East of England MS Excel Jobs

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

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bognor Regis Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Braintree Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Bude Burgess Hill Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dagenham Darlington Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port Ely Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Great Yarmouth Greenford Greenock Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Isle of Man Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Loughton Luton Lutterworth Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Mansfield Marlow Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Ongar Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Runcorn Salford Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Winsford Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Workington York Yorkshire	3 months to 12 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	21
Rank change on same period last year	+1
Matching permanent IT job ads	1043	935
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.503 %	0.416 %
As % of the category below	49.55 %	50.60 %
Salaries quoted	908	767
Average minimum salary	£31,722	£32,735
Average salary	£34,100	£34,986
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Average maximum salary	£36,479	£37,237
UK excluding London average salary	£33,411	£34,113
% change on same period last year	-2.05 %
Applications East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	2105	1848
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.015 %	0.821 %
Salaries quoted	1784	1482
Average minimum salary	£30,324	£32,645
Average salary	£32,593	£34,931
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
Average maximum salary	£34,861	£37,217
UK excluding London average salary	£32,641	£34,108
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
MS Excel England

MS Excel
Demand Trend

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

MS Excel
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing MS Excel across the East of England region.

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Excel across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

MS Excel
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the East of England 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	Hertfordshire	+2	393	£36,127	+3.91 %
2	Cambridgeshire	+8	334	£33,659	-0.64 %
3	Essex	-2	190	£33,482	-14.93 %
4	Bedfordshire	-5	60	£32,495	+12.25 %
5	Suffolk	-11	54	£31,051	-12.85 %
6	Norfolk	-2	32	£26,097	-14.43 %
7	East Anglia	+1	3	£43,000	+5.84 %

MS Excel England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing MS Excel 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 Excel.

1 1461 (75.19 %) Microsoft 2 725 (37.31 %) SQL Server 3 607 (31.24 %) .NET 4 602 (30.98 %) Windows 5 546 (28.10 %) SQL 6 466 (23.98 %) C# 7 452 (23.26 %) MS Office 8 390 (20.07 %) ASP.NET 9 333 (17.14 %) XML 10 275 (14.15 %) MS Exchange 11 256 (13.18 %) Microsoft Certification 12 247 (12.71 %) Active Directory 13 216 (11.12 %) Pensions 13 216 (11.12 %) Degree 14 196 (10.09 %) SQL Server 2005

15 179 (9.213 %) IIS 16 167 (8.595 %) JavaScript 16 167 (8.595 %) VB.NET 17 162 (8.338 %) Finance 18 159 (8.183 %) HTML 18 159 (8.183 %) Web Development 19 154 (7.926 %) Windows XP 19 154 (7.926 %) SQL Server 2000 20 153 (7.874 %) SharePoint 21 135 (6.948 %) Oracle 22 129 (6.639 %) Project Management 23 128 (6.588 %) OO 24 126 (6.485 %) VB 25 125 (6.433 %) MCSE 26 122 (6.279 %) TCP/IP

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the East of England region citing MS Excel 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 Excel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 607 (31.24 %) .NET 2 390 (20.07 %) ASP.NET 3 333 (17.14 %) XML 4 159 (8.183 %) HTML 5 118 (6.073 %) WebServices 6 109 (5.610 %) .NET Framework 7 72 (3.706 %) CSS 8 66 (3.397 %) ASP 9 60 (3.088 %) XSLT 10 59 (3.037 %) COM 11 51 (2.625 %) XHTML 12 35 (1.801 %) ADO.NET 13 26 (1.338 %) J2EE 14 25 (1.287 %) WinForms 15 23 (1.184 %) JSP 16 21 (1.081 %) XSL 17 20 (1.029 %) SOAP 18 18 (0.926 %) WML 18 18 (0.926 %) AJAX 19 17 (0.875 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 275 (14.15 %) MS Exchange 2 179 (9.213 %) IIS 3 153 (7.874 %) SharePoint 4 102 (5.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 100 (5.147 %) BizTalk Server 6 90 (4.632 %) Exchange Server 2003 7 34 (1.750 %) SharePoint Portal Server 8 25 (1.287 %) Lotus Notes 9 16 (0.823 %) SAS 10 15 (0.772 %) Lotus Domino 11 13 (0.669 %) Apache 12 11 (0.566 %) CICS 12 11 (0.566 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 10 (0.515 %) Exchange Server 2007 14 9 (0.463 %) IBM HTTP Server 15 8 (0.412 %) TeamSite 16 7 (0.360 %) JBoss 16 7 (0.360 %) Exchange Server 5.5 16 7 (0.360 %) CMS 17 5 (0.257 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 452 (23.26 %) MS Office 2 82 (4.220 %) MS PowerPoint 3 73 (3.757 %) MS Project 4 60 (3.088 %) MS Visio 5 24 (1.235 %) Photoshop 6 10 (0.515 %) SPSS 7 4 (0.206 %) MATLAB 8 3 (0.154 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 3 (0.154 %) RoboHelp 8 3 (0.154 %) AutoCAD 9 2 (0.103 %) Fireworks 9 2 (0.103 %) Acrobat 9 2 (0.103 %) ArcInfo 9 2 (0.103 %) CorelDRAW 9 2 (0.103 %) ArcView 10 1 (0.051 %) CA Clarity 10 1 (0.051 %) InfoPath 10 1 (0.051 %) InDesign 10 1 (0.051 %) QuarkXPress	Business Applications 1 71 (3.654 %) Navision 2 68 (3.500 %) Dynamics NAV 3 26 (1.338 %) Dynamics CRM 4 16 (0.823 %) Microsoft CRM 5 12 (0.618 %) Great Plains 6 8 (0.412 %) Dynamics AX 6 8 (0.412 %) Dynamics GP 7 5 (0.257 %) Line 50 7 5 (0.257 %) Axapta 7 5 (0.257 %) Remedy AR System 8 4 (0.206 %) Line 500 9 3 (0.154 %) Sage MMS 9 3 (0.154 %) SoftGrid 9 3 (0.154 %) Line 100 10 2 (0.103 %) Pivotal CRM 10 2 (0.103 %) SAP HR 10 2 (0.103 %) WebTrends 10 2 (0.103 %) Oracle Applications 10 2 (0.103 %) SAP Payroll 11 1 (0.051 %) Pegasus Opera
Communications & Networking 1 122 (6.279 %) TCP/IP 2 98 (5.044 %) LAN 3 79 (4.066 %) WAN 4 75 (3.860 %) Internet 5 60 (3.088 %) DNS 6 57 (2.934 %) Firewall 7 48 (2.470 %) VPN 8 33 (1.698 %) DHCP 8 33 (1.698 %) SAN 9 21 (1.081 %) VoIP 10 20 (1.029 %) WINS 11 16 (0.823 %) HTTP 12 15 (0.772 %) SMTP 13 14 (0.721 %) Intranet 13 14 (0.721 %) Wireless 14 11 (0.566 %) MPLS 14 11 (0.566 %) Ethernet 14 11 (0.566 %) FTP 15 10 (0.515 %) TELNET 16 9 (0.463 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 725 (37.31 %) SQL Server 2 196 (10.09 %) SQL Server 2005 3 154 (7.926 %) SQL Server 2000 4 78 (4.014 %) MS Access 5 50 (2.573 %) DTS 6 45 (2.316 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 7 41 (2.110 %) SQL Server 7 7 41 (2.110 %) Crystal Reports 8 39 (2.007 %) Datawarehouse 9 34 (1.750 %) OLAP 10 31 (1.595 %) MySQL 11 29 (1.493 %) DB2 12 27 (1.390 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 13 26 (1.338 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 14 22 (1.132 %) RDBMS 15 17 (0.875 %) SQL Server Integration Services 16 11 (0.566 %) BusinessObjects 17 10 (0.515 %) Oracle 8/8i 18 8 (0.412 %) Oracle 9i 19 7 (0.360 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 86 (4.426 %) Visual Studio 2 22 (1.132 %) VSS/SourceSafe 3 20 (1.029 %) Flash 4 11 (0.566 %) TestDirector 5 8 (0.412 %) WinRunner 6 7 (0.360 %) InstallShield 7 6 (0.309 %) Synon 7 6 (0.309 %) COOL2E 8 5 (0.257 %) LoadRunner 8 5 (0.257 %) Rational Robot 8 5 (0.257 %) Dreamweaver 8 5 (0.257 %) NUnit 9 3 (0.154 %) Subversion 9 3 (0.154 %) FrontPage 9 3 (0.154 %) QARun 9 3 (0.154 %) Eclipse 9 3 (0.154 %) PowerBuilder 9 3 (0.154 %) ProC 10 2 (0.103 %) MorphX 11 1 (0.051 %) LabVIEW	General 1 216 (11.12 %) Pensions 2 162 (8.338 %) Finance 3 119 (6.125 %) Health 4 104 (5.353 %) Publishing 5 84 (4.323 %) Retail 6 72 (3.706 %) Insurance 7 58 (2.985 %) Manufacturing 8 41 (2.110 %) Education 9 39 (2.007 %) Marketing 10 38 (1.956 %) Banking 11 35 (1.801 %) Telecoms 12 28 (1.441 %) Pharmaceutical 13 26 (1.338 %) Back Office 14 23 (1.184 %) Government 15 19 (0.978 %) Electronics 16 17 (0.875 %) Multimedia 17 14 (0.721 %) Games 18 13 (0.669 %) Construction 19 8 (0.412 %) 3D Graphics 20 7 (0.360 %) Law
Job Titles 1 579 (29.80 %) Developer 2 457 (23.52 %) Analyst 3 234 (12.04 %) .NET Developer 4 233 (11.99 %) Consultant 5 173 (8.904 %) Support Analyst 6 134 (6.897 %) Web Developer 7 105 (5.404 %) .NET Web Developer 8 96 (4.941 %) 2nd Line Support 9 90 (4.632 %) Administrator 10 88 (4.529 %) Support Engineer 11 73 (3.757 %) IT Support Analyst 12 70 (3.603 %) Software Developer 13 63 (3.242 %) C# Developer 14 60 (3.088 %) Technical Support 15 59 (3.037 %) Technical Consultant 16 58 (2.985 %) Project Manager 17 57 (2.934 %) Programmer 18 55 (2.831 %) Junior 18 55 (2.831 %) Helpdesk Support 19 54 (2.779 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 55 (2.831 %) Computer Science 2 51 (2.625 %) AS400 3 45 (2.316 %) Mathematics 4 32 (1.647 %) Management Information System 5 31 (1.595 %) Physics 5 31 (1.595 %) Chemistry 6 21 (1.081 %) Mainframe 7 16 (0.823 %) Client/Server 8 13 (0.669 %) N-Tier 8 13 (0.669 %) iDTV 9 12 (0.618 %) Biology 9 12 (0.618 %) French Language 10 11 (0.566 %) IBM Mainframe 10 11 (0.566 %) Statistics 10 11 (0.566 %) Data Protection Act 10 11 (0.566 %) Clustering 11 10 (0.515 %) Asset Management 12 8 (0.412 %) Interactive TV 13 7 (0.360 %) EPoS 13 7 (0.360 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 602 (30.98 %) Windows 2 154 (7.926 %) Windows XP 3 104 (5.353 %) Windows Server 2003 4 103 (5.301 %) Unix 5 98 (5.044 %) Windows 2000 6 58 (2.985 %) Linux 7 27 (1.390 %) Windows NT 8 18 (0.926 %) Solaris 9 10 (0.515 %) Windows Vista 10 8 (0.412 %) HPUX 11 6 (0.309 %) VMS 12 5 (0.257 %) OpenVMS 13 4 (0.206 %) NetWare 13 4 (0.206 %) MVS 13 4 (0.206 %) AIX 13 4 (0.206 %) Windows Mobile 14 3 (0.154 %) i5/OS 14 3 (0.154 %) OS/400 15 2 (0.103 %) Windows CE 16 1 (0.051 %) OS/2	Processes & Methodologies 1 159 (8.183 %) Web Development 2 129 (6.639 %) Project Management 3 128 (6.588 %) OO 4 76 (3.911 %) ITIL 4 76 (3.911 %) E-Commerce 5 64 (3.294 %) ERP 6 63 (3.242 %) Business Intelligence 7 58 (2.985 %) CRM 7 58 (2.985 %) PRINCE2 8 56 (2.882 %) UML 9 44 (2.265 %) Service Delivery 9 44 (2.265 %) Change Management 10 35 (1.801 %) Business Analysis 11 34 (1.750 %) Disaster Recovery 11 34 (1.750 %) Service Management 12 33 (1.698 %) OOP 13 30 (1.544 %) Automated Testing 14 29 (1.493 %) OOD 15 25 (1.287 %) Time Management 15 25 (1.287 %) System Testing
Programming Languages 1 546 (28.10 %) SQL 2 466 (23.98 %) C# 3 167 (8.595 %) JavaScript 3 167 (8.595 %) VB.NET 4 126 (6.485 %) VB 5 99 (5.095 %) Java 6 98 (5.044 %) C++ 7 75 (3.860 %) Transact-SQL 8 67 (3.448 %) VBA 9 52 (2.676 %) PHP 10 47 (2.419 %) C 11 43 (2.213 %) RPG 12 35 (1.801 %) DHTML 13 31 (1.595 %) VBScript 13 31 (1.595 %) VB6 14 21 (1.081 %) ActionScript 15 20 (1.029 %) Perl 15 20 (1.029 %) Delphi 15 20 (1.029 %) XPath 16 11 (0.566 %) VC++	Qualifications 1 256 (13.18 %) Microsoft Certification 2 216 (11.12 %) Degree 3 125 (6.433 %) MCSE 4 89 (4.581 %) MCP 5 31 (1.595 %) PhD 6 28 (1.441 %) MCSD 7 24 (1.235 %) MCAD 8 22 (1.132 %) MCSA 8 22 (1.132 %) Cisco Certification 9 19 (0.978 %) CCNA 10 12 (0.618 %) CCVP 11 9 (0.463 %) ISEB 12 8 (0.412 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 8 (0.412 %) ITIL Certification 13 7 (0.360 %) HND 14 6 (0.309 %) MCDBA 14 6 (0.309 %) A+ Certification 15 5 (0.257 %) MCDST 16 4 (0.206 %) MCTS 16 4 (0.206 %) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 37 (1.904 %) SLA 2 28 (1.441 %) QA 3 4 (0.206 %) DICOM 3 4 (0.206 %) ISO9001 4 3 (0.154 %) ISO27001 5 2 (0.103 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 1 (0.051 %) ISO17799 6 1 (0.051 %) BS7799	System Software 1 247 (12.71 %) Active Directory 2 13 (0.669 %) Terminal Services 3 11 (0.566 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 9 (0.463 %) Backup Exec 5 5 (0.257 %) ISA Server 6 4 (0.206 %) MetaFrame 7 3 (0.154 %) WebMarshal 8 2 (0.103 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 8 2 (0.103 %) VMware ESX 8 2 (0.103 %) VMware Workstation 9 1 (0.051 %) NetBackup 9 1 (0.051 %) Novell eDirectory 9 1 (0.051 %) VMware Server
Systems Management 1 17 (0.875 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 8 (0.412 %) MOM 3 4 (0.206 %) OpenView Configuration Management 4 3 (0.154 %) ZENworks 4 3 (0.154 %) ServiceCenter 4 3 (0.154 %) SCOM 5 2 (0.103 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.051 %) BMC PATROL 6 1 (0.051 %) ARCserve	Vendors 1 1461 (75.19 %) Microsoft 2 135 (6.948 %) Oracle 3 91 (4.683 %) Cisco 4 77 (3.963 %) Citrix 5 41 (2.110 %) Lotus 6 37 (1.904 %) IBM 7 36 (1.853 %) HP 8 29 (1.493 %) Remedy 9 28 (1.441 %) VMware 10 24 (1.235 %) CheckPoint 11 23 (1.184 %) Sage 12 21 (1.081 %) VERITAS 12 21 (1.081 %) Cognos 13 18 (0.926 %) SAP 14 17 (0.875 %) Intel 14 17 (0.875 %) Novell 15 16 (0.823 %) Sybase 16 13 (0.669 %) Adobe 17 11 (0.566 %) Business Objects 18 9 (0.463 %) Baan