MS Office Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South West 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 36 35 28
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -7
Contract jobs citing MS Office 96 151 136
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 4.688% 4.556% 4.855%
As % of the Applications category 32.65% 33.93% 38.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 68 37
Average daily rate £319 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.50% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £113 £132 £117
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £365 £382
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 36 43
Average hourly rate £13.76 £17.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.37% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.30 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £50.00 £24.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 294 445 354
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 14.36% 13.43% 12.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 252 138
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £155
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £413 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 66 73
Average hourly rate £13.76 £24.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.66% +33.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.00 £50.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
England

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 South West region.

South West MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

South West MS Office Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South West 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
Bristol +4 26 £375 +105.47%
Somerset +13 25 £168 -50.00%
Wiltshire -12 20 £358 +40.88%
Dorset -4 11 £310 +8.77%
Gloucestershire +18 10 £250 -
Devon -4 2 £130 -38.09%
MS Office
England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 99 (48.29%) Windows
2 88 (42.93%) MS Excel
3 77 (37.56%) Microsoft
4 71 (34.63%) Windows 7
5 61 (29.76%) Active Directory
6 60 (29.27%) Windows XP
7 53 (25.85%) Finance
8 31 (15.12%) Blackberry
8 31 (15.12%) MS PowerPoint
9 27 (13.17%) MS Project
10 26 (12.68%) Project Management
11 25 (12.20%) Security Cleared
12 23 (11.22%) Apple
13 21 (10.24%) Cisco
13 21 (10.24%) SCCM
14 20 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
14 20 (9.756%) VMware
15 19 (9.268%) ITIL
15 19 (9.268%) Windows Server 2003
15 19 (9.268%) Kaspersky
16 18 (8.780%) VMware Infrastructure
17 17 (8.293%) SharePoint
18 16 (7.805%) Citrix
19 15 (7.317%) MS Visio
19 15 (7.317%) Migration
19 15 (7.317%) SC Cleared
20 14 (6.829%) SQL
21 13 (6.341%) MS Exchange
21 13 (6.341%) Change Management
22 12 (5.854%) Video Conferencing

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 6 (2.927%) HTML
1 6 (2.927%) .NET
2 5 (2.439%) Web Services
2 5 (2.439%) CSS
3 4 (1.951%) ASP
3 4 (1.951%) jQuery
4 3 (1.463%) HTML5
4 3 (1.463%) CSS3
4 3 (1.463%) .NET Framework
4 3 (1.463%) XML
5 2 (0.976%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.976%) WCF
5 2 (0.976%) Silverlight
6 1 (0.488%) LINQ
6 1 (0.488%) OpenCV
6 1 (0.488%) COM
6 1 (0.488%) Flash
6 1 (0.488%) OpenGL
6 1 (0.488%) Middleware
6 1 (0.488%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (8.293%) SharePoint
2 13 (6.341%) MS Exchange
3 7 (3.415%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (2.439%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (1.463%) WordPress
5 3 (1.463%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 3 (1.463%) TeamSite
5 3 (1.463%) Exchange Server 2003
5 3 (1.463%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (1.463%) MS Project Server
6 2 (0.976%) eRoom
7 1 (0.488%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.488%) Lync
7 1 (0.488%) Joomla!
7 1 (0.488%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 88 (42.93%) MS Excel
2 31 (15.12%) MS PowerPoint
3 27 (13.17%) MS Project
4 15 (7.317%) MS Visio
5 3 (1.463%) Adobe Illustrator
5 3 (1.463%) Photoshop
5 3 (1.463%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.488%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.488%) SAP HR
1 1 (0.488%) SAP SD
1 1 (0.488%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.902%) TCP/IP
1 8 (3.902%) VPN
2 4 (1.951%) DNS
2 4 (1.951%) LAN
2 4 (1.951%) VoIP
2 4 (1.951%) WAN
3 3 (1.463%) DHCP
3 3 (1.463%) Intranet
3 3 (1.463%) 3G
4 2 (0.976%) VLAN
4 2 (0.976%) Firewall
4 2 (0.976%) Internet
4 2 (0.976%) HTTP
5 1 (0.488%) ATM
5 1 (0.488%) Broadband
5 1 (0.488%) GPRS
5 1 (0.488%) GSM
5 1 (0.488%) PBX
5 1 (0.488%) UMTS
5 1 (0.488%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.927%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.951%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.463%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (1.463%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.488%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.488%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.488%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (1.463%) Subversion
2 2 (0.976%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.976%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (0.976%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (0.976%) NetBeans
3 1 (0.488%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (0.488%) FrontPage
3 1 (0.488%) JIRA
General
1 53 (25.85%) Finance
2 11 (5.366%) Retail
3 10 (4.878%) Banking
4 4 (1.951%) Retail Banking
4 4 (1.951%) Marketing
4 4 (1.951%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.463%) Military
6 2 (0.976%) Legal
6 2 (0.976%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.488%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.488%) Law
7 1 (0.488%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.488%) Back Office
7 1 (0.488%) Avionics
7 1 (0.488%) Billing
7 1 (0.488%) Investment Banking
7 1 (0.488%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 48 (23.41%) Analyst
2 28 (13.66%) Support Engineer
2 28 (13.66%) 2nd Line Support
3 22 (10.73%) Desktop Support
4 17 (8.293%) PMO Analyst
5 15 (7.317%) Desktop Engineer
6 14 (6.829%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 13 (6.341%) Support Analyst
8 12 (5.854%) Support Technician
9 11 (5.366%) Help Desk Support
9 11 (5.366%) Service Desk Technician
10 10 (4.878%) Helpdesk Technician
10 10 (4.878%) Project Manager
11 9 (4.390%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.390%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 9 (4.390%) 2nd Line Support Technician
11 9 (4.390%) IT Support
11 9 (4.390%) Help Desk Support Technician
12 7 (3.415%) Developer
13 6 (2.927%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 31 (15.12%) Blackberry
2 12 (5.854%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (2.439%) NHS
4 4 (1.951%) Statistics
4 4 (1.951%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.976%) Thin Client
5 2 (0.976%) Fat Client
5 2 (0.976%) Mathematics
5 2 (0.976%) Computer Science
5 2 (0.976%) iPhone
6 1 (0.488%) Open Source
6 1 (0.488%) CMDB
6 1 (0.488%) Physics
6 1 (0.488%) PMI
6 1 (0.488%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.488%) Biometrics
6 1 (0.488%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.488%) SCADA
6 1 (0.488%) Clustering
6 1 (0.488%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 99 (48.29%) Windows
2 71 (34.63%) Windows 7
3 60 (29.27%) Windows XP
4 20 (9.756%) Windows Server 2008
5 19 (9.268%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (1.951%) Windows Vista
7 3 (1.463%) UNIX
8 2 (0.976%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.976%) Linux
9 1 (0.488%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.488%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (12.68%) Project Management
2 19 (9.268%) ITIL
3 15 (7.317%) Migration
4 13 (6.341%) Change Management
5 11 (5.366%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (4.878%) PRINCE2
6 10 (4.878%) Time Management
7 8 (3.902%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 8 (3.902%) Project Planning
7 8 (3.902%) Asset Management
8 5 (2.439%) Workflow
8 5 (2.439%) Programme Management
8 5 (2.439%) Configuration Management
8 5 (2.439%) Risk Management
8 5 (2.439%) Business Analysis
8 5 (2.439%) Problem Management
8 5 (2.439%) Change Control
9 4 (1.951%) Wealth Management
9 4 (1.951%) Software Deployment
9 4 (1.951%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.829%) SQL
2 7 (3.415%) C
2 7 (3.415%) C++
3 6 (2.927%) VB
4 5 (2.439%) VBA
4 5 (2.439%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.951%) PHP
5 4 (1.951%) Java
5 4 (1.951%) C#
5 4 (1.951%) MATLAB
6 1 (0.488%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.488%) VB.NET
6 1 (0.488%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.488%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (12.20%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.317%) SC Cleared
3 7 (3.415%) Degree
3 7 (3.415%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (2.927%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.439%) MCP
6 4 (1.951%) MCITP
7 3 (1.463%) ITIL Certification
8 2 (0.976%) CISSP
8 2 (0.976%) MCTS
8 2 (0.976%) MCSE
8 2 (0.976%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (0.976%) CISA
8 2 (0.976%) CISM
8 2 (0.976%) ISACA
9 1 (0.488%) APMP
9 1 (0.488%) MOS
9 1 (0.488%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (0.488%) ISEB
9 1 (0.488%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.927%) QA
2 2 (0.976%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.976%) SLA
3 1 (0.488%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.488%) DO-178B
3 1 (0.488%) Solvency II
3 1 (0.488%) Data Quality
System Software
1 61 (29.76%) Active Directory
2 18 (8.780%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.976%) vSphere
3 2 (0.976%) Terminal Server
3 2 (0.976%) Terminal Services
3 2 (0.976%) VMware ESX
4 1 (0.488%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (0.488%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.488%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (10.24%) SCCM
2 5 (2.439%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.976%) DameWare
Vendors
1 77 (37.56%) Microsoft
2 23 (11.22%) Apple
3 21 (10.24%) Cisco
4 20 (9.756%) VMware
5 19 (9.268%) Kaspersky
6 16 (7.805%) Citrix
7 8 (3.902%) Oracle
8 7 (3.415%) McAfee
9 4 (1.951%) Adobe
10 3 (1.463%) Dell
10 3 (1.463%) AppSense
11 2 (0.976%) Teradata
11 2 (0.976%) HP
11 2 (0.976%) Sybase
11 2 (0.976%) SAP
12 1 (0.488%) Progress
12 1 (0.488%) Business Objects
12 1 (0.488%) Temenos
12 1 (0.488%) Primavera
12 1 (0.488%) SIMUL8
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