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

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 18 19 13
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -6
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 54 54 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 11.61% 10.47% 13.70%
As % of the Applications category 66.67% 70.13% 84.13%
Number of salaries quoted 51 49 52
Average salary £30,500 £28,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.01% +3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,300 £18,000 £16,600
10% offered a salary of more than £44,400 £45,000 £44,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,425 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.21% -
All Applications
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
81 77 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 17.42% 14.92% 16.28%
Number of salaries quoted 75 69 61
Average salary £27,750 £28,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.63% +3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,850 £18,000 £15,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £44,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+4.47% -1.47%
MS Excel
North West

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Lancashire MS Excel Salary Histogram

MS Excel
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Preston +3 21 £31,000 +5.08% 6
Burnley 0 11 £21,000 -16.00% 4
Blackpool +3 6 £23,000 -31.85% 3
Chorley +1 3 £35,000 +22.80%
Blackburn -1 3 £22,500 -25.00% 2
Ormskirk - 2 £37,500 -
Colne -2 1 £21,500 +19.44%
Darwen - 1 £18,500 -
Lytham St Annes - 1 - -
Newton-le-Willows - 1 £17,000 - 1
MS Excel
North West

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 65 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 48 (53.33%) .NET
3 44 (48.89%) Windows
4 43 (47.78%) SQL Server
5 31 (34.44%) MS Office
6 29 (32.22%) ASP.NET
6 29 (32.22%) SQL
7 28 (31.11%) C#
8 25 (27.78%) SharePoint
9 24 (26.67%) Active Directory
10 20 (22.22%) VB.NET
10 20 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
11 14 (15.56%) VB
11 14 (15.56%) .NET Framework
12 13 (14.44%) Cisco
13 12 (13.33%) WAN
13 12 (13.33%) CSS
13 12 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
13 12 (13.33%) SharePoint 2010
14 11 (12.22%) Internet
14 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (12.22%) MVC
14 11 (12.22%) T-SQL
14 11 (12.22%) LAN
14 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2005
14 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2008
15 10 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
15 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
15 10 (11.11%) VBA
15 10 (11.11%) HP

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 48 (53.33%) .NET
2 29 (32.22%) ASP.NET
3 14 (15.56%) .NET Framework
4 12 (13.33%) CSS
5 8 (8.889%) WinForms
5 8 (8.889%) HTML
6 7 (7.778%) WCF
6 7 (7.778%) Web Services
6 7 (7.778%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (6.667%) ASP
7 6 (6.667%) SOAP
8 5 (5.556%) Ajax
8 5 (5.556%) jQuery
9 3 (3.333%) REST
9 3 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (2.222%) XML
10 2 (2.222%) XSLT
11 1 (1.111%) Hibernate
11 1 (1.111%) COM
11 1 (1.111%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 25 (27.78%) SharePoint
2 12 (13.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 8 (8.889%) MS Exchange
3 8 (8.889%) IIS
4 6 (6.667%) TeamSite
5 5 (5.556%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (4.444%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (3.333%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (2.222%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (1.111%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (1.111%) Lync
9 1 (1.111%) Office Communications Server
9 1 (1.111%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 31 (34.44%) MS Office
2 4 (4.444%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.222%) InfoPath
3 2 (2.222%) MS Project
4 1 (1.111%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.111%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (8.889%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.111%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.111%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.111%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.33%) WAN
2 11 (12.22%) LAN
2 11 (12.22%) Internet
3 8 (8.889%) TCP/IP
3 8 (8.889%) DNS
4 6 (6.667%) VPN
4 6 (6.667%) DHCP
5 5 (5.556%) SAN
6 4 (4.444%) WLAN
7 3 (3.333%) Firewall
7 3 (3.333%) IMAP
7 3 (3.333%) FTP
8 2 (2.222%) HTTP
8 2 (2.222%) SMTP
8 2 (2.222%) Intranet
8 2 (2.222%) Extranet
8 2 (2.222%) SSL
8 2 (2.222%) Wireless
8 2 (2.222%) Unified Communications
9 1 (1.111%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (47.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2005
2 11 (12.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (10.00%) MS Access
4 7 (7.778%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 7 (7.778%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
5 3 (3.333%) RDBMS
5 3 (3.333%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (2.222%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (2.222%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.111%) TOAD
7 1 (1.111%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (8.889%) Visual Studio
3 2 (2.222%) MSI
4 1 (1.111%) Oracle Forms
General
1 7 (7.778%) Retail
2 6 (6.667%) Finance
3 4 (4.444%) Telecoms
3 4 (4.444%) Advertising
4 3 (3.333%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (1.111%) Electronics
5 1 (1.111%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.111%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (38.89%) Developer
2 16 (17.78%) Software Developer
3 9 (10.00%) Analyst
4 8 (8.889%) .NET Developer
5 7 (7.778%) Architect
5 7 (7.778%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (7.778%) SharePoint Developer
6 6 (6.667%) IT Support
6 6 (6.667%) Graduate
6 6 (6.667%) Support Engineer
7 5 (5.556%) Consultant
7 5 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.444%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.444%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.444%) 3rd Line Support
8 4 (4.444%) C# Developer
8 4 (4.444%) VB.NET Developer
9 3 (3.333%) Support Technician
9 3 (3.333%) Network Engineer
9 3 (3.333%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.444%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.222%) Clustering
2 2 (2.222%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.222%) FMCG
3 1 (1.111%) HP StorageWorks
3 1 (1.111%) Copywriting
3 1 (1.111%) Celerra
3 1 (1.111%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.111%) Economics
3 1 (1.111%) Statistics
3 1 (1.111%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.111%) CLARiiON
3 1 (1.111%) EMC Centera
3 1 (1.111%) Firmware
3 1 (1.111%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 44 (48.89%) Windows
2 20 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (13.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (10.00%) Windows Vista
5 8 (8.889%) Windows XP
5 8 (8.889%) Windows 7
6 7 (7.778%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.222%) Windows 8
7 2 (2.222%) Linux
7 2 (2.222%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.111%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (12.22%) MVC
2 9 (10.00%) CRM
3 7 (7.778%) E-Commerce
3 7 (7.778%) Unit Testing
4 6 (6.667%) Waterfall
4 6 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (5.556%) Content Management
5 5 (5.556%) Web Development
6 4 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (4.444%) TDD
6 4 (4.444%) Logistics
6 4 (4.444%) ITIL
6 4 (4.444%) Project Management
6 4 (4.444%) Service Management
7 3 (3.333%) UML
7 3 (3.333%) OOA/OOD
7 3 (3.333%) OOD
7 3 (3.333%) Information Security
7 3 (3.333%) TOGAF
7 3 (3.333%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 29 (32.22%) SQL
2 28 (31.11%) C#
3 20 (22.22%) VB.NET
4 14 (15.56%) VB
5 11 (12.22%) T-SQL
6 10 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 10 (11.11%) VBA
7 6 (6.667%) C++
8 4 (4.444%) Python
8 4 (4.444%) VB6
9 3 (3.333%) Java
10 2 (2.222%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.222%) VBScript
10 2 (2.222%) C
10 2 (2.222%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.111%) Ruby
11 1 (1.111%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.111%) AWK
Qualifications
1 11 (12.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.667%) CCNA
2 6 (6.667%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (5.556%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.556%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.333%) MCP
4 3 (3.333%) Degree
5 2 (2.222%) MCITP
6 1 (1.111%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.111%) MCSE
6 1 (1.111%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.111%) MCTS
6 1 (1.111%) ISEB
6 1 (1.111%) CCA
6 1 (1.111%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (1.111%) HP AIS
6 1 (1.111%) HP ASE
6 1 (1.111%) HP MASE
6 1 (1.111%) NCDA
6 1 (1.111%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.222%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.222%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.222%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.111%) Terminal Server
4 1 (1.111%) XenApp
4 1 (1.111%) XenServer
4 1 (1.111%) XenDesktop
4 1 (1.111%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (1.111%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.556%) SCCM
2 3 (3.333%) SCOM
3 2 (2.222%) WMI
3 2 (2.222%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.111%) Nagios
4 1 (1.111%) ARCserve
4 1 (1.111%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 65 (72.22%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.44%) Cisco
3 10 (11.11%) HP
3 10 (11.11%) Citrix
4 9 (10.00%) VMware
5 7 (7.778%) Oracle
6 4 (4.444%) NetApp
7 3 (3.333%) McAfee
7 3 (3.333%) Open Text
7 3 (3.333%) RedDot
7 3 (3.333%) EPiServer
7 3 (3.333%) Dell
8 2 (2.222%) Avaya
9 1 (1.111%) Juniper
9 1 (1.111%) EMC
9 1 (1.111%) Compuware
9 1 (1.111%) ProCurve
9 1 (1.111%) Google
9 1 (1.111%) Symantec
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