The first table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spreadsheets
Rank 45 60 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 9 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.714% 0.140% -
As % of the Applications category 7.895% 0.917% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £160 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £162.50 £15.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+983.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £13.75 £13.64
% change year-on-year
+12.72% +0.80%
All Applications
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
114 109 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 21.71% 15.24% 18.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 35 35
Average daily rate £260 £210 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% -38.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £160 £100
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 35
Average hourly rate £13.75 £15.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -10.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.04 £11.15 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £17.00 £26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
Spreadsheet
Buckinghamshire

Spreadsheet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Spreadsheet Jobs Demand Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Spreadsheet Daily Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet.

1 7 (70.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 5 (50.00%) MS Office
4 4 (40.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
6 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (10.00%) Information Security
7 1 (10.00%) Symposium
7 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
7 1 (10.00%) Information Management
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (10.00%) Remedy
7 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
7 1 (10.00%) Windows
7 1 (10.00%) C
7 1 (10.00%) SQL
7 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
7 1 (10.00%) Degree
7 1 (10.00%) WFM
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
7 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
7 1 (10.00%) MS Access
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 7 (70.00%) MS Excel
2 6 (60.00%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) MS Access
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Project Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Report Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) IT Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Junior
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Excel Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Project Support Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Forecast Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Information Security
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Information Management
4 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
4 1 (10.00%) WFM
4 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (10.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Remedy
2 1 (10.00%) Business Objects