The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office 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 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 12 14 26
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Contract jobs citing MS Office 20 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 7.576% 8.077% 3.667%
As % of the Applications category 47.62% 44.68% 55.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £100 £200 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% -22.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 9
Average hourly rate £12.44 £12.00 £11.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.66% +4.34%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.26 £9.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £23.00 £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
All Applications
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
42 47 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 15.91% 18.08% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 6
Average daily rate £300 £275 £254
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +8.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £99 £152 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £400 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 10
Average hourly rate £12.44 £21.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.76% +68.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £11.38 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £25.20 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
Yorkshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Sheffield +3 17 £100 -50.00%
Doncaster -1 1 - -
MS Office
Yorkshire

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 29 (58.00%) Windows
2 27 (54.00%) MS Excel
3 21 (42.00%) Active Directory
4 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
5 15 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 13 (26.00%) MS Exchange
7 12 (24.00%) Citrix
8 10 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 10 (20.00%) HP
9 9 (18.00%) Incident Management
10 8 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
10 8 (16.00%) Windows 7
10 8 (16.00%) VMware
11 7 (14.00%) Project Management
12 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
13 5 (10.00%) SCCM
13 5 (10.00%) Windows NT
13 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
13 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
14 4 (8.000%) ITIL
14 4 (8.000%) SPSS
14 4 (8.000%) Terminal Services
14 4 (8.000%) CA
14 4 (8.000%) Unicenter
14 4 (8.000%) Advertising
14 4 (8.000%) E-Learning
14 4 (8.000%) Multimedia
14 4 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
14 4 (8.000%) XenApp

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 3 (6.000%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.000%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 13 (26.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (4.000%) SharePoint
5 2 (4.000%) Lotus Notes
6 1 (2.000%) Exchange Server 5.5
6 1 (2.000%) Apache
6 1 (2.000%) Confluence
Applications
1 27 (54.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (8.000%) SPSS
3 3 (6.000%) MS Project
4 2 (4.000%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.000%) DHCP
1 3 (6.000%) DNS
2 1 (2.000%) NAS
2 1 (2.000%) Internet
2 1 (2.000%) SAN
2 1 (2.000%) Wireless
2 1 (2.000%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.000%) VPN
2 1 (2.000%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.000%) SQL Server
1 2 (4.000%) DB2
1 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.000%) JIRA
1 1 (2.000%) Git (software)
1 1 (2.000%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (8.000%) Advertising
1 4 (8.000%) Multimedia
2 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.000%) Finance
2 2 (4.000%) Banking
3 1 (2.000%) Aerospace
3 1 (2.000%) Military
3 1 (2.000%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Analyst
2 6 (12.00%) Support Technician
2 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (12.00%) Administrator
3 5 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 4 (8.000%) Platform Engineer
4 4 (8.000%) Coordinator
4 4 (8.000%) 1st Line Support
4 4 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.000%) Project Coordinator
5 3 (6.000%) 1st Line Support Technician
5 3 (6.000%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.000%) IT Support
6 2 (4.000%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.000%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.000%) Applications Packager
6 2 (4.000%) Rollout Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) IT Support Engineer
7 1 (2.000%) PC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.000%) E-Learning
2 2 (4.000%) EFT
2 2 (4.000%) Mainframe
2 2 (4.000%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.000%) PDA
3 1 (2.000%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (2.000%) Symmetrix
3 1 (2.000%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 29 (58.00%) Windows
2 15 (30.00%) Windows XP
3 10 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (16.00%) Windows 7
5 6 (12.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (10.00%) Windows NT
7 2 (4.000%) Windows Vista
8 1 (2.000%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.000%) Linux
8 1 (2.000%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.00%) Incident Management
2 7 (14.00%) Project Management
3 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (8.000%) ITIL
5 3 (6.000%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (6.000%) Business Analysis
5 3 (6.000%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (6.000%) Service Management
6 2 (4.000%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.000%) CRM
6 2 (4.000%) Change Management
6 2 (4.000%) GAP Analysis
6 2 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (4.000%) Scrum
6 2 (4.000%) TDD
7 1 (2.000%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.000%) Use Case
7 1 (2.000%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (2.000%) Test Management
7 1 (2.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.000%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.000%) VBScript
2 1 (2.000%) C
2 1 (2.000%) Java
2 1 (2.000%) PHP
2 1 (2.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.000%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.000%) ISEB
4 1 (2.000%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.000%) Degree
4 1 (2.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.000%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.000%) SLA
1 2 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 21 (42.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (8.000%) Terminal Services
2 4 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.000%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 5 (10.00%) SCCM
2 4 (8.000%) Unicenter
3 2 (4.000%) OpenView
3 2 (4.000%) OVSD
4 1 (2.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) Microsoft
2 12 (24.00%) Citrix
3 10 (20.00%) HP
4 8 (16.00%) VMware
5 4 (8.000%) CA
6 2 (4.000%) Cisco
6 2 (4.000%) Dell
6 2 (4.000%) Oracle
6 2 (4.000%) Lotus
7 1 (2.000%) Brocade
7 1 (2.000%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.000%) NetApp
7 1 (2.000%) JBoss
7 1 (2.000%) EMC