Spreadsheet Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 17 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 North West 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Spreadsheets
Rank 107 127 107
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -20
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 10 5 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.435% 0.158% 0.812%
As % of the Applications category 3.155% 1.548% 7.375%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 12
Average daily rate £275 £358 £281
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +27.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £220 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-26.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 £9.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.42% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £13.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
+19.23% -4.69%
All Applications
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 317 323 339
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 13.80% 10.20% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 135 164
Average daily rate £295 £308 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.06% -0.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £138 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £431 £430 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 45 39
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £12.01 £8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £101.40 £25.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +13 5 - -
Cheshire - 4 £275 -
Lancashire +13 1 - -
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 4 (25.00%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
4 3 (18.75%) VB
4 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
4 3 (18.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
4 3 (18.75%) FoxPro (VFP)
4 3 (18.75%) ClearQuest
4 3 (18.75%) InstallShield
4 3 (18.75%) Change Management
4 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
4 3 (18.75%) VB6
4 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) FinalBuilder
5 2 (12.50%) Solvency II
5 2 (12.50%) Windows
5 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
5 2 (12.50%) Information Governance
6 1 (6.250%) Data Transformation
6 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
6 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
6 1 (6.250%) MCP
6 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
6 1 (6.250%) MS Project

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) COM
1 1 (6.250%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.250%) eRoom
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) MS Excel
2 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (6.250%) MS Project
2 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) FTP
1 1 (6.250%) DNS
1 1 (6.250%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Visual Studio
1 3 (18.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 3 (18.75%) ClearQuest
1 3 (18.75%) InstallShield
1 3 (18.75%) FinalBuilder
General
1 6 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Support Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (12.50%) Administrator
4 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Service Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Systems Support
5 1 (6.250%) Project Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Project Support Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Rollout Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Data Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) PC Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Data Entry Administrator
5 1 (6.250%) Solvency II Business Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Telephony Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) NHS
1 1 (6.250%) Smartphone
1 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
2 1 (6.250%) Windows 2000
2 1 (6.250%) NetWare
2 1 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) ITIL
2 3 (18.75%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (12.50%) Data Governance
3 2 (12.50%) Information Governance
4 1 (6.250%) Data Transformation
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
4 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.250%) Resource Management
4 1 (6.250%) Time Management
4 1 (6.250%) SAP Security
4 1 (6.250%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
1 3 (18.75%) T-SQL
1 3 (18.75%) VB
1 3 (18.75%) FoxPro (VFP)
1 3 (18.75%) VB6
2 1 (6.250%) C
2 1 (6.250%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) ITIL Certification
1 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.250%) ECDL
2 1 (6.250%) MCP
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Solvency II
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) HP
2 1 (6.250%) Novell
2 1 (6.250%) Remedy
2 1 (6.250%) SAP
2 1 (6.250%) Cisco
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