Preston MOS Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS) in IT jobs within the Preston region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MOS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire City of London Docklands, London East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Highlands Inverness Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Scotland Solihull South East Tyne and Wear Uckfield UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	10.91 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	1	0
Average minimum salary	£30,000	-
Average salary	£30,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£30,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£27,451	£24,230
% change on same period last year	+13.29 %
Qualifications Preston
Matching permanent IT job ads	55	53
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.022 %
Salaries quoted	40	40
Average minimum salary	£27,935	£28,970
Average salary	£29,827	£30,724
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Average maximum salary	£31,719	£32,478
UK excluding London average salary	£37,833	£38,491
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
MOS Lancashire

MOS
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing MOS across the Preston region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

MOS
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MOS across the Preston region.

MOS
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Preston region citing MOS 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 MOS.

1 5 (83.33 %) Microsoft 1 5 (83.33 %) Pensions 2 3 (50.00 %) MS Office 3 1 (16.67 %) Windows

MOS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Preston region citing MOS 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 MOS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Office	General 1 5 (83.33 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Helpdesk Support 2 2 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (16.67 %) IT Trainer 3 1 (16.67 %) Support Technician 3 1 (16.67 %) Helpdesk Technician 3 1 (16.67 %) Trainer	Operating Systems 1 1 (16.67 %) Windows
Vendors 1 5 (83.33 %) Microsoft