England MS Office Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Office skills within the 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 Office over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Andover Avon Avonmouth Aylesbury Banbury Barking Barnet Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Billericay Billingham Bingley Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Borehamwood Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Cleveland Colchester Corby Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset Dudley Dunbartonshire Dundee Durham Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edenbridge Edinburgh Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Grantham Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Heanor Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hitchin Hoddesdon Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Man Isle of Wight Isleworth Kent Kettering Kingston Upon Thames Lanarkshire Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lothian Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Malvern Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes 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 Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Perthshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Retford Rickmansworth Ripon Romford Rotherham Royston Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Saffron Walden Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sittingbourne Skelmersdale Sleaford Slough Solihull Somerset South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Spalding St Albans St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stansted Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Street Stroud Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Thatcham Thurrock Torfaen Torquay Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Whitehaven Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Winsford Witney Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	53
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	6464	8107
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.589 %	3.415 %
As % of the category below	27.04 %	28.99 %
Salaries quoted	5501	6691
Average minimum salary	£28,651	£29,269
Average salary	£30,589	£31,243
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Average maximum salary	£32,527	£33,216
UK excluding London average salary	£28,399	£27,892
% change on same period last year	+1.81 %
Applications England
Matching permanent IT job ads	23907	27966
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	13.27 %	11.78 %
Salaries quoted	20412	22889
Average minimum salary	£33,280	£33,867
Average salary	£36,079	£36,562
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Average maximum salary	£38,878	£39,256
UK excluding London average salary	£33,305	£33,375
% change on same period last year	-0.20 %
MS Office UK

MS Office
Demand Trend

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

MS Office
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

MS Office
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the England region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
London	+2	2882	£33,630	-5.41 %
South East	+3	1356	£30,062	+3.38 %
Yorkshire	+23	436	£26,259	+4.74 %
East of England	-20	424	£28,668	-1.67 %
North West	+3	388	£25,436	+0.95 %
South West	-22	356	£27,277	+3.96 %
West Midlands	-7	321	£26,739	+0.67 %
East Midlands	+8	247	£27,231	+0.25 %
North East	+35	66	£26,904	-15.88 %
Midlands	+47	42	£38,479	+19.54 %

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MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the 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 7322 (50.94 %) Microsoft 2 7045 (49.01 %) Windows 3 6515 (45.32 %) MS Excel 4 3701 (25.75 %) Windows XP 5 3315 (23.06 %) Active Directory 6 2747 (19.11 %) Windows Server 2003 7 2516 (17.50 %) SQL 8 2514 (17.49 %) Finance 9 2098 (14.59 %) SQL Server 10 1880 (13.08 %) MS Exchange 11 1651 (11.49 %) Microsoft Certification 12 1649 (11.47 %) Windows 2000 13 1628 (11.33 %) TCP/IP 14 1464 (10.18 %) .NET 15 1248 (8.682 %) Degree

16 1228 (8.543 %) Citrix 17 1169 (8.132 %) Project Management 18 1118 (7.777 %) LAN 18 1118 (7.777 %) ITIL 19 1046 (7.277 %) Exchange Server 2003 20 1026 (7.137 %) WAN 21 999 (6.950 %) MCSE 22 970 (6.748 %) Law 23 936 (6.511 %) Legal 24 931 (6.477 %) SharePoint 25 920 (6.400 %) MS Project 26 909 (6.323 %) Oracle 27 903 (6.282 %) MCP 28 894 (6.219 %) Windows Vista 29 883 (6.143 %) Internet

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the 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 1464 (10.18 %) .NET 2 700 (4.870 %) ASP.NET 3 633 (4.403 %) XML 4 565 (3.930 %) HTML 5 335 (2.330 %) ASP 6 238 (1.656 %) CSS 7 182 (1.266 %) Windows SharePoint Services 8 142 (0.988 %) WebServices 9 132 (0.918 %) J2EE 10 129 (0.897 %) .NET Framework 11 124 (0.863 %) XHTML 12 108 (0.751 %) WebSphere 13 102 (0.710 %) XSLT 14 93 (0.647 %) AJAX 15 92 (0.640 %) XSL 16 86 (0.598 %) SOAP 17 76 (0.529 %) JSP 18 66 (0.459 %) WinForms 19 53 (0.369 %) ODBC 20 51 (0.355 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1880 (13.08 %) MS Exchange 2 1046 (7.277 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 931 (6.477 %) SharePoint 4 758 (5.273 %) Lotus Notes 5 573 (3.986 %) IIS 6 500 (3.478 %) SharePoint Server 2007 7 320 (2.226 %) Exchange Server 2000 8 233 (1.621 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 141 (0.981 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 10 131 (0.911 %) CMS 11 129 (0.897 %) BizTalk Server 12 122 (0.849 %) SAS 13 108 (0.751 %) Lotus Domino 14 102 (0.710 %) SharePoint Portal Server 15 95 (0.661 %) WorkSite 16 73 (0.508 %) Exchange Server 5.5 17 56 (0.390 %) Apache 18 51 (0.355 %) Documentum 19 47 (0.327 %) WebSphere Application Server 20 40 (0.278 %) Content Management Server
Applications 1 6515 (45.32 %) MS Excel 2 920 (6.400 %) MS Project 3 789 (5.489 %) MS PowerPoint 4 703 (4.890 %) MS Visio 5 138 (0.960 %) Photoshop 6 112 (0.779 %) Spreadsheet 7 87 (0.605 %) Acrobat 8 86 (0.598 %) InfoPath 9 78 (0.543 %) DeltaView 10 52 (0.362 %) SPSS 11 50 (0.348 %) Adobe Illustrator 12 35 (0.243 %) FrameMaker 13 34 (0.237 %) Fireworks 14 32 (0.223 %) AutoCAD 15 31 (0.216 %) QuarkXPress 16 28 (0.195 %) InDesign 17 26 (0.181 %) CA Clarity 17 26 (0.181 %) RoboHelp 18 23 (0.160 %) Paint Shop Pro 19 17 (0.118 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 107 (0.744 %) Microsoft CRM 2 68 (0.473 %) Dynamics AX 3 55 (0.383 %) Axapta 4 32 (0.223 %) SAP Business One 5 27 (0.188 %) SAP Retail 6 26 (0.181 %) Oracle Applications 7 24 (0.167 %) assyst 7 24 (0.167 %) Remedy AR System 8 23 (0.160 %) Summit 9 21 (0.146 %) Oracle EBS 10 20 (0.139 %) Navision 10 20 (0.139 %) WebTrends 10 20 (0.139 %) SalesLogix 10 20 (0.139 %) Dynamics NAV 10 20 (0.139 %) Line 500 11 16 (0.111 %) Oracle 11i 12 15 (0.104 %) Great Plains 12 15 (0.104 %) SAP R/3 13 14 (0.097 %) Oracle Financials 14 13 (0.090 %) HiPortfolio
Communications & Networking 1 1628 (11.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1118 (7.777 %) LAN 3 1026 (7.137 %) WAN 4 883 (6.143 %) Internet 5 723 (5.030 %) DNS 6 621 (4.320 %) VPN 7 578 (4.021 %) Firewall 8 451 (3.137 %) DHCP 9 319 (2.219 %) Intranet 10 238 (1.656 %) VoIP 11 200 (1.391 %) SAN 12 160 (1.113 %) Wireless 13 105 (0.730 %) Broadband 14 100 (0.696 %) FTP 15 88 (0.612 %) IP Telephony 16 85 (0.591 %) Ethernet 17 84 (0.584 %) ADSL 18 71 (0.494 %) SMTP 19 66 (0.459 %) LDAP 19 66 (0.459 %) Extranet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2098 (14.59 %) SQL Server 2 544 (3.784 %) SQL Server 2005 3 400 (2.783 %) SQL Server 2000 4 298 (2.073 %) Crystal Reports 5 264 (1.837 %) MS Access 6 218 (1.517 %) BusinessObjects 7 170 (1.183 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 157 (1.092 %) Datawarehouse 9 124 (0.863 %) DTS 10 114 (0.793 %) DB2 11 109 (0.758 %) RDBMS 12 105 (0.730 %) SQL Server Integration Services 13 97 (0.675 %) ETL 14 86 (0.598 %) Cognos Impromptu 15 76 (0.529 %) MySQL 16 72 (0.501 %) OLAP 17 68 (0.473 %) InterBase 18 64 (0.445 %) Oracle Reports 19 56 (0.390 %) Oracle 10g 20 40 (0.278 %) Data Mining
Development Applications 1 313 (2.177 %) Visual Studio 2 113 (0.786 %) Flash 3 97 (0.675 %) Dreamweaver 4 49 (0.341 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 41 (0.285 %) QuickTest Pro 5 41 (0.285 %) LoadRunner 6 35 (0.243 %) TestDirector 7 34 (0.237 %) Oracle Forms 8 32 (0.223 %) MSI 9 23 (0.160 %) ClearCase 9 23 (0.160 %) WinRunner 10 20 (0.139 %) ClearQuest 11 19 (0.132 %) NUnit 11 19 (0.132 %) Rational Rose 12 16 (0.111 %) FrontPage 13 13 (0.090 %) InstallShield 14 12 (0.083 %) JIRA 15 11 (0.077 %) PVCS 16 10 (0.070 %) RequisitePro 16 10 (0.070 %) ERwin	General 1 2514 (17.49 %) Finance 2 970 (6.748 %) Law 3 936 (6.511 %) Legal 4 788 (5.482 %) Banking 5 701 (4.877 %) Pensions 6 582 (4.049 %) Health 7 550 (3.826 %) Insurance 8 516 (3.590 %) Marketing 9 443 (3.082 %) Retail 10 442 (3.075 %) Telecoms 11 336 (2.337 %) Investment Banking 12 316 (2.198 %) Education 13 218 (1.517 %) Back Office 14 157 (1.092 %) Manufacturing 15 137 (0.953 %) Government 16 124 (0.863 %) Advertising 17 103 (0.717 %) Publishing 18 99 (0.689 %) Pharmaceutical 19 96 (0.668 %) Construction 20 94 (0.654 %) Front Office
Job Titles 1 4962 (34.52 %) Analyst 2 2185 (15.20 %) Support Analyst 3 1044 (7.263 %) Desktop Support 4 1013 (7.047 %) Developer 5 1000 (6.957 %) Support Engineer 6 903 (6.282 %) Helpdesk Analyst 7 764 (5.315 %) Helpdesk Support 8 722 (5.023 %) Trainer 9 711 (4.946 %) Administrator 10 703 (4.890 %) 2nd Line Support 11 700 (4.870 %) Consultant 12 569 (3.958 %) IT Trainer 13 556 (3.868 %) 1st Line Support 14 544 (3.784 %) Service Analyst 15 520 (3.617 %) Business Analyst 16 497 (3.457 %) Service Desk Analyst 17 454 (3.158 %) IT Support Analyst 18 442 (3.075 %) Technical Support 19 427 (2.970 %) Project Manager 20 420 (2.922 %) Desktop Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 839 (5.837 %) Blackberry 2 196 (1.363 %) Client/Server 3 182 (1.266 %) Management Information System 4 160 (1.113 %) PDA 5 133 (0.925 %) E-Learning 6 131 (0.911 %) Mathematics 7 122 (0.849 %) Computer Science 8 108 (0.751 %) Statistics 9 102 (0.710 %) AS400 10 81 (0.563 %) Mainframe 10 81 (0.563 %) German Language 11 80 (0.557 %) Clustering 12 78 (0.543 %) Derivative 13 66 (0.459 %) NHS 14 65 (0.452 %) Equities 15 63 (0.438 %) EPoS 16 62 (0.431 %) French Language 16 62 (0.431 %) Credit Risk 17 57 (0.397 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 18 56 (0.390 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 7045 (49.01 %) Windows 2 3701 (25.75 %) Windows XP 3 2747 (19.11 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1649 (11.47 %) Windows 2000 5 894 (6.219 %) Windows Vista 6 869 (6.045 %) Windows 2000 Server 7 538 (3.743 %) UNIX 8 510 (3.548 %) Linux 9 341 (2.372 %) Windows NT 10 202 (1.405 %) Mac OS X 11 98 (0.682 %) NetWare 12 85 (0.591 %) Solaris 13 78 (0.543 %) Red Hat Linux 14 70 (0.487 %) Windows Server 2008 15 34 (0.237 %) AIX 16 25 (0.174 %) Windows Mobile 17 24 (0.167 %) OS/400 18 19 (0.132 %) Mac OS X Server 19 12 (0.083 %) Debian 20 11 (0.077 %) VMS	Processes & Methodologies 1 1169 (8.132 %) Project Management 2 1118 (7.777 %) ITIL 3 593 (4.125 %) PRINCE2 4 550 (3.826 %) Document Management 5 448 (3.117 %) CRM 6 317 (2.205 %) Security Cleared 7 315 (2.191 %) Time Management 8 308 (2.143 %) Business Analysis 9 292 (2.031 %) ERP 10 285 (1.983 %) UML 11 260 (1.809 %) OO 12 232 (1.614 %) Workflow 13 219 (1.523 %) Project Planning 14 197 (1.370 %) Change Management 15 186 (1.294 %) Service Management 15 186 (1.294 %) Service Delivery 16 183 (1.273 %) E-Commerce 17 175 (1.217 %) Web Development 18 171 (1.190 %) Business Intelligence 19 168 (1.169 %) RUP
Programming Languages 1 2516 (17.50 %) SQL 2 779 (5.419 %) C# 3 672 (4.675 %) VB 4 622 (4.327 %) VBA 5 400 (2.783 %) Java 6 397 (2.762 %) VB.NET 7 391 (2.720 %) C 8 303 (2.108 %) JavaScript 9 247 (1.718 %) C++ 10 215 (1.496 %) Transact-SQL 11 154 (1.071 %) VBScript 12 138 (0.960 %) VB6 13 109 (0.758 %) PHP 14 102 (0.710 %) Perl 15 101 (0.703 %) PL/SQL 16 46 (0.320 %) RPG 16 46 (0.320 %) COBOL 17 45 (0.313 %) VC++ 18 39 (0.271 %) Shell Script 19 22 (0.153 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 1651 (11.49 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1248 (8.682 %) Degree 3 999 (6.950 %) MCSE 4 903 (6.282 %) MCP 5 320 (2.226 %) MOS 6 313 (2.177 %) MCSA 7 255 (1.774 %) Cisco Certification 8 219 (1.523 %) CCNA 9 171 (1.190 %) ISEB 10 157 (1.092 %) ITIL Certification 11 144 (1.002 %) A+ Certification 12 137 (0.953 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 101 (0.703 %) MCDST 14 85 (0.591 %) HND 15 77 (0.536 %) MCSD 16 59 (0.410 %) MCTS 17 55 (0.383 %) CCNP 18 44 (0.306 %) Network+ Certification 19 32 (0.223 %) MCDBA 20 31 (0.216 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 635 (4.417 %) SLA 2 271 (1.885 %) QA 3 37 (0.257 %) ISO27001 4 34 (0.237 %) ISO9000 5 25 (0.174 %) ISO9001 5 25 (0.174 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 22 (0.153 %) ISO/IEC 20000 7 15 (0.104 %) COBIT 8 13 (0.090 %) Basel II 8 13 (0.090 %) ISO17799 9 8 (0.056 %) CESG Infosec 10 7 (0.049 %) JSP 440 10 7 (0.049 %) BS7799 11 2 (0.014 %) 21 CFR Part 11 11 2 (0.014 %) BS25999 12 1 (0.007 %) WAI 12 1 (0.007 %) HL7 12 1 (0.007 %) ISO8583	System Software 1 3315 (23.06 %) Active Directory 2 310 (2.157 %) Backup Exec 3 216 (1.503 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 181 (1.259 %) Terminal Services 5 93 (0.647 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 70 (0.487 %) Terminal Server 7 64 (0.445 %) ISA Server 8 63 (0.438 %) NetBackup 9 59 (0.410 %) MetaFrame 10 46 (0.320 %) VMware ESX 11 30 (0.209 %) NDS 12 14 (0.097 %) NFS 13 11 (0.077 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 14 9 (0.063 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 15 5 (0.035 %) MailMarshal 16 4 (0.028 %) Oracle RMAN 16 4 (0.028 %) AquaLogic 16 4 (0.028 %) Oracle RAC 17 3 (0.021 %) NLBS 17 3 (0.021 %) MSMQ
Systems Management 1 177 (1.231 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 87 (0.605 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 60 (0.417 %) MOM 4 45 (0.313 %) ZENworks 5 38 (0.264 %) WSUS 6 36 (0.250 %) ARCserve 7 34 (0.237 %) DameWare 8 33 (0.230 %) Tivoli 9 32 (0.223 %) OpenView 10 24 (0.167 %) ServiceCenter 10 24 (0.167 %) MIMEsweeper 11 23 (0.160 %) CONTROL-M 12 20 (0.139 %) SCCM 13 11 (0.077 %) SCOM 13 11 (0.077 %) OpenView Configuration Management 14 9 (0.063 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 15 7 (0.049 %) Legato 15 7 (0.049 %) BMC PATROL 16 6 (0.042 %) MAILsweeper 17 5 (0.035 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 7322 (50.94 %) Microsoft 2 1228 (8.543 %) Citrix 3 909 (6.323 %) Oracle 4 815 (5.670 %) Lotus 5 680 (4.730 %) Cisco 6 441 (3.068 %) HP 7 379 (2.637 %) VMware 8 358 (2.490 %) SAP 9 315 (2.191 %) Remedy 10 269 (1.871 %) Dell 11 267 (1.857 %) Adobe 12 265 (1.843 %) VERITAS 13 243 (1.690 %) IBM 14 224 (1.558 %) Interwoven 15 218 (1.517 %) Business Objects 16 201 (1.398 %) Bloomberg 17 196 (1.363 %) Symantec 18 184 (1.280 %) Reuters 19 180 (1.252 %) Novell 20 138 (0.960 %) Apple