The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 23 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 Rickmansworth 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 3 4 5
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +1
Contract jobs citing MS Office 6 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 25.00% 22.22% 31.82%
As % of the Applications category 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £170
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £10.50 £13.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% +30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
All Applications
Rickmansworth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
6 2 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 25.00% 22.22% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £225 - £170
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
Average hourly rate £10.50 £13.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% +30.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
Hertfordshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 4 (57.14%) MS PowerPoint
2 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) MS Project
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) Windows
4 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
4 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
4 2 (28.57%) Change Control
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) OVSD
5 1 (14.29%) Billing
5 1 (14.29%) Document Management
5 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
5 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (14.29%) Planview
5 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
5 1 (14.29%) Release Management
5 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
5 1 (14.29%) iPhone
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
5 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
5 1 (14.29%) Aruba
5 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
5 1 (14.29%) Lync
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 2 (28.57%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Lync
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) MS Excel
2 4 (57.14%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (42.86%) MS Project
4 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (14.29%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Wireless
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Billing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Support Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Project Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Project Support Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Project Officer
4 1 (14.29%) Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Project Support Officer
4 1 (14.29%) Service Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) iPhone
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
1 2 (28.57%) Windows XP
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Document Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Resource Management
3 1 (14.29%) Release Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Mapping
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
3 1 (14.29%) CRM
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) OVSD
1 1 (14.29%) OpenView
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Planview
1 1 (14.29%) Riverbed
1 1 (14.29%) Aruba
1 1 (14.29%) 3Com
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) HP
1 1 (14.29%) Nortel
1 1 (14.29%) Avaya
1 1 (14.29%) Apple
1 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint