The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 38 36 43
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +7
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 13 2 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 3.846% 1.282% 4.762%
As % of the Applications category 43.33% 33.33% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 11
Average salary £30,000 £31,225 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.92% +7.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,625 £29,005 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,750 £33,445 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Applications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
30 6 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 8.876% 3.846% 12.70%
Number of salaries quoted 15 6 31
Average salary £30,000 £22,807 £25,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.54% -9.67%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,550 £22,807 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £51,500 £45,000 £29,005
UK excluding London average salary £34,731 £33,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+3.67% -0.74%
MS Excel
Cheshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

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

Chester MS Excel Salary Histogram

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 11 (47.83%) .NET
3 10 (43.48%) C#
3 10 (43.48%) Finance
4 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
4 9 (39.13%) SQL
4 9 (39.13%) MS Office
5 8 (34.78%) Visual Studio
5 8 (34.78%) ASP.NET
5 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
5 8 (34.78%) Windows
5 8 (34.78%) Retail
6 7 (30.43%) Banking
6 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
6 7 (30.43%) jQuery
6 7 (30.43%) UNIX
6 7 (30.43%) MVC
7 6 (26.09%) Web Services
7 6 (26.09%) HTML
7 6 (26.09%) WCF
7 6 (26.09%) Ajax
8 5 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
8 5 (21.74%) MS PowerPoint
8 5 (21.74%) Retail Banking
8 5 (21.74%) Private Banking
8 5 (21.74%) Online Banking
8 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
8 5 (21.74%) Wealth Management

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 11 (47.83%) .NET
2 8 (34.78%) ASP.NET
3 7 (30.43%) .NET Framework
3 7 (30.43%) jQuery
4 6 (26.09%) Web Services
4 6 (26.09%) HTML
4 6 (26.09%) WCF
4 6 (26.09%) Ajax
5 5 (21.74%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (21.74%) CSS
6 4 (17.39%) SOAP
6 4 (17.39%) XML
6 4 (17.39%) ISPF
7 2 (8.696%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (8.696%) ODBC
7 2 (8.696%) LINQ
7 2 (8.696%) WPF
7 2 (8.696%) WinForms
8 1 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) SAS
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (39.13%) MS Office
2 5 (21.74%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (17.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.348%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) VLAN
1 1 (4.348%) iSCSI
1 1 (4.348%) Firewall
1 1 (4.348%) Intranet
1 1 (4.348%) ATM
1 1 (4.348%) LAN
1 1 (4.348%) WAN
1 1 (4.348%) DHCP
1 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.348%) VPN
1 1 (4.348%) DNS
1 1 (4.348%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (34.78%) SQL Server
2 7 (30.43%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (17.39%) DB2
3 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (8.696%) MySQL
4 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (8.696%) Base SAS
4 2 (8.696%) Data Mart
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Visual Studio
2 5 (21.74%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (17.39%) ChangeMan
4 2 (8.696%) MSTest
General
1 10 (43.48%) Finance
2 8 (34.78%) Retail
3 7 (30.43%) Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Retail Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Private Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.696%) Back Office
5 2 (8.696%) Automotive
5 2 (8.696%) Marketing
6 1 (4.348%) Local Government
6 1 (4.348%) Billing
Job Titles
1 11 (47.83%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) .NET Developer
3 5 (21.74%) Incident Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Analyst
4 4 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) Management Consultant
4 4 (17.39%) C# Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse Manager
5 2 (8.696%) MI Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Data Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Services Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Service Manager
6 1 (4.348%) SQL DBA
6 1 (4.348%) Sales Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.348%) Business Manager
6 1 (4.348%) UI Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Online Banking
1 5 (21.74%) SaaS
2 2 (8.696%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.348%) Clustering
3 1 (4.348%) iPhone
3 1 (4.348%) EqualLogic
3 1 (4.348%) N-Tier
3 1 (4.348%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 7 (30.43%) UNIX
3 4 (17.39%) AIX
4 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.348%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) MVC
2 5 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
2 5 (21.74%) Wealth Management
2 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
2 5 (21.74%) Investment Management
2 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
3 4 (17.39%) Time Management
3 4 (17.39%) Unit Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Web Development
4 3 (13.04%) OO
4 3 (13.04%) ITIL
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 2 (8.696%) Data Security
5 2 (8.696%) Business Development
5 2 (8.696%) Business Analysis
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Analysis
6 1 (4.348%) Migration
6 1 (4.348%) Problem Management
6 1 (4.348%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 10 (43.48%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) JavaScript
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 5 (21.74%) C
4 4 (17.39%) JCL
4 4 (17.39%) Java
4 4 (17.39%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.696%) SAS Macro
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.348%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.348%) CCSP
2 1 (4.348%) VTSP
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.348%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.348%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Tivoli
1 4 (17.39%) CA Endevor
2 1 (4.348%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.348%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.348%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) Hitachi
2 2 (8.696%) Citrix
2 2 (8.696%) VMware
3 1 (4.348%) Sun
3 1 (4.348%) HP
3 1 (4.348%) Dell
3 1 (4.348%) NetApp
3 1 (4.348%) Oracle
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