The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Wiltshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 24 14 32
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +18
Contract jobs citing MS Office 30 47 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 5.825% 8.090% 3.328%
As % of the Applications category 34.88% 57.32% 28.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 24 9
Average daily rate £318 £249 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.63% -17.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £132 £131 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £350 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £298 £275 £280
% change year-on-year
+8.18% -1.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 5
Average hourly rate £15.45 £16.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.76% -16.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.30 £14.00
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
All Applications
Wiltshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
86 82 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wiltshire 16.70% 14.11% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 42
Average daily rate £350 £305 £298
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.75% +2.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £125 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £528 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £304 £313
% change year-on-year
+2.88% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 14 9
Average hourly rate £14.45 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.42% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £15.00 £13.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.80 £30.00 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.00 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
MS Office
South West

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire MS Office Daily Rate Trend

MS Office
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing MS Office across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Wiltshire MS Office Daily Rate Histogram

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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Swindon +1 26 £318 +28.28% 4
Salisbury -2 1 £370 +5.71% 5
Chippenham - - - - 3
Corsham - - - -
MS Office
South West

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 30 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
3 23 (41.82%) Finance
4 14 (25.45%) Windows
5 12 (21.82%) Project Management
6 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
7 9 (16.36%) ITIL
7 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
8 8 (14.55%) MS PowerPoint
9 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
10 6 (10.91%) Windows 7
10 6 (10.91%) Change Control
10 6 (10.91%) SharePoint
10 6 (10.91%) MS Project
11 5 (9.091%) SQL
11 5 (9.091%) Windows XP
11 5 (9.091%) PRINCE2
11 5 (9.091%) Migration
12 4 (7.273%) Stakeholder Management
12 4 (7.273%) Management Information System
12 4 (7.273%) Configuration Management
12 4 (7.273%) MS Visio
12 4 (7.273%) MS Exchange
12 4 (7.273%) Oracle
12 4 (7.273%) C
13 3 (5.455%) C++
13 3 (5.455%) PRINCE
13 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2003
13 3 (5.455%) Intranet
13 3 (5.455%) Asset Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wiltshire 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 (1.818%) DHTML
1 1 (1.818%) HTML
1 1 (1.818%) ASP
1 1 (1.818%) CSS
1 1 (1.818%) Flash
1 1 (1.818%) OpenGL
1 1 (1.818%) OpenCV
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.91%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.273%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.636%) eRoom
3 2 (3.636%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.818%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.818%) Joomla!
4 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.818%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.818%) Commerce Server
4 1 (1.818%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 30 (54.55%) MS Excel
2 8 (14.55%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (10.91%) MS Project
4 4 (7.273%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.636%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.818%) SAP SD
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.455%) Intranet
2 2 (3.636%) Firewall
2 2 (3.636%) VLAN
2 2 (3.636%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.636%) VPN
3 1 (1.818%) LAN
3 1 (1.818%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.818%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (1.818%) PowerCenter
2 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.818%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
1 2 (3.636%) NetBeans
2 1 (1.818%) FrontPage
2 1 (1.818%) Dreamweaver
General
1 23 (41.82%) Finance
2 3 (5.455%) Military
3 1 (1.818%) Billing
3 1 (1.818%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.818%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 9 (16.36%) Administrator
3 8 (14.55%) PMO Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Support Engineer
5 4 (7.273%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.273%) Project Administrator
6 3 (5.455%) Project Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.455%) Coordinator
7 2 (3.636%) Project Planner
7 2 (3.636%) Technical Support
7 2 (3.636%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (3.636%) Service Analyst
7 2 (3.636%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (3.636%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.636%) Author
7 2 (3.636%) Technical Author
7 2 (3.636%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (3.636%) PMO Manager
7 2 (3.636%) Project Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.273%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.636%) PDA
3 1 (1.818%) Statistics
3 1 (1.818%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.818%) Physics
3 1 (1.818%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.818%) Open Source
3 1 (1.818%) NHS
3 1 (1.818%) Biometrics
3 1 (1.818%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.45%) Windows
2 6 (10.91%) Windows 7
3 5 (9.091%) Windows XP
4 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.636%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (21.82%) Project Management
2 9 (16.36%) ITIL
3 6 (10.91%) Change Control
4 5 (9.091%) PRINCE2
4 5 (9.091%) Migration
5 4 (7.273%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (7.273%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.455%) PRINCE
6 3 (5.455%) Asset Management
7 2 (3.636%) UML
7 2 (3.636%) CRM
7 2 (3.636%) Service Management
7 2 (3.636%) Change Management
7 2 (3.636%) Business Transformation
7 2 (3.636%) Software Engineering
7 2 (3.636%) Resource Management
7 2 (3.636%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 1 (1.818%) Earned Value Management
8 1 (1.818%) Pattern Recognition
8 1 (1.818%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.091%) SQL
2 4 (7.273%) C
3 3 (5.455%) C++
4 2 (3.636%) Java
5 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.818%) PHP
5 1 (1.818%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.818%) VBScript
5 1 (1.818%) ActionScript
5 1 (1.818%) VBA
5 1 (1.818%) MATLAB
5 1 (1.818%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (16.36%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.455%) Degree
4 2 (3.636%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.818%) MOS
5 1 (1.818%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.818%) MCP
5 1 (1.818%) MCSA
5 1 (1.818%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.818%) SLA
1 1 (1.818%) QA
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.818%) VMware ESX
2 1 (1.818%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (1.818%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (43.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.273%) Oracle
3 2 (3.636%) Cisco
3 2 (3.636%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.636%) HP
3 2 (3.636%) Compaq
3 2 (3.636%) Dell
4 1 (1.818%) Informatica
4 1 (1.818%) Lotus
4 1 (1.818%) Primavera
4 1 (1.818%) VMware
4 1 (1.818%) SIMUL8
4 1 (1.818%) SAP