The first part of the table below looks at the demand for MS Office skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Office 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
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank655955
Rank change year-on-year
Down-6Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads448746273608
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.721 %3.774 %3.779 %
As % of the Applications category24.50 %24.66 %25.72 %
Number of salaries quoted383639132953
Average salary£32,500£32,250£30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.77 %+7.50 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£20,500£20,500£19,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£55,000£57,500£52,500
UK excluding London average salary£29,500£29,500£27,500
% change year-on-year
-+7.27 %
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 Office
Demand Trend

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

MS Office Demand Trend

MS Office
Salary Trend

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

MS Office Salary Trend

MS Office
Salary Histogram

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

MS Office Salary Histogram

MS Office
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 Office 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
EnglandDown-54186£32,500-
LondonDown-81964£37,500-
South EastDown-2981£30,000-
City of LondonUp+2504£42,000+13.51 %
East of EnglandUp+11387£30,500-6.15 %
SurreyDown-27248£33,000+3.12 %
YorkshireDown-4211£24,750-2.94 %
BerkshireDown-19167£30,000-1.63 %
South WestDown-14158£29,500+11.32 %
North WestDown-27158£28,500+9.61 %
East MidlandsUp+22157£26,500-7.01 %
HampshireDown-19152£24,500-24.03 %
ScotlandUp+22149£31,000+24.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+52142£28,000+15.46 %
West MidlandsDown-34142£27,500-
West YorkshireUp+2132£24,000-
CambridgeshireUp+18118£34,000-2.85 %
West SussexUp+30115£27,500+7.84 %
HertfordshireUp+41113£27,500-21.42 %
LeedsDown-1080£23,250-22.50 %
ReadingDown-479£28,500-12.30 %
ManchesterDown-2579£32,500+27.45 %
Milton KeynesUp+3671£31,000+31.91 %
EssexDown-2868£33,000+10.00 %
WalesUp+1158£30,000+7.14 %
BirminghamDown-1057£25,500-10.52 %
EdinburghUp+2655£35,000-5.40 %
CrawleyUp+2854£36,250+11.53 %
BedfordshireUp+154£28,000-32.53 %
CambridgeNo change054£35,000-

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

15454 (59.58 %)Microsoft
24509 (49.26 %)MS Excel
34421 (48.30 %)Windows
42310 (25.23 %)Active Directory
52070 (22.61 %)Windows XP
61997 (21.82 %)Finance
71813 (19.81 %)SQL
81448 (15.82 %)SQL Server
91423 (15.55 %)ITIL
101383 (15.11 %)Windows 7
111382 (15.10 %)MS Exchange
121354 (14.79 %)Degree
131327 (14.50 %)Windows Server 2008
141322 (14.44 %)Windows Server 2003
151088 (11.89 %)Project Management
16996 (10.88 %)SharePoint
17942 (10.29 %)Microsoft Certification
18933 (10.19 %)MS PowerPoint
19875 (9.559 %)Blackberry
20817 (8.925 %)Citrix
21797 (8.707 %)VMware
22785 (8.575 %)MS Visio
23784 (8.565 %).NET
24783 (8.554 %)TCP/IP
25636 (6.948 %)LAN
26618 (6.751 %)MS Project
27611 (6.675 %)C#
28594 (6.489 %)DNS
29584 (6.380 %)Legal
30583 (6.369 %)WAN

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1784 (8.565 %).NET
2547 (5.976 %)XML
3537 (5.866 %)HTML
4379 (4.140 %)ASP.NET
5362 (3.955 %)CSS
6230 (2.513 %)Web Services
7126 (1.376 %).NET Framework
8110 (1.202 %)Ajax
9107 (1.169 %)XSLT
10101 (1.103 %)WPF
1199 (1.081 %)Windows SharePoint Services
1287 (0.950 %)ASP
1381 (0.885 %)jQuery
1479 (0.863 %)WCF
1575 (0.819 %)J2EE
1664 (0.699 %)COM
1760 (0.655 %)HTML5
1859 (0.645 %)WebSphere
1958 (0.634 %)XHTML
2055 (0.601 %)Lucene
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11382 (15.10 %)MS Exchange
2996 (10.88 %)SharePoint
3546 (5.965 %)Exchange Server 2010
4537 (5.866 %)Exchange Server 2007
5472 (5.156 %)Exchange Server 2003
6322 (3.518 %)IIS
7307 (3.354 %)Lotus Notes
8301 (3.288 %)SharePoint Server
9274 (2.993 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
10242 (2.644 %)SharePoint 2010
11113 (1.234 %)Lync
12108 (1.180 %)Apache
1387 (0.950 %)Office Communications Server
1484 (0.918 %)SAS
1568 (0.743 %)CMS
1651 (0.557 %)MediaWiki
1748 (0.524 %)Documentum
1845 (0.492 %)Office Project Server
1944 (0.481 %)Exchange Server 2000
2043 (0.470 %)WorkSite
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14509 (49.26 %)MS Excel
2933 (10.19 %)MS PowerPoint
3785 (8.575 %)MS Visio
4618 (6.751 %)MS Project
596 (1.049 %)Spreadsheet
693 (1.016 %)Photoshop
772 (0.787 %)InfoPath
870 (0.765 %)Adobe Illustrator
965 (0.710 %)Google Apps
1064 (0.699 %)Acrobat
1153 (0.579 %)Office 365
1236 (0.393 %)MATLAB
1327 (0.295 %)SPSS
1327 (0.295 %)InDesign
1418 (0.197 %)DeltaView
1418 (0.197 %)CATIA
1515 (0.164 %)FrameMaker
1614 (0.153 %)RoboHelp
1614 (0.153 %)AutoCAD
1711 (0.120 %)Adobe After Effects
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1128 (1.398 %)Dynamics CRM
248 (0.524 %)Google Analytics
336 (0.393 %)Dynamics AX
434 (0.371 %)Dynamics NAV
529 (0.317 %)SAP FI
529 (0.317 %)SAP FI/CO
529 (0.317 %)SAP CO
626 (0.284 %)Visualfiles
722 (0.240 %)Oracle EBS
821 (0.229 %)Dynamics GP
821 (0.229 %)Hyperion Planning
918 (0.197 %)CA Clarity
1017 (0.186 %)Oracle EBS R12
1115 (0.164 %)SAP SD
1214 (0.153 %)assyst
1214 (0.153 %)Line 50
1313 (0.142 %)WebTrends
1313 (0.142 %)SAP MM
1313 (0.142 %)Summit
1313 (0.142 %)Oracle Applications
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1783 (8.554 %)TCP/IP
2636 (6.948 %)LAN
3594 (6.489 %)DNS
4583 (6.369 %)WAN
5480 (5.244 %)Internet
6473 (5.167 %)VPN
7440 (4.807 %)DHCP
8402 (4.392 %)Firewall
9376 (4.107 %)SAN
10236 (2.578 %)VoIP
11189 (2.065 %)Wireless
12149 (1.628 %)Intranet
13119 (1.300 %)VLAN
14102 (1.114 %)Wi-Fi
1593 (1.016 %)NAS
1682 (0.896 %)Network Security
1775 (0.819 %)FTP
1874 (0.808 %)IP Telephony
1972 (0.787 %)HTTP
2058 (0.634 %)ATM
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11448 (15.82 %)SQL Server
2409 (4.468 %)SQL Server 2008
3388 (4.239 %)SQL Server 2005
4233 (2.545 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5192 (2.097 %)SQL Server Integration Services
6164 (1.792 %)MS Access
7157 (1.715 %)Crystal Reports
8139 (1.518 %)Data Warehouse
9133 (1.453 %)SQL Server 2000
10115 (1.256 %)MySQL
1198 (1.071 %)RDBMS
1297 (1.060 %)Data Mining
1386 (0.939 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1467 (0.732 %)ETL
1555 (0.601 %)Oracle Reports
1644 (0.481 %)Oracle 8/8i
1739 (0.426 %)Text Mining
1836 (0.393 %)Hadoop
1934 (0.371 %)HSQLDB
2031 (0.339 %)OLAP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1397 (4.337 %)Visual Studio
288 (0.961 %)Team Foundation Server
366 (0.721 %)JIRA
462 (0.677 %)Subversion
561 (0.666 %)Eclipse
561 (0.666 %)QuickTest Pro
651 (0.557 %)JUnit
651 (0.557 %)Bugzilla
750 (0.546 %)GCC
849 (0.535 %)Mercurial
948 (0.524 %)SCons
948 (0.524 %)GoogleTest
948 (0.524 %)Mockito
1045 (0.492 %)Dreamweaver
1142 (0.459 %)TestDirector
1241 (0.448 %)RequisitePro
1338 (0.415 %)LoadRunner
1437 (0.404 %)Selenium
1536 (0.393 %)NUnit
1634 (0.371 %)VSS/SourceSafe
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11997 (21.82 %)Finance
2584 (6.380 %)Legal
3484 (5.287 %)Banking
4466 (5.091 %)Law
5411 (4.490 %)Retail
5411 (4.490 %)Telecoms
6368 (4.020 %)Marketing
7208 (2.272 %)Manufacturing
8170 (1.857 %)Back Office
9138 (1.508 %)Investment Banking
10119 (1.300 %)Advertising
11102 (1.114 %)Publishing
12100 (1.092 %)Aerospace
1395 (1.038 %)French Language
1482 (0.896 %)Front Office
1573 (0.797 %)German Language
1670 (0.765 %)Electronics
1768 (0.743 %)Financial Institution
1864 (0.699 %)Billing
1952 (0.568 %)Automotive
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13083 (33.68 %)Analyst
21254 (13.70 %)Support Analyst
3867 (9.471 %)Developer
4679 (7.418 %)Support Engineer
5532 (5.812 %)Desktop Support
6506 (5.528 %)IT Support
7500 (5.462 %)Service Analyst
8485 (5.298 %)Service Desk Analyst
9449 (4.905 %)Business Analyst
10435 (4.752 %)Consultant
11433 (4.730 %)2nd Line Support
12396 (4.326 %)Project Manager
13376 (4.107 %)Administrator
14317 (3.463 %)1st Line Support
15285 (3.113 %)Helpdesk Analyst
16267 (2.917 %)Helpdesk Support
17266 (2.906 %)Applications Support
18257 (2.808 %)Technical Support
19245 (2.676 %)Desktop Analyst
20238 (2.600 %)Desktop Support Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1875 (9.559 %)Blackberry
2301 (3.288 %)Management Information System
3268 (2.928 %)Computer Science
4150 (1.639 %)Mathematics
5141 (1.540 %)iPhone
6132 (1.442 %)Video Conferencing
7113 (1.234 %)Hedge funds
7113 (1.234 %)PDA
8109 (1.191 %)E-Learning
997 (1.060 %)Derivative
1094 (1.027 %)iPad
1184 (0.918 %)Client/Server
1283 (0.907 %)Replication
1381 (0.885 %)AS400
1477 (0.841 %)EPoS
1576 (0.830 %)Clustering
1576 (0.830 %)Statistics
1665 (0.710 %)Social Media
1665 (0.710 %)Visualisation
1753 (0.579 %)Smartphone
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
14421 (48.30 %)Windows
22070 (22.61 %)Windows XP
31383 (15.11 %)Windows 7
41327 (14.50 %)Windows Server 2008
51322 (14.44 %)Windows Server 2003
6560 (6.118 %)Windows Vista
7550 (6.008 %)Linux
8405 (4.424 %)UNIX
9235 (2.567 %)Windows 2000
10125 (1.366 %)Solaris
10125 (1.366 %)Mac OS X
11114 (1.245 %)Windows 2000 Server
1273 (0.797 %)AIX
1273 (0.797 %)Windows NT
1370 (0.765 %)Android
1457 (0.623 %)Windows Mobile
1552 (0.568 %)Mac OS
1635 (0.382 %)Apple iOS
1734 (0.371 %)Ubuntu
1832 (0.350 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11423 (15.55 %)ITIL
21088 (11.89 %)Project Management
3454 (4.960 %)PRINCE2
4433 (4.730 %)Document Management
5431 (4.708 %)CRM
6332 (3.627 %)Time Management
7330 (3.605 %)Service Delivery
8307 (3.354 %)Incident Management
9295 (3.223 %)Service Management
10290 (3.168 %)Change Management
11289 (3.157 %)Agile Software Development
12284 (3.102 %)Workflow
13255 (2.786 %)Business Analysis
14246 (2.687 %)Business Intelligence
15236 (2.578 %)ERP
16226 (2.469 %)E-Commerce
17212 (2.316 %)Problem Management
18205 (2.239 %)OO
19197 (2.152 %)Configuration Management
20191 (2.087 %)Stakeholder Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11813 (19.81 %)SQL
2611 (6.675 %)C#
3511 (5.582 %)JavaScript
4388 (4.239 %)VBA
5331 (3.616 %)Java
6325 (3.550 %)VB
7282 (3.081 %)T-SQL
8278 (3.037 %)VB.NET
9241 (2.633 %)C
10204 (2.229 %)C++
11194 (2.119 %)Perl
12111 (1.213 %)PHP
12111 (1.213 %)PowerShell
1384 (0.918 %)Python
1478 (0.852 %)VBScript
1575 (0.819 %)PL/SQL
1657 (0.623 %)VB6
1754 (0.590 %)Shell Script
1834 (0.371 %)SPARQL
1926 (0.284 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11354 (14.79 %)Degree
2942 (10.29 %)Microsoft Certification
3478 (5.222 %)MCP
4476 (5.200 %)MCSE
5252 (2.753 %)MCITP
6245 (2.676 %)Cisco Certification
7235 (2.567 %)ISEB
8201 (2.196 %)MCSA
8201 (2.196 %)Security Cleared
9193 (2.108 %)CCNA
10158 (1.726 %)MCDST
11125 (1.366 %)ITIL Certification
12117 (1.278 %)SC Cleared
13116 (1.267 %)MOS
14108 (1.180 %)PMI Certification
1586 (0.939 %)MCTS
1682 (0.896 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1772 (0.787 %)PMP
1871 (0.776 %)A+ Certification
1967 (0.732 %)CCNP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1503 (5.495 %)SLA
2350 (3.823 %)QA
352 (0.568 %)ISO 9001
439 (0.426 %)ISO/IEC 27001
537 (0.404 %)ISO 9000
633 (0.360 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
720 (0.218 %)Data Quality
89 (0.098 %)HMG Infosec
89 (0.098 %)JSP 440
98 (0.087 %)Solvency II
106 (0.066 %)Basel III
115 (0.055 %)COBIT
115 (0.055 %)TickIT
124 (0.044 %)Basel II
124 (0.044 %)MiFID
132 (0.022 %)ISO 14001
132 (0.022 %)PCI DSS
132 (0.022 %)IEC 61508
141 (0.011 %)DO-178B
141 (0.011 %)ISO 8583
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12310 (25.23 %)Active Directory
2528 (5.768 %)VMware Infrastructure
3189 (2.065 %)XenApp
4175 (1.912 %)Hyper-V
5145 (1.584 %)vSphere
6138 (1.508 %)Terminal Services
7117 (1.278 %)VMware ESX
874 (0.808 %)Terminal Server
947 (0.513 %)XenDesktop
1046 (0.503 %)UAG
1143 (0.470 %)XenServer
1241 (0.448 %)VMware ESXi
1338 (0.415 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1433 (0.360 %)ISA Server
1527 (0.295 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1619 (0.208 %)MetaFrame
1716 (0.175 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1814 (0.153 %)NDS
1913 (0.142 %)VMware Server
2011 (0.120 %)WebMarshal
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1181 (1.977 %)SCCM
2171 (1.868 %)Backup Exec
3100 (1.092 %)SCOM
483 (0.907 %)HP Quality Center
561 (0.666 %)Norton AntiVirus
660 (0.655 %)WSUS
755 (0.601 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
851 (0.557 %)NetBackup
931 (0.339 %)Tivoli
1027 (0.295 %)OpenView
1120 (0.218 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1219 (0.208 %)DameWare
1219 (0.208 %)vCenter
1219 (0.208 %)Cisco CUCM
1318 (0.197 %)MOM
1417 (0.186 %)Control-M
1417 (0.186 %)ARCserve
1417 (0.186 %)WMI
1513 (0.142 %)BMC PATROL
1513 (0.142 %)McAfee ePO
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15454 (59.58 %)Microsoft
2817 (8.925 %)Citrix
3797 (8.707 %)VMware
4583 (6.369 %)Cisco
5469 (5.123 %)Oracle
6344 (3.758 %)HP
7312 (3.408 %)Lotus
8277 (3.026 %)SAP
9261 (2.851 %)Adobe
10231 (2.523 %)Symantec
11185 (2.021 %)Apple
12173 (1.890 %)IBM
13162 (1.770 %)Dell
14150 (1.639 %)Google
15139 (1.518 %)Avaya
16135 (1.475 %)Bloomberg
17131 (1.431 %)Reuters
18130 (1.420 %)Business Objects
19117 (1.278 %)Remedy
20104 (1.136 %)McAfee