The first table below looks at the demand for MS Excel skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MS Excel over the 3 months to 19 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 Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Office Excel
Rank 19 17 18
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Permanent jobs citing MS Excel 11 16 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 8.943% 14.55% 6.593%
As % of the Applications category 45.83% 66.67% 85.71%
Number of salaries quoted 10 16 6
Average salary £23,500 £26,500 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.32% +3.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,350 £21,500 £17,000
10% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £39,250 £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All Applications
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Applications category
24 24 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 19.51% 21.82% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 23 23 7
Average salary £23,000 £24,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.16% -4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,900 £21,500 £16,200
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £30,000 £33,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £33,800 £34,000
% change year-on-year
+3.55% -0.58%
MS Excel
West Yorkshire

MS Excel
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wakefield MS Excel Jobs Demand Trend

MS Excel
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MS Excel across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield MS Excel Salary Trend

MS Excel
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 9 (45.00%) Degree
3 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (35.00%) SQL
3 7 (35.00%) MS Office
3 7 (35.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
4 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
5 5 (25.00%) ITIL
5 5 (25.00%) MySQL
5 5 (25.00%) Windows XP
5 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (25.00%) MCITP
5 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
6 4 (20.00%) Windows Vista
6 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
6 4 (20.00%) Selenium
6 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 4 (20.00%) openSUSE
6 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (20.00%) Agile Testing
6 4 (20.00%) UNIX
6 4 (20.00%) Wireless
6 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
6 4 (20.00%) LAMP
6 4 (20.00%) SUSE
6 4 (20.00%) .NET

MS Excel
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

Application Development
1 4 (20.00%) LAMP
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
1 4 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (5.000%) XML
4 1 (5.000%) CSS
4 1 (5.000%) HTML
4 1 (5.000%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) MS Exchange
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 4 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (20.00%) Apache
3 4 (20.00%) Tomcat
4 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (10.00%) CMS
6 1 (5.000%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (35.00%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Wireless
1 4 (20.00%) LAN
1 4 (20.00%) WAN
2 3 (15.00%) Intranet
3 1 (5.000%) SNMP
3 1 (5.000%) VPN
3 1 (5.000%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) Selenium
1 4 (20.00%) Eclipse
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (5.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Systems Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Software Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Business Systems Manager
2 3 (15.00%) Tester
2 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) Business Manager
3 2 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Web Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Server Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Field Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Service Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Field Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) E-Learning
2 2 (10.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (55.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (25.00%) Windows XP
3 5 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (20.00%) Windows Vista
4 4 (20.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (20.00%) openSUSE
4 4 (20.00%) UNIX
4 4 (20.00%) SUSE
4 4 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Migration
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Agile Testing
3 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 3 (15.00%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Web Testing
5 2 (10.00%) MVC
6 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.000%) Service Management
6 1 (5.000%) Project Management
6 1 (5.000%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (5.000%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.000%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) MCITP
3 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 4 (20.00%) ISEB
4 1 (5.000%) MCP
4 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.000%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) Terminal Services
1 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.000%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.000%) XenServer
1 1 (5.000%) vSphere
1 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.000%) Cisco
2 1 (5.000%) HP
2 1 (5.000%) Dell
2 1 (5.000%) VMware