Reading MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the Reading 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead 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 New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	19	26
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching contract IT job ads	71	58
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.095 %	0.059 %
As % of the category below	38.59 %	32.04 %
Daily rates quoted	22	11
Average minimum daily rate	£249	£368
Average daily rate	£268	£395
% change on same period last year	-32.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£287	£423
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	£24.38
Average hourly rate	£20.05	£26.12
% change on same period last year	-23.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.10	£27.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.88	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Applications Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	184	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.245 %	0.183 %
Daily rates quoted	43	46
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£331
Average daily rate	£278	£365
% change on same period last year	-23.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£298	£398
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	25
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.45	£21.71
Average hourly rate	£20.30	£23.09
% change on same period last year	-12.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.15	£24.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Excel Berkshire

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 Reading 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 Reading region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 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 Reading region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Reading region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 78 (63.93 %) Microsoft 2 42 (34.43 %) MS Office 3 34 (27.87 %) Windows 4 21 (17.21 %) SQL 4 21 (17.21 %) Active Directory 4 21 (17.21 %) HP 5 20 (16.39 %) Finance 6 18 (14.75 %) MS PowerPoint 7 17 (13.93 %) MS Exchange 8 12 (9.836 %) ITIL 8 12 (9.836 %) OO 9 11 (9.016 %) Altiris 10 10 (8.197 %) WebSphere 10 10 (8.197 %) UML 10 10 (8.197 %) RUP

10 10 (8.197 %) MS Access 10 10 (8.197 %) Java 10 10 (8.197 %) SQL Server 10 10 (8.197 %) Microsoft Certification 11 9 (7.377 %) VBA 11 9 (7.377 %) Oracle 11 9 (7.377 %) Telecoms 12 8 (6.557 %) Degree 12 8 (6.557 %) .NET 12 8 (6.557 %) DB2 12 8 (6.557 %) C# 12 8 (6.557 %) VBScript 12 8 (6.557 %) IIS 12 8 (6.557 %) MS Project 12 8 (6.557 %) IBM

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 10 (8.197 %) WebSphere 2 8 (6.557 %) .NET 3 7 (5.738 %) XML 4 6 (4.918 %) J2EE 5 5 (4.098 %) ASP.NET 5 5 (4.098 %) Application Packaging 5 5 (4.098 %) JRules 6 3 (2.459 %) HTML 6 3 (2.459 %) WebServices 7 2 (1.639 %) ASP 8 1 (0.820 %) CSS 8 1 (0.820 %) XSLT 8 1 (0.820 %) ODBC 8 1 (0.820 %) OLE 8 1 (0.820 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 1 (0.820 %) MDX 8 1 (0.820 %) WCF	Application Platforms 1 17 (13.93 %) MS Exchange 2 8 (6.557 %) IIS 3 7 (5.738 %) SharePoint 3 7 (5.738 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 6 (4.918 %) WebSphere Application Server 5 4 (3.279 %) Lotus Notes 5 4 (3.279 %) Office Communications Server 6 3 (2.459 %) Exchange Server 2007 6 3 (2.459 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 2 (1.639 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 2 (1.639 %) SAS 8 1 (0.820 %) BizTalk Server 8 1 (0.820 %) GroupWise 8 1 (0.820 %) Apache
Applications 1 42 (34.43 %) MS Office 2 18 (14.75 %) MS PowerPoint 3 8 (6.557 %) MS Project 4 5 (4.098 %) MS Visio 5 2 (1.639 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 2 (1.639 %) Great Plains 2 1 (0.820 %) Singl.eView 2 1 (0.820 %) Dynamics GP 2 1 (0.820 %) BPCS
Communications & Networking 1 6 (4.918 %) VPN 1 6 (4.918 %) Wireless 2 4 (3.279 %) Internet 2 4 (3.279 %) SAN 3 2 (1.639 %) DNS 3 2 (1.639 %) TCP/IP 3 2 (1.639 %) Intranet 4 1 (0.820 %) Firewall 4 1 (0.820 %) BSS 4 1 (0.820 %) DMZ 4 1 (0.820 %) Broadband 4 1 (0.820 %) LAN 4 1 (0.820 %) WAN 4 1 (0.820 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (8.197 %) SQL Server 1 10 (8.197 %) MS Access 2 8 (6.557 %) DB2 3 6 (4.918 %) RDBMS 4 4 (3.279 %) BusinessObjects 4 4 (3.279 %) GIS 4 4 (3.279 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (2.459 %) SQL Server 7 5 3 (2.459 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.820 %) Informix 6 1 (0.820 %) Oracle Reports 6 1 (0.820 %) OLAP 6 1 (0.820 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (3.279 %) TestDirector 2 2 (1.639 %) StarTeam 3 1 (0.820 %) ERwin 3 1 (0.820 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (0.820 %) WinRunner	General 1 20 (16.39 %) Finance 2 9 (7.377 %) Telecoms 3 5 (4.098 %) Retail 3 5 (4.098 %) Marketing 4 3 (2.459 %) Billing 4 3 (2.459 %) Government 5 2 (1.639 %) Health 5 2 (1.639 %) Law 5 2 (1.639 %) Legal 6 1 (0.820 %) Banking 6 1 (0.820 %) Pharmaceutical 6 1 (0.820 %) FMCG
Job Titles 1 21 (17.21 %) Developer 1 21 (17.21 %) Analyst 2 14 (11.48 %) Support Engineer 3 13 (10.66 %) Administrator 4 9 (7.377 %) Server Engineer 5 8 (6.557 %) 3rd Line Support 6 7 (5.738 %) Project Manager 6 7 (5.738 %) Desktop Engineer 7 6 (4.918 %) Java Developer 7 6 (4.918 %) J2EE Developer 7 6 (4.918 %) Desktop Support 7 6 (4.918 %) Business Analyst 7 6 (4.918 %) Tester 7 6 (4.918 %) Consultant 7 6 (4.918 %) Coordinator 7 6 (4.918 %) Server Support 7 6 (4.918 %) Java/J2EE Developer 8 5 (4.098 %) Desktop Support Engineer 8 5 (4.098 %) Server Support Engineer 9 4 (3.279 %) .NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (4.918 %) Blackberry 1 6 (4.918 %) Management Information System 2 4 (3.279 %) Clustering 3 2 (1.639 %) PDA 3 2 (1.639 %) NHS 4 1 (0.820 %) PMI 4 1 (0.820 %) French Language 4 1 (0.820 %) Data Conversion 4 1 (0.820 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (0.820 %) Replication 4 1 (0.820 %) CLARiiON
Operating Systems 1 34 (27.87 %) Windows 2 6 (4.918 %) Windows XP 3 5 (4.098 %) UNIX 4 4 (3.279 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (2.459 %) Windows 2000 6 2 (1.639 %) AIX 6 2 (1.639 %) Windows Vista 7 1 (0.820 %) HPUX 7 1 (0.820 %) Linux 7 1 (0.820 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (9.836 %) ITIL 1 12 (9.836 %) OO 2 10 (8.197 %) RUP 2 10 (8.197 %) UML 3 7 (5.738 %) Project Management 4 6 (4.918 %) SC Cleared 4 6 (4.918 %) Security Cleared 5 5 (4.098 %) Service Management 6 4 (3.279 %) Validation 6 4 (3.279 %) CRM 6 4 (3.279 %) Use Case 6 4 (3.279 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (3.279 %) Test Scripting 7 3 (2.459 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (2.459 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (2.459 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (1.639 %) OOP 8 2 (1.639 %) ERP 8 2 (1.639 %) Data Modelling 8 2 (1.639 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 21 (17.21 %) SQL 2 10 (8.197 %) Java 3 9 (7.377 %) VBA 4 8 (6.557 %) C# 4 8 (6.557 %) VBScript 5 6 (4.918 %) VB 6 3 (2.459 %) JavaScript 6 3 (2.459 %) VB6 7 1 (0.820 %) Shell Script 7 1 (0.820 %) Perl 7 1 (0.820 %) C 7 1 (0.820 %) VB.NET 7 1 (0.820 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (8.197 %) Microsoft Certification 2 8 (6.557 %) Degree 3 7 (5.738 %) MCSE 4 3 (2.459 %) MCTS 5 2 (1.639 %) MOS 6 1 (0.820 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 1 (0.820 %) ITIL Certification 6 1 (0.820 %) ISEB 6 1 (0.820 %) CCA 6 1 (0.820 %) Citrix Certification 6 1 (0.820 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (5.738 %) QA 2 1 (0.820 %) ISO9000	System Software 1 21 (17.21 %) Active Directory 2 2 (1.639 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.820 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.820 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 3 (2.459 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (1.639 %) Tivoli 2 2 (1.639 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.820 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 78 (63.93 %) Microsoft 2 21 (17.21 %) HP 3 11 (9.016 %) Altiris 4 9 (7.377 %) Oracle 5 8 (6.557 %) IBM 6 7 (5.738 %) VMware 6 7 (5.738 %) SAP 7 5 (4.098 %) Citrix 7 5 (4.098 %) ILOG 8 4 (3.279 %) Lotus 8 4 (3.279 %) Business Objects 8 4 (3.279 %) Dell 9 3 (2.459 %) ESRI 10 2 (1.639 %) TIBCO 10 2 (1.639 %) Remedy 10 2 (1.639 %) Cisco 10 2 (1.639 %) Borland 11 1 (0.820 %) Red Hat 11 1 (0.820 %) MicroStrategy 11 1 (0.820 %) NetApp