MS Office Contracts in Somerset
 
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 Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Somerset 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 10 20 18
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing MS Office 25 16 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 13.37% 9.639% 10.06%
As % of the Applications category 89.29% 51.61% 76.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
Average daily rate £168 £335 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £107 £333 £308
10% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £359 £348
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £11.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -26.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.95 £13.13 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.61 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+2.84% -3.01%
All Applications
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 28 31 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 14.97% 18.67% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 4
Average daily rate £313 £333 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.01% -3.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £123 £240 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £393 £355 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 11
Average hourly rate £10.00 £11.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
South West

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Taunton +9 13 - -
Bath +2 5 £135 -
Yeovil - 4 £290 -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 £95 -
MS Office
South West

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 37 (97.37%) Windows
2 31 (81.58%) Active Directory
3 30 (78.95%) Windows XP
3 30 (78.95%) Windows 7
4 23 (60.53%) Microsoft
5 21 (55.26%) Blackberry
6 19 (50.00%) Apple
6 19 (50.00%) SCCM
6 19 (50.00%) Kaspersky
7 17 (44.74%) Cisco
8 15 (39.47%) MS Excel
9 13 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
9 13 (34.21%) VMware
10 12 (31.58%) Video Conferencing
11 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
12 7 (18.42%) McAfee
12 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2003
13 6 (15.79%) Citrix
14 5 (13.16%) VPN
15 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
15 4 (10.53%) Windows Vista
15 4 (10.53%) MS Exchange
15 4 (10.53%) VoIP
15 4 (10.53%) Oracle
16 3 (7.895%) SQL
17 2 (5.263%) Migration
17 2 (5.263%) Internet
18 1 (2.632%) Middleware
18 1 (2.632%) 3G
18 1 (2.632%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (2.632%) Middleware
1 1 (2.632%) XML
1 1 (2.632%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (10.53%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.632%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (2.632%) Lync
2 1 (2.632%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 15 (39.47%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) VPN
2 4 (10.53%) VoIP
3 2 (5.263%) Internet
4 1 (2.632%) 3G
4 1 (2.632%) DHCP
4 1 (2.632%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.632%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 22 (57.89%) 2nd Line Support
2 14 (36.84%) Support Engineer
3 11 (28.95%) Help Desk Support
4 9 (23.68%) Helpdesk Technician
4 9 (23.68%) Desktop Support
4 9 (23.68%) Support Technician
4 9 (23.68%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 9 (23.68%) 2nd Line Support Technician
4 9 (23.68%) Help Desk Support Technician
4 9 (23.68%) Service Desk Technician
5 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
5 5 (13.16%) Analyst
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (7.895%) IT Support Analyst
7 3 (7.895%) IT Support
8 1 (2.632%) Trainer
8 1 (2.632%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 21 (55.26%) Blackberry
2 12 (31.58%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (2.632%) Clustering
3 1 (2.632%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 37 (97.37%) Windows
2 30 (78.95%) Windows XP
2 30 (78.95%) Windows 7
3 8 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (18.42%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (10.53%) Windows Vista
6 1 (2.632%) Linux
6 1 (2.632%) Windows 8
6 1 (2.632%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.263%) Migration
2 1 (2.632%) ITIL
2 1 (2.632%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (2.632%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (2.632%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (2.632%) ITIL V2
2 1 (2.632%) Data Entry
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.895%) SQL
2 1 (2.632%) VB
2 1 (2.632%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (2.632%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (2.632%) MCITP
1 1 (2.632%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 31 (81.58%) Active Directory
2 13 (34.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.632%) Terminal Services
3 1 (2.632%) VMware ESX
3 1 (2.632%) vSphere
3 1 (2.632%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 19 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 23 (60.53%) Microsoft
2 19 (50.00%) Apple
2 19 (50.00%) Kaspersky
3 17 (44.74%) Cisco
4 13 (34.21%) VMware
5 7 (18.42%) McAfee
6 6 (15.79%) Citrix
7 4 (10.53%) Oracle
8 1 (2.632%) Adobe
8 1 (2.632%) AppSense
8 1 (2.632%) Panasonic
On-Site Desktop Support (CRB)
Bath, South West
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Rate: £18 - £20 per hour
Posted: 15 May 2013
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