The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office over the 3 months to 19 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 51 47 53
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +6
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 36 41 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 3.368% 4.236% 3.543%
As % of the Applications category 21.05% 26.45% 36.00%
Number of salaries quoted 30 39 33
Average salary £28,250 £32,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.07% +16.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £18,450 £19,925 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,250 £42,500 £33,250
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £29,875
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.25%
All Applications
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
171 155 100
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 16.00% 16.01% 9.843%
Number of salaries quoted 153 138 93
Average salary £31,000 £33,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.06% +13.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £21,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £35,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £33,800 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+3.55% -0.58%
MS Office
Wales

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South Wales MS Office Salary Histogram

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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 19 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
Cardiff -20 19 £28,000 -13.84% 2
Newport - 6 £28,950 -
Torfaen +5 2 £28,000 +33.33%
Caerphilly -7 1 £18,000 -32.07%
Bridgend - 1 £19,500 -
Blaenau Gwent - 1 £22,000 -
MS Office
Wales

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 27 (47.37%) MS Excel
3 17 (29.82%) SQL Server
4 16 (28.07%) SQL
5 15 (26.32%) Windows
6 14 (24.56%) ISEB
7 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
8 11 (19.30%) ITIL
9 10 (17.54%) Information Security
10 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
10 9 (15.79%) Finance
10 9 (15.79%) XML
11 8 (14.04%) Oracle
11 8 (14.04%) C#
11 8 (14.04%) .NET
11 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (14.04%) Project Management
11 8 (14.04%) SQL Server 2005
12 7 (12.28%) T-SQL
13 6 (10.53%) Java
13 6 (10.53%) MySQL
13 6 (10.53%) Web Services
13 6 (10.53%) DHCP
13 6 (10.53%) Information Security Management
13 6 (10.53%) Security Management
13 6 (10.53%) Freedom of Information
13 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
13 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
13 6 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
13 6 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 9 (15.79%) XML
2 8 (14.04%) .NET
3 6 (10.53%) Web Services
4 4 (7.018%) J2EE
4 4 (7.018%) SOAP
5 3 (5.263%) HTML
6 2 (3.509%) Swing
6 2 (3.509%) Struts
6 2 (3.509%) ASP.NET
6 2 (3.509%) XSLT
6 2 (3.509%) Hibernate
6 2 (3.509%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (3.509%) REST
6 2 (3.509%) .NET Framework
6 2 (3.509%) Java SE
6 2 (3.509%) Java EE
6 2 (3.509%) WebSphere
6 2 (3.509%) Apache FOP
6 2 (3.509%) WCF
6 2 (3.509%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.772%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.509%) Apache
2 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.509%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.754%) Lync
3 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 27 (47.37%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.754%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) DHCP
2 5 (8.772%) Internet
3 3 (5.263%) HSRP
3 3 (5.263%) SSH
3 3 (5.263%) Firewall
3 3 (5.263%) LAN
3 3 (5.263%) WAN
3 3 (5.263%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.263%) VPN
3 3 (5.263%) DNS
3 3 (5.263%) MPLS
3 3 (5.263%) BGP
3 3 (5.263%) TELNET
4 1 (1.754%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.754%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (29.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.04%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (10.53%) MySQL
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (10.53%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (7.018%) Oracle 8/8i
4 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (3.509%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (3.509%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.754%) MS Access
6 1 (1.754%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (8.772%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.509%) JUnit
2 2 (3.509%) Selenium
2 2 (3.509%) Subversion
2 2 (3.509%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (1.754%) MSTest
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
2 4 (7.018%) Advertising
3 3 (5.263%) Banking
4 2 (3.509%) Financial Institution
4 2 (3.509%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.754%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Administrator
3 7 (12.28%) DBA
4 6 (10.53%) Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Support Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Java Developer
4 6 (10.53%) Information Security Officer
4 6 (10.53%) Security Officer
5 5 (8.772%) Test Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) 1st Line Support
6 4 (7.018%) Applications Support
6 4 (7.018%) Applications Support Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Senior DBA
6 4 (7.018%) Java/J2EE Developer
7 3 (5.263%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.263%) Network Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Development Manager
8 2 (3.509%) Programmer
8 2 (3.509%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.53%) Freedom of Information
3 3 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (5.263%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (3.509%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.509%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (3.509%) Clustering
5 1 (1.754%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (7.018%) Windows 7
3 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (3.509%) Windows XP
4 2 (3.509%) VxWorks
4 2 (3.509%) VME
5 1 (1.754%) Windows Vista
5 1 (1.754%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (19.30%) ITIL
2 10 (17.54%) Information Security
3 8 (14.04%) Project Management
4 6 (10.53%) Information Security Management
4 6 (10.53%) Security Management
4 6 (10.53%) Incident Management
4 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
5 5 (8.772%) Test Scripting
6 4 (7.018%) TDD
6 4 (7.018%) Automated Testing
7 3 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (5.263%) Network Design
7 3 (5.263%) Programme Management
8 2 (3.509%) Service Management
8 2 (3.509%) Quality Management
8 2 (3.509%) MVC
8 2 (3.509%) Scrum
8 2 (3.509%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.509%) Change Control
8 2 (3.509%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 16 (28.07%) SQL
2 8 (14.04%) C#
3 7 (12.28%) T-SQL
4 6 (10.53%) Java
5 5 (8.772%) VB6
5 5 (8.772%) VB
6 4 (7.018%) VB.NET
6 4 (7.018%) VBA
7 2 (3.509%) C
7 2 (3.509%) C++
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) ISEB
2 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.772%) ISTQB
3 5 (8.772%) MCITP
4 4 (7.018%) MCDBA
5 3 (5.263%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.263%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.263%) Degree
5 3 (5.263%) CCNP
5 3 (5.263%) CCIP
5 3 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.509%) MCSE
6 2 (3.509%) CCIE
7 1 (1.754%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.754%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.772%) SLA
2 4 (7.018%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.509%) QA
System Software
1 13 (22.81%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.754%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.263%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (3.509%) SCCM
2 2 (3.509%) SCOM
3 1 (1.754%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 29 (50.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (14.04%) Oracle
3 4 (7.018%) Cisco
3 4 (7.018%) Red Gate
4 3 (5.263%) SolarWinds
4 3 (5.263%) VMware
4 3 (5.263%) HP
4 3 (5.263%) Juniper
5 2 (3.509%) NetApp
5 2 (3.509%) IBM
5 2 (3.509%) Wind River
6 1 (1.754%) WatchGuard
6 1 (1.754%) Citrix
6 1 (1.754%) Business Objects
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Network design of WAN, IP, MPLS, LAN and Security solutions. Application of CCIP/CCNP level troubleshooting and diagnostics of networking issues. Deliver standard solutions basic BGP; HSRP and...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Health, Pension, 20% Bonus
Posted: 13 June 2013