The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 22 20 23
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 1 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 1.235% 2.041% 5.556%
As % of the Applications category 7.143% 16.67% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £30,000 £38,000 £31,356
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +21.19%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
All Applications
Maidstone
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
14 6 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Maidstone 17.28% 12.24% 12.96%
Number of salaries quoted 14 6 14
Average salary £31,250 £38,000 £24,401
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.76% +55.73%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £14,400 £16,500
10% offered a salary of more than £59,050 £42,736 £38,400
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
MS Office
Kent

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (50.00%) Mitel
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) VoIP
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Maidstone 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 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) VoIP
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireless
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Software Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) ETL
1 1 (25.00%) Service Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Web Testing
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Security
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) MCSA
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) Terminal Server
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) XenApp
2 2 (50.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Mitel
2 1 (25.00%) Apple