The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 47 47 36
Rank change year-on-year
0 -11
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 75 57 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 4.412% 3.846% 4.464%
As % of the Applications category 27.08% 27.14% 24.69%
Number of salaries quoted 65 45 52
Average salary £31,000 £25,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.56% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,100 £20,700 £20,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £48,000 £54,750
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £29,500
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -
All Applications
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
277 210 243
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 16.29% 14.17% 18.08%
Number of salaries quoted 228 180 209
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.95%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,731 £33,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+3.67% -0.74%
MS Office
West Midlands

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

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

Birmingham MS Office Salary Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 122 (77.71%) Microsoft
2 73 (46.50%) Windows
3 68 (43.31%) MS Excel
4 42 (26.75%) SQL
5 37 (23.57%) Active Directory
6 32 (20.38%) Finance
7 31 (19.75%) MS Exchange
8 29 (18.47%) SharePoint
8 29 (18.47%) SQL Server
9 25 (15.92%) .NET
9 25 (15.92%) Visual Studio
10 23 (14.65%) Windows XP
11 22 (14.01%) Windows 7
12 21 (13.38%) Blackberry
13 20 (12.74%) Windows Server 2003
13 20 (12.74%) ITIL
13 20 (12.74%) C#
14 19 (12.10%) Citrix
14 19 (12.10%) Windows Server 2008
15 18 (11.46%) Degree
16 17 (10.83%) SQL Server 2008
17 16 (10.19%) Project Management
17 16 (10.19%) LAN
17 16 (10.19%) HTML
17 16 (10.19%) ASP.NET
17 16 (10.19%) SharePoint 2010
18 15 (9.554%) IIS
18 15 (9.554%) CSS
18 15 (9.554%) T-SQL
18 15 (9.554%) VB.NET

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 25 (15.92%) .NET
2 16 (10.19%) HTML
2 16 (10.19%) ASP.NET
3 15 (9.554%) CSS
4 14 (8.917%) Silverlight
5 13 (8.280%) WCF
5 13 (8.280%) .NET Framework
6 12 (7.643%) Ajax
6 12 (7.643%) ADO.NET
6 12 (7.643%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 12 (7.643%) WPF
6 12 (7.643%) WF
7 6 (3.822%) XML
7 6 (3.822%) COM
8 4 (2.548%) Middleware
9 3 (1.911%) X-Windows
10 2 (1.274%) MDX
11 1 (0.637%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (0.637%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 1 (0.637%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
Application Platforms
1 31 (19.75%) MS Exchange
2 29 (18.47%) SharePoint
3 16 (10.19%) SharePoint 2010
4 15 (9.554%) IIS
4 15 (9.554%) SAS
5 13 (8.280%) BizTalk Server
6 12 (7.643%) SharePoint Foundation
6 12 (7.643%) SharePoint Server
7 11 (7.006%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (3.822%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (3.185%) Exchange Server 2007
9 5 (3.185%) Lotus Notes
10 4 (2.548%) CMS
11 2 (1.274%) WorkSite
11 2 (1.274%) Exchange Server 2000
11 2 (1.274%) Lync
12 1 (0.637%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.637%) Windows Azure
12 1 (0.637%) Moodle
12 1 (0.637%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 68 (43.31%) MS Excel
2 14 (8.917%) InfoPath
3 13 (8.280%) MS PowerPoint
4 10 (6.369%) MS Project
5 5 (3.185%) Photoshop
6 3 (1.911%) MS Visio
7 2 (1.274%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 3 (1.911%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (1.911%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 16 (10.19%) LAN
2 15 (9.554%) WAN
3 9 (5.732%) Intranet
3 9 (5.732%) MPLS
3 9 (5.732%) DSL
4 6 (3.822%) Firewall
4 6 (3.822%) TCP/IP
5 5 (3.185%) VPN
6 3 (1.911%) DNS
6 3 (1.911%) SSL
6 3 (1.911%) IP Telephony
7 2 (1.274%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (1.274%) Wireless
7 2 (1.274%) DHCP
7 2 (1.274%) HTTP
7 2 (1.274%) 3G
7 2 (1.274%) Unified Communications
8 1 (0.637%) Network Security
8 1 (0.637%) VoIP
8 1 (0.637%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (18.47%) SQL Server
2 17 (10.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (8.280%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (3.822%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (3.822%) Base SAS
5 5 (3.185%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (3.185%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (2.548%) Data Mining
7 3 (1.911%) SAP Data Services
7 3 (1.911%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.911%) MS Access
7 3 (1.911%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (1.911%) BODI
7 3 (1.911%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (1.274%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.637%) SAS Enterprise Guide
9 1 (0.637%) PerformancePoint
9 1 (0.637%) QlikView
9 1 (0.637%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.637%) DB2
Development Applications
1 25 (15.92%) Visual Studio
2 13 (8.280%) MSBuild
2 13 (8.280%) Visual Studio Team System
2 13 (8.280%) NUnit
2 13 (8.280%) CruiseControl
3 1 (0.637%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.637%) InstallShield
3 1 (0.637%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 32 (20.38%) Finance
2 11 (7.006%) Telecoms
2 11 (7.006%) Law
2 11 (7.006%) Legal
3 7 (4.459%) Manufacturing
4 6 (3.822%) Advertising
4 6 (3.822%) Banking
5 4 (2.548%) Marketing
6 3 (1.911%) Billing
7 2 (1.274%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.637%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (0.637%) Cantonese Language
8 1 (0.637%) Dutch Language
8 1 (0.637%) French Language
8 1 (0.637%) German Language
8 1 (0.637%) Polish Language
8 1 (0.637%) Retail
8 1 (0.637%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.637%) Games
Job Titles
1 52 (33.12%) Analyst
2 23 (14.65%) Support Analyst
3 17 (10.83%) Developer
4 15 (9.554%) Support Engineer
5 11 (7.006%) SharePoint Developer
6 10 (6.369%) 2nd Line Support
7 8 (5.096%) Service Analyst
7 8 (5.096%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (5.096%) Coordinator
7 8 (5.096%) Desktop Support
8 7 (4.459%) Senior Analyst
9 6 (3.822%) Applications Support
9 6 (3.822%) Help Desk Support
9 6 (3.822%) Report Analyst
9 6 (3.822%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (3.822%) Project Manager
9 6 (3.822%) Technical Support
9 6 (3.822%) IT Support
9 6 (3.822%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
10 5 (3.185%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 21 (13.38%) Blackberry
2 6 (3.822%) Data Conversion
3 5 (3.185%) Credit Risk
4 3 (1.911%) Computer Science
4 3 (1.911%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.274%) Economics
5 2 (1.274%) Mathematics
5 2 (1.274%) iPhone
6 1 (0.637%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (0.637%) iSeries
6 1 (0.637%) Social Media
6 1 (0.637%) Xserve
6 1 (0.637%) Graphic Design
6 1 (0.637%) PDA
6 1 (0.637%) Derivative
6 1 (0.637%) Statistics
6 1 (0.637%) Online Games
6 1 (0.637%) EPoS
6 1 (0.637%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.637%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 73 (46.50%) Windows
2 23 (14.65%) Windows XP
3 22 (14.01%) Windows 7
4 20 (12.74%) Windows Server 2003
5 19 (12.10%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (4.459%) UNIX
6 7 (4.459%) Windows 2000
7 4 (2.548%) Mac OS X
7 4 (2.548%) Windows Vista
8 2 (1.274%) Linux
9 1 (0.637%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.637%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.637%) Windows Phone
9 1 (0.637%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.637%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (12.74%) ITIL
2 16 (10.19%) Project Management
3 14 (8.917%) OO
4 13 (8.280%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (8.280%) MSF
4 13 (8.280%) OOA/OOD
4 13 (8.280%) UML
4 13 (8.280%) RUP
4 13 (8.280%) Unified Process
4 13 (8.280%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (7.643%) Problem Management
6 11 (7.006%) Migration
7 9 (5.732%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (5.732%) PRINCE2
7 9 (5.732%) Six Sigma
7 9 (5.732%) Risk Management
7 9 (5.732%) Data Analysis
8 7 (4.459%) Service Delivery
9 6 (3.822%) Change Management
9 6 (3.822%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 42 (26.75%) SQL
2 20 (12.74%) C#
3 15 (9.554%) T-SQL
3 15 (9.554%) VB.NET
4 13 (8.280%) JavaScript
5 4 (2.548%) VB
6 3 (1.911%) Perl
6 3 (1.911%) VBA
7 2 (1.274%) VBScript
8 1 (0.637%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.637%) PHP
8 1 (0.637%) RPG
Qualifications
1 18 (11.46%) Degree
2 13 (8.280%) SC Cleared
2 13 (8.280%) DV Cleared
2 13 (8.280%) Security Cleared
3 6 (3.822%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.185%) Six Sigma Black Belt
5 4 (2.548%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.911%) MCITP
6 3 (1.911%) MCP
7 2 (1.274%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (1.274%) MCSE
7 2 (1.274%) MCSA
7 2 (1.274%) PMP
7 2 (1.274%) PMI Certification
7 2 (1.274%) MCTS
7 2 (1.274%) MCDST
8 1 (0.637%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.637%) Six Sigma Green Belt
8 1 (0.637%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.637%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.732%) SLA
2 5 (3.185%) ISO 9000
3 4 (2.548%) QA
4 1 (0.637%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (23.57%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.369%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.911%) XenApp
4 2 (1.274%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.274%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (1.274%) Xen
4 2 (1.274%) vSphere
5 1 (0.637%) VMware Server
5 1 (0.637%) ISA Server
5 1 (0.637%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 9 (5.732%) WSUS
2 2 (1.274%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.274%) SCCM
2 2 (1.274%) SCOM
2 2 (1.274%) WMI
Vendors
1 122 (77.71%) Microsoft
2 19 (12.10%) Citrix
3 14 (8.917%) VMware
4 12 (7.643%) Cisco
5 8 (5.096%) Oracle
6 7 (4.459%) Cognos
7 6 (3.822%) Business Objects
8 5 (3.185%) Lotus
9 4 (2.548%) Avaya
9 4 (2.548%) Adobe
10 3 (1.911%) DevExpress
10 3 (1.911%) Planview
10 3 (1.911%) LANDesk
10 3 (1.911%) Apple
11 2 (1.274%) NEC
11 2 (1.274%) HP
11 2 (1.274%) Sophos
12 1 (0.637%) Iron Mountain
12 1 (0.637%) Dialogic
12 1 (0.637%) Mentor Graphics
Birmingham, West Midlands
You will need the following technical experience: Proficient with working in a Microsoft Windows environment, Microsoft Office suite: Outlook, Word, Excel/Query, etc., Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008.
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £22000.00 - £25000.00 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
This is a junior post within the rapidly growing group of Client Support at a leading digital marketing company... * Norwegian required in addition to English; * Solutions oriented with...
Bluetownonline
Salary: + BENEFITS
Posted: 21 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £19000 - £22000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £20000 - £22000 per annum + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
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The details of responsibilities and duties would be based around the following key areas below.Key areas of responsibility:Maintenance and support of:*Dream and other key financial...
Hudson
Salary: £25000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £20000 - £22500 per annum + Car, pension
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
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Salary: £25000 - £33000.00 per annum
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