The first table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 34 34 24
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 3 7 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 2.000% 3.763% 6.452%
As % of the Applications category 13.64% 24.14% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3 7 11
Average salary £32,500 £18,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+75.67% -43.07%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+1.69% -1.66%
All Applications
Stoke-on-Trent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
22 29 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 14.67% 15.59% 22.58%
Number of salaries quoted 22 28 34
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £18,350 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £51,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,500 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+1.49% -1.47%
MS Office
Staffordshire

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent 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 Stoke-on-Trent region.

Stoke-on-Trent MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Office across the Stoke-on-Trent region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Stoke-on-Trent MS Office Salary Histogram

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows 7
3 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
4 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 6 (42.86%) MS Exchange
5 6 (42.86%) LAN
5 6 (42.86%) WAN
5 6 (42.86%) DNS
6 5 (35.71%) Windows XP
6 5 (35.71%) VPN
6 5 (35.71%) DHCP
7 4 (28.57%) VoIP
7 4 (28.57%) ISEB
7 4 (28.57%) IIS
7 4 (28.57%) VB
7 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
7 4 (28.57%) .NET
7 4 (28.57%) Lotus Notes
7 4 (28.57%) LDAP
7 4 (28.57%) SAN
7 4 (28.57%) Lotus
7 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (28.57%) MPLS
7 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
7 4 (28.57%) Validation
7 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 4 (28.57%) VMware
7 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (28.57%) VB6

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent 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 4 (28.57%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 4 (28.57%) IIS
2 4 (28.57%) Lotus Notes
2 4 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (42.86%) LAN
1 6 (42.86%) WAN
1 6 (42.86%) DNS
2 5 (35.71%) VPN
2 5 (35.71%) DHCP
3 4 (28.57%) VoIP
3 4 (28.57%) LDAP
3 4 (28.57%) SAN
3 4 (28.57%) MPLS
4 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (28.57%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) SilkTest
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Support Engineer
1 6 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
2 5 (35.71%) Help Desk Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) IT Support
3 4 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (21.43%) Help Desk Support
5 2 (14.29%) IT Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (14.29%) Help Desk Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Storage Systems Administrator
6 1 (7.143%) Help Desk Support Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Network Engineer
6 1 (7.143%) Network Support
6 1 (7.143%) Network Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 13 (92.86%) Windows
2 11 (78.57%) Windows 7
3 5 (35.71%) Windows XP
4 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (7.143%) Linux
6 1 (7.143%) Ubuntu
6 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Validation
1 4 (28.57%) Scrum
1 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
1 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Unit Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Software Architecture
1 4 (28.57%) Automation Testing
1 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
2 2 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (14.29%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) VB
1 4 (28.57%) VB.NET
1 4 (28.57%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Lotus
2 4 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (7.143%) Citrix