The first table below looks at the demand for Spreadsheet skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Spreadsheet 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 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
Spreadsheets
Rank 99 100 98
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 13 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.699% 0.445% 0.269%
As % of the Applications category 5.485% 3.367% 2.451%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 2
Average daily rate £150 £364 £231
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-58.79% +57.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £306 £176
10% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £395 £286
UK excluding London average daily rate £215 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
-28.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £16.00 £18.00 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +7.46%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.20 £12.40 £15.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £23.60 £17.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £13.00 £13.64
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -4.69%
All Applications
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
237 297 204
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 12.74% 13.22% 10.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 132 67
Average daily rate £315 £310 £343
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.61% -9.48%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £160 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £414 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 51 34
Average hourly rate £12.50 £13.00 £11.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +11.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.48 £10.32 £8.38
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £25.80 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £15.56 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-0.38% -2.75%
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Spreadsheet Jobs Demand Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Spreadsheet Daily Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Yorkshire Spreadsheet Daily Rate Histogram

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Spreadsheet across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Spreadsheet Hourly Rate Trend

Spreadsheet
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the 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
West Yorkshire -1 7 £150 -58.79%
North Yorkshire - 3 £375 -
East Yorkshire - 2 £120 -
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet.

1 9 (37.50%) NHS
2 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) MS Office
4 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 3 (12.50%) Data Management
5 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 3 (12.50%) Frame Relay
5 3 (12.50%) SPSS
5 3 (12.50%) SAS
5 3 (12.50%) LAN
5 3 (12.50%) WAN
5 3 (12.50%) DHCP
5 3 (12.50%) DNS
5 3 (12.50%) VBA
5 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
5 3 (12.50%) Time Management
5 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 3 (12.50%) Reference Data
5 3 (12.50%) Cisco
5 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
6 2 (8.333%) Network Management
6 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
6 2 (8.333%) SLA
6 2 (8.333%) Finance
7 1 (4.167%) Information Management

Spreadsheet
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Spreadsheet 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 Spreadsheet. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.167%) MDX
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 5 (20.83%) MS Office
3 3 (12.50%) SPSS
3 3 (12.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (4.167%) MS Project
4 1 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Frame Relay
1 3 (12.50%) LAN
1 3 (12.50%) WAN
1 3 (12.50%) DHCP
1 3 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (4.167%) HTTP
2 1 (4.167%) IP Telephony
2 1 (4.167%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (4.167%) GIS
1 1 (4.167%) Data Mining
1 1 (4.167%) MS Access
1 1 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.167%) OLAP
1 1 (4.167%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Publishing
2 1 (4.167%) Games
2 1 (4.167%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Analyst
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) Information Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Network Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Information Governance Officer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Information Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Customer Support
4 2 (8.333%) MI Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Customer Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Support
4 2 (8.333%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Customer Support Engineer
4 2 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (8.333%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.167%) Service Desk Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) VBA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (37.50%) NHS
2 3 (12.50%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.167%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (4.167%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.167%) Statistics
3 1 (4.167%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.167%) Freedom of Information Act
3 1 (4.167%) Data Conversion
3 1 (4.167%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.333%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (12.50%) Data Management
1 3 (12.50%) Service Delivery
1 3 (12.50%) Time Management
1 3 (12.50%) Information Governance
2 2 (8.333%) Network Management
3 1 (4.167%) Information Management
3 1 (4.167%) Validation
3 1 (4.167%) Migration
3 1 (4.167%) Change Management
3 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (4.167%) EAM
3 1 (4.167%) Data Modelling
3 1 (4.167%) ETL
3 1 (4.167%) Supplier Management
3 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.167%) Asset Management
3 1 (4.167%) Performance Management
3 1 (4.167%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (4.167%) Data Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) VBA
3 1 (4.167%) PL/SQL
3 1 (4.167%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.333%) SLA
2 1 (4.167%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco
2 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle
3 1 (4.167%) Business Objects