The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel 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 Middlesex 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 Excel
Rank 10 9 17
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +8
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 15 29 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 7.500% 9.385% 6.845%
As % of the Applications category 62.50% 72.50% 58.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 10
Average daily rate £300 £250 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -31.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £187 £200 £268
10% offered a daily rate of more than £442 £422 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
Average hourly rate - £29.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +95.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
24 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 12.00% 12.94% 11.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 18
Average daily rate £250 £250 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -28.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £428 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +73.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
South East

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

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

Middlesex MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Middlesex MS Excel Daily Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (36.67%) Project Management
2 11 (36.67%) MS Office
3 8 (26.67%) MS Project
3 8 (26.67%) Programme Management
4 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (13.33%) Symantec
5 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 4 (13.33%) Windows
5 4 (13.33%) MS Visio
5 4 (13.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (10.00%) Time Management
6 3 (10.00%) Learning Management System
6 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
6 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (10.00%) E-Learning
6 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 3 (10.00%) Finance
7 2 (6.667%) Service Management
7 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
7 2 (6.667%) VPN
7 2 (6.667%) CRM
7 2 (6.667%) SAP
7 2 (6.667%) Java
7 2 (6.667%) .NET
7 2 (6.667%) SQL Server

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, 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 2 (6.667%) .NET
2 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.333%) CSS
2 1 (3.333%) HTML
2 1 (3.333%) WAP
2 1 (3.333%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.667%) Lync
3 1 (3.333%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (3.333%) Documentum
Applications
1 11 (36.67%) MS Office
2 8 (26.67%) MS Project
3 4 (13.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (13.33%) MS Visio
4 1 (3.333%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (3.333%) Photoshop
4 1 (3.333%) AutoCAD
4 1 (3.333%) PaintShop Pro
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (3.333%) SAP CRM
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.333%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) VPN
1 2 (6.667%) Unified Communications
2 1 (3.333%) NetScaler
2 1 (3.333%) GPRS
2 1 (3.333%) GSM
2 1 (3.333%) LAN
2 1 (3.333%) UMTS
2 1 (3.333%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) 3G
2 1 (3.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.333%) Electronics
3 1 (3.333%) Music
3 1 (3.333%) Marketing
3 1 (3.333%) French Language
3 1 (3.333%) German Language
3 1 (3.333%) Italian Language
3 1 (3.333%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 6 (20.00%) Project Manager
1 6 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (13.33%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Systems Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 2 (6.667%) Transition Manager
4 2 (6.667%) Project Support Officer
4 2 (6.667%) Data Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.667%) Project Officer
5 1 (3.333%) Graduate
5 1 (3.333%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (3.333%) Programmer
5 1 (3.333%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Security Consultant
5 1 (3.333%) Service Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Field Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Learning Management System
1 3 (10.00%) E-Learning
2 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.333%) iPhone
2 1 (3.333%) iPad
2 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.333%) DTV
2 1 (3.333%) PMI
2 1 (3.333%) Handset
2 1 (3.333%) CCTV
2 1 (3.333%) Graphic Design
2 1 (3.333%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.333%) Windows XP
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Project Management
2 8 (26.67%) Programme Management
3 5 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (13.33%) ITIL
5 3 (10.00%) Time Management
5 3 (10.00%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.667%) Service Management
6 2 (6.667%) CRM
6 2 (6.667%) Business Analysis
6 2 (6.667%) ITIL V3
6 2 (6.667%) Capacity Management
7 1 (3.333%) Analytics
7 1 (3.333%) Monte Carlo Method
7 1 (3.333%) UML
7 1 (3.333%) Data Modelling
7 1 (3.333%) ETL
7 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.333%) Web Design
7 1 (3.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) Java
2 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.333%) JavaScript
2 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
2 1 (3.333%) SQL
2 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
2 1 (3.333%) VBScript
2 1 (3.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.333%) MCSE
2 1 (3.333%) PMP
2 1 (3.333%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.333%) MCDST
2 1 (3.333%) MCITP
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) Data Quality
1 1 (3.333%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) UAG
1 1 (3.333%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (3.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Symantec
3 2 (6.667%) SAP
3 2 (6.667%) Polycom
4 1 (3.333%) Business Objects
4 1 (3.333%) Siebel
4 1 (3.333%) Primavera
4 1 (3.333%) Adobe
4 1 (3.333%) Citrix
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