The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 24 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 14 17 17
Rank change year-on-year
+3 0
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 47 22 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 18.73% 10.89% 12.80%
As % of the Applications category 90.38% 64.71% 91.30%
Number of salaries quoted 46 20 20
Average salary £37,500 £22,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+66.66% -30.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £20,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £32,500 £44,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Applications
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
52 34 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 20.72% 16.83% 14.02%
Number of salaries quoted 51 31 22
Average salary £37,500 £24,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.25% -26.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,350 £21,500 £21,800
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £44,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,731 £33,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+3.67% -0.74%
MS Excel
Bedfordshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Bedford region.

Bedford MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedford MS Excel Salary Histogram

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MS Excel.

1 52 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 39 (60.94%) .NET
3 38 (59.38%) SQL Server
3 38 (59.38%) SQL
4 36 (56.25%) C#
5 30 (46.88%) T-SQL
6 29 (45.31%) MVC
7 28 (43.75%) XML
8 27 (42.19%) Windows
9 25 (39.06%) WinForms
10 24 (37.50%) CSS
11 23 (35.94%) Scrum
11 23 (35.94%) WPF
12 21 (32.81%) Silverlight
12 21 (32.81%) Visual Studio Team System
12 21 (32.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 21 (32.81%) HTML
12 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
12 21 (32.81%) Crystal Reports
13 18 (28.13%) Web Services
13 18 (28.13%) ASP.NET
13 18 (28.13%) TDD
13 18 (28.13%) SQL Server 2008
13 18 (28.13%) Team Foundation Server
13 18 (28.13%) WCF
13 18 (28.13%) WF
14 17 (26.56%) MSTest
15 16 (25.00%) .NET Framework
16 14 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
17 13 (20.31%) NUnit

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited MS Excel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (60.94%) .NET
2 28 (43.75%) XML
3 25 (39.06%) WinForms
4 24 (37.50%) CSS
5 23 (35.94%) WPF
6 21 (32.81%) Silverlight
6 21 (32.81%) HTML
7 18 (28.13%) Web Services
7 18 (28.13%) ASP.NET
7 18 (28.13%) WCF
7 18 (28.13%) WF
8 16 (25.00%) .NET Framework
9 10 (15.63%) ASP
10 8 (12.50%) LINQ
10 8 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 5 (7.813%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (6.250%) Ajax
13 3 (4.688%) XSLT
13 3 (4.688%) ADO.NET
13 3 (4.688%) LINQ to SQL
Application Platforms
1 11 (17.19%) SharePoint
2 6 (9.375%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (7.813%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (6.250%) SharePoint 2013
4 4 (6.250%) MS Exchange
5 3 (4.688%) Windows Azure
6 2 (3.125%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (4.688%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 9 (14.06%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) SAN
2 6 (9.375%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.250%) Network Security
3 4 (6.250%) HTTPS
3 4 (6.250%) HTTP
3 4 (6.250%) DNS
4 3 (4.688%) VLAN
5 2 (3.125%) Firewall
5 2 (3.125%) Internet
5 2 (3.125%) DHCP
5 2 (3.125%) VPN
5 2 (3.125%) SSL
6 1 (1.563%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.563%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (59.38%) SQL Server
2 21 (32.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 21 (32.81%) Crystal Reports
3 18 (28.13%) SQL Server 2008
4 9 (14.06%) RDBMS
5 8 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (10.94%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (9.375%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (9.375%) SQL Server 2012
8 4 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (4.688%) MS Access
9 3 (4.688%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (3.125%) Oracle 11g
10 2 (3.125%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (3.125%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (32.81%) Visual Studio Team System
2 18 (28.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 17 (26.56%) MSTest
4 13 (20.31%) NUnit
5 12 (18.75%) Visual Studio
6 8 (12.50%) Moq
6 8 (12.50%) JIRA
6 8 (12.50%) PowerBuilder
7 6 (9.375%) Subversion
8 4 (6.250%) TestComplete
9 3 (4.688%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 2 (3.125%) Legal
2 1 (1.563%) Billing
2 1 (1.563%) Finance
2 1 (1.563%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 27 (42.19%) Developer
2 9 (14.06%) Analyst
3 8 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 8 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 8 (12.50%) Test Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) QA Engineer
4 7 (10.94%) Test Analyst
5 5 (7.813%) Server Administrator
5 5 (7.813%) SQL Server DBA
5 5 (7.813%) Team Leader
5 5 (7.813%) Development Team Leader
5 5 (7.813%) SQL DBA
5 5 (7.813%) DBA
5 5 (7.813%) Administrator
5 5 (7.813%) Teradata DBA
5 5 (7.813%) .NET Team Leader
6 4 (6.250%) Web Team Leader
6 4 (6.250%) Data Centre Specialist
6 4 (6.250%) Development Consultant
6 4 (6.250%) Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Wiki
1 8 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 5 (7.813%) Clustering
3 1 (1.563%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.563%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 27 (42.19%) Windows
2 5 (7.813%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (7.813%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (6.250%) Windows Vista
3 4 (6.250%) Windows 7
3 4 (6.250%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (45.31%) MVC
2 23 (35.94%) Scrum
3 18 (28.13%) TDD
4 14 (21.88%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (20.31%) Project Management
6 9 (14.06%) CRM
6 9 (14.06%) OO
6 9 (14.06%) Multithreading
6 9 (14.06%) System Testing
6 9 (14.06%) Kanban
7 7 (10.94%) Software Testing
8 5 (7.813%) OOD
8 5 (7.813%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (7.813%) Knowledge Management
8 5 (7.813%) Incident Management
9 4 (6.250%) Unit Testing
9 4 (6.250%) Domain-Driven Design
9 4 (6.250%) Automation Testing
9 4 (6.250%) Software Engineering
9 4 (6.250%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 38 (59.38%) SQL
2 36 (56.25%) C#
3 30 (46.88%) T-SQL
4 21 (32.81%) JavaScript
5 8 (12.50%) VBScript
6 4 (6.250%) VB6
6 4 (6.250%) VB
6 4 (6.250%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.688%) VBA
Qualifications
1 7 (10.94%) ISEB
1 7 (10.94%) ISTQB
2 4 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (4.688%) MCSE
3 3 (4.688%) MCP
3 3 (4.688%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (4.688%) CCNA
4 2 (3.125%) CCSP
4 2 (3.125%) CCNP
4 2 (3.125%) CCIP
5 1 (1.563%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.94%) QA
2 1 (1.563%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (7.813%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.250%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (6.250%) Forefront TMG
2 4 (6.250%) UAG
2 4 (6.250%) ISA Server
3 2 (3.125%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.563%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.563%) vSphere
Vendors
1 52 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 10 (15.63%) Oracle
3 5 (7.813%) Salesforce.com
3 5 (7.813%) VMware
3 5 (7.813%) Nimsoft
4 4 (6.250%) Capita
4 4 (6.250%) Telerik
5 3 (4.688%) Cisco
5 3 (4.688%) Typemock
6 2 (3.125%) Citrix
7 1 (1.563%) HP
Bedford, South East
We are currently engaged in a major project to replace bespoke legacy systems with Microsoft Dynamics CRM and SharePoint 2013... Essential Experience/Skills: We are looking for someone...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bedford, South East
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 25 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
The Ideal skill set will include DNS Services, Microsoft Exchange 2007 /2010 and SharePoint services 2007 / 2010. You will have ideally had experience in installing, usage and/or...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Technical Lead Developer / Solution Architect (Microsoft Gold Partner - C#, ASP.Net, WCF, MVC) We are looking for a Technical Lead, Lead Developer or Solution Architect with good experience...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013