MS Office Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office 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 Oxford 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
Microsoft Office
Rank 21 23 17
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -6
Contract jobs citing MS Office 14 17 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 6.009% 5.015% 6.211%
As % of the Applications category 66.67% 65.38% 30.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 6
Average daily rate £170 £330 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.48% +83.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £269 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
Average hourly rate £14.63 £10.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.25% -42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.73 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -1.96%
All Applications
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 21 26 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 9.013% 7.670% 20.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 14
Average daily rate £325 £330 £180
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% +83.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 7
Average hourly rate £14.63 £11.00 £15.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+32.95% -30.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.33 £9.00 £12.28
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £18.75 £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-3.12% -
MS Office
Oxfordshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 23 (67.65%) Windows
3 18 (52.94%) Windows XP
4 16 (47.06%) MS Excel
5 15 (44.12%) Windows 7
6 11 (32.35%) DNS
7 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
8 5 (14.71%) Citrix
8 5 (14.71%) DHCP
8 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
9 4 (11.76%) Windows 2000
9 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
9 4 (11.76%) Web Services
9 4 (11.76%) XML
9 4 (11.76%) ITIL
9 4 (11.76%) VB.NET
9 4 (11.76%) VBA
9 4 (11.76%) .NET
9 4 (11.76%) Oracle
9 4 (11.76%) Hyperion
9 4 (11.76%) HFM
9 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
9 4 (11.76%) XPath
10 3 (8.824%) Degree
10 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
10 3 (8.824%) MS Exchange
10 3 (8.824%) VoIP
11 2 (5.882%) WAN
11 2 (5.882%) LAN
11 2 (5.882%) HTML

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (11.76%) Web Services
1 4 (11.76%) XML
1 4 (11.76%) .NET
2 2 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
1 3 (8.824%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.941%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (2.941%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 16 (47.06%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.882%) Photoshop
2 2 (5.882%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (5.882%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (11.76%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (32.35%) DNS
2 5 (14.71%) DHCP
2 5 (14.71%) TCP/IP
3 3 (8.824%) VoIP
4 2 (5.882%) WAN
4 2 (5.882%) LAN
5 1 (2.941%) Intranet
5 1 (2.941%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.882%) Crystal Reports
1 2 (5.882%) GIS
2 1 (2.941%) SAP BW
2 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
1 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 2 (5.882%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Analyst
2 9 (26.47%) IT Support
2 9 (26.47%) Support Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Programmer
3 4 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 4 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) .NET Programmer
3 4 (11.76%) VB.NET Programmer
4 3 (8.824%) IT Support Technician
4 3 (8.824%) Support Technician
4 3 (8.824%) Desktop Support
5 2 (5.882%) Business Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.882%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Business Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.882%) Blackberry
1 2 (5.882%) Mathematics
2 1 (2.941%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 23 (67.65%) Windows
2 18 (52.94%) Windows XP
3 15 (44.12%) Windows 7
4 4 (11.76%) Windows 2000
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Vista
5 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (2.941%) UNIX
5 1 (2.941%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (5.882%) Project Management
2 2 (5.882%) Business Development
2 2 (5.882%) Content Management
2 2 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (2.941%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) VB.NET
1 4 (11.76%) VBA
1 4 (11.76%) XPath
2 1 (2.941%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (8.824%) Degree
2 1 (2.941%) MCSE
2 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.941%) WCAG
1 1 (2.941%) WAI
1 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (23.53%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) SCCM
Vendors
1 26 (76.47%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.71%) Citrix
3 4 (11.76%) Oracle
3 4 (11.76%) Hyperion
4 2 (5.882%) Apple
4 2 (5.882%) Mapinfo
5 1 (2.941%) Salesforce.com
5 1 (2.941%) VMware
5 1 (2.941%) SAP
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