Oxford MS Excel Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Oxford 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 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Beckenham Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Clydebank Colchester Cornwall Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorchester Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Fife Filton Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grangemouth Great Yarmouth Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Huntingdonshire Inverness Inverurie Ipswich Isle of Man Johnstone Kent Kidderminster King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidmouth Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Asaph St Helens St Ives Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Windlesham Windsor Witham Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	18	12
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	19	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	44.19 %	50.00 %
Daily rates quoted	4	4
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£190
Average daily rate	£358	£198
% change on same period last year	+81.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£205
UK excluding London average daily rate	£289	£273
% change on same period last year	+5.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.36	£10.73
Average hourly rate	£12.93	£12.27
% change on same period last year	+5.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£13.50	£13.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.03	£19.72
% change on same period last year	-13.61 %
Applications Oxford
Matching contract IT job ads	43	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.060 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	10	5
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£178
Average daily rate	£333	£185
% change on same period last year	+80.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£345	£192
UK excluding London average daily rate	£294	£283
% change on same period last year	+4.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	15
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.88	£10.32
Average hourly rate	£15.72	£11.57
% change on same period last year	+35.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.55	£12.82
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.39	£19.59
% change on same period last year	-6.13 %
MS Excel Oxfordshire

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 Oxford 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 Oxford region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 6 October 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 Oxford region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 29 (61.70 %) Microsoft 2 26 (55.32 %) Windows 3 14 (29.79 %) Windows 2000 3 14 (29.79 %) Active Directory 4 12 (25.53 %) Windows XP 5 11 (23.40 %) Windows Server 2003 6 10 (21.28 %) MS Office 7 8 (17.02 %) .NET 7 8 (17.02 %) IBM 7 8 (17.02 %) LAN 7 8 (17.02 %) WAN 8 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 8 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 8 7 (14.89 %) SQL 8 7 (14.89 %) Linux

9 6 (12.77 %) CRM 9 6 (12.77 %) DB2 9 6 (12.77 %) Crystal Reports 9 6 (12.77 %) Business Objects 9 6 (12.77 %) C# 9 6 (12.77 %) TCP/IP 9 6 (12.77 %) MS Exchange 9 6 (12.77 %) BusinessObjects 9 6 (12.77 %) Internet 9 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft Certification 9 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft CRM 9 6 (12.77 %) Government 9 6 (12.77 %) Migration 9 6 (12.77 %) Data Management 9 6 (12.77 %) Local Government

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (17.02 %) .NET 2 2 (4.255 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (4.255 %) XML 2 2 (4.255 %) WebSphere 3 1 (2.128 %) ASP.NET 2.0 3 1 (2.128 %) HTML 3 1 (2.128 %) JMS 3 1 (2.128 %) OpenGL 3 1 (2.128 %) DirectX 3 1 (2.128 %) Middleware 3 1 (2.128 %) CSS 3 1 (2.128 %) STL 3 1 (2.128 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (12.77 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (8.511 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.128 %) ESB 3 1 (2.128 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (2.128 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 1 (2.128 %) WebSphere MQ 3 1 (2.128 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 10 (21.28 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.128 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.128 %) MS PowerPoint 2 1 (2.128 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft CRM 2 1 (2.128 %) Oracle Financials 2 1 (2.128 %) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking 1 8 (17.02 %) LAN 1 8 (17.02 %) WAN 2 6 (12.77 %) Internet 2 6 (12.77 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (4.255 %) VPN 3 2 (4.255 %) DNS 3 2 (4.255 %) SAN 3 2 (4.255 %) ADSL 3 2 (4.255 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (14.89 %) SQL Server 2 6 (12.77 %) DB2 2 6 (12.77 %) Crystal Reports 2 6 (12.77 %) BusinessObjects 2 6 (12.77 %) DB2 UDB 3 1 (2.128 %) DataStage 3 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (2.128 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (2.128 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (2.128 %) RequisitePro	General 1 6 (12.77 %) Government 1 6 (12.77 %) Local Government 2 4 (8.511 %) Health 3 1 (2.128 %) 3D Graphics 3 1 (2.128 %) Finance 3 1 (2.128 %) Education
Job Titles 1 24 (51.06 %) Analyst 2 12 (25.53 %) Support Analyst 3 8 (17.02 %) Consultant 4 6 (12.77 %) Data Analyst 4 6 (12.77 %) Desktop Engineer 4 6 (12.77 %) CRM Consultant 4 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 6 (12.77 %) Solutions Analyst 5 4 (8.511 %) NHS Information Analyst 5 4 (8.511 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 4 (8.511 %) IT Support Analyst 5 4 (8.511 %) Information Analyst 5 4 (8.511 %) 2nd Line Support 6 2 (4.255 %) Administrator 6 2 (4.255 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.255 %) Developer 6 2 (4.255 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (4.255 %) Technical Support 6 2 (4.255 %) Technical Analyst 6 2 (4.255 %) Data Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 4 (8.511 %) NHS 2 2 (4.255 %) Blackberry 2 2 (4.255 %) Clustering 2 2 (4.255 %) Data Conversion 3 1 (2.128 %) PMI
Operating Systems 1 26 (55.32 %) Windows 2 14 (29.79 %) Windows 2000 3 12 (25.53 %) Windows XP 4 11 (23.40 %) Windows Server 2003 5 7 (14.89 %) Linux 6 6 (12.77 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (12.77 %) CRM 1 6 (12.77 %) Migration 1 6 (12.77 %) Data Management 1 6 (12.77 %) Resource Management 1 6 (12.77 %) Data Migration 2 4 (8.511 %) Data Analysis 3 3 (6.383 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (4.255 %) ITIL 5 1 (2.128 %) CTC Cleared 5 1 (2.128 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.128 %) Web Development 5 1 (2.128 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 1 (2.128 %) UML 5 1 (2.128 %) OO 5 1 (2.128 %) BPEL 5 1 (2.128 %) Data Modelling 5 1 (2.128 %) PRINCE 5 1 (2.128 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 7 (14.89 %) SQL 2 6 (12.77 %) C# 3 1 (2.128 %) C++ 3 1 (2.128 %) Java 3 1 (2.128 %) JavaScript 3 1 (2.128 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (2.128 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft Certification 2 5 (10.64 %) MCSE 3 4 (8.511 %) MCSA 4 2 (4.255 %) MCP 4 2 (4.255 %) Degree 5 1 (2.128 %) MCSD 5 1 (2.128 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (2.128 %) CCNA 5 1 (2.128 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (8.511 %) SLA	System Software 1 14 (29.79 %) Active Directory 2 3 (6.383 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (4.255 %) Backup Exec 3 2 (4.255 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 2 (4.255 %) MOM 1 2 (4.255 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (4.255 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 29 (61.70 %) Microsoft 2 8 (17.02 %) IBM 3 7 (14.89 %) Oracle 4 6 (12.77 %) Business Objects 5 4 (8.511 %) Citrix 6 3 (6.383 %) VMware