The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 23 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 West Yorkshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 28 20 16
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -4
Contract jobs citing MS Excel 73 102 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 5.831% 6.456% 6.900%
As % of the Applications category 44.51% 53.97% 55.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 30
Average daily rate £320 £358 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.48% +5.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £165 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £420 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £300 £305
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -1.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 7
Average hourly rate £16.50 £13.25 £9.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.52% +47.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.72 £11.04 £7.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.40 £48.25 £13.26
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -3.22%
All Applications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
164 189 142
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 13.10% 11.96% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 87 50
Average daily rate £320 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £160 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £420 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 28 19
Average hourly rate £13.23 £11.50 £11.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.04% +2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.11 £11.00 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £31.50 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
MS Excel
Yorkshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leeds -14 46 £325 -3.70%
Halifax +1 5 £305 -19.73%
Bradford -5 5 £310 +85.07%
Wakefield +1 3 £281 -
MS Excel
Yorkshire

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 98 (55.06%) Microsoft
2 56 (31.46%) MS Office
3 46 (25.84%) Windows
4 40 (22.47%) SQL
5 39 (21.91%) Finance
6 35 (19.66%) SQL Server
7 32 (17.98%) MS Project
8 29 (16.29%) MS PowerPoint
9 28 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
9 28 (15.73%) .NET
10 27 (15.17%) Banking
11 24 (13.48%) Project Management
12 23 (12.92%) Oracle
13 22 (12.36%) PRINCE2
13 22 (12.36%) Active Directory
14 21 (11.80%) SharePoint
14 21 (11.80%) Retail
15 20 (11.24%) Windows 7
16 18 (10.11%) SQL Server 2008
17 17 (9.551%) Business Intelligence
17 17 (9.551%) MS Visio
17 17 (9.551%) Migration
18 16 (8.989%) Data Modelling
19 15 (8.427%) Data Warehouse
20 13 (7.303%) Windows Server 2003
21 12 (6.742%) Windows Server 2008
21 12 (6.742%) ASP.NET
22 11 (6.180%) MS Exchange
22 11 (6.180%) ETL
22 11 (6.180%) SQL Server 2005

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 28 (15.73%) .NET
2 12 (6.742%) ASP.NET
3 9 (5.056%) HTML
4 6 (3.371%) XML
5 4 (2.247%) WinForms
5 4 (2.247%) ASP
6 3 (1.685%) MDX
6 3 (1.685%) WCF
7 2 (1.124%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.124%) WPF
7 2 (1.124%) XSLT
7 2 (1.124%) Web Services
7 2 (1.124%) COM
8 1 (0.562%) CSS
8 1 (0.562%) SOAP
8 1 (0.562%) Middleware
8 1 (0.562%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.562%) Ajax
8 1 (0.562%) Silverlight
8 1 (0.562%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 21 (11.80%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.180%) MS Exchange
3 8 (4.494%) SAS
4 6 (3.371%) Lotus Notes
5 4 (2.247%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (1.685%) IIS
6 3 (1.685%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (1.685%) StreamWeaver
7 2 (1.124%) Exchange Server 2010
7 2 (1.124%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.562%) Lotus Domino
8 1 (0.562%) CMS
8 1 (0.562%) Oracle Spatial
8 1 (0.562%) WorkSite
8 1 (0.562%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (0.562%) Lync
Applications
1 56 (31.46%) MS Office
2 32 (17.98%) MS Project
3 29 (16.29%) MS PowerPoint
4 17 (9.551%) MS Visio
5 6 (3.371%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (2.247%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (2.809%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.056%) SAN
2 4 (2.247%) Internet
2 4 (2.247%) GPRS
2 4 (2.247%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.124%) Firewall
3 2 (1.124%) DNS
3 2 (1.124%) LAN
3 2 (1.124%) WAN
3 2 (1.124%) DHCP
4 1 (0.562%) VPN
4 1 (0.562%) Intranet
4 1 (0.562%) Wireless
4 1 (0.562%) BIG-IP
4 1 (0.562%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (19.66%) SQL Server
2 18 (10.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (8.427%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (6.180%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (5.056%) Oracle 8/8i
6 8 (4.494%) Oracle 11g
6 8 (4.494%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 8 (4.494%) Oracle 10g
6 8 (4.494%) Oracle 9i
7 7 (3.933%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (3.371%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (3.371%) MS Access
9 4 (2.247%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 4 (2.247%) Oracle BI EE
9 4 (2.247%) OLAP
10 2 (1.124%) GIS
10 2 (1.124%) Oracle OWB
10 2 (1.124%) Data Mining
11 1 (0.562%) SAP BW
11 1 (0.562%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.247%) JIRA
2 2 (1.124%) Subversion
2 2 (1.124%) ERwin
2 2 (1.124%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.124%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (0.562%) ClearCase
3 1 (0.562%) LSMW
General
1 39 (21.91%) Finance
2 27 (15.17%) Banking
3 21 (11.80%) Retail
4 9 (5.056%) Telecoms
5 8 (4.494%) Manufacturing
6 6 (3.371%) Legal
6 6 (3.371%) Retail Banking
7 4 (2.247%) Law
8 1 (0.562%) Advertising
8 1 (0.562%) Publishing
8 1 (0.562%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.562%) Private Banking
8 1 (0.562%) Marketing
8 1 (0.562%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 66 (37.08%) Analyst
2 21 (11.80%) Developer
3 19 (10.67%) Project Manager
4 13 (7.303%) PMO Analyst
5 11 (6.180%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.618%) Technical Analyst
7 9 (5.056%) Architect
7 9 (5.056%) Technical Support
7 9 (5.056%) 1st Line Support
7 9 (5.056%) Service Desk Analyst
7 9 (5.056%) Service Analyst
8 8 (4.494%) Administrator
9 7 (3.933%) Test Analyst
9 7 (3.933%) Support Analyst
9 7 (3.933%) Data Analyst
9 7 (3.933%) .NET Developer
10 6 (3.371%) Information Analyst
10 6 (3.371%) 2nd Line Support
10 6 (3.371%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.809%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.618%) NHS
2 7 (3.933%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.809%) Blackberry
4 4 (2.247%) Reference Data
5 3 (1.685%) Informatics
6 2 (1.124%) Smart Meter
6 2 (1.124%) Data Integration
6 2 (1.124%) Data Conversion
7 1 (0.562%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.562%) E-Learning
7 1 (0.562%) Statistics
7 1 (0.562%) Beowulf
7 1 (0.562%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.562%) Data Extraction
7 1 (0.562%) iPhone
7 1 (0.562%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.562%) iPad
7 1 (0.562%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 46 (25.84%) Windows
2 20 (11.24%) Windows 7
3 13 (7.303%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (6.742%) Windows Server 2008
5 10 (5.618%) Windows XP
6 7 (3.933%) UNIX
7 4 (2.247%) Windows 2000
8 3 (1.685%) Linux
9 1 (0.562%) Solaris
9 1 (0.562%) CentOS
9 1 (0.562%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.562%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.562%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (15.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 24 (13.48%) Project Management
3 22 (12.36%) PRINCE2
4 17 (9.551%) Business Intelligence
4 17 (9.551%) Migration
5 16 (8.989%) Data Modelling
6 11 (6.180%) ETL
6 11 (6.180%) Project Planning
7 10 (5.618%) Change Management
7 10 (5.618%) CRM
8 9 (5.056%) ITIL
8 9 (5.056%) Data Analysis
8 9 (5.056%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (4.494%) Data Management
9 8 (4.494%) PRINCE
10 7 (3.933%) E-Commerce
10 7 (3.933%) Risk Management
10 7 (3.933%) Resource Management
11 5 (2.809%) UML
11 5 (2.809%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.47%) SQL
2 10 (5.618%) C#
3 7 (3.933%) VB.NET
4 6 (3.371%) VBA
5 4 (2.247%) PL/SQL
5 4 (2.247%) VB
6 3 (1.685%) T-SQL
6 3 (1.685%) VBScript
6 3 (1.685%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.685%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.124%) Java
8 1 (0.562%) C
8 1 (0.562%) VB6
Qualifications
1 8 (4.494%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (4.494%) ISEB
2 6 (3.371%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 6 (3.371%) Degree
3 3 (1.685%) MCP
3 3 (1.685%) ISTQB
3 3 (1.685%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.124%) APMP
4 2 (1.124%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (1.124%) A+ Certification
4 2 (1.124%) MCSE
5 1 (0.562%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.562%) PMP
5 1 (0.562%) PMI Certification
5 1 (0.562%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (0.562%) MCDST
5 1 (0.562%) MOS
5 1 (0.562%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.371%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.247%) QA
3 3 (1.685%) SLA
4 2 (1.124%) Basel II
System Software
1 22 (12.36%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.562%) VMware ESX
2 1 (0.562%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.562%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 6 (3.371%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.685%) Opalis
3 2 (1.124%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.562%) SCCM
Vendors
1 98 (55.06%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.92%) Oracle
3 8 (4.494%) Informatica
3 8 (4.494%) SAP
4 6 (3.371%) Lotus
5 4 (2.247%) Remedy
5 4 (2.247%) Cisco
5 4 (2.247%) Genesys
5 4 (2.247%) Citrix
6 3 (1.685%) Business Objects
6 3 (1.685%) Teradata
6 3 (1.685%) Perforce
6 3 (1.685%) Google
7 2 (1.124%) DataFlux
7 2 (1.124%) VMware
7 2 (1.124%) Siebel
8 1 (0.562%) NetApp
8 1 (0.562%) Novell
8 1 (0.562%) Sun
8 1 (0.562%) HP
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