West Midlands MS Excel Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Amersham Andover Ascot Audenshaw Aylesbury Ayrshire Banbury Barking Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Batley Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bootle Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chatham Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Douglas Dover Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Feltham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hartlepool Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Musselburgh New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North Ayrshire North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Romford Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Salford Salisbury Sandwich Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Sherborne Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark St Albans St Helens Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tipton Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Weybridge Weymouth Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Witney Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	25
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	201	148
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.268 %	0.150 %
As % of the category below	41.36 %	38.85 %
Daily rates quoted	44	31
Average minimum daily rate	£282	£259
Average daily rate	£303	£272
% change on same period last year	+11.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£324	£286
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£274
% change on same period last year	+5.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	42	45
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.83	£16.31
Average hourly rate	£15.91	£17.59
% change on same period last year	-9.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.98	£18.87
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£17.88	£17.80
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Applications West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	486	381
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.648 %	0.385 %
Daily rates quoted	113	69
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£267
Average daily rate	£316	£283
% change on same period last year	+11.60 %
Average maximum daily rate	£334	£299
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£285
% change on same period last year	+4.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	93	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.76	£14.70
Average hourly rate	£16.30	£15.87
% change on same period last year	+2.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.84	£17.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.01	£18.99
% change on same period last year	-5.13 %
MS Excel England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MS Excel across the West Midlands region.

MS Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing MS Excel across the West Midlands region.

MS Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Excel across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+15	46	£282	-26.34 %
Shropshire	+3	29	£385	+77.75 %
Coventry	-6	29	£329	+19.20 %
Warwickshire	+6	21	£280	+16.66 %
Wolverhampton	+3	16	-	-
Worcestershire	+14	13	£241	-
Staffordshire	-7	10	£238	-26.92 %
Herefordshire	+18	7	£125	-59.89 %
Solihull	+6	7	-	-
Tipton	-	1	-	-
Dudley	-4	1	-	-

MS Excel England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 189 (51.64 %) Microsoft 2 120 (32.79 %) MS Office 3 80 (21.86 %) Windows 4 72 (19.67 %) MS PowerPoint 5 71 (19.40 %) MS Project 6 53 (14.48 %) SQL Server 6 53 (14.48 %) Active Directory 7 47 (12.84 %) SQL 8 45 (12.30 %) MS Exchange 9 44 (12.02 %) .NET 10 43 (11.75 %) PRINCE2 11 40 (10.93 %) C# 12 39 (10.66 %) ASP.NET 12 39 (10.66 %) NHS 13 38 (10.38 %) XML

14 34 (9.290 %) Windows XP 15 31 (8.470 %) MS Access 15 31 (8.470 %) Project Management 16 29 (7.923 %) Finance 16 29 (7.923 %) CSS 16 29 (7.923 %) JavaScript 17 27 (7.377 %) SharePoint 18 25 (6.831 %) Windows 2000 18 25 (6.831 %) Security Cleared 19 24 (6.557 %) ASP.NET 2.0 19 24 (6.557 %) Agile Software Development 19 24 (6.557 %) XHTML 20 23 (6.284 %) Web Development 21 22 (6.011 %) Government 21 22 (6.011 %) VB

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 44 (12.02 %) .NET 2 39 (10.66 %) ASP.NET 3 38 (10.38 %) XML 4 29 (7.923 %) CSS 5 24 (6.557 %) XHTML 5 24 (6.557 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 17 (4.645 %) WebServices 7 14 (3.825 %) XSL 8 11 (3.005 %) SOAP 9 7 (1.913 %) HTML 9 7 (1.913 %) ASP 10 6 (1.639 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 4 (1.093 %) AJAX 12 2 (0.546 %) XSLT 12 2 (0.546 %) J2EE 12 2 (0.546 %) .NET Framework 12 2 (0.546 %) WF 13 1 (0.273 %) WCF 13 1 (0.273 %) WebSphere 13 1 (0.273 %) .NET Remoting	Application Platforms 1 45 (12.30 %) MS Exchange 2 27 (7.377 %) SharePoint 3 19 (5.191 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 19 (5.191 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 13 (3.552 %) Lotus Notes 5 11 (3.005 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 8 (2.186 %) Exchange Server 5.5 7 5 (1.366 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 8 4 (1.093 %) IIS 9 3 (0.820 %) Office Project Server 9 3 (0.820 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 2 (0.546 %) SharePoint Portal Server 10 2 (0.546 %) GroupWise 11 1 (0.273 %) ArcGIS 11 1 (0.273 %) SAS 11 1 (0.273 %) TPMS
Applications 1 120 (32.79 %) MS Office 2 72 (19.67 %) MS PowerPoint 3 71 (19.40 %) MS Project 4 20 (5.464 %) MS Visio 5 16 (4.372 %) CA Clarity 6 11 (3.005 %) Spreadsheet 7 4 (1.093 %) InfoPath 8 1 (0.273 %) Photoshop 8 1 (0.273 %) FrameMaker 8 1 (0.273 %) Adobe Illustrator	Business Applications 1 2 (0.546 %) Teamcenter 2 1 (0.273 %) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking 1 21 (5.738 %) TCP/IP 2 13 (3.552 %) Internet 3 10 (2.732 %) LAN 4 9 (2.459 %) WAN 4 9 (2.459 %) Intranet 5 5 (1.366 %) DNS 6 4 (1.093 %) DHCP 6 4 (1.093 %) LDAP 7 3 (0.820 %) VPN 7 3 (0.820 %) Firewall 8 2 (0.546 %) Wireless 8 2 (0.546 %) SAN 8 2 (0.546 %) Network Security 9 1 (0.273 %) Intrusion Detection 9 1 (0.273 %) VLAN 9 1 (0.273 %) POP3 9 1 (0.273 %) SMTP 9 1 (0.273 %) Broadband 9 1 (0.273 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 53 (14.48 %) SQL Server 2 31 (8.470 %) MS Access 3 14 (3.825 %) SQL Server 7 4 12 (3.279 %) SQL Server 2005 5 9 (2.459 %) SQL Server 2000 6 5 (1.366 %) RDBMS 6 5 (1.366 %) Crystal Reports 6 5 (1.366 %) Oracle Reports 7 4 (1.093 %) SQLPlus 7 4 (1.093 %) GIS 8 3 (0.820 %) Oracle 10g 8 3 (0.820 %) BusinessObjects 8 3 (0.820 %) Datawarehouse 9 2 (0.546 %) Oracle 9i 9 2 (0.546 %) Oracle OWB 9 2 (0.546 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 10 1 (0.273 %) PostgreSQL 10 1 (0.273 %) SQL Server Integration Services 10 1 (0.273 %) Oracle 11g 10 1 (0.273 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 1 (0.273 %) Ant 1 1 (0.273 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (0.273 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (0.273 %) Rational Robot 1 1 (0.273 %) Subversion	General 1 29 (7.923 %) Finance 2 22 (6.011 %) Government 3 21 (5.738 %) Health 4 8 (2.186 %) Banking 5 7 (1.913 %) Retail 5 7 (1.913 %) Education 5 7 (1.913 %) Automotive 5 7 (1.913 %) Telecoms 6 6 (1.639 %) Manufacturing 7 5 (1.366 %) Back Office 8 3 (0.820 %) Legal 8 3 (0.820 %) Insurance 9 2 (0.546 %) Auditing 10 1 (0.273 %) FMCG 10 1 (0.273 %) General Ledger 10 1 (0.273 %) Local Government 10 1 (0.273 %) Pensions 10 1 (0.273 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (0.273 %) Criminal Justice 10 1 (0.273 %) Home Office
Job Titles 1 119 (32.51 %) Analyst 2 49 (13.39 %) Developer 3 38 (10.38 %) Administrator 4 29 (7.923 %) 2nd Line Support 5 24 (6.557 %) Information Analyst 6 19 (5.191 %) Web Developer 6 19 (5.191 %) Desktop Support 6 19 (5.191 %) Support Analyst 7 17 (4.645 %) Support Engineer 8 15 (4.098 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 15 (4.098 %) Desktop Engineer 9 14 (3.825 %) Project Planner 10 13 (3.552 %) Coordinator 10 13 (3.552 %) Project Administrator 11 12 (3.279 %) SharePoint Developer 12 11 (3.005 %) Programmer 13 10 (2.732 %) Desktop Support Engineer 14 9 (2.459 %) Helpdesk Support 14 9 (2.459 %) Project Coordinator 14 9 (2.459 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 39 (10.66 %) NHS 2 17 (4.645 %) W3C 3 8 (2.186 %) Web 2.0 4 7 (1.913 %) Blackberry 5 5 (1.366 %) Mainframe 5 5 (1.366 %) RMADS 6 4 (1.093 %) Client/Server 7 3 (0.820 %) Data Conversion 7 3 (0.820 %) Statistics 7 3 (0.820 %) Computer Science 8 2 (0.546 %) SCADA 8 2 (0.546 %) Management Information System 9 1 (0.273 %) Clustering 9 1 (0.273 %) EPoS 9 1 (0.273 %) PDA 9 1 (0.273 %) Mathematics 9 1 (0.273 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 80 (21.86 %) Windows 2 34 (9.290 %) Windows XP 3 25 (6.831 %) Windows 2000 4 17 (4.645 %) Windows NT 5 9 (2.459 %) UNIX 6 6 (1.639 %) NetWare 7 5 (1.366 %) Windows Server 2003 8 2 (0.546 %) Linux 8 2 (0.546 %) VMS 9 1 (0.273 %) Solaris 9 1 (0.273 %) zOS 9 1 (0.273 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 43 (11.75 %) PRINCE2 2 31 (8.470 %) Project Management 3 25 (6.831 %) Security Cleared 4 24 (6.557 %) Agile Software Development 5 23 (6.284 %) Web Development 6 20 (5.464 %) Project Planning 7 19 (5.191 %) Migration 8 17 (4.645 %) SC Cleared 9 16 (4.372 %) Web Design 10 15 (4.098 %) OO 11 14 (3.825 %) ITIL 11 14 (3.825 %) Time Management 12 12 (3.279 %) Resource Management 12 12 (3.279 %) OOP 12 12 (3.279 %) Risk Management 13 7 (1.913 %) Scrum 13 7 (1.913 %) Content Management 14 6 (1.639 %) TDD 14 6 (1.639 %) UML 14 6 (1.639 %) RAD
Programming Languages 1 47 (12.84 %) SQL 2 40 (10.93 %) C# 3 29 (7.923 %) JavaScript 4 22 (6.011 %) VB 5 9 (2.459 %) Transact-SQL 6 5 (1.366 %) VBScript 7 4 (1.093 %) VBA 8 3 (0.820 %) PL/SQL 9 2 (0.546 %) COBOL 9 2 (0.546 %) Java 10 1 (0.273 %) C++ 10 1 (0.273 %) C 10 1 (0.273 %) PHP 10 1 (0.273 %) VC++ 10 1 (0.273 %) MUMPS 10 1 (0.273 %) JCL 10 1 (0.273 %) XPath 10 1 (0.273 %) VB.NET	Qualifications 1 14 (3.825 %) Degree 2 12 (3.279 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (2.186 %) ISEB 4 7 (1.913 %) MCSE 5 6 (1.639 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 5 (1.366 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 7 4 (1.093 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 8 3 (0.820 %) PMP 8 3 (0.820 %) PMI Certification 9 2 (0.546 %) ACCA 9 2 (0.546 %) CIMA 9 2 (0.546 %) HND 9 2 (0.546 %) Cisco Certification 10 1 (0.273 %) ITIL Certification 10 1 (0.273 %) CCNP 10 1 (0.273 %) CCNA 10 1 (0.273 %) CCA 10 1 (0.273 %) Citrix Certification 10 1 (0.273 %) MCP 10 1 (0.273 %) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (1.093 %) SLA 1 4 (1.093 %) ISO27001 2 3 (0.820 %) QA 3 2 (0.546 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 53 (14.48 %) Active Directory 2 6 (1.639 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 5 (1.366 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 3 (0.820 %) Terminal Server 5 1 (0.273 %) ISA Server 5 1 (0.273 %) RACF 5 1 (0.273 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.273 %) VMware Workstation 5 1 (0.273 %) NetBackup 5 1 (0.273 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 10 (2.732 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 2 (0.546 %) MAILsweeper 3 1 (0.273 %) NNM 3 1 (0.273 %) OVOW 3 1 (0.273 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 1 (0.273 %) MIMEsweeper 3 1 (0.273 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 189 (51.64 %) Microsoft 2 17 (4.645 %) Citrix 3 16 (4.372 %) Oracle 4 14 (3.825 %) Lotus 5 11 (3.005 %) HP 6 10 (2.732 %) SAP 7 7 (1.913 %) Sun 7 7 (1.913 %) VMware 8 5 (1.366 %) IBM 9 4 (1.093 %) Dell 10 3 (0.820 %) Remedy 10 3 (0.820 %) BT 10 3 (0.820 %) Northgate 10 3 (0.820 %) Planview 10 3 (0.820 %) LANDesk 10 3 (0.820 %) Business Objects 11 2 (0.546 %) Cisco 11 2 (0.546 %) Novell 11 2 (0.546 %) Siemens 11 2 (0.546 %) Kerridge