The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 41 28 44
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +16
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 13 14 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 4.153% 5.534% 2.694%
As % of the Applications category 36.11% 40.00% 22.22%
Number of salaries quoted 11 13 8
Average salary £22,500 £37,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
All Applications
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
36 35 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 11.50% 13.83% 12.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30 34 35
Average salary £34,000 £25,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.00% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
MS Office
Suffolk

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich MS Office Jobs Demand Trend

MS Office
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Ipswich MS Office Salary Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 12 (70.59%) Windows
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
3 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Vista
4 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
4 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
4 5 (29.41%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) VPN
4 5 (29.41%) Service Management
5 4 (23.53%) Firewall
5 4 (23.53%) VMware
5 4 (23.53%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (17.65%) iPad
6 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
6 3 (17.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (17.65%) MCP
6 3 (17.65%) SQL
7 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
7 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
7 2 (11.76%) DTS
7 2 (11.76%) SAN
7 2 (11.76%) CCNA
7 2 (11.76%) LAN

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (5.882%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MS Excel
2 4 (23.53%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) VPN
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
3 2 (11.76%) SAN
3 2 (11.76%) LAN
3 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.882%) VoIP
4 1 (5.882%) Internet
4 1 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (5.882%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (11.76%) DTS
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
1 1 (5.882%) Advertising
1 1 (5.882%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
2 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Service Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) DBA
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Support
3 2 (11.76%) Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) MI Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Technician
3 2 (11.76%) IT Support
3 2 (11.76%) IT Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Desktop Technician
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Account Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Blackberry
1 3 (17.65%) iPad
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (5.882%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows XP
2 7 (41.18%) Windows Vista
3 5 (29.41%) Windows 7
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.882%) Linux
5 1 (5.882%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Service Management
1 5 (29.41%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Change Management
2 2 (11.76%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
3 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.882%) Network Design
3 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.882%) Use Case
3 1 (5.882%) Time Management
3 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
3 1 (5.882%) BPMN
3 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
3 1 (5.882%) UML
3 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
3 1 (5.882%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) MCP
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) CCNA
2 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.882%) ISEB
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.882%) Dell
3 1 (5.882%) EMC
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco