The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Nottingham 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 25 18 11
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -7
Contract jobs citing MS Office 13 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.514% 5.357% 7.296%
As % of the Applications category 38.24% 42.86% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 5
Average daily rate £308 £275 £94
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.81% +194.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
Average hourly rate £11.50 £12.40 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.25% -27.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.72 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.61 £136.72 £19.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.61 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+2.84% -3.01%
All Applications
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
34 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 11.81% 12.50% 8.584%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 7
Average daily rate £298 £245 £94
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +162.03%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 6
Average hourly rate £11.50 £110.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-89.54% +547.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.79 £12.40 £12.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.75 £190.00 £19.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
Nottinghamshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottingham MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottingham MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing MS Office 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 Office.

1 19 (61.29%) Windows
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 16 (51.61%) MS Excel
3 11 (35.48%) Windows XP
3 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
4 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
5 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
6 4 (12.90%) Finance
6 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 4 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (9.677%) Lync
7 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (9.677%) Windows Vista
7 3 (9.677%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (9.677%) VMware
7 3 (9.677%) Project Management
7 3 (9.677%) Windows 2000
7 3 (9.677%) Citrix
7 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
7 3 (9.677%) Cisco
8 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
8 2 (6.452%) VoIP
8 2 (6.452%) WAN
8 2 (6.452%) VPN
8 2 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (6.452%) PMI
8 2 (6.452%) PMI Certification
8 2 (6.452%) LAN
8 2 (6.452%) Linux
8 2 (6.452%) HTML

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham region citing MS Office 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 Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.452%) HTML
1 2 (6.452%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (9.677%) Lync
3 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
4 2 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.226%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (3.226%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 16 (51.61%) MS Excel
2 3 (9.677%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (6.452%) MS Project
4 1 (3.226%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.677%) TCP/IP
2 2 (6.452%) VoIP
2 2 (6.452%) WAN
2 2 (6.452%) VPN
2 2 (6.452%) LAN
2 2 (6.452%) Internet
2 2 (6.452%) Wireless
3 1 (3.226%) IP Telephony
3 1 (3.226%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (3.226%) Firewall
3 1 (3.226%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (3.226%) PBX
3 1 (3.226%) CTI
3 1 (3.226%) DNS
3 1 (3.226%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (12.90%) Finance
2 2 (6.452%) Marketing
2 2 (6.452%) Local Government
2 2 (6.452%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Support Engineer
1 8 (25.81%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (19.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (19.35%) Analyst
3 4 (12.90%) IT Support
3 4 (12.90%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (9.677%) Help Desk Analyst
4 3 (9.677%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (9.677%) Administrator
4 3 (9.677%) Trainer
4 3 (9.677%) Desktop Support
5 2 (6.452%) Project Manager
5 2 (6.452%) Microsoft Trainer
5 2 (6.452%) IT Trainer
5 2 (6.452%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (6.452%) Project Administrator
6 1 (3.226%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.226%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (3.226%) IT Administrator
6 1 (3.226%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.452%) PMI
1 2 (6.452%) Blackberry
2 1 (3.226%) iPhone
2 1 (3.226%) Clustering
2 1 (3.226%) IVR
2 1 (3.226%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 19 (61.29%) Windows
2 11 (35.48%) Windows XP
3 7 (22.58%) Windows 7
4 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (9.677%) Windows Vista
5 3 (9.677%) Windows 2000
6 2 (6.452%) Linux
6 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (3.226%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.226%) SUSE
7 1 (3.226%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (9.677%) Project Management
2 2 (6.452%) Time Management
3 1 (3.226%) Migration
3 1 (3.226%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.226%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (3.226%) CRM
3 1 (3.226%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.226%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (6.452%) PMI Certification
1 2 (6.452%) MCP
2 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 11 (35.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.226%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) SCCM
1 1 (3.226%) DameWare
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.677%) VMware
2 3 (9.677%) Citrix
2 3 (9.677%) Cisco
3 1 (3.226%) Twitter
3 1 (3.226%) Veeam
3 1 (3.226%) Oracle
3 1 (3.226%) Hitachi
3 1 (3.226%) Lotus
3 1 (3.226%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.226%) Avaya
3 1 (3.226%) HP