East of England MS Office Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office 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 job ads that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Andover Ashby-de-la-Zouch Aylesbury Banbury Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dunstable Durham Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Filton Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Havant Hayes Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hendon Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Ilford Inverness Ipswich Isleworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Knottingley Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Market Harborough Marlow Melksham Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northolt Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Romsey Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southport Spalding St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Thatcham Torfaen Torquay Trowbridge Truro Twickenham Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Drayton West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Wirral Witham Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worksop Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	38
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching permanent IT job ads	462	594
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.241 %	0.245 %
As % of the category below	26.57 %	29.23 %
Salaries quoted	412	452
Average minimum salary	£27,963	£27,499
Average salary	£29,596	£28,957
% change on same period last year	+2.20 %
Average maximum salary	£31,228	£30,414
UK excluding London average salary	£28,239	£28,441
% change on same period last year	-0.71 %
Applications East of England
Matching permanent IT job ads	1739	2032
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.908 %	0.838 %
Salaries quoted	1490	1649
Average minimum salary	£30,935	£33,221
Average salary	£33,546	£35,454
% change on same period last year	-5.38 %
Average maximum salary	£36,156	£37,687
UK excluding London average salary	£33,234	£33,810
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
MS Office England

MS Office
Demand Trend

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

MS Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008.

MS Office
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT job ads citing MS Office within the East of England region over the 3 months to 18 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Hertfordshire	-11	173	£27,911	-4.87 %
Cambridgeshire	-3	151	£31,826	+16.70 %
Essex	-8	88	£30,910	-3.95 %
Bedfordshire	-31	26	£31,613	+15.13 %
Suffolk	-23	22	£24,000	-11.38 %
Norfolk	-25	5	£20,450	-16.91 %
East Anglia	+6	1	£25,500	-27.14 %

MS Office England

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1 652 (57.75 %) Microsoft 2 545 (48.27 %) Windows 3 458 (40.57 %) MS Excel 4 283 (25.07 %) Active Directory 5 245 (21.70 %) SQL 6 205 (18.16 %) SQL Server 7 190 (16.83 %) Windows 2000 8 178 (15.77 %) MS Exchange 9 177 (15.68 %) Finance 10 146 (12.93 %) Windows XP 11 141 (12.49 %) Microsoft Certification 12 128 (11.34 %) TCP/IP 13 122 (10.81 %) Citrix 14 111 (9.832 %) .NET 15 107 (9.477 %) Project Management

16 101 (8.946 %) Windows Server 2003 17 96 (8.503 %) Degree 18 95 (8.415 %) WAN 19 91 (8.060 %) MCP 20 90 (7.972 %) LAN 21 86 (7.617 %) VB 22 85 (7.529 %) ITIL 23 81 (7.174 %) SQL Server 2005 24 79 (6.997 %) MS Visio 25 74 (6.554 %) DNS 25 74 (6.554 %) C# 25 74 (6.554 %) Lotus 26 71 (6.289 %) Pharmaceutical 26 71 (6.289 %) Pensions 27 70 (6.200 %) SLA

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 July 2008, IT jobs across the East of England 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 1 111 (9.832 %) .NET 2 58 (5.137 %) HTML 3 57 (5.049 %) ASP.NET 4 46 (4.074 %) XML 5 43 (3.809 %) ASP 6 27 (2.391 %) J2EE 7 21 (1.860 %) CSS 7 21 (1.860 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 18 (1.594 %) WPF 9 15 (1.329 %) ODBC 10 14 (1.240 %) ADO.NET 10 14 (1.240 %) XML Schema 11 13 (1.151 %) ISPF 12 10 (0.886 %) Silverlight 13 8 (0.709 %) WebSphere 14 6 (0.531 %) AJAX 14 6 (0.531 %) XHTML 15 4 (0.354 %) WebServices 16 3 (0.266 %) MFC 16 3 (0.266 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 178 (15.77 %) MS Exchange 2 67 (5.934 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 53 (4.694 %) Lotus Notes 4 48 (4.252 %) SharePoint 5 42 (3.720 %) IIS 6 34 (3.012 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 32 (2.834 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 31 (2.746 %) Exchange Server 2000 9 23 (2.037 %) Lotus Domino 10 20 (1.771 %) Documentum 11 17 (1.506 %) LiveLink 12 13 (1.151 %) CICS 13 11 (0.974 %) CMS 14 9 (0.797 %) SAS 14 9 (0.797 %) JBoss 15 6 (0.531 %) Commerce Server 15 6 (0.531 %) SharePoint Portal Server 16 4 (0.354 %) BizTalk Server 17 3 (0.266 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 18 2 (0.177 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 458 (40.57 %) MS Excel 2 79 (6.997 %) MS Visio 3 69 (6.112 %) MS PowerPoint 4 53 (4.694 %) MS Project 5 5 (0.443 %) Acrobat 6 4 (0.354 %) AutoCAD 6 4 (0.354 %) MATLAB 7 3 (0.266 %) SPSS 7 3 (0.266 %) InfoPath 8 1 (0.089 %) RoboHelp 8 1 (0.089 %) Fireworks 8 1 (0.089 %) Photoshop 8 1 (0.089 %) S-PLUS 8 1 (0.089 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 1 (0.089 %) InDesign	Business Applications 1 14 (1.240 %) Summit 2 8 (0.709 %) Navision 3 4 (0.354 %) Microsoft CRM 3 4 (0.354 %) Great Plains 4 3 (0.266 %) Dynamics CRM 4 3 (0.266 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 5 2 (0.177 %) SAP Business One 5 2 (0.177 %) Line 100 5 2 (0.177 %) Sage MMS 5 2 (0.177 %) Oracle Financials 5 2 (0.177 %) Dynamics NAV 5 2 (0.177 %) Pegasus Opera 6 1 (0.089 %) Oracle ERP 6 1 (0.089 %) Oracle Applications 6 1 (0.089 %) BASE24 6 1 (0.089 %) Oracle Clinical
Communications & Networking 1 128 (11.34 %) TCP/IP 2 95 (8.415 %) WAN 3 90 (7.972 %) LAN 4 74 (6.554 %) DNS 5 51 (4.517 %) DHCP 6 49 (4.340 %) VPN 7 47 (4.163 %) Internet 8 45 (3.986 %) Firewall 9 22 (1.949 %) Network Security 9 22 (1.949 %) Intranet 10 17 (1.506 %) ISDN 11 15 (1.329 %) SMTP 12 12 (1.063 %) ADSL 12 12 (1.063 %) SAN 12 12 (1.063 %) Wireless 13 11 (0.974 %) IP Telephony 13 11 (0.974 %) VoIP 14 7 (0.620 %) MPLS 15 5 (0.443 %) OSPF 15 5 (0.443 %) BGP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 205 (18.16 %) SQL Server 2 81 (7.174 %) SQL Server 2005 3 61 (5.403 %) SQL Server 2000 4 49 (4.340 %) Crystal Reports 5 26 (2.303 %) RDBMS 6 24 (2.126 %) DB2 7 23 (2.037 %) SQL Server 7 7 23 (2.037 %) DTS 8 15 (1.329 %) MySQL 9 8 (0.709 %) ETL 9 8 (0.709 %) Datawarehouse 10 7 (0.620 %) MS Access 11 6 (0.531 %) Cognos Impromptu 12 5 (0.443 %) Cognos Powerplay 12 5 (0.443 %) Oracle Reports 13 4 (0.354 %) Data Mining 14 3 (0.266 %) SQLPlus 14 3 (0.266 %) FileMaker 14 3 (0.266 %) SQL Server Integration Services 14 3 (0.266 %) Base SAS
Development Applications 1 29 (2.569 %) Visual Studio 2 11 (0.974 %) ClearQuest 3 9 (0.797 %) VSS/SourceSafe 4 6 (0.531 %) Subversion 5 5 (0.443 %) WinRunner 5 5 (0.443 %) QuickTest Pro 6 3 (0.266 %) Flash 7 1 (0.089 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer 7 1 (0.089 %) Dreamweaver 7 1 (0.089 %) Oracle Developer 2000 7 1 (0.089 %) Oracle Forms 7 1 (0.089 %) PVCS 7 1 (0.089 %) JIRA 7 1 (0.089 %) MSI 7 1 (0.089 %) InstallShield	General 1 177 (15.68 %) Finance 2 71 (6.289 %) Pharmaceutical 2 71 (6.289 %) Pensions 3 63 (5.580 %) Health 4 55 (4.872 %) Insurance 5 40 (3.543 %) Retail 6 39 (3.454 %) Manufacturing 7 33 (2.923 %) Electronics 8 25 (2.214 %) Telecoms 9 23 (2.037 %) Construction 10 21 (1.860 %) Education 11 17 (1.506 %) Publishing 12 16 (1.417 %) Banking 13 15 (1.329 %) Marketing 14 11 (0.974 %) Government 15 10 (0.886 %) Legal 15 10 (0.886 %) Automotive 16 9 (0.797 %) Law 17 7 (0.620 %) Back Office 17 7 (0.620 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 422 (37.38 %) Analyst 2 198 (17.54 %) Support Analyst 3 103 (9.123 %) Developer 4 88 (7.795 %) Helpdesk Support 5 82 (7.263 %) 2nd Line Support 6 73 (6.466 %) 1st Line Support 6 73 (6.466 %) Applications Support 7 68 (6.023 %) Business Analyst 8 64 (5.669 %) Technical Support 9 60 (5.314 %) Support Engineer 10 59 (5.226 %) Support Technician 10 59 (5.226 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 52 (4.606 %) Service Analyst 12 51 (4.517 %) Administrator 13 50 (4.429 %) Desktop Support 14 43 (3.809 %) Team Leader 15 42 (3.720 %) Service Desk Analyst 16 41 (3.632 %) Technical Analyst 17 39 (3.454 %) Technical Support Analyst 18 33 (2.923 %) IT Support Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 28 (2.480 %) Blackberry 2 21 (1.860 %) Mainframe 3 18 (1.594 %) Management Information System 3 18 (1.594 %) Statistics 3 18 (1.594 %) Multithreading 4 15 (1.329 %) IBM Mainframe 4 15 (1.329 %) AS400 4 15 (1.329 %) N-Tier 5 10 (0.886 %) PMI 5 10 (0.886 %) Computer Science 6 9 (0.797 %) Fund Management 6 9 (0.797 %) PDA 7 8 (0.709 %) CCTV 7 8 (0.709 %) E-Learning 8 6 (0.531 %) W3C 9 5 (0.443 %) Mathematics 10 4 (0.354 %) Client/Server 10 4 (0.354 %) VHDL 10 4 (0.354 %) Asset Management 10 4 (0.354 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems 1 545 (48.27 %) Windows 2 190 (16.83 %) Windows 2000 3 146 (12.93 %) Windows XP 4 101 (8.946 %) Windows Server 2003 5 33 (2.923 %) Windows NT 6 30 (2.657 %) UNIX 7 26 (2.303 %) Linux 8 12 (1.063 %) NetWare 9 10 (0.886 %) Solaris 10 5 (0.443 %) Mac OS X 10 5 (0.443 %) Windows Vista 11 4 (0.354 %) AIX 12 3 (0.266 %) MVS 13 1 (0.089 %) i5/OS 13 1 (0.089 %) Debian 13 1 (0.089 %) Ubuntu 13 1 (0.089 %) Windows Mobile 13 1 (0.089 %) OS/400	Processes & Methodologies 1 107 (9.477 %) Project Management 2 85 (7.529 %) ITIL 3 50 (4.429 %) UML 4 45 (3.986 %) Business Analysis 5 40 (3.543 %) ERP 6 30 (2.657 %) Change Management 7 29 (2.569 %) RUP 7 29 (2.569 %) Time Management 8 28 (2.480 %) OO 9 25 (2.214 %) Service Delivery 9 25 (2.214 %) System Testing 10 23 (2.037 %) CRM 10 23 (2.037 %) Incident Management 11 22 (1.949 %) PRINCE2 12 21 (1.860 %) Disaster Recovery 13 20 (1.771 %) E-Commerce 13 20 (1.771 %) Content Management 14 19 (1.683 %) Scrum 15 18 (1.594 %) User Acceptance Testing 16 16 (1.417 %) Document Management
Programming Languages 1 245 (21.70 %) SQL 2 86 (7.617 %) VB 3 74 (6.554 %) C# 4 60 (5.314 %) VBA 5 48 (4.252 %) Java 6 41 (3.632 %) VB.NET 7 40 (3.543 %) C 8 19 (1.683 %) RPG 9 17 (1.506 %) Transact-SQL 10 15 (1.329 %) JavaScript 10 15 (1.329 %) C++ 11 13 (1.151 %) DHTML 11 13 (1.151 %) PHP 12 10 (0.886 %) COBOL 13 8 (0.709 %) PL/SQL 14 5 (0.443 %) VBScript 15 2 (0.177 %) Delphi 16 1 (0.089 %) Perl 16 1 (0.089 %) ActionScript	Qualifications 1 141 (12.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 96 (8.503 %) Degree 3 91 (8.060 %) MCP 4 43 (3.809 %) MCSE 5 14 (1.240 %) Cisco Certification 6 12 (1.063 %) ITIL Certification 6 12 (1.063 %) CCNA 7 10 (0.886 %) MCSA 8 8 (0.709 %) MCDST 9 5 (0.443 %) MOS 9 5 (0.443 %) A+ Certification 10 3 (0.266 %) MCDBA 10 3 (0.266 %) MCTS 11 2 (0.177 %) CISA 11 2 (0.177 %) CISM 11 2 (0.177 %) MCSD 11 2 (0.177 %) HNC 11 2 (0.177 %) HND 11 2 (0.177 %) Citrix Certification 11 2 (0.177 %) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 70 (6.200 %) SLA 2 12 (1.063 %) QA 3 6 (0.531 %) WAI 4 3 (0.266 %) ISO27001 5 2 (0.177 %) ISO9001 6 1 (0.089 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 283 (25.07 %) Active Directory 2 21 (1.860 %) Terminal Services 3 5 (0.443 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 4 (0.354 %) Backup Exec 4 4 (0.354 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 3 (0.266 %) MetaFrame 5 3 (0.266 %) Terminal Server 6 2 (0.177 %) NetBackup 7 1 (0.089 %) VMware Server 7 1 (0.089 %) ISA Server 7 1 (0.089 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 10 (0.886 %) MOM 2 8 (0.709 %) ZENworks 3 4 (0.354 %) Tivoli 4 3 (0.266 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 2 (0.177 %) Netcool 5 2 (0.177 %) ARCserve 5 2 (0.177 %) WSUS 6 1 (0.089 %) SCCM 6 1 (0.089 %) OpenView 6 1 (0.089 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 652 (57.75 %) Microsoft 2 122 (10.81 %) Citrix 3 74 (6.554 %) Lotus 4 43 (3.809 %) Cisco 5 34 (3.012 %) Oracle 6 27 (2.391 %) IBM 7 24 (2.126 %) HP 8 20 (1.771 %) CheckPoint 9 19 (1.683 %) Remedy 9 19 (1.683 %) Novell 10 18 (1.594 %) Dell 11 17 (1.506 %) Open Text 12 13 (1.151 %) Nortel 13 12 (1.063 %) SAP 13 12 (1.063 %) Cognos 14 11 (0.974 %) JDA 14 11 (0.974 %) Perforce 15 10 (0.886 %) Sage 16 9 (0.797 %) Avaya 16 9 (0.797 %) LANDesk