Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

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 19 March 2010 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.

LinkMicrosoft Office
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank665746
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Down-11
Matching permanent IT job ads262529878003
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.055 %3.522 %3.921 %
As % of the Applications category25.13 %25.98 %29.71 %
Salaries quoted223825376798
Average salary£28,000£27,500£28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.810 %-1.780 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£19,500£18,000£19,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£52,500£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£26,000£25,000£26,000
% change year-on-year
+4.000 %-3.840 %
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryAll Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
104451149926935
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK12.16 %13.56 %13.20 %
Salaries quoted8809972122841
Average salary£34,804£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.080 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£22,000£21,500£21,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£55,000£55,000
UK excluding London average salary£30,000£30,000£30,000

MS Office
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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 19 March 2010 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 19 March 2010. 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-82547£28,000+1.81 %
LondonDown-61195£33,500+11.66 %
South EastDown-33445£27,500+10.00 %
City of LondonDown-8365£36,000+10.76 %
North WestUp+4186£24,750+5.31 %
YorkshireUp+15180£27,500+17.02 %
South WestDown-22142£25,000+6.38 %
East MidlandsUp+38139£23,000+2.22 %
West YorkshireUp+28122£30,000+36.36 %
East of EnglandDown-36117£27,500-3.50 %
SurreyDown-23113£27,500+3.77 %
HampshireUp+23107£26,000+14.28 %
West MidlandsUp+9107£22,500-10.00 %
ManchesterUp+799£25,000+6.38 %
BerkshireDown-3793£27,500-
LeedsUp+3471£33,250+40.00 %
CheshireDown-258£22,750-9.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-1454£30,000+9.09 %
OxfordshireDown-1247£25,000+9.89 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2643£22,500-10.00 %
BirminghamUp+1439£27,000+0.93 %
ScotlandDown-1138£25,000-3.84 %
GloucestershireDown-237£18,000-32.07 %
CambridgeDown-1137£30,000-
NorthamptonshireUp+1235£23,000-4.16 %
NottinghamshireUp+1934£25,000+22.88 %
Milton KeynesUp+1033£27,500-14.06 %
NottinghamUp+3332£25,000+36.05 %
LeicestershireUp+2532£27,500-16.74 %
ReadingDown-732£37,500+57.89 %

MS Office
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

12452 (52.07 %)Microsoft
22291 (48.65 %)Windows
32254 (47.87 %)MS Excel
41121 (23.81 %)Windows XP
51029 (21.85 %)Active Directory
6931 (19.77 %)SQL
7847 (17.99 %)Finance
8767 (16.29 %)Windows Server 2003
9764 (16.22 %)SQL Server
10622 (13.21 %).NET
11600 (12.74 %)Microsoft Certification
12593 (12.59 %)MS Exchange
13522 (11.09 %)SharePoint
14520 (11.04 %)ITIL
15483 (10.26 %)Degree
16466 (9.896 %)TCP/IP
17430 (9.131 %)Windows Vista
18411 (8.728 %)MS PowerPoint
19374 (7.942 %)C#
20358 (7.602 %)Project Management
21340 (7.220 %)MCP
22338 (7.178 %)Citrix
23325 (6.902 %)Windows 2000
24324 (6.880 %)ASP.NET
25307 (6.519 %)HTML
26300 (6.371 %)Blackberry
27299 (6.350 %)Oracle
28294 (6.243 %)MCSE
29292 (6.201 %)Banking
30285 (6.052 %)Exchange Server 2003

MS Office
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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
1622 (13.21 %).NET
2324 (6.880 %)ASP.NET
3307 (6.519 %)HTML
4211 (4.481 %)XML
5131 (2.782 %)Web Services
6123 (2.612 %)CSS
7122 (2.591 %)ASP
8111 (2.357 %)Windows SharePoint Services
998 (2.081 %).NET Framework
1038 (0.807 %)Spring
1136 (0.764 %)ASP.NET 2.0
1136 (0.764 %)XHTML
1231 (0.658 %)AJAX
1329 (0.616 %)Flash
1428 (0.595 %)WebSphere
1527 (0.573 %)WinForms
1624 (0.510 %)XSLT
1723 (0.488 %)ADO.NET
1821 (0.446 %)WPF
1920 (0.425 %)Silverlight
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1593 (12.59 %)MS Exchange
2522 (11.09 %)SharePoint
3285 (6.052 %)Exchange Server 2003
4263 (5.585 %)SharePoint Server 2007
5189 (4.014 %)Exchange Server 2007
6170 (3.610 %)IIS
7163 (3.461 %)Lotus Notes
872 (1.529 %)CMS
969 (1.465 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1066 (1.402 %)Exchange Server 2000
1145 (0.956 %)SharePoint Portal Server
1244 (0.934 %)SAS
1338 (0.807 %)Office Communications Server
1429 (0.616 %)EPiServer
1429 (0.616 %)Immediacy CMS
1429 (0.616 %)GroupWise
1527 (0.573 %)BizTalk Server
1527 (0.573 %)Apache
1625 (0.531 %)WebLogic
1723 (0.488 %)Sitecore CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12254 (47.87 %)MS Excel
2411 (8.728 %)MS PowerPoint
3282 (5.989 %)MS Visio
4276 (5.861 %)MS Project
553 (1.126 %)InfoPath
644 (0.934 %)Photoshop
732 (0.680 %)Acrobat
827 (0.573 %)Spreadsheet
920 (0.425 %)Adobe Illustrator
1018 (0.382 %)SPSS
1117 (0.361 %)QuarkXPress
1216 (0.340 %)RoboHelp
138 (0.170 %)FrameMaker
147 (0.149 %)Fireworks
147 (0.149 %)MATLAB
156 (0.127 %)DeltaView
156 (0.127 %)PrintSoft PReS
165 (0.106 %)FastStats
165 (0.106 %)Pro/ENGINEER
165 (0.106 %)ImageReady
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
154 (1.147 %)Dynamics CRM
246 (0.977 %)Microsoft CRM
314 (0.297 %)Hyperion Enterprise
314 (0.297 %)Pivotal CRM
314 (0.297 %)RMDS
411 (0.234 %)Dynamics AX
411 (0.234 %)Singl.eView
510 (0.212 %)Oracle Applications
510 (0.212 %)Applix TM1
69 (0.191 %)Summit
69 (0.191 %)Navision
69 (0.191 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
78 (0.170 %)Cerner Millennium
78 (0.170 %)SAP SD
78 (0.170 %)GoldMine
87 (0.149 %)SAP R/3
87 (0.149 %)SAP Business One
96 (0.127 %)Google Analytics
96 (0.127 %)arcHouse
96 (0.127 %)CODA-Financials
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1466 (9.896 %)TCP/IP
2283 (6.010 %)LAN
3263 (5.585 %)Internet
4246 (5.224 %)WAN
5213 (4.523 %)Firewall
6203 (4.311 %)VPN
7195 (4.141 %)DNS
8123 (2.612 %)Intranet
9105 (2.230 %)DHCP
1085 (1.805 %)VoIP
1159 (1.253 %)Wireless
1256 (1.189 %)SAN
1350 (1.062 %)FTP
1441 (0.871 %)Ethernet
1539 (0.828 %)IP Telephony
1628 (0.595 %)NAS
1724 (0.510 %)SMTP
1823 (0.488 %)POP3
1922 (0.467 %)Extranet
1922 (0.467 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1764 (16.22 %)SQL Server
2250 (5.309 %)SQL Server 2005
3131 (2.782 %)SQL Server 2000
4101 (2.145 %)Crystal Reports
594 (1.996 %)MS Access
594 (1.996 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
688 (1.869 %)SQL Server 2008
786 (1.826 %)Datawarehouse
879 (1.678 %)BusinessObjects
948 (1.019 %)MySQL
1039 (0.828 %)OLAP
1138 (0.807 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1236 (0.764 %)RDBMS
1333 (0.701 %)ETL
1431 (0.658 %)Oracle Reports
1530 (0.637 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1530 (0.637 %)Oracle OLAP
1628 (0.595 %)Oracle 8/8i
1726 (0.552 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1824 (0.510 %)PerformancePoint
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1106 (2.251 %)Visual Studio
236 (0.764 %)Dreamweaver
326 (0.552 %)QuickTest Pro
424 (0.510 %)Subversion
521 (0.446 %)Team Foundation Server
618 (0.382 %)Oracle Forms
717 (0.361 %)WinRunner
717 (0.361 %)NUnit
816 (0.340 %)VSS/SourceSafe
816 (0.340 %)Oracle APEX
914 (0.297 %)TestComplete
1010 (0.212 %)InstallShield
1010 (0.212 %)LoadRunner
1010 (0.212 %)Visual Studio Team System
119 (0.191 %)JUnit
128 (0.170 %)PVCS
137 (0.149 %)Ant
137 (0.149 %)TestDirector
145 (0.106 %)PowerBuilder
145 (0.106 %)JIRA
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1847 (17.99 %)Finance
2292 (6.201 %)Banking
3200 (4.247 %)Marketing
4197 (4.183 %)Telecoms
5178 (3.780 %)Law
6165 (3.504 %)Health
7143 (3.037 %)Legal
8142 (3.016 %)Insurance
9125 (2.654 %)Investment Banking
10118 (2.506 %)Education
11113 (2.400 %)Pensions
12112 (2.378 %)Retail
1377 (1.635 %)Back Office
1465 (1.380 %)Front Office
1554 (1.147 %)Manufacturing
1653 (1.126 %)Government
1752 (1.104 %)Publishing
1848 (1.019 %)Advertising
1930 (0.637 %)Financial Institution
1930 (0.637 %)Billing
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11583 (33.62 %)Analyst
2686 (14.57 %)Support Analyst
3542 (11.51 %)Developer
4384 (8.155 %)Desktop Support
5368 (7.815 %)Support Engineer
6315 (6.689 %)IT Support
7259 (5.500 %)Helpdesk Analyst
8246 (5.224 %)Helpdesk Support
9225 (4.778 %)2nd Line Support
10222 (4.714 %)Administrator
11185 (3.929 %)Consultant
12178 (3.780 %)Business Analyst
13174 (3.695 %)Service Analyst
14171 (3.631 %)Desktop Engineer
15168 (3.568 %)1st Line Support
16164 (3.483 %)Service Desk Analyst
17162 (3.440 %)Desktop Analyst
18153 (3.249 %)Desktop Support Engineer
19152 (3.228 %)Project Manager
20149 (3.164 %)Desktop Support Analyst
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1300 (6.371 %)Blackberry
285 (1.805 %)Management Information System
372 (1.529 %)PDA
471 (1.508 %)Computer Science
562 (1.317 %)German Language
647 (0.998 %)Client/Server
745 (0.956 %)Mathematics
844 (0.934 %)NHS
943 (0.913 %)French Language
1040 (0.849 %)Statistics
1134 (0.722 %)Fat Client
1134 (0.722 %)Thin Client
1229 (0.616 %)Video Conferencing
1328 (0.595 %)Data Integration
1426 (0.552 %)Derivative
1525 (0.531 %)AS400
1525 (0.531 %)E-Learning
1621 (0.446 %)EPoS
1720 (0.425 %)Clustering
1720 (0.425 %)CMDB
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12291 (48.65 %)Windows
21121 (23.81 %)Windows XP
3767 (16.29 %)Windows Server 2003
4430 (9.131 %)Windows Vista
5325 (6.902 %)Windows 2000
6213 (4.523 %)Windows Server 2008
7193 (4.099 %)Linux
8191 (4.056 %)UNIX
9155 (3.292 %)Windows 2000 Server
1087 (1.848 %)Windows 7
1157 (1.210 %)Mac OS X
1249 (1.041 %)Windows NT
1329 (0.616 %)Red Hat Linux
1426 (0.552 %)Solaris
1524 (0.510 %)Mac OS
1620 (0.425 %)Windows Mobile
1620 (0.425 %)NetWare
1716 (0.340 %)AIX
1812 (0.255 %)Windows CE
1911 (0.234 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1520 (11.04 %)ITIL
2358 (7.602 %)Project Management
3218 (4.629 %)CRM
4193 (4.099 %)PRINCE2
5119 (2.527 %)Business Intelligence
6102 (2.166 %)Service Delivery
7101 (2.145 %)Business Analysis
898 (2.081 %)OO
996 (2.039 %)Change Management
1093 (1.975 %)Content Management
1191 (1.932 %)Service Management
1289 (1.890 %)Workflow
1289 (1.890 %)Migration
1388 (1.869 %)Data Analysis
1483 (1.763 %)Document Management
1575 (1.593 %)E-Commerce
1666 (1.402 %)ERP
1666 (1.402 %)Data Management
1666 (1.402 %)User Acceptance Testing
1763 (1.338 %)UML
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1931 (19.77 %)SQL
2374 (7.942 %)C#
3249 (5.288 %)VB
4184 (3.907 %)VB.NET
4184 (3.907 %)VBA
5155 (3.292 %)JavaScript
6152 (3.228 %)C
7131 (2.782 %)Java
8105 (2.230 %)T-SQL
8105 (2.230 %)VBScript
985 (1.805 %)PL/SQL
1075 (1.593 %)C++
1172 (1.529 %)PHP
1256 (1.189 %)VB6
1347 (0.998 %)Perl
1419 (0.403 %)Delphi
1518 (0.382 %)Bash shell
1616 (0.340 %)Python
1715 (0.319 %)Shell Script
1810 (0.212 %)PowerShell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1600 (12.74 %)Microsoft Certification
2483 (10.26 %)Degree
3340 (7.220 %)MCP
4294 (6.243 %)MCSE
5112 (2.378 %)MOS
5112 (2.378 %)Security Cleared
6105 (2.230 %)MCSA
786 (1.826 %)Cisco Certification
884 (1.784 %)CCNA
977 (1.635 %)ITIL Certification
1048 (1.019 %)MCDST
1145 (0.956 %)SC Cleared
1145 (0.956 %)A+ Certification
1244 (0.934 %)ISEB
1335 (0.743 %)MCT
1430 (0.637 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1527 (0.573 %)ECDL
1625 (0.531 %)MCTS
1724 (0.510 %)PMI Certification
1822 (0.467 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1206 (4.375 %)SLA
284 (1.784 %)QA
320 (0.425 %)ISO9000
413 (0.276 %)ISO27001
57 (0.149 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
66 (0.127 %)ISO9001
66 (0.127 %)COBIT
66 (0.127 %)ISO/IEC 20000
75 (0.106 %)BS7799
84 (0.085 %)HL7
93 (0.064 %)ISO17799
93 (0.064 %)TickIT
102 (0.042 %)CESG Infosec
102 (0.042 %)JSP 440
111 (0.021 %)JTAG
111 (0.021 %)GAAP
111 (0.021 %)BS15000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11029 (21.85 %)Active Directory
285 (1.805 %)VMware Infrastructure
361 (1.295 %)Terminal Services
428 (0.595 %)Hyper-V
522 (0.467 %)VMware ESX
621 (0.446 %)ISA Server
718 (0.382 %)Citrix Presentation Server
816 (0.340 %)MetaFrame
816 (0.340 %)Terminal Server
911 (0.234 %)vSphere
1010 (0.212 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
118 (0.170 %)XenApp
118 (0.170 %)VMware Workstation
125 (0.106 %)Xen
134 (0.085 %)Squid
134 (0.085 %)MSMQ
143 (0.064 %)VMware Server
151 (0.021 %)OpenSSO
151 (0.021 %)NDS
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
177 (1.635 %)Backup Exec
253 (1.126 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
333 (0.701 %)Norton AntiVirus
421 (0.446 %)SCCM
518 (0.382 %)WSUS
518 (0.382 %)OpenView
614 (0.297 %)SCOM
711 (0.234 %)CONTROL-M
810 (0.212 %)MOM
810 (0.212 %)HP Quality Center
99 (0.191 %)McAfee ePO
99 (0.191 %)NetBackup
99 (0.191 %)Tivoli
107 (0.149 %)ARCserve
116 (0.127 %)DameWare
125 (0.106 %)Nagios
134 (0.085 %)EMC NetWorker
134 (0.085 %)ServiceCenter
143 (0.064 %)ZENworks
143 (0.064 %)BMC PATROL
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12452 (52.07 %)Microsoft
2338 (7.178 %)Citrix
3299 (6.350 %)Oracle
4224 (4.757 %)Cisco
5174 (3.695 %)Remedy
6169 (3.589 %)Lotus
7154 (3.270 %)HP
8138 (2.931 %)VMware
994 (1.996 %)SAP
1084 (1.784 %)Adobe
1084 (1.784 %)Bloomberg
1183 (1.763 %)Reuters
1282 (1.741 %)Apple
1379 (1.678 %)Business Objects
1471 (1.508 %)Symantec
1565 (1.380 %)Avaya
1660 (1.274 %)Cognos
1752 (1.104 %)Sybase
1847 (0.998 %)Altiris
1945 (0.956 %)Hyperion