The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Applications category.

Microsoft Office Excel
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank212324
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Up+1
Matching permanent IT job ads10029103157503
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.317 %8.412 %7.858 %
As % of the Applications category54.75 %54.97 %53.48 %
Number of salaries quoted874188436297
Average salary£38,500£37,500£36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66 %+4.16 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,500£23,450£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£34,000
% change year-on-year
-+2.94 %
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryAll Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
183171876614030
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK15.19 %15.30 %14.69 %
Number of salaries quoted157571577511552
Average salary£37,500£37,500£35,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-+4.89 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,500£23,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£62,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£35,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %

MS Excel
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Applications category.

MS Excel Demand Trend

MS Excel
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel within the UK.

MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MS Excel over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

MS Excel Salary Histogram

MS Excel
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MS Excel within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+29403£40,000+6.66 %
LondonUp+44024£45,000-
South EastNo change02165£37,500-
City of LondonUp+91076£47,500+5.55 %
East of EnglandDown-1721£37,500-
North WestDown-1667£32,528-7.06 %
SurreyDown-9560£40,000+2.56 %
YorkshireDown-2516£31,500+4.13 %
BerkshireDown-1513£37,500-1.31 %
West MidlandsDown-1454£35,000+1.44 %
South WestUp+3434£32,500-
HampshireDown-1350£35,000+6.06 %
West YorkshireDown-3329£32,500+3.17 %
ManchesterDown-10320£32,500-7.14 %
ScotlandUp+4300£33,500-6.94 %
East MidlandsDown-3298£30,500-10.29 %
ReadingUp+3283£40,000+6.66 %
HertfordshireDown-2248£40,000+6.66 %
BuckinghamshireNo change0240£35,000-6.66 %
LeedsNo change0229£34,000+3.03 %
CheshireUp+3178£35,000+1.44 %
BristolUp+2174£35,500+9.23 %
CambridgeshireDown-17174£35,000+4.47 %
BirminghamDown-6144£35,000-10.82 %
EssexDown-6141£37,500-
OxfordshireDown-1127£35,000-
CambridgeDown-15120£37,500+7.14 %
Milton KeynesUp+13113£35,500+9.23 %
WalesUp+20109£35,000+16.66 %
West SussexDown-8109£32,500-4.41 %

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MS Excel 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 Excel.

114442 (72.51 %)Microsoft
27108 (35.69 %)SQL Server
36993 (35.11 %)Windows
46304 (31.65 %)SQL
55295 (26.59 %).NET
64571 (22.95 %)Finance
74509 (22.64 %)MS Office
84015 (20.16 %)C#
93510 (17.62 %)Active Directory
102942 (14.77 %)Degree
112870 (14.41 %)ASP.NET
122596 (13.03 %)Windows Server 2008
132529 (12.70 %)VMware
142481 (12.46 %)SharePoint
152402 (12.06 %)Microsoft Certification
162360 (11.85 %)MS Exchange
172285 (11.47 %)Windows Server 2003
182137 (10.73 %)Project Management
191940 (9.740 %)SQL Server 2008
201938 (9.730 %)Oracle
211867 (9.374 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
221826 (9.168 %)ITIL
231747 (8.771 %)Cisco
241741 (8.741 %)Business Intelligence
251723 (8.651 %)Citrix
261718 (8.626 %)SQL Server 2005
271644 (8.254 %)HTML
271644 (8.254 %)Windows XP
281635 (8.209 %)SQL Server Integration Services
291612 (8.094 %)JavaScript

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing MS Excel 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 Excel. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15295 (26.59 %).NET
22870 (14.41 %)ASP.NET
31644 (8.254 %)HTML
41535 (7.707 %)XML
51447 (7.265 %)CSS
61192 (5.985 %)Web Services
7873 (4.383 %)WCF
8764 (3.836 %).NET Framework
9708 (3.555 %)jQuery
10566 (2.842 %)Ajax
11551 (2.766 %)WPF
12541 (2.716 %)ASP
13453 (2.274 %)XSLT
14432 (2.169 %)Silverlight
15398 (1.998 %)ASP.NET MVC
16290 (1.456 %)WinForms
17288 (1.446 %)XHTML
18272 (1.366 %)MDX
19249 (1.250 %)LINQ
20246 (1.235 %)J2EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12481 (12.46 %)SharePoint
22360 (11.85 %)MS Exchange
31250 (6.276 %)IIS
41009 (5.066 %)Exchange Server 2010
5946 (4.750 %)Exchange Server 2007
6765 (3.841 %)Exchange Server 2003
7640 (3.213 %)SharePoint 2010
8419 (2.104 %)SharePoint Server
9384 (1.928 %)BizTalk Server
10306 (1.536 %)CMS
11298 (1.496 %)Apache
12293 (1.471 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
13229 (1.150 %)Lotus Notes
14206 (1.034 %)Lync
15189 (0.949 %)SAS
16147 (0.738 %)WebLogic
16147 (0.738 %)Tomcat
17126 (0.633 %)Office Communications Server
1873 (0.367 %)ESB
1968 (0.341 %)Umbraco
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14509 (22.64 %)MS Office
21515 (7.607 %)MS PowerPoint
31085 (5.448 %)MS Visio
41073 (5.387 %)MS Project
5162 (0.813 %)Photoshop
6148 (0.743 %)Spreadsheet
786 (0.432 %)Office 365
882 (0.412 %)InfoPath
980 (0.402 %)MATLAB
1079 (0.397 %)PowerPivot
1162 (0.311 %)Adobe Illustrator
1258 (0.291 %)SPSS
1340 (0.201 %)Acrobat
1430 (0.151 %)InDesign
1524 (0.121 %)Google Apps
1617 (0.085 %)AutoCAD
1714 (0.070 %)FrameMaker
1714 (0.070 %)Paint Shop Pro
1812 (0.060 %)Simulink
1812 (0.060 %)Adobe Captivate
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1788 (3.956 %)Dynamics CRM
2475 (2.385 %)Dynamics AX
3269 (1.351 %)Dynamics NAV
466 (0.331 %)Dynamics GP
564 (0.321 %)Google Analytics
661 (0.306 %)Summit
740 (0.201 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
836 (0.181 %)SAP FI
935 (0.176 %)Oracle EBS
1033 (0.166 %)SAP FI/CO
1033 (0.166 %)SAP CO
1129 (0.146 %)Agresso
1228 (0.141 %)Oracle EBS R12
1327 (0.136 %)Oracle Financials
1426 (0.131 %)Visualfiles
1524 (0.121 %)Hyperion Planning
1623 (0.115 %)HFM
1721 (0.105 %)WebTrends
1721 (0.105 %)Oracle Applications
1820 (0.100 %)SAP CRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11329 (6.673 %)TCP/IP
21135 (5.699 %)DNS
31115 (5.598 %)Firewall
41107 (5.558 %)SAN
5986 (4.951 %)Internet
6890 (4.469 %)LAN
7790 (3.966 %)WAN
8754 (3.786 %)DHCP
9738 (3.705 %)VPN
10373 (1.873 %)VoIP
11308 (1.546 %)Wireless
12286 (1.436 %)Intranet
13209 (1.049 %)VLAN
14168 (0.844 %)Network Security
15159 (0.798 %)HTTP
16153 (0.768 %)Unified Communications
17150 (0.753 %)NAS
18131 (0.658 %)Cisco ASA
19129 (0.648 %)Cisco IOS
20124 (0.623 %)MPLS
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
17108 (35.69 %)SQL Server
21940 (9.740 %)SQL Server 2008
31867 (9.374 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
41718 (8.626 %)SQL Server 2005
51635 (8.209 %)SQL Server Integration Services
61089 (5.468 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
71068 (5.362 %)Data Warehouse
8723 (3.630 %)ETL
9636 (3.193 %)MS Access
10517 (2.596 %)SQL Server 2000
11472 (2.370 %)OLAP
12433 (2.174 %)MySQL
13428 (2.149 %)Crystal Reports
14357 (1.792 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
15270 (1.356 %)BusinessObjects
16263 (1.320 %)RDBMS
17211 (1.059 %)Oracle Reports
18210 (1.054 %)Oracle 8/8i
19186 (0.934 %)DTS
19186 (0.934 %)BusinessObjects Data Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11190 (5.975 %)Visual Studio
2465 (2.335 %)Team Foundation Server
3278 (1.396 %)Subversion
4153 (0.768 %)VSS/SourceSafe
5114 (0.572 %)NUnit
6112 (0.562 %)JIRA
7104 (0.522 %)MSBuild
896 (0.482 %)Eclipse
989 (0.447 %)QuickTest Pro
1071 (0.356 %)LoadRunner
1167 (0.336 %)Selenium
1260 (0.301 %)ERwin
1352 (0.261 %)TeamCity
1450 (0.251 %)TestDirector
1544 (0.221 %)Ant
1642 (0.211 %)Oracle Forms
1741 (0.206 %)Dreamweaver
1837 (0.186 %)Git (software)
1837 (0.186 %)MorphX
1934 (0.171 %)RequisitePro
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
14571 (22.95 %)Finance
2962 (4.830 %)Banking
3734 (3.685 %)Marketing
4718 (3.605 %)Retail
5659 (3.309 %)Telecoms
6511 (2.566 %)Legal
7438 (2.199 %)Law
8416 (2.089 %)Advertising
9326 (1.637 %)Manufacturing
10292 (1.466 %)Back Office
10292 (1.466 %)Investment Banking
11229 (1.150 %)Front Office
12180 (0.904 %)German Language
13164 (0.823 %)French Language
14161 (0.808 %)Games
15152 (0.763 %)Financial Institution
16114 (0.572 %)Publishing
17109 (0.547 %)Pharmaceutical
18100 (0.502 %)Electronics
1997 (0.487 %)Aerospace
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14714 (23.67 %)Developer
24346 (21.82 %)Analyst
32132 (10.70 %)Consultant
41474 (7.401 %)Support Analyst
51404 (7.049 %).NET Developer
61026 (5.151 %)Support Engineer
7959 (4.815 %)C# Developer
8853 (4.283 %)Administrator
9840 (4.218 %)Architect
10802 (4.027 %)Project Manager
11651 (3.269 %)Business Analyst
12633 (3.178 %)C# .NET Developer
13613 (3.078 %)Senior Developer
14549 (2.756 %)IT Support
15504 (2.531 %)Technical Support
16497 (2.495 %)Applications Support
17479 (2.405 %)Software Developer
18437 (2.194 %)SQL Developer
19434 (2.179 %)Junior
20426 (2.139 %)2nd Line Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1798 (4.007 %)Computer Science
2773 (3.881 %)Blackberry
3455 (2.284 %)Management Information System
4447 (2.244 %)Mathematics
5387 (1.943 %)Clustering
6256 (1.285 %)N-Tier
7220 (1.105 %)Hedge funds
8207 (1.039 %)Derivative
9204 (1.024 %)Replication
10190 (0.954 %)iPhone
11173 (0.869 %)Client/Server
12160 (0.803 %)Statistics
13151 (0.758 %)Open Source
14138 (0.693 %)SaaS
15136 (0.683 %)Cloud Computing
16134 (0.673 %)Fixed Income
17115 (0.577 %)AS400
18111 (0.557 %)Social Media
19108 (0.542 %)Equities
20100 (0.502 %)Economics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16993 (35.11 %)Windows
22596 (13.03 %)Windows Server 2008
32285 (11.47 %)Windows Server 2003
41644 (8.254 %)Windows XP
51344 (6.748 %)Windows 7
61266 (6.356 %)Linux
7875 (4.393 %)UNIX
8601 (3.018 %)Windows Vista
9268 (1.346 %)Windows 2000
10229 (1.150 %)Windows 2000 Server
11214 (1.074 %)Solaris
12147 (0.738 %)Android
13142 (0.713 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14136 (0.683 %)AIX
15108 (0.542 %)Mac OS X
16102 (0.512 %)Windows Mobile
1784 (0.422 %)Apple iOS
1861 (0.306 %)Windows NT
1938 (0.191 %)Mac OS
2036 (0.181 %)Ubuntu
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12137 (10.73 %)Project Management
21826 (9.168 %)ITIL
31741 (8.741 %)Business Intelligence
41340 (6.728 %)CRM
51123 (5.638 %)Agile Software Development
6945 (4.745 %)PRINCE2
7817 (4.102 %)Scrum
8779 (3.911 %)OO
9714 (3.585 %)ERP
10705 (3.540 %)MVC
11675 (3.389 %)Service Delivery
12648 (3.254 %)Migration
13639 (3.208 %)E-Commerce
14612 (3.073 %)Web Development
15609 (3.058 %)Time Management
16588 (2.952 %)Business Analysis
17580 (2.912 %)Change Management
18553 (2.777 %)TDD
19439 (2.204 %)Disaster Recovery
20436 (2.189 %)Workflow
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
16304 (31.65 %)SQL
24015 (20.16 %)C#
31612 (8.094 %)JavaScript
41486 (7.461 %)T-SQL
51220 (6.125 %)VB.NET
61161 (5.829 %)Java
71026 (5.151 %)VB
8818 (4.107 %)VBA
9699 (3.510 %)C++
10558 (2.802 %)C
11428 (2.149 %)PHP
12331 (1.662 %)Perl
13317 (1.592 %)VBScript
14298 (1.496 %)PowerShell
15259 (1.300 %)PL/SQL
16256 (1.285 %)VB6
17211 (1.059 %)Python
18159 (0.798 %)X++
19123 (0.618 %)Shell Script
20112 (0.562 %)Ruby
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12942 (14.77 %)Degree
22402 (12.06 %)Microsoft Certification
31126 (5.653 %)MCSE
4860 (4.318 %)MCITP
5726 (3.645 %)Cisco Certification
6663 (3.329 %)MCP
7613 (3.078 %)Security Cleared
8508 (2.551 %)CCNA
9372 (1.868 %)SC Cleared
10339 (1.702 %)MCSA
11311 (1.561 %)ISEB
12291 (1.461 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13279 (1.401 %)MCTS
14268 (1.346 %)ITIL Certification
15248 (1.245 %)CCNP
16221 (1.110 %)PRINCE2 Certification
17202 (1.014 %)Citrix Certification
18155 (0.778 %)PMI Certification
19132 (0.663 %)MCDST
20128 (0.643 %)CCA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1779 (3.911 %)SLA
2680 (3.414 %)QA
3164 (0.823 %)ISO 9001
4136 (0.683 %)ISO/IEC 27001
5133 (0.668 %)Data Quality
683 (0.417 %)PCI DSS
766 (0.331 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
842 (0.211 %)COBIT
922 (0.110 %)ISO 9000
1021 (0.105 %)WAI
1117 (0.085 %)21 CFR Part 11
1214 (0.070 %)ISO 14001
139 (0.045 %)Basel III
148 (0.040 %)WCAG
157 (0.035 %)MiFID
157 (0.035 %)BS7799
157 (0.035 %)Solvency II
157 (0.035 %)BS25999
166 (0.030 %)COSO
166 (0.030 %)Basel II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13510 (17.62 %)Active Directory
21534 (7.702 %)VMware Infrastructure
3697 (3.500 %)Hyper-V
4470 (2.360 %)vSphere
5465 (2.335 %)XenApp
6364 (1.828 %)VMware ESX
7225 (1.130 %)XenDesktop
8202 (1.014 %)Terminal Services
9165 (0.828 %)VMware ESXi
10136 (0.683 %)XenServer
11123 (0.618 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12108 (0.542 %)ISA Server
1371 (0.356 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1458 (0.291 %)Xen
1556 (0.281 %)Terminal Server
1654 (0.271 %)MetaFrame
1745 (0.226 %)UAG
1841 (0.206 %)VMware Server
1935 (0.176 %)Oracle RAC
2034 (0.171 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1505 (2.536 %)SCCM
2336 (1.687 %)SCOM
3255 (1.280 %)Backup Exec
4134 (0.673 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
5121 (0.608 %)HP Quality Center
6117 (0.587 %)WSUS
790 (0.452 %)Tivoli
882 (0.412 %)NetBackup
971 (0.356 %)SCVMM
1063 (0.316 %)vCenter
1162 (0.311 %)Nagios
1255 (0.276 %)Norton AntiVirus
1344 (0.221 %)Cisco CUCM
1443 (0.216 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1541 (0.206 %)WMI
1640 (0.201 %)HP SIM
1739 (0.196 %)Data Guard
1739 (0.196 %)MOM
1838 (0.191 %)OpenView
1838 (0.191 %)McAfee ePO
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
114442 (72.51 %)Microsoft
22529 (12.70 %)VMware
31938 (9.730 %)Oracle
41747 (8.771 %)Cisco
51723 (8.651 %)Citrix
61024 (5.141 %)HP
7769 (3.861 %)SAP
8573 (2.877 %)Business Objects
9409 (2.054 %)IBM
10329 (1.652 %)Cognos
10329 (1.652 %)Symantec
11316 (1.587 %)EMC
12303 (1.521 %)Dell
13293 (1.471 %)NetApp
14242 (1.215 %)Lotus
15232 (1.165 %)Red Hat
16200 (1.004 %)Adobe
17190 (0.954 %)Apple
17190 (0.954 %)CheckPoint
18173 (0.869 %)Avaya