Milton Keynes MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Milton Keynes 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester 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 Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough 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 Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	30
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching contract IT job ads	50	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.067 %	0.046 %
As % of the category below	41.67 %	31.03 %
Daily rates quoted	10	9
Average minimum daily rate	£265	£234
Average daily rate	£292	£268
% change on same period last year	+8.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£302
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.70	£16.61
Average hourly rate	£17.19	£18.82
% change on same period last year	-8.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.69	£21.03
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.88	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Applications Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	120	145
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.160 %	0.147 %
Daily rates quoted	22	25
Average minimum daily rate	£248	£238
Average daily rate	£271	£259
% change on same period last year	+4.78 %
Average maximum daily rate	£294	£280
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.59	£16.89
Average hourly rate	£17.44	£18.21
% change on same period last year	-4.22 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.28	£19.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Excel Buckinghamshire

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 Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Milton Keynes region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 38 (49.35 %) Microsoft 2 31 (40.26 %) MS Office 3 23 (29.87 %) Finance 4 15 (19.48 %) MS PowerPoint 4 15 (19.48 %) Windows 5 13 (16.88 %) Government 6 12 (15.58 %) Migration 6 12 (15.58 %) Project Planning 6 12 (15.58 %) Security Cleared 7 11 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 7 11 (14.29 %) MS Project 8 8 (10.39 %) Windows XP 8 8 (10.39 %) MS Exchange 8 8 (10.39 %) Spanish Language 9 7 (9.091 %) Oracle

9 7 (9.091 %) Project Management 9 7 (9.091 %) Banking 10 6 (7.792 %) SQL 11 5 (6.494 %) ETL 11 5 (6.494 %) Lotus Notes 11 5 (6.494 %) PowerCenter 11 5 (6.494 %) Lotus 11 5 (6.494 %) Exchange Server 2003 11 5 (6.494 %) Data Analysis 11 5 (6.494 %) Data Migration 12 4 (5.195 %) Problem Management 12 4 (5.195 %) French Language 12 4 (5.195 %) Italian Language 12 4 (5.195 %) Incident Management 12 4 (5.195 %) Pensions

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (3.896 %) HTML 1 3 (3.896 %) .NET 1 3 (3.896 %) J2EE 1 3 (3.896 %) CSS 1 3 (3.896 %) JSP 1 3 (3.896 %) WebSphere 2 1 (1.299 %) WebServices 2 1 (1.299 %) XML 2 1 (1.299 %) XSD	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.39 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (6.494 %) Lotus Notes 2 5 (6.494 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (2.597 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (1.299 %) BizTalk Server 4 1 (1.299 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (1.299 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 31 (40.26 %) MS Office 2 15 (19.48 %) MS PowerPoint 3 11 (14.29 %) MS Project 4 4 (5.195 %) MS Visio 5 1 (1.299 %) ImageReady 5 1 (1.299 %) Photoshop 5 1 (1.299 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (2.597 %) Oracle ERP 2 1 (1.299 %) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking 1 3 (3.896 %) GPRS 1 3 (3.896 %) LAN 1 3 (3.896 %) WAN 1 3 (3.896 %) Intranet 1 3 (3.896 %) Internet 1 3 (3.896 %) Wireless 2 1 (1.299 %) ATM 2 1 (1.299 %) FTP 2 1 (1.299 %) HTTP 2 1 (1.299 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (6.494 %) ETL 1 5 (6.494 %) PowerCenter 2 4 (5.195 %) DB2 3 3 (3.896 %) SQL Server 3 3 (3.896 %) MS Access 4 1 (1.299 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (1.299 %) BusinessObjects
Development Applications 1 4 (5.195 %) TestDirector 2 1 (1.299 %) Rational Rose	General 1 23 (29.87 %) Finance 2 13 (16.88 %) Government 3 7 (9.091 %) Banking 4 4 (5.195 %) Financial Institution 4 4 (5.195 %) Pensions 5 3 (3.896 %) Health 6 2 (2.597 %) Retail 7 1 (1.299 %) Legal 7 1 (1.299 %) Telecoms 7 1 (1.299 %) Construction
Job Titles 1 47 (61.04 %) Analyst 2 17 (22.08 %) Service Analyst 3 14 (18.18 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 14 (18.18 %) Helpdesk Support 3 14 (18.18 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 10 (12.99 %) 1st Line Support 4 10 (12.99 %) Support Analyst 5 7 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 6 (7.792 %) Programme Office Analyst 7 4 (5.195 %) Problem Analyst 7 4 (5.195 %) Data Migration Analyst 7 4 (5.195 %) Project Administrator 7 4 (5.195 %) Data Analyst 7 4 (5.195 %) Administrator 7 4 (5.195 %) Project Manager 8 3 (3.896 %) Coordinator 8 3 (3.896 %) Developer 8 3 (3.896 %) Project Coordinator 9 2 (2.597 %) Project Analyst 9 2 (2.597 %) Analyst Developer	Miscellaneous 1 8 (10.39 %) Spanish Language 2 4 (5.195 %) French Language 2 4 (5.195 %) Italian Language 3 1 (1.299 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 15 (19.48 %) Windows 2 8 (10.39 %) Windows XP 3 3 (3.896 %) Windows NT 4 1 (1.299 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (1.299 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (15.58 %) Migration 1 12 (15.58 %) Project Planning 1 12 (15.58 %) Security Cleared 2 11 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 3 7 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 5 (6.494 %) Data Analysis 4 5 (6.494 %) Data Migration 5 4 (5.195 %) Problem Management 5 4 (5.195 %) Incident Management 5 4 (5.195 %) ITIL 5 4 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (3.896 %) Data Mapping 7 2 (2.597 %) DV Cleared 7 2 (2.597 %) ERP 7 2 (2.597 %) PRINCE 7 2 (2.597 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (2.597 %) Content Management 7 2 (2.597 %) Network Design 8 1 (1.299 %) Data Management 8 1 (1.299 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 6 (7.792 %) SQL 2 3 (3.896 %) VB 2 3 (3.896 %) Java 2 3 (3.896 %) PHP 3 2 (2.597 %) VBA 3 2 (2.597 %) VB6 4 1 (1.299 %) C#	Qualifications 1 3 (3.896 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (3.896 %) CNA 1 3 (3.896 %) Novell Certification 1 3 (3.896 %) MCSE 2 2 (2.597 %) CCNP 2 2 (2.597 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (1.299 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (1.299 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.597 %) SLA 2 1 (1.299 %) Sarbanes-Oxley	System Software 1 3 (3.896 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (1.299 %) OVOW	Vendors 1 38 (49.35 %) Microsoft 2 7 (9.091 %) Oracle 3 5 (6.494 %) Lotus 4 4 (5.195 %) Sybase 5 3 (3.896 %) FatWire 5 3 (3.896 %) Informatica 6 1 (1.299 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.299 %) Adobe 6 1 (1.299 %) HP 6 1 (1.299 %) Citrix