The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 24 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 St Albans 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank - 5 -
Contract jobs citing MS Office 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans - 17.24% -
As % of the Applications category - 100.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £140 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £263 £275
% change year-on-year
+4.76% -4.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
All Applications
St Albans
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
11 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in St Albans 36.67% 17.24% 31.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
Average daily rate £408 £90 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+353.05% -73.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £402 £90 £256
10% offered a daily rate of more than £414 £170 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
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 St Albans region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) PRINCE2
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
1 5 (83.33%) Service Management
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Computing
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL V3
2 3 (50.00%) PDCA
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (50.00%) Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
4 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) Lync
4 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
4 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the St Albans 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 Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) MS Exchange
1 1 (16.67%) Lync
1 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) VoIP
1 5 (83.33%) VPN
1 5 (83.33%) SAN
1 5 (83.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Head of IT
2 3 (50.00%) IT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
1 5 (83.33%) PRINCE2
1 5 (83.33%) Service Management
1 5 (83.33%) Project Management
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL V3
2 3 (50.00%) PDCA
2 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 3 (50.00%) Six Sigma
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory