The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT contracts advertised for the Worthing region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 17 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 Worthing 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 6 5 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing MS Office 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 12.50% 10.71% -
As % of the Applications category 57.14% 42.86% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £161 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £268 £275
% change year-on-year
+2.61% -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £14.00 £13.88 £14.04
% change year-on-year
+0.90% -1.14%
All Applications
Worthing
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
7 7 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worthing 21.88% 25.00% 6.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 1
Average daily rate £375 £239 £615
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.06% -61.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £305 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
-3.12% +3.22%
MS Office
West Sussex

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing 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 Worthing region.

Worthing MS Office Hourly Rate Trend

MS Office
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (83.33%) HP
3 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (16.67%) Internet

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worthing 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 Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Support Engineer
2 4 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (66.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
3 1 (16.67%) Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) HP