Oxfordshire MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Audenshaw Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkhamsted Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dover Dundee Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Sidcup Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	15	22
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	49	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.065 %	0.030 %
As % of the category below	59.76 %	43.75 %
Daily rates quoted	13	2
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£200
Average daily rate	£373	£220
% change on same period last year	+69.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£435	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£272
% change on same period last year	+3.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.53	£12.94
Average hourly rate	£21.66	£14.33
% change on same period last year	+51.14 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.79	£15.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.78	£17.44
% change on same period last year	+1.97 %
Applications Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	82	64
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.108 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	16	4
Average minimum daily rate	£309	£217
Average daily rate	£361	£238
% change on same period last year	+51.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£281
% change on same period last year	+6.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	30	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.26	£12.23
Average hourly rate	£18.50	£13.57
% change on same period last year	+36.32 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.73	£14.91
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.92	£19.17
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
MS Excel South East

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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Oxfordshire region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

MS Excel
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing MS Excel within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+9	28	£407	-
Abingdon	-	6	£160	-
Bicester	-7	2	-	-
Witney	-	1	-	-
Banbury	-	1	-	-

MS Excel South East

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 56 (60.87 %) Microsoft 2 27 (29.35 %) Windows 3 16 (17.39 %) Active Directory 4 15 (16.30 %) Windows XP 4 15 (16.30 %) MS Exchange 5 13 (14.13 %) CRM 5 13 (14.13 %) Microsoft CRM 5 13 (14.13 %) .NET 6 12 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 7 11 (11.96 %) C# 7 11 (11.96 %) MS Office 7 11 (11.96 %) MS Visio 7 11 (11.96 %) Microsoft Certification 8 9 (9.783 %) Exchange Server 2003 8 9 (9.783 %) LAN

8 9 (9.783 %) WAN 8 9 (9.783 %) MCSE 9 8 (8.696 %) SQL 9 8 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 9 8 (8.696 %) Internet 9 8 (8.696 %) Service Delivery 10 7 (7.609 %) MS Project 11 6 (6.522 %) C 11 6 (6.522 %) UML 11 6 (6.522 %) XML 11 6 (6.522 %) MCP 11 6 (6.522 %) NHS 11 6 (6.522 %) IBM 11 6 (6.522 %) Use Case 11 6 (6.522 %) Time Management

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 13 (14.13 %) .NET 2 6 (6.522 %) XML 3 2 (2.174 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.087 %) CSS 4 1 (1.087 %) STL 4 1 (1.087 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.087 %) JMS 4 1 (1.087 %) OpenGL 4 1 (1.087 %) DirectX 4 1 (1.087 %) Middleware 4 1 (1.087 %) WebSphere 4 1 (1.087 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 15 (16.30 %) MS Exchange 2 9 (9.783 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (1.087 %) ESB 3 1 (1.087 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (1.087 %) WebSphere Message Broker 3 1 (1.087 %) CMS 3 1 (1.087 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (1.087 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 11 (11.96 %) MS Office 1 11 (11.96 %) MS Visio 2 7 (7.609 %) MS Project 3 3 (3.261 %) MS PowerPoint 4 2 (2.174 %) Photoshop 4 2 (2.174 %) Adobe Illustrator 4 2 (2.174 %) InDesign 4 2 (2.174 %) Acrobat 5 1 (1.087 %) AutoCAD	Business Applications 1 13 (14.13 %) Microsoft CRM 2 2 (2.174 %) Dynamics CRM 3 1 (1.087 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 9 (9.783 %) LAN 1 9 (9.783 %) WAN 2 8 (8.696 %) TCP/IP 2 8 (8.696 %) Internet 3 4 (4.348 %) DNS 4 3 (3.261 %) VPN 5 2 (2.174 %) SAN 5 2 (2.174 %) DHCP 5 2 (2.174 %) VoIP 5 2 (2.174 %) ADSL 6 1 (1.087 %) Intranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (5.435 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.348 %) DB2 2 4 (4.348 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (4.348 %) BusinessObjects 2 4 (4.348 %) DB2 UDB 3 1 (1.087 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.087 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (1.087 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 1 (1.087 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (1.087 %) RequisitePro	General 1 5 (5.435 %) Health 1 5 (5.435 %) Finance 1 5 (5.435 %) Education 2 4 (4.348 %) Government 2 4 (4.348 %) Local Government 3 2 (2.174 %) Graphic Design 3 2 (2.174 %) Publishing 4 1 (1.087 %) 3D Graphics 4 1 (1.087 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 36 (39.13 %) Analyst 2 13 (14.13 %) Support Analyst 3 11 (11.96 %) Consultant 3 11 (11.96 %) Support Engineer 3 11 (11.96 %) Business Analyst 3 11 (11.96 %) CRM Consultant 3 11 (11.96 %) Microsoft Consultant 4 8 (8.696 %) Network Support 4 8 (8.696 %) Desktop Support 4 8 (8.696 %) Desktop Engineer 5 7 (7.609 %) 2nd Line Support 5 7 (7.609 %) Administrator 6 6 (6.522 %) Information Analyst 6 6 (6.522 %) NHS Information Analyst 7 5 (5.435 %) Network Administrator 7 5 (5.435 %) Data Analyst 8 4 (4.348 %) Desktop Support Analyst 8 4 (4.348 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 4 (4.348 %) 3rd Line Support 8 4 (4.348 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.522 %) NHS 2 2 (2.174 %) Blackberry 2 2 (2.174 %) Clustering 3 1 (1.087 %) Data Conversion 3 1 (1.087 %) AS400 3 1 (1.087 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 27 (29.35 %) Windows 2 15 (16.30 %) Windows XP 3 12 (13.04 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (5.435 %) Windows NT 4 5 (5.435 %) Linux 5 3 (3.261 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.087 %) Unix	Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (14.13 %) CRM 2 8 (8.696 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (6.522 %) UML 3 6 (6.522 %) Time Management 3 6 (6.522 %) Use Case 4 5 (5.435 %) Migration 4 5 (5.435 %) Data Management 4 5 (5.435 %) Data Analysis 5 4 (4.348 %) Data Migration 5 4 (4.348 %) Resource Management 6 3 (3.261 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (2.174 %) ITIL 7 2 (2.174 %) Regression Testing 7 2 (2.174 %) Project Management 7 2 (2.174 %) Risk Management 7 2 (2.174 %) Integration Testing 7 2 (2.174 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (2.174 %) Project Planning 7 2 (2.174 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (1.087 %) Stress Testing
Programming Languages 1 11 (11.96 %) C# 2 8 (8.696 %) SQL 3 6 (6.522 %) C 4 1 (1.087 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.087 %) VB.NET 4 1 (1.087 %) C++ 4 1 (1.087 %) Java 4 1 (1.087 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 11 (11.96 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (9.783 %) MCSE 3 6 (6.522 %) MCP 4 4 (4.348 %) MCSA 5 3 (3.261 %) CCNA 5 3 (3.261 %) Cisco Certification 6 1 (1.087 %) MCSD 6 1 (1.087 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.261 %) SLA 2 2 (2.174 %) QA	System Software 1 16 (17.39 %) Active Directory 2 3 (3.261 %) ISA Server 2 3 (3.261 %) VMware ESX 3 2 (2.174 %) Terminal Services 3 2 (2.174 %) Backup Exec 4 1 (1.087 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 2 (2.174 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (2.174 %) WSUS	Vendors 1 56 (60.87 %) Microsoft 2 6 (6.522 %) IBM 3 4 (4.348 %) Oracle 3 4 (4.348 %) Business Objects 3 4 (4.348 %) Citrix 4 3 (3.261 %) VMware 5 2 (2.174 %) Symantec 5 2 (2.174 %) Adobe 5 2 (2.174 %) HP 6 1 (1.087 %) Dell 6 1 (1.087 %) VERITAS 6 1 (1.087 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.087 %) Remedy