) Migration
5 3 (6.977%) Programme Management
5 3 (6.977%) Change Management
6 2 (4.651%) ITIL
6 2 (4.651%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.651%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (4.651%) Configuration Management
6 2 (4.651%) PRINCE
6 2 (4.651%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.326%) Incident Management
7 1 (2.326%) Service Management
7 1 (2.326%) Service Delivery
7 1 (2.326%) Financial Analysis
7 1 (2.326%) Service Desk Management
7 1 (2.326%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.977%) SQL
2 2 (4.651%) T-SQL
2 2 (4.651%) PL/SQL
3 1 (2.326%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.326%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (20.93%) Security Cleared
1 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.651%) MCP
2 2 (4.651%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.326%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.326%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (39.53%) QA
2 1 (2.326%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.326%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.326%) XenApp
2 1 (2.326%) XenDesktop
2 1 (2.326%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (2.326%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) Tivoli
1 1 (2.326%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 9 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.651%) Oracle
2 2 (4.651%) HP
2 2 (4.651%) Cisco
2 2 (4.651%) Citrix
3 1 (2.326%) Brocade
3 1 (2.326%) VMware
3 1 (2.326%) NETGEAR
3 1 (2.326%) Symantec
3 1 (2.326%) NetApp
3 1 (2.326%) Wyse
3 1 (2.326%) IBM
3 1 (2.326%) Dell
3 1 (2.326%) SAP
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