The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Fife region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 17 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 Fife region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 14 11 10
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -1
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 1 6 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 2.439% 8.333% 13.64%
As % of the Applications category 100.00% 66.67% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 9
Average salary - £31,250 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +56.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Applications
Fife
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
1 9 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Fife 2.439% 12.50% 13.64%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 9
Average salary - £31,500 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +57.50%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
MS Excel
Scotland

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fife MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Fife region.

Fife MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife region citing MS Excel 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 Excel.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Subversion
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Physics
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) MSBuild
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) C#

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Fife region citing MS Excel 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 Excel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) jQuery
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) WinForms
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) MSBuild
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (33.33%) InstallShield
1 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Physics
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) VMware