Berkshire MS Office Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office over the last 3 months to 12 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blaenau Gwent Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bude Burgess Hill Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Daventry Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Droitwich Dudley Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Feltham Filton Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hitchin Huddersfield Hull Humberside Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leighton Buzzard Letchworth Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Maidenhead Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Middlewich Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Monmouth Monmouthshire Newbury Newcastle Newmarket Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perth and Kinross Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rhondda Cynon Taff Rickmansworth Romford Romsey Rotherham Rugby Salford Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stanford-le-Hope Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Ditton Tipton Tredegar Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wednesbury Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Workington York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	43	60
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	472	379
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.228 %	0.168 %
As % of the category below	30.67 %	21.74 %
Salaries quoted	382	308
Average minimum salary	£28,401	£28,629
Average salary	£30,569	£30,518
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum salary	£32,738	£32,407
UK excluding London average salary	£28,024	£27,728
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
Applications Berkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1539	1743
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.742 %	0.775 %
Salaries quoted	1215	1362
Average minimum salary	£32,563	£35,573
Average salary	£35,427	£37,965
% change on same period last year	-6.68 %
Average maximum salary	£38,292	£40,356
UK excluding London average salary	£32,641	£34,108
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
MS Office South East

MS Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing MS Office across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Office
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing MS Office across the Berkshire region.

MS Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

MS Office
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Reading	+5	143	£30,806	+1.05 %
2	Slough	+6	54	£32,591	+16.68 %
3	Maidenhead	+40	27	£26,152	+16.23 %
4	Bracknell	+9	26	£27,308	+5.29 %
5	Newbury	-15	18	£23,941	-15.54 %
6	Wokingham	-9	15	£40,520	+34.56 %
7	Windsor	+2	6	£26,333	+46.29 %
8	Hungerford	-3	4	£37,500	+25.00 %
9	Ascot	-	2	£26,500	-
10	Thatcham	+3	1	£15,000	-50.00 %

MS Office South East

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Office also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Office.

1 474 (51.13 %) Windows 2 442 (47.68 %) Microsoft 3 441 (47.57 %) MS Excel 4 221 (23.84 %) Windows XP 5 188 (20.28 %) MS Exchange 6 184 (19.85 %) Active Directory 7 142 (15.32 %) Finance 8 132 (14.24 %) SQL Server 9 118 (12.73 %) SQL 10 114 (12.30 %) Windows 2000 11 112 (12.08 %) Microsoft Certification 12 93 (10.03 %) TCP/IP 13 89 (9.601 %) SharePoint 14 88 (9.493 %) Oracle 15 86 (9.277 %) Internet

16 80 (8.630 %) .NET 16 80 (8.630 %) Windows NT 17 77 (8.306 %) Exchange Server 2003 18 76 (8.198 %) LAN 18 76 (8.198 %) VPN 18 76 (8.198 %) MS Project 19 72 (7.767 %) PRINCE2 20 70 (7.551 %) WAN 20 70 (7.551 %) Citrix 20 70 (7.551 %) Telecoms 21 68 (7.335 %) Project Management 21 68 (7.335 %) MCSE 22 67 (7.228 %) DNS 23 64 (6.904 %) Unix 24 63 (6.796 %) Degree

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing MS Office also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing MS Office. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 80 (8.630 %) .NET 2 45 (4.854 %) ASP 3 41 (4.423 %) XML 4 29 (3.128 %) HTML 5 28 (3.020 %) ASP.NET 6 27 (2.913 %) Windows SharePoint Services 7 18 (1.942 %) WebServices 8 9 (0.971 %) ADO.NET 9 8 (0.863 %) J2EE 10 6 (0.647 %) ADO 10 6 (0.647 %) Java EE 11 5 (0.539 %) JSP 11 5 (0.539 %) XSLT 12 4 (0.431 %) WSDL 12 4 (0.431 %) SOAP 12 4 (0.431 %) COM+ 12 4 (0.431 %) AJAX 12 4 (0.431 %) Oracle ADF 13 3 (0.324 %) .NET Framework 13 3 (0.324 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 188 (20.28 %) MS Exchange 2 89 (9.601 %) SharePoint 3 77 (8.306 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 61 (6.580 %) IIS 5 50 (5.394 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 48 (5.178 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 36 (3.883 %) Lotus Notes 8 27 (2.913 %) SharePoint Portal Server 9 26 (2.805 %) SAS 10 10 (1.079 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 9 (0.971 %) GroupWise 11 9 (0.971 %) Oracle Workflow 12 6 (0.647 %) ColdFusion 13 5 (0.539 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 4 (0.431 %) BizTalk Server 14 4 (0.431 %) Oracle 9iAS 14 4 (0.431 %) Oracle Application Server 15 3 (0.324 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 15 3 (0.324 %) Apache 15 3 (0.324 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 441 (47.57 %) MS Excel 2 76 (8.198 %) MS Project 3 39 (4.207 %) MS PowerPoint 4 27 (2.913 %) InfoPath 5 22 (2.373 %) MS Visio 6 15 (1.618 %) RoboHelp 6 15 (1.618 %) Paint Shop Pro 7 9 (0.971 %) Photoshop 8 7 (0.755 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 7 (0.755 %) InDesign 9 5 (0.539 %) Acrobat 10 3 (0.324 %) QuarkXPress 10 3 (0.324 %) ImageReady 10 3 (0.324 %) CA Clarity 11 2 (0.216 %) Fireworks 11 2 (0.216 %) SPSS 12 1 (0.108 %) DeltaView	Business Applications 1 9 (0.971 %) Oracle EBS 2 8 (0.863 %) Axapta 3 6 (0.647 %) SAP Business One 4 5 (0.539 %) GoldMine 5 2 (0.216 %) SalesLogix 5 2 (0.216 %) Dynamics AX 6 1 (0.108 %) Changepoint 6 1 (0.108 %) SAP SD 6 1 (0.108 %) SAP MM 6 1 (0.108 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 93 (10.03 %) TCP/IP 2 86 (9.277 %) Internet 3 76 (8.198 %) VPN 3 76 (8.198 %) LAN 4 70 (7.551 %) WAN 5 67 (7.228 %) DNS 6 34 (3.668 %) Firewall 7 23 (2.481 %) DHCP 8 19 (2.050 %) Intranet 9 11 (1.187 %) HTTP 10 10 (1.079 %) SAN 11 9 (0.971 %) HTTPS 11 9 (0.971 %) WINS 12 7 (0.755 %) WLAN 12 7 (0.755 %) DEFINITY 13 6 (0.647 %) MPLS 13 6 (0.647 %) SSL 13 6 (0.647 %) Ethernet 14 5 (0.539 %) Wireless 14 5 (0.539 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 132 (14.24 %) SQL Server 2 39 (4.207 %) SQL Server 2005 3 37 (3.991 %) SQL Server 2000 4 32 (3.452 %) BusinessObjects 5 26 (2.805 %) SQL Server 7 6 24 (2.589 %) TOAD 7 20 (2.157 %) Oracle 10g 8 18 (1.942 %) Datawarehouse 9 14 (1.510 %) Oracle 9i 10 11 (1.187 %) MS Access 11 9 (0.971 %) Crystal Reports 12 8 (0.863 %) DTS 13 7 (0.755 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 6 (0.647 %) Data Mining 14 6 (0.647 %) ETL 14 6 (0.647 %) RDBMS 15 4 (0.431 %) dBASE 15 4 (0.431 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 4 (0.431 %) Base SAS 16 2 (0.216 %) Data Cleansing
Development Applications 1 18 (1.942 %) Visual Studio 2 14 (1.510 %) PVCS 3 9 (0.971 %) Flash 4 4 (0.431 %) JDeveloper 4 4 (0.431 %) Oracle Forms 4 4 (0.431 %) Oracle APEX 5 3 (0.324 %) StarTeam 5 3 (0.324 %) Dreamweaver 6 2 (0.216 %) TestDirector 7 1 (0.108 %) LoadRunner 7 1 (0.108 %) MSI 7 1 (0.108 %) WinRunner 7 1 (0.108 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 1 (0.108 %) JIRA	General 1 142 (15.32 %) Finance 2 70 (7.551 %) Telecoms 3 50 (5.394 %) Pensions 4 48 (5.178 %) Marketing 5 46 (4.962 %) Retail 6 33 (3.560 %) Health 7 29 (3.128 %) Insurance 8 26 (2.805 %) Government 9 23 (2.481 %) Auditing 10 21 (2.265 %) Education 11 15 (1.618 %) Banking 12 12 (1.294 %) Legal 13 11 (1.187 %) Financial Institution 14 10 (1.079 %) Graphic Design 15 9 (0.971 %) Law 16 8 (0.863 %) Interactive Media 16 8 (0.863 %) Local Government 17 7 (0.755 %) Retail Banking 18 5 (0.539 %) Music 18 5 (0.539 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 328 (35.38 %) Analyst 2 137 (14.78 %) Support Analyst 3 112 (12.08 %) Helpdesk Analyst 4 94 (10.14 %) Helpdesk Support 5 89 (9.601 %) Desktop Support 6 75 (8.091 %) Support Engineer 7 61 (6.580 %) Developer 8 55 (5.933 %) 1st Line Support 9 52 (5.609 %) Project Manager 10 47 (5.070 %) 2nd Line Support 11 44 (4.746 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 12 41 (4.423 %) Technical Support 13 32 (3.452 %) Consultant 13 32 (3.452 %) Desktop Engineer 14 31 (3.344 %) Desktop Analyst 15 30 (3.236 %) Business Analyst 16 29 (3.128 %) Coordinator 17 27 (2.913 %) Systems Engineer 17 27 (2.913 %) Desktop Support Analyst 18 24 (2.589 %) Desktop Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 19 (2.050 %) Blackberry 2 16 (1.726 %) German Language 3 15 (1.618 %) Handset 4 13 (1.402 %) French Language 5 11 (1.187 %) Client/Server 6 9 (0.971 %) Tandem 7 8 (0.863 %) Computer Science 8 7 (0.755 %) Data Extraction 9 6 (0.647 %) Mainframe 10 5 (0.539 %) Asset Management 10 5 (0.539 %) Economics 10 5 (0.539 %) Mathematics 10 5 (0.539 %) Credit Risk 11 4 (0.431 %) Clustering 11 4 (0.431 %) Management Information System 11 4 (0.431 %) Replication 11 4 (0.431 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 3 (0.324 %) Market Risk 13 2 (0.216 %) PMI 13 2 (0.216 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 474 (51.13 %) Windows 2 221 (23.84 %) Windows XP 3 114 (12.30 %) Windows 2000 4 80 (8.630 %) Windows NT 5 64 (6.904 %) Unix 6 57 (6.149 %) Windows Server 2003 7 12 (1.294 %) NetWare 8 10 (1.079 %) Mac OS X 9 7 (0.755 %) Linux 10 1 (0.108 %) Solaris 10 1 (0.108 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 72 (7.767 %) PRINCE2 2 68 (7.335 %) Project Management 3 52 (5.609 %) ITIL 4 30 (3.236 %) CRM 5 28 (3.020 %) Configuration Management 6 26 (2.805 %) Web Development 7 22 (2.373 %) Document Management 7 22 (2.373 %) ERP 8 19 (2.050 %) OO 8 19 (2.050 %) Change Management 8 19 (2.050 %) Programme Management 8 19 (2.050 %) Project Planning 9 18 (1.942 %) Time Management 10 17 (1.834 %) RUP 11 16 (1.726 %) Business Intelligence 12 15 (1.618 %) SSADM 12 15 (1.618 %) Risk Management 13 14 (1.510 %) Workflow 13 14 (1.510 %) Service Delivery 14 13 (1.402 %) Quality Management
Programming Languages 1 118 (12.73 %) SQL 2 59 (6.365 %) VB 3 47 (5.070 %) C# 4 31 (3.344 %) VB.NET 5 24 (2.589 %) Java 6 23 (2.481 %) VBA 7 19 (2.050 %) C 8 17 (1.834 %) JavaScript 9 16 (1.726 %) PL/SQL 10 15 (1.618 %) Transact-SQL 11 14 (1.510 %) VB6 12 12 (1.294 %) C++ 13 10 (1.079 %) VBScript 14 6 (0.647 %) Delphi 15 3 (0.324 %) VC++ 16 1 (0.108 %) RPG 16 1 (0.108 %) DHTML 16 1 (0.108 %) Perl 16 1 (0.108 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 112 (12.08 %) Microsoft Certification 2 68 (7.335 %) MCSE 3 63 (6.796 %) Degree 4 56 (6.041 %) MCP 5 22 (2.373 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 17 (1.834 %) MCSA 7 15 (1.618 %) Cisco Certification 8 14 (1.510 %) CCNA 8 14 (1.510 %) ITIL Certification 9 8 (0.863 %) PMP 9 8 (0.863 %) PMI Certification 10 6 (0.647 %) A+ Certification 11 5 (0.539 %) NVQ Level 3 11 5 (0.539 %) CCA 11 5 (0.539 %) Citrix Certification 12 3 (0.324 %) ISEB 12 3 (0.324 %) CCSP 12 3 (0.324 %) MCSD 12 3 (0.324 %) ACCA 12 3 (0.324 %) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 53 (5.717 %) SLA 2 16 (1.726 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 3 13 (1.402 %) ISO9000 3 13 (1.402 %) ISO27001 4 8 (0.863 %) QA 5 4 (0.431 %) Basel II 6 2 (0.216 %) ISO17799	System Software 1 184 (19.85 %) Active Directory 2 22 (2.373 %) Terminal Services 3 14 (1.510 %) Terminal Server 4 12 (1.294 %) Backup Exec 5 10 (1.079 %) ISA Server 6 5 (0.539 %) MetaFrame 7 3 (0.324 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 2 (0.216 %) VMware ESX 9 1 (0.108 %) Oracle RAC 9 1 (0.108 %) Novell eDirectory 9 1 (0.108 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 23 (2.481 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 7 (0.755 %) ZENworks 2 7 (0.755 %) MOM 3 5 (0.539 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 5 (0.539 %) Unicenter 4 3 (0.324 %) ARCserve 4 3 (0.324 %) MAILsweeper 5 2 (0.216 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 1 (0.108 %) MIIS 6 1 (0.108 %) MIMEsweeper 6 1 (0.108 %) OpenView	Vendors 1 442 (47.68 %) Microsoft 2 88 (9.493 %) Oracle 3 70 (7.551 %) Citrix 4 36 (3.883 %) Lotus 5 32 (3.452 %) Business Objects 6 30 (3.236 %) Cisco 7 28 (3.020 %) VMware 8 26 (2.805 %) HP 9 21 (2.265 %) Novell 10 15 (1.618 %) Remedy 10 15 (1.618 %) Intel 11 14 (1.510 %) CheckPoint 12 12 (1.294 %) Siebel 13 11 (1.187 %) JD Edwards 13 11 (1.187 %) Planview 14 10 (1.079 %) Avaya 14 10 (1.079 %) Adobe 15 9 (0.971 %) Lucent 16 8 (0.863 %) VERITAS 17 7 (0.755 %) Symantec