The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 21 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 Warrington 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 17 14 13
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Contract jobs citing MS Office 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 2.344% 3.125% 4.762%
As % of the Applications category 20.00% 33.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £110 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £273 £275
% change year-on-year
+0.91% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.61 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+2.84% -3.01%
All Applications
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
15 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 11.72% 9.375% 9.524%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 1
Average daily rate £338 £110 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+206.81% -70.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Office
Cheshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (66.67%) ITIL
3 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (58.33%) OpenView
4 7 (58.33%) HP
4 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (58.33%) Lotus
4 7 (58.33%) MCP
4 7 (58.33%) Lotus Notes
5 5 (41.67%) MS Project
5 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
5 5 (41.67%) LiveLink
6 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
6 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 4 (33.33%) ISO 9000
6 4 (33.33%) MCSE
6 4 (33.33%) Windows
6 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
6 4 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
6 4 (33.33%) MCDST
6 4 (33.33%) MCITP
6 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
6 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (33.33%) ServiceCenter
6 4 (33.33%) BS25999
7 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
7 3 (25.00%) SAP
7 3 (25.00%) SLA

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (58.33%) Lotus Notes
2 5 (41.67%) LiveLink
3 1 (8.333%) Documentum
Applications
1 10 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 5 (41.67%) MS Project
2 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (25.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Service Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) SAP Data Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) SAP Manager
4 1 (8.333%) Document Controller
4 1 (8.333%) PMO Administrator
4 1 (8.333%) SAP Analyst
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows XP
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
1 4 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (8.333%) UNIX
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
2 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 3 (25.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 1 (8.333%) Migration
5 1 (8.333%) ETL
5 1 (8.333%) Document Management
5 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.333%) Test Scripting
5 1 (8.333%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
1 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
2 7 (58.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (58.33%) MCP
3 4 (33.33%) MCSE
3 4 (33.33%) MCDST
3 4 (33.33%) MCITP
4 1 (8.333%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) ISO 9000
1 4 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (33.33%) BS25999
2 3 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) OpenView
2 4 (33.33%) ServiceCenter
3 3 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (58.33%) HP
2 7 (58.33%) Lotus
3 3 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (8.333%) Red Hat