The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office 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 Office over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 34 - 36
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 18 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 5.085% - 4.255%
As % of the Applications category 58.06% - 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 10
Average salary £35,000 - £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £24,750 - £17,700
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
All Applications
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
31 7 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 8.757% 4.375% 12.77%
Number of salaries quoted 18 7 29
Average salary £30,000 £22,807 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.54% -19.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,050 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £45,000 £28,450
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -
MS Office
Cheshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the Chester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Chester MS Office Salary Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 8 (34.78%) Windows
3 8 (34.78%) Flash
3 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
4 7 (30.43%) MS Visio
4 7 (30.43%) Banking
5 6 (26.09%) Retail
5 6 (26.09%) E-Commerce
5 6 (26.09%) UNIX
5 6 (26.09%) Internet
6 5 (21.74%) Financial Institution
6 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
6 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (21.74%) HTML
6 5 (21.74%) PHP
6 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 5 (21.74%) CSS
6 5 (21.74%) ITIL
6 5 (21.74%) Adobe
6 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
6 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
6 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
6 5 (21.74%) Retail Banking
6 5 (21.74%) Private Banking
6 5 (21.74%) Online Banking
6 5 (21.74%) Marketing
6 5 (21.74%) Wealth Management
6 5 (21.74%) Internet Marketing
6 5 (21.74%) Investment Management

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 8 (34.78%) Flash
2 5 (21.74%) HTML
2 5 (21.74%) CSS
2 5 (21.74%) HTML5
3 3 (13.04%) ISPF
4 2 (8.696%) ODBC
5 1 (4.348%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) WordPress
1 5 (21.74%) Magento
2 2 (8.696%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (34.78%) MS Excel
2 7 (30.43%) MS Visio
3 4 (17.39%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (13.04%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Internet
2 3 (13.04%) Firewall
3 1 (4.348%) ATM
3 1 (4.348%) Broadband
3 1 (4.348%) ISDN
3 1 (4.348%) LAN
3 1 (4.348%) VoIP
3 1 (4.348%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (13.04%) DB2
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (13.04%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle 9i
3 2 (8.696%) Base SAS
3 2 (8.696%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) ChangeMan
General
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 6 (26.09%) Retail
4 5 (21.74%) Financial Institution
4 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Retail Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Private Banking
4 5 (21.74%) Marketing
5 2 (8.696%) Automotive
5 2 (8.696%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.348%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Web Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Incident Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Management Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) DBA
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle DBA
4 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse Manager
4 2 (8.696%) MI Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Desktop Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Support Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Desktop Support Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Online Banking
1 5 (21.74%) Mobile App
2 3 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 3 (13.04%) Replication
3 2 (8.696%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.348%) AS400
4 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
4 1 (4.348%) Clustering
4 1 (4.348%) iPhone
4 1 (4.348%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 8 (34.78%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) UNIX
3 5 (21.74%) Android
3 5 (21.74%) Apple iOS
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (17.39%) AIX
5 2 (8.696%) Windows XP
6 1 (4.348%) Tru64
6 1 (4.348%) Linux
6 1 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) E-Commerce
2 5 (21.74%) Risk Management
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL
2 5 (21.74%) Asset Management
2 5 (21.74%) Incident Management
2 5 (21.74%) Wealth Management
2 5 (21.74%) Internet Marketing
2 5 (21.74%) Investment Management
2 5 (21.74%) Mobile Application Development
3 4 (17.39%) Time Management
3 4 (17.39%) Project Management
4 3 (13.04%) Migration
4 3 (13.04%) Release Management
4 3 (13.04%) High Availability
4 3 (13.04%) Database Security
4 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (13.04%) Capacity Management
4 3 (13.04%) Analytics
5 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
5 2 (8.696%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) PHP
1 5 (21.74%) SQL
2 3 (13.04%) JCL
3 2 (8.696%) SAS Macro
4 1 (4.348%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.348%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (13.04%) OCP
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (8.696%) Degree
3 1 (4.348%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle RMAN
1 3 (13.04%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.696%) XenApp
2 2 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (8.696%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.348%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Tivoli
1 3 (13.04%) CA Endevor
1 3 (13.04%) Data Guard
2 2 (8.696%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (56.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (21.74%) Adobe
3 3 (13.04%) Veritas
3 3 (13.04%) Oracle
3 3 (13.04%) Sun
4 2 (8.696%) VMware
4 2 (8.696%) Hitachi
4 2 (8.696%) Citrix
4 2 (8.696%) Symantec
5 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
Chester, Cheshire
The role will report to a Project Manager on the application compatibility and packaging project for a Windows 7 desktop migration programme... Use of MS-Office suite inclusive...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Chester, North West
Job Title: Senior Analyst - Risk and Marketing OptimisationLocation: CheshireSalary: ExcellentOverviewWork with a wide range of business areas to develop and implement complex mathematical solutions to help enhance their...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: GBP0 per annum + Benefits: Bonus and benefits
Posted: 12 May 2013
Chester, North West
Job Title: Senior Statistical Analyst -OptimisationLocation: CheshireSalary: NegotiableOverviewWork with a wide range of business areas to develop and implement complex mathematical solutions to help enhance their strategies through...
Aspire Data Recruitment
Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 28 April 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Business / Systems analysis skills... And/or junior project management experience... Experience of project management software. Good skills in Microsoft Office Products... Visio) Understanding of a formal project management...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013