The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Peterborough 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 12 11 13
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 8 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 7.080% 7.527% 12.08%
As % of the Applications category 66.67% 87.50% 43.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
Average daily rate £95 £238 £139
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +70.86%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £88 £238 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £238 £148
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
Average hourly rate £72.50 - £13.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -3.12%
All Applications
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
12 8 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 10.62% 8.602% 27.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 13
Average daily rate £95 £306 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-68.97% -38.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £85 £251 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £361 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £306 £313
% change year-on-year
+1.22% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 6
Average hourly rate £46.25 - £10.50
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.10 - £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £72.50 - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
Cambridgeshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Excel across the Peterborough region.

Peterborough MS Excel Daily Rate Trend

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Peterborough region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Peterborough MS Excel Daily Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the Peterborough region.

Peterborough MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 7 (63.64%) Windows
3 5 (45.45%) MS Office
4 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
4 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
4 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
5 3 (27.27%) WCF
5 3 (27.27%) MVC
5 3 (27.27%) CSS
5 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
5 3 (27.27%) OO
5 3 (27.27%) C#
5 3 (27.27%) .NET
6 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
6 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
7 1 (9.091%) Finance
7 1 (9.091%) VMware
7 1 (9.091%) DHCP
7 1 (9.091%) HTTP
7 1 (9.091%) DNS
7 1 (9.091%) SLA
7 1 (9.091%) Intel
7 1 (9.091%) Citrix
7 1 (9.091%) SAN
7 1 (9.091%) CODA
7 1 (9.091%) ARCserve
7 1 (9.091%) CODA-Financials
7 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
7 1 (9.091%) MySQL
7 1 (9.091%) SQL

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (27.27%) WCF
1 3 (27.27%) CSS
1 3 (27.27%) ASP.NET
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 1 (9.091%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) CODA-Financials
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) DHCP
2 1 (9.091%) HTTP
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) MySQL
1 1 (9.091%) MS Access
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) .NET Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Service Desk Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Service Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Support Technician
4 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (9.091%) Help Desk Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) IT Support
4 1 (9.091%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows XP
2 4 (36.36%) Windows 7
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) MVC
1 3 (27.27%) OO
2 1 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (9.091%) System Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 8 (72.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) VMware
2 1 (9.091%) Intel
2 1 (9.091%) Citrix
2 1 (9.091%) CODA
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