MS Office Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 29 28 21
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs citing MS Office 22 30 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 5.093% 4.688% 7.658%
As % of the Applications category 43.14% 43.48% 36.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 19
Average daily rate £330 £200 £190
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £135 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £366 £330 £303
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 3
Average hourly rate £13.90 £11.25 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.55% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.03 £9.00 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £17.50 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 51 69 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 11.81% 10.78% 21.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 24 35
Average daily rate £250 £253 £183
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.99% +38.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £135 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 17
Average hourly rate £13.45 £17.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.14% -30.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.91 £11.00 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.88 £30.00 £27.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
South East

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire MS Office Daily Rate Histogram

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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +1 14 £170 -48.48%
Abingdon -2 2 £375 +177.77%
Kidlington 0 1 - -
MS Office
South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
2 26 (56.52%) Windows
3 24 (52.17%) MS Excel
4 20 (43.48%) Windows XP
5 17 (36.96%) Windows 7
6 11 (23.91%) DNS
7 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
8 7 (15.22%) VB.NET
8 7 (15.22%) .NET
8 7 (15.22%) Web Services
9 6 (13.04%) XML
9 6 (13.04%) ITIL
9 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
10 5 (10.87%) Hyperion
10 5 (10.87%) Citrix
10 5 (10.87%) DHCP
10 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
10 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio
10 5 (10.87%) Oracle
10 5 (10.87%) VBA
10 5 (10.87%) XPath
10 5 (10.87%) HFM
10 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
11 4 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (8.696%) Degree
11 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
11 4 (8.696%) Windows 2000
11 4 (8.696%) WAN
11 4 (8.696%) MS Exchange
11 4 (8.696%) LAN

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (15.22%) .NET
1 7 (15.22%) Web Services
2 6 (13.04%) XML
3 3 (6.522%) HTML
4 2 (4.348%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.348%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.04%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.696%) MS Exchange
2 4 (8.696%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (4.348%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (4.348%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (2.174%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 24 (52.17%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.522%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.348%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (4.348%) Photoshop
4 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (10.87%) HFM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 5 (10.87%) DHCP
2 5 (10.87%) TCP/IP
3 4 (8.696%) LAN
3 4 (8.696%) WAN
4 3 (6.522%) Internet
4 3 (6.522%) VoIP
5 2 (4.348%) VPN
6 1 (2.174%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.348%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (4.348%) SAP BW
2 2 (4.348%) GIS
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.174%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio
1 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 2 (4.348%) Publishing
2 1 (2.174%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (39.13%) Analyst
2 10 (21.74%) Support Analyst
3 9 (19.57%) IT Support
4 7 (15.22%) Programmer
5 6 (13.04%) Support Engineer
6 5 (10.87%) .NET Programmer
6 5 (10.87%) VB.NET Programmer
7 4 (8.696%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (8.696%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (6.522%) Support Technician
8 3 (6.522%) Desktop Support
8 3 (6.522%) IT Support Technician
9 2 (4.348%) IT Support Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) Desktop Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Engineer
9 2 (4.348%) Service Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
9 2 (4.348%) Technical Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (4.348%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.348%) W3C
1 2 (4.348%) Blackberry
1 2 (4.348%) Mathematics
1 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.174%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 26 (56.52%) Windows
2 20 (43.48%) Windows XP
3 17 (36.96%) Windows 7
4 4 (8.696%) Windows 2000
5 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (2.174%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.174%) UNIX
6 1 (2.174%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.04%) ITIL
2 4 (8.696%) Project Management
3 3 (6.522%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (4.348%) Business Development
4 2 (4.348%) Migration
4 2 (4.348%) Scrum
4 2 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (4.348%) Content Management
4 2 (4.348%) Incident Management
4 2 (4.348%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (2.174%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.174%) Service Management
5 1 (2.174%) ITSM
5 1 (2.174%) PRINCE2
5 1 (2.174%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.174%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Integration Testing
5 1 (2.174%) Test Scripting
5 1 (2.174%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) VB.NET
2 5 (10.87%) VBA
2 5 (10.87%) XPath
3 2 (4.348%) C#
4 1 (2.174%) Java
4 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.174%) SQL
4 1 (2.174%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Degree
2 3 (6.522%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.348%) MCSE
3 2 (4.348%) CCNA
4 1 (2.174%) ISEB
4 1 (2.174%) CCIE
4 1 (2.174%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (2.174%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.348%) WCAG
1 2 (4.348%) WAI
2 1 (2.174%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (21.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.174%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) SCCM
Vendors
1 31 (67.39%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.87%) Citrix
2 5 (10.87%) Hyperion
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle
3 2 (4.348%) SAP
3 2 (4.348%) Cisco
3 2 (4.348%) Apple
3 2 (4.348%) Mapinfo
3 2 (4.348%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.174%) VMware
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