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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office
Rank 17 14 18
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +4
Permanent jobs citing MS Office 6 6 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 7.317% 9.091% 4.412%
As % of the Applications category 27.27% 85.71% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 2
Average salary £27,500 £23,500 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.02% +9.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,500 £16,300
10% offered a salary of more than £28,100 £31,500 £26,700
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
All Applications
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
22 7 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 26.83% 10.61% 10.29%
Number of salaries quoted 20 6 5
Average salary £30,000 £24,000 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -17.24%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,500 £15,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,600 £32,500 £31,250
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+2.94% -
MS Office
West Wales

MS Office
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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%) Microsoft
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Finance
3 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
4 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (50.00%) C#
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) .NET
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 4 (50.00%) ERP
5 3 (37.50%) Back Office
5 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
5 3 (37.50%) Migration
5 3 (37.50%) Scrum
5 3 (37.50%) VMware
5 3 (37.50%) Clustering
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (37.50%) Line 500
5 3 (37.50%) QlikView
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (37.50%) DHCP
5 3 (37.50%) DNS
5 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (37.50%) Active Directory

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) XML
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (37.50%) QlikView
2 3 (37.50%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (37.50%) MS Access
3 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
General
1 6 (75.00%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Back Office
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
1 4 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 3 (37.50%) Applications Developer
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Support Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Writer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Author
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (25.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (25.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 3 (37.50%) MVC
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE2
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Scrum
2 3 (37.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Business Intelligence
2 3 (37.50%) PRINCE
2 3 (37.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 3 (37.50%) VB.NET
2 3 (37.50%) VBA
2 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) MCP
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (25.00%) MCSE
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Sage
3 2 (25.00%) Novell
3 2 (25.00%) Fujitsu
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle