The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hitchin region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 24 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 Hitchin region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 8 4 4
Rank change year-on-year
-4 0
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 4 11 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hitchin 12.90% 55.00% 11.11%
As % of the Applications category 80.00% 100.00% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 1
Average salary £37,875 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.31% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Applications
Hitchin
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
5 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hitchin 16.13% 55.00% 33.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 11 1
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £34,731 £33,500 £33,750
% change year-on-year
+3.67% -0.74%
MS Excel
Hertfordshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hitchin 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 Hitchin region.

Hitchin MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hitchin 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 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) ISEB
2 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
3 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (37.50%) Project Management
4 3 (37.50%) System Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Validation
5 2 (25.00%) VMware
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco
5 2 (25.00%) NetApp
5 2 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
5 2 (25.00%) MS Office
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 2 (25.00%) MAPM
5 2 (25.00%) Degree
5 2 (25.00%) Matrix Management
5 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
6 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) MBCS
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
6 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
6 1 (12.50%) MySQL
6 1 (12.50%) VB.NET

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hitchin 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 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
1 4 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) MySQL
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Software Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Programmer
3 1 (12.50%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Implementation Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) UNIX
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) PRINCE2
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) System Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Validation
4 2 (25.00%) Matrix Management
4 2 (25.00%) Supply Chain Management
5 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) SOA
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) ISEB
2 2 (25.00%) MAPM
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) MBCS
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) NetApp
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle