MS Office Contracts in Staffordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend 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 Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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 14 30 27
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -3
Contract jobs citing MS Office 5 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.747% 1.826% 5.357%
As % of the Applications category 45.45% 19.05% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 5
Average hourly rate £11.13 £21.75 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.85% +117.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.21 £13.15 £9.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.39 £30.35 £13.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category		 11 21 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 12.64% 9.589% 14.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
Average daily rate £135 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-59.09% +1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
Average hourly rate £13.17 £17.50 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.77% +75.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.55 £11.66 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.00 £32.50 £13.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
West Midlands

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire 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
Stafford +3 1 - -
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 - -
MS Office
West Midlands

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
4 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (33.33%) Citrix
5 4 (33.33%) WAN
5 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
6 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
6 3 (25.00%) LAN
6 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (16.67%) Telerik
7 2 (16.67%) VMware
7 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 2 (16.67%) RIA
7 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (16.67%) WCF
7 2 (16.67%) WPF
7 2 (16.67%) Silverlight
7 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
7 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
7 2 (16.67%) OO
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) C#

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (16.67%) Web Services
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (16.67%) WCF
1 2 (16.67%) WPF
1 2 (16.67%) Silverlight
1 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.333%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (8.333%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 4 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) WAN
2 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (8.333%) Firewall
3 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (25.00%) Desktop Support
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Service Desk Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) ICT Technician
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
4 1 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 2 (16.67%) RIA
2 1 (8.333%) NHS
2 1 (8.333%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
4 4 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Vista
5 1 (8.333%) Windows CE
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) OO
1 2 (16.67%) MVVM
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
2 1 (8.333%) ERP
2 1 (8.333%) Project Management
2 1 (8.333%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) C++
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) VB.NET
1 2 (16.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (8.333%) XenApp
3 1 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (8.333%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (16.67%) Telerik
4 1 (8.333%) Altiris
4 1 (8.333%) Dell
4 1 (8.333%) Nortel
4 1 (8.333%) Avaya
4 1 (8.333%) Lotus
4 1 (8.333%) Symantec
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