The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office 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 Nottinghamshire 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
Microsoft Office
Rank 24 27 19
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -8
Contract jobs citing MS Office 17 13 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 5.152% 4.577% 5.369%
As % of the Applications category 40.48% 44.83% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 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 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 £10.25 £10.72 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.59 £136.72 £19.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
42 29 28
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 12.73% 10.21% 9.396%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 9
Average daily rate £298 £275 £94
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.18% +194.11%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 6
Average hourly rate £11.21 £30.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-62.63% +76.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.40 £12.58
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.70 £190.00 £19.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
East Midlands

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Nottinghamshire 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
Nottingham -7 13 £308 +11.81%
MS Office
East Midlands

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 24 (63.16%) Windows
1 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 17 (44.74%) MS Excel
3 16 (42.11%) Active Directory
4 15 (39.47%) Windows XP
5 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
6 7 (18.42%) MS Exchange
6 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
7 5 (13.16%) Windows 2000
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (13.16%) Cisco
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
7 5 (13.16%) Windows Vista
8 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (10.53%) Wireless
8 4 (10.53%) Finance
8 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (10.53%) LAN
9 3 (7.895%) Citrix
9 3 (7.895%) Disaster Recovery
9 3 (7.895%) Firewall
9 3 (7.895%) Project Management
9 3 (7.895%) MS PowerPoint
9 3 (7.895%) IP Telephony
9 3 (7.895%) Migration
9 3 (7.895%) VMware
9 3 (7.895%) Lync
10 2 (5.263%) Banking
10 2 (5.263%) VLAN

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (5.263%) HTML
1 2 (5.263%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (18.42%) MS Exchange
2 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
2 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (7.895%) Lync
4 2 (5.263%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.632%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (2.632%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 17 (44.74%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.895%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (5.263%) MS Project
4 1 (2.632%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
2 4 (10.53%) LAN
2 4 (10.53%) Wireless
3 3 (7.895%) IP Telephony
3 3 (7.895%) Firewall
4 2 (5.263%) SNMP
4 2 (5.263%) VLAN
4 2 (5.263%) Cisco IPT
4 2 (5.263%) Network Security
4 2 (5.263%) Internet
4 2 (5.263%) OSPF
4 2 (5.263%) BGP
4 2 (5.263%) VPN
4 2 (5.263%) DNS
4 2 (5.263%) VoIP
4 2 (5.263%) WAN
4 2 (5.263%) DHCP
5 1 (2.632%) Ethernet
5 1 (2.632%) CTI
5 1 (2.632%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (10.53%) Finance
2 2 (5.263%) Banking
2 2 (5.263%) Local Government
2 2 (5.263%) Marketing
3 1 (2.632%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (31.58%) 2nd Line Support
2 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Desktop Support
5 4 (10.53%) 1st Line Support
5 4 (10.53%) IT Support Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) IT Support
6 3 (7.895%) Trainer
6 3 (7.895%) Administrator
6 3 (7.895%) Help Desk Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Project Manager
7 2 (5.263%) Support Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Network Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Project Administrator
7 2 (5.263%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 2 (5.263%) IT Trainer
7 2 (5.263%) Help Desk Support
7 2 (5.263%) Microsoft Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.263%) Blackberry
1 2 (5.263%) PMI
1 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
1 2 (5.263%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (2.632%) iPhone
2 1 (2.632%) NHS
2 1 (2.632%) Clustering
2 1 (2.632%) IVR
2 1 (2.632%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 24 (63.16%) Windows
2 15 (39.47%) Windows XP
3 8 (21.05%) Windows 7
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Vista
4 5 (13.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (13.16%) Windows 2000
5 2 (5.263%) Linux
6 1 (2.632%) UNIX
6 1 (2.632%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (2.632%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (7.895%) Project Management
1 3 (7.895%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (7.895%) Migration
2 2 (5.263%) ITIL
2 2 (5.263%) PRINCE2
2 2 (5.263%) PRINCE
2 2 (5.263%) Time Management
3 1 (2.632%) CRM
3 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (2.632%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (2.632%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.632%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (5.263%) MCP
1 2 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (5.263%) PMI Certification
1 2 (5.263%) Degree
2 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.632%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (2.632%) DameWare
1 1 (2.632%) WSUS
1 1 (2.632%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Cisco
3 3 (7.895%) Citrix
3 3 (7.895%) VMware
4 2 (5.263%) Nortel
4 2 (5.263%) Twitter
5 1 (2.632%) Veeam
5 1 (2.632%) Avaya
5 1 (2.632%) Hitachi
5 1 (2.632%) Lotus
5 1 (2.632%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.632%) Apple
5 1 (2.632%) Oracle
5 1 (2.632%) HP