The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 18 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 South Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 12 9 26
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +17
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 27 32 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 10.47% 11.47% 3.846%
As % of the Applications category 62.79% 59.26% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 5
Average daily rate £300 £201 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.06% -32.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £135 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £396 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
+2.58% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 3
Average hourly rate £28.00 £22.75 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% +82.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £11.90 £11.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.50 £27.30 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.38 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.94% -3.90%
All Applications
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
43 54 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 16.67% 19.35% 6.993%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 8
Average daily rate £300 £295 £279
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.69% +5.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £100 £135 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £342
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £304 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.88% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 8
Average hourly rate £12.44 £12.63 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.46% +1.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.33 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £25.50 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Excel
Yorkshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire MS Excel Hourly Rate Trend

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South Yorkshire MS Excel Hourly Rate Histogram

MS Excel
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Sheffield 0 15 £300 +122.22% 10
Doncaster -1 4 £500 +22.69% 5
Rotherham +3 2 £330 -6.38% 2
MS Excel
Yorkshire

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 45 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 34 (50.75%) Windows
3 25 (37.31%) MS Office
4 24 (35.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 20 (29.85%) Active Directory
6 19 (28.36%) Windows Server 2008
7 18 (26.87%) Windows 7
8 15 (22.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (20.90%) SQL Server
9 14 (20.90%) Remedy
9 14 (20.90%) SCCM
10 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
10 12 (17.91%) Citrix
10 12 (17.91%) MCSE
10 12 (17.91%) MS Exchange
10 12 (17.91%) SLA
11 11 (16.42%) Windows XP
12 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
13 9 (13.43%) Incident Management
13 9 (13.43%) Software Deployment
13 9 (13.43%) VMware
13 9 (13.43%) Symantec
14 8 (11.94%) SQL
14 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
15 7 (10.45%) Dynamics CRM
15 7 (10.45%) .NET
15 7 (10.45%) CRM
16 6 (8.955%) CA
16 6 (8.955%) MS PowerPoint
16 6 (8.955%) XenApp

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 7 (10.45%) .NET
2 5 (7.463%) COM
3 3 (4.478%) ASP.NET
3 3 (4.478%) Application Packaging
4 1 (1.493%) MDX
4 1 (1.493%) WCF
4 1 (1.493%) jQuery
4 1 (1.493%) DHTML
4 1 (1.493%) HTML
4 1 (1.493%) CSS
4 1 (1.493%) LAMP
4 1 (1.493%) WinForms
4 1 (1.493%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 12 (17.91%) MS Exchange
2 5 (7.463%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.463%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (2.985%) IIS
3 2 (2.985%) IBM Notes
3 2 (2.985%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.493%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (1.493%) Apache
4 1 (1.493%) Exchange Server 5.5
4 1 (1.493%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (1.493%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (37.31%) MS Office
2 6 (8.955%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (4.478%) SPSS
4 2 (2.985%) MS Project
5 1 (1.493%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.493%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.970%) DNS
2 2 (2.985%) SAN
2 2 (2.985%) Intranet
3 1 (1.493%) IP Telephony
3 1 (1.493%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (1.493%) Network Security
3 1 (1.493%) LAN
3 1 (1.493%) VoIP
3 1 (1.493%) HTTP
3 1 (1.493%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.493%) VPN
3 1 (1.493%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.90%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.463%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (7.463%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (5.970%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.985%) DB2
5 1 (1.493%) OLAP
5 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.493%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.493%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.493%) BODI
5 1 (1.493%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.493%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.493%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.493%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.493%) JIRA
1 1 (1.493%) Git (software)
1 1 (1.493%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (5.970%) Telecoms
1 4 (5.970%) Advertising
2 3 (4.478%) Multimedia
2 3 (4.478%) Finance
3 1 (1.493%) Aerospace
3 1 (1.493%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.493%) Electronics
3 1 (1.493%) Military
3 1 (1.493%) Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (25.37%) Analyst
2 8 (11.94%) Server Support
2 8 (11.94%) Support Engineer
2 8 (11.94%) Service Analyst
2 8 (11.94%) Service Desk Analyst
2 8 (11.94%) Server Engineer
3 7 (10.45%) Administrator
3 7 (10.45%) Server Support Engineer
4 5 (7.463%) Platform Engineer
5 4 (5.970%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (5.970%) Developer
6 2 (2.985%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.985%) Technical Support
6 2 (2.985%) Applications Packager
6 2 (2.985%) 1st Line Support
6 2 (2.985%) Consultant
6 2 (2.985%) Security Analyst
6 2 (2.985%) Technical Specialist
6 2 (2.985%) Server Specialist
6 2 (2.985%) Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.478%) E-Learning
2 2 (2.985%) CESG
2 2 (2.985%) NHS
2 2 (2.985%) Mainframe
2 2 (2.985%) Clustering
3 1 (1.493%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.493%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.493%) PMI
3 1 (1.493%) EFT
3 1 (1.493%) PDA
3 1 (1.493%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.493%) Data Integration
3 1 (1.493%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 34 (50.75%) Windows
2 24 (35.82%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (28.36%) Windows Server 2008
4 18 (26.87%) Windows 7
5 11 (16.42%) Windows XP
6 5 (7.463%) Windows NT
7 3 (4.478%) Linux
8 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000
8 1 (1.493%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.493%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.493%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.43%) Incident Management
1 9 (13.43%) Software Deployment
2 7 (10.45%) CRM
3 5 (7.463%) ITIL
3 5 (7.463%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (7.463%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (5.970%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (4.478%) Information Security
5 3 (4.478%) Project Management
5 3 (4.478%) PRINCE2
6 2 (2.985%) Service Delivery
6 2 (2.985%) Change Management
6 2 (2.985%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (2.985%) Cyber Security
6 2 (2.985%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (2.985%) SIEM
6 2 (2.985%) Web Development
7 1 (1.493%) Load Balancing
7 1 (1.493%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.493%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) SQL
2 5 (7.463%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.970%) T-SQL
4 3 (4.478%) VBScript
4 3 (4.478%) C#
4 3 (4.478%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.985%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.493%) Java
6 1 (1.493%) PHP
6 1 (1.493%) C
Qualifications
1 15 (22.39%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (17.91%) MCSE
2 12 (17.91%) Security Cleared
3 10 (14.93%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.478%) MCP
5 2 (2.985%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.985%) ISEB
5 2 (2.985%) CISSP
6 1 (1.493%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.493%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.493%) MCDST
6 1 (1.493%) MCTS
6 1 (1.493%) MCITP
6 1 (1.493%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.493%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (17.91%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (29.85%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (8.955%) XenApp
4 4 (5.970%) Hyper-V
4 4 (5.970%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.985%) VMware ESX
5 2 (2.985%) Terminal Server
5 2 (2.985%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.493%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (20.90%) SCCM
2 4 (5.970%) Unicenter
3 3 (4.478%) WSUS
4 2 (2.985%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (1.493%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (1.493%) SCOM
Vendors
1 45 (67.16%) Microsoft
2 14 (20.90%) Remedy
3 12 (17.91%) Citrix
4 9 (13.43%) Symantec
4 9 (13.43%) VMware
5 6 (8.955%) CA
6 4 (5.970%) Salesforce.com
6 4 (5.970%) Siebel
6 4 (5.970%) NetSuite
7 2 (2.985%) Computacenter
7 2 (2.985%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.985%) Oracle
7 2 (2.985%) McAfee
7 2 (2.985%) NetApp
7 2 (2.985%) Lotus
8 1 (1.493%) CheckPoint
8 1 (1.493%) Websense
8 1 (1.493%) Business Objects
8 1 (1.493%) SAP
8 1 (1.493%) JBoss
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