The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel 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 Surrey 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 Excel
Rank 14 37 20
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -17
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 85 65 133
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 7.372% 4.035% 7.240%
As % of the Applications category 47.22% 41.14% 49.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 33 71
Average daily rate £225 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £466 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.75 £13.65 £15.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.80 £21.90 £26.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.25
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -1.63%
All Applications
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
180 158 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 15.61% 9.808% 14.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 79 128
Average daily rate £225 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.76% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £128 £150 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £425 £468
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 32 32
Average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.78 £10.50 £10.59
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.18 £23.00 £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.12%
MS Excel
South East

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Guildford +8 26 £130 -32.37%
Staines +7 9 £225 -40.00%
Reigate +12 4 £275 -
Sunbury-on-Thames +3 4 £298 -29.88%
Redhill +2 3 £450 +104.54%
Woking +5 2 £283 -33.91%
Weybridge +3 2 - -
Leatherhead +7 1 - -
Epsom -2 1 - -
Camberley -6 1 £130 -69.76%
MS Excel
South East

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 109 (64.50%) Microsoft
2 79 (46.75%) MS Office
3 53 (31.36%) Windows
4 35 (20.71%) SharePoint
4 35 (20.71%) SQL
5 34 (20.12%) .NET
5 34 (20.12%) Finance
6 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
6 31 (18.34%) MS PowerPoint
7 26 (15.38%) C#
8 23 (13.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 20 (11.83%) MS Project
9 20 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
9 20 (11.83%) Project Management
9 20 (11.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 19 (11.24%) Degree
10 19 (11.24%) ITIL
10 19 (11.24%) VBA
11 18 (10.65%) Games
11 18 (10.65%) Oracle
11 18 (10.65%) Windows Server 2008
12 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 17 (10.06%) Scrum
13 16 (9.467%) IIS
13 16 (9.467%) JavaScript
13 16 (9.467%) PRINCE2
14 15 (8.876%) Document Management
14 15 (8.876%) Windows 7
15 14 (8.284%) Hyper-V
15 14 (8.284%) Telecoms

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 34 (20.12%) .NET
2 8 (4.734%) HTML
3 6 (3.550%) XML
4 5 (2.959%) ASP.NET
4 5 (2.959%) .NET Framework
5 4 (2.367%) WCF
5 4 (2.367%) CSS
5 4 (2.367%) Web Services
6 3 (1.775%) COM
6 3 (1.775%) jQuery
6 3 (1.775%) ISPF
7 2 (1.183%) Velocity
7 2 (1.183%) MapReduce
7 2 (1.183%) REST
7 2 (1.183%) XHTML
7 2 (1.183%) WinForms
8 1 (0.592%) EDIFACT
8 1 (0.592%) Middleware
8 1 (0.592%) EDI
8 1 (0.592%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 35 (20.71%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.467%) IIS
3 12 (7.101%) Amazon EC2
3 12 (7.101%) Windows Azure
4 9 (5.325%) MS Exchange
5 6 (3.550%) SharePoint 2010
6 4 (2.367%) SAS
7 3 (1.775%) CMS
7 3 (1.775%) Lotus Notes
7 3 (1.775%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (1.183%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (1.183%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (1.183%) CloudStack
8 2 (1.183%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.592%) TeamSite
9 1 (0.592%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.592%) Documentum
9 1 (0.592%) Lotus Domino
9 1 (0.592%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.592%) Drupal
Applications
1 79 (46.75%) MS Office
2 31 (18.34%) MS PowerPoint
3 20 (11.83%) MS Project
4 12 (7.101%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.959%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (1.775%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.775%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.592%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.592%) Open Workbench
Business Applications
1 3 (1.775%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.183%) Cognos Business Intelligence
3 1 (0.592%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.592%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.592%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.592%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.592%) SAP IS-U
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.917%) SAN
2 8 (4.734%) LAN
2 8 (4.734%) WAN
3 5 (2.959%) Firewall
3 5 (2.959%) VPN
3 5 (2.959%) Intranet
4 4 (2.367%) Internet
4 4 (2.367%) TCP/IP
4 4 (2.367%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.775%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (1.775%) VLAN
6 2 (1.183%) ADSL
6 2 (1.183%) VoIP
6 2 (1.183%) DSL
6 2 (1.183%) SSL
6 2 (1.183%) FTP
6 2 (1.183%) DHCP
6 2 (1.183%) DNS
6 2 (1.183%) SSH
7 1 (0.592%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (18.34%) SQL Server
2 23 (13.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 20 (11.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (6.509%) MS Access
5 8 (4.734%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (4.142%) SQL Server 2008
7 6 (3.550%) Data Mining
7 6 (3.550%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (2.959%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (1.775%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 3 (1.775%) OLAP
9 3 (1.775%) SQL Server 2012
10 2 (1.183%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.183%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (1.183%) Big Data
10 2 (1.183%) SAP BW
10 2 (1.183%) TOAD
11 1 (0.592%) OLTP
11 1 (0.592%) Crystal Reports
11 1 (0.592%) IBM InfoSphere
Development Applications
1 7 (4.142%) Visual Studio
2 3 (1.775%) ChangeMan
2 3 (1.775%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.592%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.592%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.592%) Oracle APEX
General
1 34 (20.12%) Finance
2 18 (10.65%) Games
3 14 (8.284%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.367%) Financial Institution
5 3 (1.775%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (1.183%) Marketing
7 1 (0.592%) Retail
7 1 (0.592%) Electronics
7 1 (0.592%) Automotive
7 1 (0.592%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.592%) Advertising
7 1 (0.592%) Publishing
7 1 (0.592%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 47 (27.81%) Analyst
2 19 (11.24%) Administrator
3 14 (8.284%) Support Analyst
3 14 (8.284%) Support Engineer
4 13 (7.692%) Developer
5 11 (6.509%) SharePoint Administrator
6 9 (5.325%) Coordinator
6 9 (5.325%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.734%) MI Analyst
8 7 (4.142%) Technical Support
9 6 (3.550%) IT Support
9 6 (3.550%) Development Engineer
9 6 (3.550%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.550%) Business Analyst
9 6 (3.550%) Network Engineer
10 5 (2.959%) Technical Support Engineer
10 5 (2.959%) Technical Engineer
10 5 (2.959%) Desktop Support
10 5 (2.959%) Project Planner
10 5 (2.959%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.692%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.917%) Computer Science
2 10 (5.917%) Online Games
3 6 (3.550%) Visualisation
3 6 (3.550%) Kinect
4 4 (2.367%) Mathematics
4 4 (2.367%) Streaming Video
5 3 (1.775%) PMI
5 3 (1.775%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.183%) PKI
6 2 (1.183%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.183%) Social Media
6 2 (1.183%) EFT
6 2 (1.183%) Clustering
7 1 (0.592%) IVR
7 1 (0.592%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.592%) Replication
7 1 (0.592%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.592%) NHS
7 1 (0.592%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 53 (31.36%) Windows
2 18 (10.65%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (8.876%) Windows 7
4 14 (8.284%) Windows XP
5 9 (5.325%) Windows 2000 Server
6 7 (4.142%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (3.550%) Windows 8
8 3 (1.775%) UNIX
8 3 (1.775%) Linux
8 3 (1.775%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.775%) Windows Vista
9 2 (1.183%) Windows NT
10 1 (0.592%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (11.83%) Business Intelligence
1 20 (11.83%) Project Management
2 19 (11.24%) ITIL
3 17 (10.06%) Scrum
4 16 (9.467%) PRINCE2
5 15 (8.876%) Document Management
6 13 (7.692%) CRM
7 12 (7.101%) Load Balancing
7 12 (7.101%) Content Management
7 12 (7.101%) Information Management
8 11 (6.509%) Project Planning
9 10 (5.917%) Release Management
9 10 (5.917%) Time Management
9 10 (5.917%) Data Analysis
10 9 (5.325%) Migration
11 8 (4.734%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (4.734%) Analytics
12 7 (4.142%) Game Development
13 6 (3.550%) Test Automation
13 6 (3.550%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.71%) SQL
2 26 (15.38%) C#
3 19 (11.24%) VBA
4 16 (9.467%) JavaScript
5 12 (7.101%) Python
6 8 (4.734%) C
6 8 (4.734%) Ruby
7 7 (4.142%) VB
7 7 (4.142%) T-SQL
8 6 (3.550%) C++
9 5 (2.959%) PL/SQL
10 4 (2.367%) PowerShell
10 4 (2.367%) VB.NET
11 3 (1.775%) VB6
11 3 (1.775%) JCL
11 3 (1.775%) REXX
11 3 (1.775%) VBScript
12 1 (0.592%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (11.24%) Degree
2 17 (10.06%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (5.325%) MCP
4 7 (4.142%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 7 (4.142%) MCSE
4 7 (4.142%) MCITP
5 6 (3.550%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.959%) PMI Certification
7 4 (2.367%) SC Cleared
8 3 (1.775%) ISEB
8 3 (1.775%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (1.775%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.183%) MCTS
9 2 (1.183%) MCSA
9 2 (1.183%) PMP
10 1 (0.592%) CCNA
10 1 (0.592%) CCA
10 1 (0.592%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.592%) Oracle Certification
10 1 (0.592%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.959%) QA
2 3 (1.775%) SLA
3 1 (0.592%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.592%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (8.284%) Hyper-V
2 12 (7.101%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (6.509%) Active Directory
4 10 (5.917%) Forefront TMG
5 7 (4.142%) ISA Server
6 3 (1.775%) Microsoft App-V
6 3 (1.775%) UAG
7 2 (1.183%) DFS Replication
7 2 (1.183%) XenApp
7 2 (1.183%) XenServer
7 2 (1.183%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.592%) vSphere
8 1 (0.592%) LiteSpeed
8 1 (0.592%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 13 (7.692%) SCOM
2 6 (3.550%) SCCM
3 4 (2.367%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (1.775%) Backup Exec
4 3 (1.775%) CA Endevor
5 2 (1.183%) WSUS
5 2 (1.183%) Unicenter
6 1 (0.592%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.592%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 109 (64.50%) Microsoft
2 18 (10.65%) Oracle
3 13 (7.692%) VMware
4 10 (5.917%) CommVault
5 6 (3.550%) IBM
6 5 (2.959%) CA
6 5 (2.959%) SAP
6 5 (2.959%) Business Objects
7 4 (2.367%) Twitter
7 4 (2.367%) Cognos
7 4 (2.367%) Lotus
7 4 (2.367%) Symantec
7 4 (2.367%) HP
7 4 (2.367%) Citrix
8 3 (1.775%) Cisco
8 3 (1.775%) McAfee
8 3 (1.775%) NetApp
8 3 (1.775%) Planview
9 2 (1.183%) FrontRange
9 2 (1.183%) SolarWinds
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