Middlesex MS Excel Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Middlesex 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Johnstone Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidmouth 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 Stevenage Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	16
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	42	29
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.059 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	34.71 %	27.62 %
Daily rates quoted	7	6
Average minimum daily rate	£316	£220
Average daily rate	£333	£220
% change on same period last year	+51.46 %
Average maximum daily rate	£351	£220
UK excluding London average daily rate	£287	£271
% change on same period last year	+5.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.00	£18.33
Average hourly rate	£18.25	£18.67
% change on same period last year	-2.23 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	£19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.86	£19.46
% change on same period last year	-13.38 %
Applications Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	121	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.171 %	0.106 %
Daily rates quoted	28	23
Average minimum daily rate	£272	£228
Average daily rate	£286	£230
% change on same period last year	+23.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£299	£233
UK excluding London average daily rate	£292	£280
% change on same period last year	+4.17 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.30	£24.80
Average hourly rate	£23.10	£25.60
% change on same period last year	-9.76 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.90	£26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.55	£19.44
% change on same period last year	-4.57 %
MS Excel 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.

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Middlesex region.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 39 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 30 (38.46 %) MS PowerPoint 3 20 (25.64 %) MS Project 4 19 (24.36 %) MS Office 5 15 (19.23 %) MS Visio 6 13 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 6 13 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 7 12 (15.38 %) Windows 7 12 (15.38 %) Project Management 8 11 (14.10 %) PRINCE 9 10 (12.82 %) ITIL 10 9 (11.54 %) PRINCE2 11 8 (10.26 %) Government 12 7 (8.974 %) Finance 12 7 (8.974 %) Service Management

12 7 (8.974 %) Programme Management 12 7 (8.974 %) PMI 13 6 (7.692 %) Active Directory 13 6 (7.692 %) SharePoint 13 6 (7.692 %) Oracle 13 6 (7.692 %) SQL 13 6 (7.692 %) Change Management 13 6 (7.692 %) Migration 14 5 (6.410 %) SAP 14 5 (6.410 %) Internet 15 4 (5.128 %) Remedy 15 4 (5.128 %) ITIL Certification 15 4 (5.128 %) BMC 15 4 (5.128 %) Windows Server 2003 15 4 (5.128 %) NHS

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 3 (3.846 %) J2EE 2 2 (2.564 %) SOAP 2 2 (2.564 %) WebServices 2 2 (2.564 %) XML 2 2 (2.564 %) XSLT 2 2 (2.564 %) WSDL 2 2 (2.564 %) WinForms 2 2 (2.564 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 6 (7.692 %) SharePoint 2 4 (5.128 %) Office Project Server 3 3 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 4 2 (2.564 %) Exchange Server 2003 5 1 (1.282 %) SharePoint Server 2007 5 1 (1.282 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 1 (1.282 %) IIS
Applications 1 30 (38.46 %) MS PowerPoint 2 20 (25.64 %) MS Project 3 19 (24.36 %) MS Office 4 15 (19.23 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 4 (5.128 %) Remedy ITSM 2 2 (2.564 %) SAP IS-U 3 1 (1.282 %) SAP FI-AR
Communications & Networking 1 5 (6.410 %) Internet 2 1 (1.282 %) LAN 2 1 (1.282 %) WAN 2 1 (1.282 %) VPN 2 1 (1.282 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.846 %) SQL Server 1 3 (3.846 %) Crystal Reports 1 3 (3.846 %) Oracle 9i 1 3 (3.846 %) Oracle 10g 1 3 (3.846 %) BusinessObjects 2 2 (2.564 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (2.564 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.282 %) SAP BW 3 1 (1.282 %) MS Access 3 1 (1.282 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.282 %) RDBMS
General 1 8 (10.26 %) Government 2 7 (8.974 %) Finance 3 3 (3.846 %) Education 3 3 (3.846 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (3.846 %) Pharmaceutical 4 2 (2.564 %) Publishing 4 2 (2.564 %) Legal 5 1 (1.282 %) Home Office 5 1 (1.282 %) Retail 5 1 (1.282 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 30 (38.46 %) Analyst 2 9 (11.54 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (7.692 %) Support Analyst 4 5 (6.410 %) Project Manager 5 4 (5.128 %) Support Engineer 5 4 (5.128 %) Data Analyst 5 4 (5.128 %) PMO Analyst 6 3 (3.846 %) Administrator 6 3 (3.846 %) Report Analyst 6 3 (3.846 %) Account Manager 7 2 (2.564 %) 3rd Line Support 7 2 (2.564 %) Desktop Support 7 2 (2.564 %) Developer 7 2 (2.564 %) Project Planner 7 2 (2.564 %) Project Analyst 7 2 (2.564 %) C# Developer 7 2 (2.564 %) Desktop Support Engineer 7 2 (2.564 %) Desktop Engineer 7 2 (2.564 %) Performance Analyst 7 2 (2.564 %) MI Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (8.974 %) PMI 2 4 (5.128 %) NHS 3 2 (2.564 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.282 %) Clustering 4 1 (1.282 %) Statistics 4 1 (1.282 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.282 %) Biotechnology 4 1 (1.282 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 12 (15.38 %) Windows 2 4 (5.128 %) Linux 2 4 (5.128 %) Windows NT 2 4 (5.128 %) Windows Server 2003 2 4 (5.128 %) UNIX 3 3 (3.846 %) Windows XP 4 1 (1.282 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 1 13 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 2 12 (15.38 %) Project Management 3 11 (14.10 %) PRINCE 4 10 (12.82 %) ITIL 5 9 (11.54 %) PRINCE2 6 7 (8.974 %) Service Management 6 7 (8.974 %) Programme Management 7 6 (7.692 %) Migration 7 6 (7.692 %) Change Management 8 4 (5.128 %) ITSM 8 4 (5.128 %) ERP 8 4 (5.128 %) Data Protection 9 3 (3.846 %) Performance Management 10 2 (2.564 %) Project Planning 10 2 (2.564 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (2.564 %) Logistics 10 2 (2.564 %) Business Intelligence 10 2 (2.564 %) OOP 10 2 (2.564 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 6 (7.692 %) SQL 2 3 (3.846 %) C++ 2 3 (3.846 %) PL/SQL 3 2 (2.564 %) C# 4 1 (1.282 %) C 4 1 (1.282 %) VB
Qualifications 1 4 (5.128 %) ITIL Certification 1 4 (5.128 %) Degree 2 3 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification 3 2 (2.564 %) HP APS 4 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 4 1 (1.282 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (1.282 %) MCSE 4 1 (1.282 %) PhD 4 1 (1.282 %) ISEB 4 1 (1.282 %) PMP 4 1 (1.282 %) PMI Certification 4 1 (1.282 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.564 %) SLA 2 1 (1.282 %) ISO27001
System Software 1 6 (7.692 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.282 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Systems Management 1 1 (1.282 %) OpenView 1 1 (1.282 %) BMC Performance Manager
Vendors 1 39 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (7.692 %) Oracle 3 5 (6.410 %) SAP 4 4 (5.128 %) BMC 4 4 (5.128 %) Remedy 5 3 (3.846 %) Primavera 5 3 (3.846 %) Business Objects 5 3 (3.846 %) HP 6 2 (2.564 %) Compaq 6 2 (2.564 %) Dell 6 2 (2.564 %) IBM 6 2 (2.564 %) VMware 6 2 (2.564 %) Novell 6 2 (2.564 %) Sun 7 1 (1.282 %) ARDENTIA 7 1 (1.282 %) Citrix