The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 20 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 27 28 24
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -4
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 7 4 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 3.196% 2.597% 5.229%
As % of the Applications category 21.88% 23.53% 22.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 8
Average salary £23,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.30% +1.53%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
All Applications
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
32 17 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 14.61% 11.04% 22.88%
Number of salaries quoted 20 14 33
Average salary £30,000 £33,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +32.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £18,550 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £30,400 £39,200
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -
MS Office
West Midlands

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Office within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Telford -5 4 £23,000 +64.28%
Ellesmere - 1 £12,700 -
MS Office
West Midlands

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
5 3 (37.50%) Lync
6 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
6 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) Project Management
6 2 (25.00%) HP
6 2 (25.00%) Dell
6 2 (25.00%) EMC
6 2 (25.00%) Citrix
6 2 (25.00%) SAN
6 2 (25.00%) Veritas
6 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
6 2 (25.00%) VMware
6 2 (25.00%) Clustering
6 2 (25.00%) VB
6 2 (25.00%) Cisco
6 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (12.50%) VLAN
7 1 (12.50%) Time Management
7 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
7 1 (12.50%) LAN
7 1 (12.50%) WAN

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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 Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
1 3 (37.50%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) DHCP
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Help Desk Support
1 3 (37.50%) Help Desk Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Help Desk Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Support Technician
2 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 2 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Technician
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Data Architect
2 2 (25.00%) IT Technician
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Project Management
1 2 (25.00%) Customer Engagement
1 2 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) VB
1 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (25.00%) Terminal Services
2 2 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) Dell
2 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) Veritas
2 2 (25.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco