Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spreadsheet over the 3 months to 16 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category.

 Spreadsheets
Location
3 months to
16 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank188200192
Rank change year-on-year
Up+12Down-8
Matching contract IT job ads409299620
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.862 %0.745 %0.759 %
As % of the Applications category7.707 %6.400 %6.500 %
Daily rates quoted18191245
Average daily rate£400£350£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28 %-12.50 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£175£170£165
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£500£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£238£215£228
% change year-on-year
+10.46 %-5.490 %
Hourly rates quoted213680
Average hourly rate£14.50£14.00£13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.570 %+3.700 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£8.10£10.00£8.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£22.35£30.75£25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£11.25£13.00£13.00
% change year-on-year
-13.46 %-
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryAll Applications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
530746729538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK11.18 %11.64 %11.68 %
Daily rates quoted226713332736
Average daily rate£325£325£325
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£163£165£163
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£475£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£275£320£300
% change year-on-year
-14.06 %+6.660 %
Hourly rates quoted6608851783
Average hourly rate£15.50£16.50£16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.060 %+3.120 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£9.06£10.50£10.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£31.00£35.00£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£15.38£15.00
% change year-on-year
-8.940 %+2.500 %

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.

Spreadsheet
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

Spreadsheet Demand Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK.

Spreadsheet Daily Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

Spreadsheet Daily Rate Histogram

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK.

Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 2010.

Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Histogram

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK over the 3 months to 16 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+19393£400+14.28 %
LondonUp+7236£525+16.66 %
South EastUp+1590£250-20.00 %
City of LondonNo change090£550+22.22 %
MiddlesexUp+1727£215+79.16 %
North WestDown-322£200-28.88 %
Canary WharfDown-922£175-46.56 %
SurreyUp+518£325-
CheshireDown-316£200-
South WestDown-2016£231+24.16 %
BerkshireDown-2215£226+19.28 %
West MidlandsUp+1114£226+6.11 %
East MidlandsUp+910£275+243.75 %
HampshireUp+610£135-60.86 %
ReadingUp+58--
HayesNew entry-8--
WalesUp+87£425-
BuckinghamshireDown-17£238-
South WalesUp+36--
BristolDown-86£225-12.19 %
Docklands, LondonDown-96£338+64.63 %
YorkshireUp+75£313-
NottinghamshireUp+45£275+243.75 %
OxfordshireNew entry-5£275-
GuildfordNew entry-5£325-
BirminghamUp+114--
West YorkshireUp+44£300-
KentUp+44£270-22.02 %
ScotlandDown-84--
StainesDown-94£288-

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet.

1197 (26.06 %)VBA
2188 (24.87 %)Finance
3176 (23.28 %)Front Office
4169 (22.35 %)Derivative
5146 (19.31 %)C#
6142 (18.78 %)SQL
7140 (18.52 %)Banking
8116 (15.34 %)MS Excel
9109 (14.42 %)Investment Banking
1084 (11.11 %)Fixed Income
1176 (10.05 %).NET
1266 (8.730 %)Oracle
1364 (8.466 %)SQL Server
1463 (8.333 %)Telecoms
1561 (8.069 %)Microsoft
1658 (7.672 %)MS Office
1757 (7.540 %)Equity Derivative
1856 (7.407 %)3G
1954 (7.143 %)2G
2047 (6.217 %)Risk Management
2047 (6.217 %)Project Management
2047 (6.217 %)VB
2047 (6.217 %)Data Analysis
2146 (6.085 %)Migration
2244 (5.820 %)C++
2343 (5.688 %)Ericsson
2343 (5.688 %)Business Analysis
2343 (5.688 %)Degree
2442 (5.556 %)Interest Rate Derivative
2442 (5.556 %)Equities

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
176 (10.05 %).NET
227 (3.571 %)XML
315 (1.984 %)WPF
49 (1.190 %)WinForms
49 (1.190 %).NET Framework
58 (1.058 %)Web Services
67 (0.926 %)Middleware
67 (0.926 %)ASP.NET
76 (0.794 %)XML Schema
76 (0.794 %)HTML
85 (0.661 %)Flash
85 (0.661 %)ADO
85 (0.661 %)CSS
94 (0.529 %)AJAX
103 (0.397 %)XSLT
103 (0.397 %)ODBC
103 (0.397 %)Spring
103 (0.397 %)LINQ
103 (0.397 %)WF
112 (0.265 %)Google Maps API
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
111 (1.455 %)SAS
111 (1.455 %)SharePoint
27 (0.926 %)TIBCO EMS
36 (0.794 %)IIS
45 (0.661 %)Lotus Notes
54 (0.529 %)CMS
62 (0.265 %)LiveLink
71 (0.132 %)MS Exchange
71 (0.132 %)Moodle
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1116 (15.34 %)MS Excel
258 (7.672 %)MS Office
330 (3.968 %)MS PowerPoint
421 (2.778 %)MS Project
513 (1.720 %)MS Visio
66 (0.794 %)CA Clarity
66 (0.794 %)SPSS
73 (0.397 %)Photoshop
73 (0.397 %)Acrobat
82 (0.265 %)Fireworks
82 (0.265 %)Adobe Illustrator
82 (0.265 %)InDesign
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (1.323 %)Endur
22 (0.265 %)Summit
22 (0.265 %)SAP HR
22 (0.265 %)Oracle Applications
31 (0.132 %)Demantra
31 (0.132 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.132 %)Maximo
31 (0.132 %)Oracle Financials
31 (0.132 %)Capstone
31 (0.132 %)Tesseract
31 (0.132 %)Minerva
31 (0.132 %)Sentinel
31 (0.132 %)ION MarketView
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
156 (7.407 %)3G
254 (7.143 %)2G
314 (1.852 %)Internet
48 (1.058 %)RNC
57 (0.926 %)VLAN
65 (0.661 %)Nokia NetAct
65 (0.661 %)ATM
65 (0.661 %)Packet Switching
65 (0.661 %)SGSN
74 (0.529 %)Intranet
74 (0.529 %)VoIP
74 (0.529 %)Broadband
83 (0.397 %)BGP
92 (0.265 %)DMZ
92 (0.265 %)DNS
92 (0.265 %)LDAP
92 (0.265 %)Firewall
92 (0.265 %)OSPF
101 (0.132 %)FTP
101 (0.132 %)LAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
164 (8.466 %)SQL Server
230 (3.968 %)MS Access
310 (1.323 %)Datawarehouse
310 (1.323 %)BusinessObjects
45 (0.661 %)GIS
45 (0.661 %)SQL Server Integration Services
54 (0.529 %)SQL Server 2005
63 (0.397 %)Oracle Reports
63 (0.397 %)Oracle Discoverer
72 (0.265 %)Reference Data
72 (0.265 %)SAS Enterprise Guide
72 (0.265 %)Data Cleansing
72 (0.265 %)Ingres
72 (0.265 %)MySQL
72 (0.265 %)Oracle 8/8i
81 (0.132 %)TOAD
81 (0.132 %)Adabas
81 (0.132 %)Data Mining
81 (0.132 %)VLDB
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
16 (0.794 %)Visual Studio
25 (0.661 %)LSMW
32 (0.265 %)FrontPage
32 (0.265 %)Visual Studio Tools for Office
32 (0.265 %)Subversion
32 (0.265 %)TestDirector
41 (0.132 %)ClearCase
41 (0.132 %)Dreamweaver
41 (0.132 %)QuickTest Pro
41 (0.132 %)LoadRunner
41 (0.132 %)PowerBuilder
41 (0.132 %)NUnit
41 (0.132 %)JIRA
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1188 (24.87 %)Finance
2176 (23.28 %)Front Office
3140 (18.52 %)Banking
4109 (14.42 %)Investment Banking
563 (8.333 %)Telecoms
632 (4.233 %)Government
720 (2.646 %)Health
814 (1.852 %)Education
913 (1.720 %)Pensions
1011 (1.455 %)Back Office
1110 (1.323 %)Billing
1110 (1.323 %)Publishing
129 (1.190 %)Financial Institution
138 (1.058 %)Retail
147 (0.926 %)Marketing
156 (0.794 %)Local Government
156 (0.794 %)Construction
156 (0.794 %)Electric
165 (0.661 %)Insurance
174 (0.529 %)Private Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1241 (31.88 %)Analyst
2212 (28.04 %)Developer
3146 (19.31 %)Excel Developer
492 (12.17 %)Business Analyst
564 (8.466 %)C# Developer
663 (8.333 %)VBA Developer
760 (7.937 %)Excel VBA Developer
858 (7.672 %)Administrator
941 (5.423 %)Data Transcript Engineer
1033 (4.365 %)Front Office Developer
1126 (3.439 %)Senior Analyst
1126 (3.439 %)Information Analyst
1225 (3.307 %)Data Analyst
1323 (3.042 %)Project Manager
1421 (2.778 %)Coordinator
1519 (2.513 %)Senior Developer
1519 (2.513 %)Senior Excel Developer
1617 (2.249 %)Analyst Developer
1715 (1.984 %)Consultant
1814 (1.852 %)Investment Banking Business Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1169 (22.35 %)Derivative
284 (11.11 %)Fixed Income
357 (7.540 %)Equity Derivative
442 (5.556 %)Interest Rate Derivative
442 (5.556 %)Equities
537 (4.894 %)NHS
537 (4.894 %)Credit Derivative
633 (4.365 %)Client/Server
728 (3.704 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
816 (2.116 %)Statistics
915 (1.984 %)Management Information System
1013 (1.720 %)Credit Risk
1110 (1.323 %)Mathematics
125 (0.661 %)N-Tier
125 (0.661 %)Data Conversion
125 (0.661 %)PDA
134 (0.529 %)Blackberry
143 (0.397 %)NPfIT
143 (0.397 %)Grid Computing
143 (0.397 %)Freedom of Information
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
128 (3.704 %)Windows
218 (2.381 %)UNIX
35 (0.661 %)Linux
35 (0.661 %)Windows XP
43 (0.397 %)Windows 2000
43 (0.397 %)Windows Server 2003
52 (0.265 %)Solaris
61 (0.132 %)Windows Mobile
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
147 (6.217 %)Risk Management
147 (6.217 %)Project Management
147 (6.217 %)Data Analysis
246 (6.085 %)Migration
343 (5.688 %)Business Analysis
436 (4.762 %)RAD
533 (4.365 %)PRINCE2
629 (3.836 %)OO
726 (3.439 %)Asset Management
824 (3.175 %)Workflow
922 (2.910 %)Data Entry
1021 (2.778 %)OOD
1114 (1.852 %)User Acceptance Testing
1114 (1.852 %)Data Management
1212 (1.587 %)Data Modelling
1311 (1.455 %)Change Management
1311 (1.455 %)Validation
1311 (1.455 %)Greeks
1311 (1.455 %)Data Migration
1311 (1.455 %)Agile Software Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1197 (26.06 %)VBA
2146 (19.31 %)C#
3142 (18.78 %)SQL
447 (6.217 %)VB
544 (5.820 %)C++
618 (2.381 %)PL/SQL
716 (2.116 %)C
814 (1.852 %)Java
910 (1.323 %)T-SQL
103 (0.397 %)VC++
112 (0.265 %)XPath
112 (0.265 %)F#
112 (0.265 %)JavaScript
112 (0.265 %)Perl
112 (0.265 %)VB.NET
121 (0.132 %)NATURAL
121 (0.132 %)JCL
121 (0.132 %)XAML
121 (0.132 %)VBScript
121 (0.132 %)VB6
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
143 (5.688 %)Degree
226 (3.439 %)Security Cleared
311 (1.455 %)PRINCE2 Certification
311 (1.455 %)DV Cleared
410 (1.323 %)SC Cleared
57 (0.926 %)Cisco Certification
66 (0.794 %)ISEB
75 (0.661 %)CCNA
84 (0.529 %)ECDL
93 (0.397 %)ACCA
93 (0.397 %)CIMA
102 (0.265 %)ISEB Practitioner
102 (0.265 %)Microsoft Certification
102 (0.265 %)ITIL Certification
102 (0.265 %)CCNP
102 (0.265 %)CCAB
111 (0.132 %)MBA
111 (0.132 %)PhD
111 (0.132 %)MCSE
111 (0.132 %)Postgraduate
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
18 (1.058 %)QA
25 (0.661 %)SLA
34 (0.529 %)Basel II
43 (0.397 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (0.661 %)Active Directory
21 (0.132 %)Samba
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
12 (0.265 %)CiscoWorks
21 (0.132 %)HP Quality Center
21 (0.132 %)OpenView
21 (0.132 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
21 (0.132 %)CONTROL-M
21 (0.132 %)SCOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
166 (8.730 %)Oracle
261 (8.069 %)Microsoft
343 (5.688 %)Ericsson
438 (5.026 %)Sybase
521 (2.778 %)SAP
619 (2.513 %)Bloomberg
718 (2.381 %)Reuters
810 (1.323 %)Business Objects
810 (1.323 %)OpenLink
99 (1.190 %)Remedy
99 (1.190 %)Cisco
108 (1.058 %)TIBCO
117 (0.926 %)IBM
126 (0.794 %)Nokia
135 (0.661 %)Nokia Siemens Networks
135 (0.661 %)Infragistics
135 (0.661 %)Siemens
135 (0.661 %)Lotus
144 (0.529 %)Adobe
144 (0.529 %)Cognos