City of London MS Office Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the City of London 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 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Andover Ascot Avon Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Billericay Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bodmin Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Colchester Corby Cornwall Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunbartonshire Dundee Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epping Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Haverhill Hayes Haywards Heath Heanor Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hitchin Hoddesdon Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kettering Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Market Drayton Market Harborough Melksham Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Neath Port Talbot New Malden New Milton Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Retford Rickmansworth Ripon Romford Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Saffron Walden Salford Salisbury Scarborough Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Templecombe Thames Ditton Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Tring Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weybridge Whitehaven Whitstable Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	48	40
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	740	809
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.428 %	0.348 %
As % of the category below	34.77 %	39.48 %
Salaries quoted	633	662
Average minimum salary	£31,238	£38,185
Average salary	£33,519	£40,203
% change on same period last year	-16.62 %
Average maximum salary	£35,800	£42,221
UK excluding London average salary	£28,799	£27,828
% change on same period last year	+3.48 %
Applications City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	2128	2049
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.232 %	0.882 %
Salaries quoted	1855	1625
Average minimum salary	£37,588	£42,502
Average salary	£41,056	£45,920
% change on same period last year	-10.59 %
Average maximum salary	£44,524	£49,337
UK excluding London average salary	£33,370	£33,501
% change on same period last year	-0.39 %
MS Office London

MS Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MS Office across the City of London 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 citing MS Office across the City of London region.

MS Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 788 (48.58 %) Windows 2 775 (47.78 %) MS Excel 3 696 (42.91 %) Microsoft 4 511 (31.50 %) Finance 5 457 (28.18 %) Active Directory 6 419 (25.83 %) Windows XP 7 408 (25.15 %) Law 8 387 (23.86 %) Legal 9 278 (17.14 %) Windows Server 2003 10 271 (16.71 %) Banking 11 234 (14.43 %) SQL 12 207 (12.76 %) MS Exchange 13 190 (11.71 %) Blackberry 14 182 (11.22 %) MOS 15 180 (11.10 %) Windows 2000

16 178 (10.97 %) Document Management 17 174 (10.73 %) Microsoft Certification 18 163 (10.05 %) SQL Server 19 142 (8.755 %) TCP/IP 20 137 (8.446 %) MS PowerPoint 21 132 (8.138 %) Exchange Server 2003 21 132 (8.138 %) ITIL 22 129 (7.953 %) .NET 23 118 (7.275 %) Insurance 24 114 (7.028 %) Investment Banking 24 114 (7.028 %) MCSE 25 111 (6.843 %) Degree 26 110 (6.782 %) VBA 27 104 (6.412 %) Interwoven 28 103 (6.350 %) Citrix

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the City of London 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 1 129 (7.953 %) .NET 2 62 (3.822 %) XML 3 58 (3.576 %) ASP.NET 4 38 (2.343 %) XSL 5 32 (1.973 %) HTML 6 19 (1.171 %) CSS 7 14 (0.863 %) .NET Framework 8 11 (0.678 %) DCOM 8 11 (0.678 %) ATL 8 11 (0.678 %) MFC 9 9 (0.555 %) ASP 9 9 (0.555 %) WebServices 9 9 (0.555 %) XHTML 10 8 (0.493 %) J2EE 10 8 (0.493 %) Application Packaging 11 6 (0.370 %) Windows SharePoint Services 11 6 (0.370 %) Spring 12 5 (0.308 %) Middleware 13 4 (0.247 %) WebSphere 14 3 (0.185 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 207 (12.76 %) MS Exchange 2 132 (8.138 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 98 (6.042 %) SharePoint 4 90 (5.549 %) Lotus Notes 5 55 (3.391 %) WorkSite 6 35 (2.158 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 29 (1.788 %) IIS 8 22 (1.356 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 21 (1.295 %) CMS 9 21 (1.295 %) Documentum 10 15 (0.925 %) Exchange Server 2007 11 11 (0.678 %) Lotus Domino 12 8 (0.493 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 13 5 (0.308 %) Office Communications Server 13 5 (0.308 %) SharePoint Portal Server 14 4 (0.247 %) WebLogic 15 3 (0.185 %) Apache 15 3 (0.185 %) MQSeries 16 2 (0.123 %) ColdFusion 16 2 (0.123 %) BizTalk Server
Applications 1 775 (47.78 %) MS Excel 2 137 (8.446 %) MS PowerPoint 3 74 (4.562 %) MS Project 4 47 (2.898 %) MS Visio 5 32 (1.973 %) DeltaView 6 13 (0.801 %) Acrobat 7 10 (0.617 %) Spreadsheet 8 6 (0.370 %) InfoPath 8 6 (0.370 %) CA Clarity 8 6 (0.370 %) Photoshop 9 4 (0.247 %) AutoCAD 10 2 (0.123 %) SPSS 11 1 (0.062 %) Open Workbench 11 1 (0.062 %) Adobe Illustrator 11 1 (0.062 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 8 (0.493 %) assyst 2 6 (0.370 %) Remedy AR System 3 5 (0.308 %) SoftGrid 4 3 (0.185 %) Kondor+ 4 3 (0.185 %) SalesLogix 5 2 (0.123 %) Capstone 5 2 (0.123 %) Minerva 6 1 (0.062 %) Summit 6 1 (0.062 %) Microsoft CRM 6 1 (0.062 %) WebTrends 6 1 (0.062 %) Oracle CRM 6 1 (0.062 %) Oracle ERP 6 1 (0.062 %) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking 1 142 (8.755 %) TCP/IP 2 81 (4.994 %) Internet 3 75 (4.624 %) LAN 4 62 (3.822 %) WAN 5 59 (3.637 %) DNS 6 49 (3.021 %) DHCP 7 47 (2.898 %) VoIP 8 40 (2.466 %) VPN 9 35 (2.158 %) SAN 9 35 (2.158 %) Intranet 10 32 (1.973 %) Firewall 11 24 (1.480 %) Wireless 12 12 (0.740 %) IP Telephony 13 11 (0.678 %) VLAN 13 11 (0.678 %) 3G 14 10 (0.617 %) SMTP 15 7 (0.432 %) Ethernet 15 7 (0.432 %) Cisco PIX 16 6 (0.370 %) Network Security 16 6 (0.370 %) MPLS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 163 (10.05 %) SQL Server 2 28 (1.726 %) SQL Server 2000 3 18 (1.110 %) Crystal Reports 4 16 (0.986 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 15 (0.925 %) SQL Server 2005 5 15 (0.925 %) Datawarehouse 6 14 (0.863 %) OLAP 6 14 (0.863 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 6 14 (0.863 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 7 12 (0.740 %) BusinessObjects 8 10 (0.617 %) RDBMS 9 9 (0.555 %) DTS 10 8 (0.493 %) MS Access 11 6 (0.370 %) MySQL 12 5 (0.308 %) Informix 13 4 (0.247 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 4 (0.247 %) Oracle 10g 13 4 (0.247 %) ETL 14 3 (0.185 %) UniData 15 2 (0.123 %) BusinessObjects XI
Development Applications 1 17 (1.048 %) Visual Studio 2 12 (0.740 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 11 (0.678 %) ClearCase 4 9 (0.555 %) NUnit 5 7 (0.432 %) FrontPage 5 7 (0.432 %) TestDirector 6 6 (0.370 %) Flash 6 6 (0.370 %) RequisitePro 7 4 (0.247 %) ERwin 7 4 (0.247 %) JIRA 7 4 (0.247 %) SilkPerformer 7 4 (0.247 %) SilkTest 7 4 (0.247 %) QuickTest Pro 7 4 (0.247 %) MSI 8 3 (0.185 %) Dreamweaver 9 2 (0.123 %) Rational Rose 9 2 (0.123 %) ClearQuest 10 1 (0.062 %) CruiseControl 10 1 (0.062 %) Subversion 10 1 (0.062 %) Eclipse	General 1 511 (31.50 %) Finance 2 408 (25.15 %) Law 3 387 (23.86 %) Legal 4 271 (16.71 %) Banking 5 118 (7.275 %) Insurance 6 114 (7.028 %) Investment Banking 7 52 (3.206 %) Health 8 44 (2.713 %) Pensions 9 43 (2.651 %) Telecoms 10 40 (2.466 %) Back Office 11 26 (1.603 %) Marketing 12 23 (1.418 %) Financial Institution 12 23 (1.418 %) Front Office 12 23 (1.418 %) Education 13 12 (0.740 %) Billing 14 11 (0.678 %) Auditing 15 7 (0.432 %) Government 16 6 (0.370 %) Retail 16 6 (0.370 %) Advertising 17 5 (0.308 %) General Ledger
Job Titles 1 651 (40.14 %) Analyst 2 341 (21.02 %) Support Analyst 3 183 (11.28 %) Trainer 4 155 (9.556 %) IT Trainer 5 154 (9.494 %) Helpdesk Analyst 6 145 (8.940 %) Desktop Support 7 130 (8.015 %) Helpdesk Support 8 118 (7.275 %) Support Engineer 9 86 (5.302 %) 2nd Line Support 10 85 (5.240 %) 1st Line Support 11 84 (5.179 %) Developer 12 74 (4.562 %) IT Support Analyst 13 70 (4.316 %) Administrator 14 68 (4.192 %) Desktop Analyst 15 66 (4.069 %) Desktop Support Analyst 16 63 (3.884 %) Service Analyst 17 58 (3.576 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 17 58 (3.576 %) Service Desk Analyst 18 52 (3.206 %) Business Analyst 19 49 (3.021 %) Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 190 (11.71 %) Blackberry 2 66 (4.069 %) PDA 3 33 (2.035 %) E-Learning 4 31 (1.911 %) Derivative 5 23 (1.418 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 15 (0.925 %) Management Information System 6 15 (0.925 %) Fixed Income 7 14 (0.863 %) Client/Server 7 14 (0.863 %) Mathematics 8 12 (0.740 %) Equities 8 12 (0.740 %) Statistics 9 10 (0.617 %) AS400 10 8 (0.493 %) Podcast 11 7 (0.432 %) Computer Science 11 7 (0.432 %) Video Conferencing 12 6 (0.370 %) Replication 12 6 (0.370 %) Clustering 13 5 (0.308 %) German Language 13 5 (0.308 %) Italian Language 13 5 (0.308 %) IVR
Operating Systems 1 788 (48.58 %) Windows 2 419 (25.83 %) Windows XP 3 278 (17.14 %) Windows Server 2003 4 180 (11.10 %) Windows 2000 5 80 (4.932 %) UNIX 6 68 (4.192 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 63 (3.884 %) Windows Vista 8 29 (1.788 %) Windows NT 9 25 (1.541 %) Linux 10 10 (0.617 %) Solaris 11 7 (0.432 %) Red Hat Linux 11 7 (0.432 %) NetWare 12 5 (0.308 %) Mac OS X 12 5 (0.308 %) Windows Server 2008 13 3 (0.185 %) AIX 14 2 (0.123 %) VMS 15 1 (0.062 %) SUSE 15 1 (0.062 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 178 (10.97 %) Document Management 2 132 (8.138 %) ITIL 3 100 (6.165 %) Project Management 4 66 (4.069 %) PRINCE2 5 52 (3.206 %) Investment Management 6 42 (2.589 %) CRM 7 40 (2.466 %) UML 8 38 (2.343 %) Asset Management 9 37 (2.281 %) Business Analysis 10 31 (1.911 %) Practice Management 11 26 (1.603 %) RUP 12 25 (1.541 %) Time Management 13 24 (1.480 %) Agile Software Development 14 22 (1.356 %) TDD 14 22 (1.356 %) Service Management 14 22 (1.356 %) Service Delivery 15 21 (1.295 %) Scrum 16 19 (1.171 %) Project Planning 17 18 (1.110 %) Release Management 18 17 (1.048 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 234 (14.43 %) SQL 2 110 (6.782 %) VBA 3 77 (4.747 %) C# 4 66 (4.069 %) VB 5 47 (2.898 %) Java 6 45 (2.774 %) Perl 7 19 (1.171 %) JavaScript 8 17 (1.048 %) C++ 9 16 (0.986 %) VBScript 10 15 (0.925 %) VB6 10 15 (0.925 %) VB.NET 10 15 (0.925 %) Transact-SQL 11 11 (0.678 %) C 12 6 (0.370 %) PL/SQL 13 5 (0.308 %) PHP 13 5 (0.308 %) Shell Script 14 2 (0.123 %) JCL 14 2 (0.123 %) Ruby 14 2 (0.123 %) VC++ 15 1 (0.062 %) Python	Qualifications 1 182 (11.22 %) MOS 2 174 (10.73 %) Microsoft Certification 3 114 (7.028 %) MCSE 4 111 (6.843 %) Degree 5 88 (5.425 %) MCP 6 28 (1.726 %) MCSA 7 27 (1.665 %) Cisco Certification 8 24 (1.480 %) CCNA 9 20 (1.233 %) ITIL Certification 10 18 (1.110 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 10 (0.617 %) A+ Certification 11 10 (0.617 %) PMP 11 10 (0.617 %) PMI Certification 12 8 (0.493 %) ISEB 13 6 (0.370 %) MCDST 13 6 (0.370 %) Novell Certification 14 5 (0.308 %) HP ASE 14 5 (0.308 %) MCT 14 5 (0.308 %) CCNP 14 5 (0.308 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 68 (4.192 %) SLA 2 51 (3.144 %) QA 3 9 (0.555 %) ISO27001 3 9 (0.555 %) ISO17799 4 6 (0.370 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 5 4 (0.247 %) COBIT 6 2 (0.123 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 457 (28.18 %) Active Directory 2 28 (1.726 %) Backup Exec 2 28 (1.726 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 18 (1.110 %) NetBackup 4 13 (0.801 %) VMware ESX 5 12 (0.740 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 6 (0.370 %) NDS 6 6 (0.370 %) Terminal Services 6 6 (0.370 %) MetaFrame 7 5 (0.308 %) NFS 8 4 (0.247 %) MSMQ 9 1 (0.062 %) Terminal Server 9 1 (0.062 %) ISA Server 9 1 (0.062 %) VMware Workstation 9 1 (0.062 %) BlackBerry Internet Service 9 1 (0.062 %) Oracle RMAN 9 1 (0.062 %) AquaLogic 9 1 (0.062 %) Oracle RAC
Systems Management 1 11 (0.678 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 5 (0.308 %) ZENworks 2 5 (0.308 %) WSUS 3 4 (0.247 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 3 (0.185 %) ServiceCenter 4 3 (0.185 %) MOM 5 2 (0.123 %) BMC PATROL 5 2 (0.123 %) CONTROL-M 5 2 (0.123 %) OpenView 5 2 (0.123 %) Legato 6 1 (0.062 %) AutoSys 6 1 (0.062 %) MIMEsweeper 6 1 (0.062 %) DameWare 6 1 (0.062 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 696 (42.91 %) Microsoft 2 104 (6.412 %) Interwoven 3 103 (6.350 %) Citrix 4 100 (6.165 %) Lotus 5 93 (5.734 %) Bloomberg 6 81 (4.994 %) Reuters 7 73 (4.501 %) Remedy 8 67 (4.131 %) Hummingbird 9 62 (3.822 %) HP 10 53 (3.268 %) Oracle 11 49 (3.021 %) Cisco 12 47 (2.898 %) VMware 13 42 (2.589 %) Adobe 14 41 (2.528 %) Dell 15 37 (2.281 %) VERITAS 16 21 (1.295 %) Altiris 17 20 (1.233 %) Symantec 18 16 (0.986 %) Lawson 18 16 (0.986 %) ION Trading 18 16 (0.986 %) SunGard