North West MS Excel Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Excel skills within the North West region with a comparison to our Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Alderley Edge Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Andover Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carlisle Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Colchester Cornwall County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Darlington Dartford Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Felixstowe Fife Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hailsham Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hendon Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Manchester Market Harborough Marlow Merseyside Merthyr Tydfil Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nelson New Malden Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Romford Romsey Rotherham Rugby Ruislip Runcorn Sale Salford Salisbury Scotland Scunthorpe Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skelmersdale Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stansted Stevenage Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Tonbridge Torfaen Torquay Totnes Towcester Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Bromwich West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	17	17
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	1010	1122
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.533 %	0.459 %
As % of the category below	59.17 %	59.40 %
Salaries quoted	917	1028
Average minimum salary	£28,522	£28,436
Average salary	£30,947	£30,446
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Average maximum salary	£33,372	£32,457
UK excluding London average salary	£33,411	£33,893
% change on same period last year	-1.42 %
Applications North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	1707	1889
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.901 %	0.774 %
Salaries quoted	1538	1703
Average minimum salary	£27,373	£29,516
Average salary	£29,974	£31,741
% change on same period last year	-5.56 %
Average maximum salary	£32,574	£33,967
UK excluding London average salary	£33,332	£33,774
% change on same period last year	-1.30 %
MS Excel England

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Excel
Salary Trend

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

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Excel across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

MS Excel
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Manchester	+7	399	£34,042	-0.76 %
Cheshire	-8	317	£30,584	+8.73 %
Lancashire	-1	153	£25,145	-8.67 %
Merseyside	+6	139	£30,387	-0.48 %
Cumbria	0	9	£23,444	+19.39 %

MS Excel England

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 1334 (62.87 %) Microsoft 2 698 (32.89 %) Windows 3 595 (28.04 %) SQL Server 4 582 (27.43 %) SQL 5 478 (22.53 %) .NET 6 461 (21.72 %) MS Office 7 395 (18.61 %) MS Exchange 8 318 (14.99 %) Microsoft Certification 9 317 (14.94 %) C# 10 277 (13.05 %) Finance 11 274 (12.91 %) Active Directory 12 269 (12.68 %) ASP.NET 13 236 (11.12 %) Citrix 14 219 (10.32 %) XML 15 207 (9.755 %) Degree

16 203 (9.566 %) Pensions 16 203 (9.566 %) SQL Server 2000 17 195 (9.189 %) Windows 2000 18 186 (8.765 %) IIS 19 183 (8.624 %) MCSE 20 181 (8.530 %) VB 21 178 (8.388 %) Internet 22 175 (8.247 %) SQL Server 2005 23 172 (8.106 %) Project Management 24 169 (7.964 %) Exchange Server 2003 25 164 (7.729 %) SLA 26 161 (7.587 %) WebServices 27 157 (7.399 %) ITIL 28 154 (7.257 %) Oracle 29 153 (7.210 %) Health

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West 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 1 478 (22.53 %) .NET 2 269 (12.68 %) ASP.NET 3 219 (10.32 %) XML 4 161 (7.587 %) WebServices 5 125 (5.891 %) HTML 6 122 (5.749 %) ASP 7 90 (4.241 %) CSS 8 61 (2.875 %) XHTML 9 49 (2.309 %) AJAX 10 48 (2.262 %) .NET Framework 11 45 (2.121 %) XSLT 12 27 (1.272 %) WinForms 13 22 (1.037 %) ADO 14 18 (0.848 %) ODBC 14 18 (0.848 %) .NET Remoting 15 17 (0.801 %) WAP 16 16 (0.754 %) EDI 17 14 (0.660 %) ASP.NET 2.0 18 12 (0.566 %) J2EE 18 12 (0.566 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 395 (18.61 %) MS Exchange 2 186 (8.765 %) IIS 3 169 (7.964 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 142 (6.692 %) Exchange Server 2000 5 115 (5.419 %) SharePoint 6 90 (4.241 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 59 (2.780 %) BizTalk Server 8 40 (1.885 %) Lotus Notes 9 25 (1.178 %) SharePoint Server 2007 10 23 (1.084 %) Exchange Server 5.5 11 18 (0.848 %) SAS 12 14 (0.660 %) Apache 13 13 (0.613 %) Tomcat 14 8 (0.377 %) Oracle Application Server 14 8 (0.377 %) Oracle Workflow 15 6 (0.283 %) CMS 15 6 (0.283 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 16 4 (0.189 %) WebSphere Application Server 16 4 (0.189 %) Office Project Server 16 4 (0.189 %) Office Communications Server
Applications 1 461 (21.72 %) MS Office 2 140 (6.598 %) MS Project 3 79 (3.723 %) MS PowerPoint 4 46 (2.168 %) MS Visio 5 26 (1.225 %) Photoshop 6 20 (0.943 %) Acrobat 6 20 (0.943 %) FrameMaker 7 17 (0.801 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 14 (0.660 %) Spreadsheet 9 11 (0.518 %) RoboHelp 10 10 (0.471 %) FreeHand 10 10 (0.471 %) Paint Shop Pro 11 9 (0.424 %) Fireworks 12 2 (0.094 %) SPSS 13 1 (0.047 %) 3ds Max 13 1 (0.047 %) InDesign 13 1 (0.047 %) ImageReady	Business Applications 1 55 (2.592 %) Axapta 2 35 (1.649 %) Navision 2 35 (1.649 %) Dynamics NAV 3 33 (1.555 %) Dynamics CRM 4 26 (1.225 %) Dynamics AX 5 20 (0.943 %) Microsoft CRM 6 17 (0.801 %) Oracle Applications 7 14 (0.660 %) Line 500 8 11 (0.518 %) SalesLogix 9 9 (0.424 %) GoldMine 10 7 (0.330 %) SAP R/3 11 6 (0.283 %) Great Plains 12 5 (0.236 %) Oracle 11i 13 4 (0.189 %) Pegasus Opera 13 4 (0.189 %) SAP HR 13 4 (0.189 %) SAP Payroll 13 4 (0.189 %) SoftGrid 13 4 (0.189 %) Sage MMS 13 4 (0.189 %) Remedy ITSM 14 3 (0.141 %) SAP CRM
Communications & Networking 1 178 (8.388 %) Internet 2 139 (6.550 %) TCP/IP 3 120 (5.655 %) WAN 4 88 (4.147 %) LAN 4 88 (4.147 %) Firewall 5 84 (3.959 %) VPN 6 69 (3.252 %) DNS 7 64 (3.016 %) Intranet 8 49 (2.309 %) SAN 9 28 (1.320 %) DHCP 9 28 (1.320 %) Broadband 10 17 (0.801 %) HTTP 11 16 (0.754 %) VLAN 12 14 (0.660 %) MPLS 13 13 (0.613 %) Wireless 13 13 (0.613 %) GPRS 13 13 (0.613 %) GSM 14 12 (0.566 %) VoIP 15 11 (0.518 %) SSL 15 11 (0.518 %) IP Telephony	Database & Business Intelligence 1 595 (28.04 %) SQL Server 2 203 (9.566 %) SQL Server 2000 3 175 (8.247 %) SQL Server 2005 4 100 (4.713 %) MS Access 5 94 (4.430 %) Crystal Reports 6 46 (2.168 %) MySQL 7 45 (2.121 %) BusinessObjects 8 40 (1.885 %) Datawarehouse 9 37 (1.744 %) SQL Server 7 10 33 (1.555 %) DTS 11 27 (1.272 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 12 22 (1.037 %) SQL Server Integration Services 12 22 (1.037 %) OLAP 13 20 (0.943 %) Oracle 9i 13 20 (0.943 %) Oracle 10g 14 19 (0.895 %) RDBMS 15 14 (0.660 %) Oracle Reports 16 9 (0.424 %) Data Cleansing 17 8 (0.377 %) OLTP 18 7 (0.330 %) TOAD
Development Applications 1 116 (5.467 %) Visual Studio 2 29 (1.367 %) MorphX 3 26 (1.225 %) Dreamweaver 4 24 (1.131 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 17 (0.801 %) Rational Rose 6 15 (0.707 %) Flash 6 15 (0.707 %) Subversion 7 12 (0.566 %) Oracle Forms 8 6 (0.283 %) TestDirector 9 5 (0.236 %) InstallShield 9 5 (0.236 %) PVCS 10 4 (0.189 %) QuickTest Pro 10 4 (0.189 %) Oracle APEX 11 3 (0.141 %) JUnit 11 3 (0.141 %) Eclipse 12 2 (0.094 %) Ant 12 2 (0.094 %) JDeveloper 13 1 (0.047 %) ProC 13 1 (0.047 %) NUnit	General 1 277 (13.05 %) Finance 2 203 (9.566 %) Pensions 3 153 (7.210 %) Health 4 85 (4.006 %) Education 5 80 (3.770 %) Marketing 6 52 (2.451 %) Insurance 7 49 (2.309 %) Telecoms 8 48 (2.262 %) Manufacturing 9 43 (2.026 %) Retail 10 38 (1.791 %) Games 11 37 (1.744 %) Legal 12 26 (1.225 %) Advertising 12 26 (1.225 %) Law 13 23 (1.084 %) Banking 14 20 (0.943 %) Construction 15 19 (0.895 %) Government 16 16 (0.754 %) Pharmaceutical 16 16 (0.754 %) Billing 17 10 (0.471 %) Back Office 18 8 (0.377 %) Multimedia
Job Titles 1 433 (20.41 %) Developer 2 428 (20.17 %) Analyst 3 217 (10.23 %) Consultant 4 150 (7.069 %) Support Analyst 5 113 (5.325 %) .NET Developer 6 103 (4.854 %) Support Engineer 7 82 (3.864 %) Project Manager 8 75 (3.534 %) Software Developer 9 67 (3.157 %) 2nd Line Support 10 66 (3.110 %) Helpdesk Analyst 11 65 (3.063 %) Web Developer 12 63 (2.969 %) Administrator 13 61 (2.875 %) Helpdesk Support 14 52 (2.451 %) C# Developer 14 52 (2.451 %) Business Analyst 15 51 (2.403 %) Software Engineer 16 50 (2.356 %) Trainer 16 50 (2.356 %) Technical Support 17 45 (2.121 %) Architect 18 44 (2.074 %) Desktop Support	Miscellaneous 1 32 (1.508 %) N-Tier 2 30 (1.414 %) Management Information System 3 28 (1.320 %) Thin Client 3 28 (1.320 %) Blackberry 3 28 (1.320 %) Fat Client 4 24 (1.131 %) Client/Server 5 23 (1.084 %) Clustering 6 21 (0.990 %) Statistics 7 20 (0.943 %) Mathematics 7 20 (0.943 %) W3C 8 10 (0.471 %) Pocket PC 9 8 (0.377 %) German Language 9 8 (0.377 %) Handset 9 8 (0.377 %) Replication 10 7 (0.330 %) E-Learning 10 7 (0.330 %) PMI 10 7 (0.330 %) EPoS 10 7 (0.330 %) Physics 10 7 (0.330 %) VAX 10 7 (0.330 %) Data Extraction
Operating Systems 1 698 (32.89 %) Windows 2 195 (9.189 %) Windows 2000 3 108 (5.090 %) Windows XP 4 82 (3.864 %) Linux 5 77 (3.629 %) UNIX 6 70 (3.299 %) Windows NT 7 50 (2.356 %) Windows Server 2003 8 21 (0.990 %) Windows XP Embedded 9 17 (0.801 %) Symbian OS 10 14 (0.660 %) OpenVMS 11 9 (0.424 %) Solaris 11 9 (0.424 %) Windows Vista 12 8 (0.377 %) Mac OS X 13 7 (0.330 %) NetWare 13 7 (0.330 %) Debian 14 4 (0.189 %) AIX 15 3 (0.141 %) VMS 15 3 (0.141 %) Windows CE 16 2 (0.094 %) OS/400 17 1 (0.047 %) Windows Mobile	Processes & Methodologies 1 172 (8.106 %) Project Management 2 157 (7.399 %) ITIL 3 116 (5.467 %) OO 4 104 (4.901 %) PRINCE2 5 96 (4.524 %) E-Commerce 6 89 (4.194 %) UML 7 79 (3.723 %) CRM 8 77 (3.629 %) Service Delivery 9 74 (3.487 %) Migration 10 72 (3.393 %) ERP 11 56 (2.639 %) Web Development 12 54 (2.545 %) Service Management 13 38 (1.791 %) Project Planning 14 36 (1.697 %) OOD 15 33 (1.555 %) Time Management 16 31 (1.461 %) Change Management 17 27 (1.272 %) Data Analysis 18 25 (1.178 %) Business Analysis 18 25 (1.178 %) Data Migration 19 24 (1.131 %) Workflow
Programming Languages 1 582 (27.43 %) SQL 2 317 (14.94 %) C# 3 181 (8.530 %) VB 4 143 (6.739 %) VB.NET 5 90 (4.241 %) Java 6 86 (4.053 %) JavaScript 7 83 (3.911 %) C++ 8 67 (3.157 %) Transact-SQL 9 54 (2.545 %) C 10 53 (2.498 %) VB6 11 35 (1.649 %) X++ 12 28 (1.320 %) VBScript 12 28 (1.320 %) VBA 13 25 (1.178 %) PL/SQL 14 23 (1.084 %) VC++ 15 21 (0.990 %) PHP 16 13 (0.613 %) DHTML 17 7 (0.330 %) Delphi 17 7 (0.330 %) Shell Script 18 5 (0.236 %) Fortran	Qualifications 1 318 (14.99 %) Microsoft Certification 2 207 (9.755 %) Degree 3 183 (8.624 %) MCSE 4 109 (5.137 %) MCP 5 99 (4.665 %) MCSA 6 35 (1.649 %) Cisco Certification 7 34 (1.602 %) Citrix Certification 8 25 (1.178 %) CCNA 9 22 (1.037 %) ITIL Certification 10 18 (0.848 %) MCSD 11 17 (0.801 %) ISEB 12 14 (0.660 %) CCNP 12 14 (0.660 %) PRINCE2 Certification 13 11 (0.518 %) PMP 13 11 (0.518 %) PMI Certification 13 11 (0.518 %) MCDST 13 11 (0.518 %) HND 13 11 (0.518 %) CCA 13 11 (0.518 %) CCEA 14 10 (0.471 %) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 164 (7.729 %) SLA 2 18 (0.848 %) QA 3 8 (0.377 %) ISO9001 4 2 (0.094 %) BS25999 4 2 (0.094 %) ISO27001 5 1 (0.047 %) ISO9002 5 1 (0.047 %) Basel II	System Software 1 274 (12.91 %) Active Directory 2 81 (3.817 %) ISA Server 3 55 (2.592 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 34 (1.602 %) NetBackup 5 32 (1.508 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 26 (1.225 %) MetaFrame 7 25 (1.178 %) Terminal Server 8 24 (1.131 %) Terminal Services 9 22 (1.037 %) VMware ESX 10 13 (0.613 %) Backup Exec 11 6 (0.283 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 12 3 (0.141 %) MSMQ 12 3 (0.141 %) Oracle RAC 13 1 (0.047 %) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management 1 70 (3.299 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 11 (0.518 %) DameWare 2 11 (0.518 %) ServiceCenter 3 9 (0.424 %) Tivoli 4 8 (0.377 %) MOM 5 7 (0.330 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 7 (0.330 %) SCOM 6 6 (0.283 %) OpenView Configuration Management 7 5 (0.236 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 2 (0.094 %) OpenView 9 1 (0.047 %) MAILsweeper 9 1 (0.047 %) SCCM 9 1 (0.047 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 1334 (62.87 %) Microsoft 2 236 (11.12 %) Citrix 3 154 (7.257 %) Oracle 4 149 (7.022 %) Cisco 5 100 (4.713 %) VMware 6 66 (3.110 %) HP 7 58 (2.733 %) SAP 8 46 (2.168 %) Lotus 9 45 (2.121 %) Business Objects 10 42 (1.979 %) VERITAS 11 27 (1.272 %) Symbian 12 26 (1.225 %) Sage 13 23 (1.084 %) Remedy 13 23 (1.084 %) Adobe 14 21 (0.990 %) CA 15 18 (0.848 %) Cognos 16 16 (0.754 %) IBM 17 13 (0.613 %) BMC 18 12 (0.566 %) AppSense 18 12 (0.566 %) CheckPoint