Microsoft Excel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 87 140
Rank change year-on-year +38 +53 +7
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 4,654 3,695 4,890
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 3.80% 2.93%
As % of the Applications category 46.69% 43.10% 34.52%
Number of salaries quoted 2,251 1,842 2,736
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.22% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,601 £36,975 £40,000
% change year-on-year -1.01% -7.56% -

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Excel is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 9,968 8,573 14,165
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.71% 8.81% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,053 4,742 7,170
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,965 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.44% - +3.19%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £39,322
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.63% -1.70%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the UK over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +43 4,210 £40,000 -11.11% 2,040
UK excluding London +29 3,272 £36,601 -1.01% 1,468
Work from Home +39 1,486 £43,865 -0.31% 716
London +52 1,229 £55,000 -4.35% 600
South East +39 1,127 £42,000 +5.00% 325
Midlands +25 718 £37,500 +2.74% 298
North of England +11 554 £33,500 - 408
West Midlands +16 455 £38,500 -3.75% 171
North West +26 364 £35,000 +12.90% 240
East of England +21 278 £32,500 - 172
South West -10 264 £37,500 +5.63% 176
East Midlands +47 262 £32,000 +3.23% 128
Scotland +2 208 £35,000 -4.63% 78
Yorkshire +13 136 £35,000 +1.45% 122
Wales -1 94 £28,500 -12.31% 46
North East -32 54 £30,000 -11.81% 52
Northern Ireland +33 21 £35,000 +25.00% 17
Isle of Man - 9 £42,500 -
Channel Islands -4 1 £67,500 +8.00% 1

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 273 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (0.95%) Oracle Service Bus
3 44 (0.95%) WebLogic
4 33 (0.71%) SAS
5 27 (0.58%) Confluence
6 24 (0.52%) WordPress
7 23 (0.49%) CMS
8 16 (0.34%) Apache
9 7 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.086%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.086%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.086%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.064%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.064%) JBoss
13 3 (0.064%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1,528 (32.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1,185 (25.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 177 (3.80%) MS Visio
4 170 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
5 121 (2.60%) Spreadsheet
6 38 (0.82%) SPSS
7 34 (0.73%) AutoCAD
8 19 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.34%) InDesign
9 16 (0.34%) Trello
10 10 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.17%) InfoPath
12 5 (0.11%) Stata
13 4 (0.086%) Revit
14 3 (0.064%) Adobe Captivate
14 3 (0.064%) Autodesk Inventor
15 2 (0.043%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.043%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.043%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 66 (1.42%) Primavera
2 48 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
3 14 (0.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 13 (0.28%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.24%) NEC Housing
5 11 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 10 (0.21%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.19%) Epicor Tropos
7 9 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.17%) Magento
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.17%) SAP BPC
9 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.15%) Relativity
9 7 (0.15%) SAP QM
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 891 (19.14%) Power Platform
2 288 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
3 248 (5.33%) Azure
4 84 (1.80%) AWS
5 69 (1.48%) OneDrive
6 66 (1.42%) Entra ID
7 60 (1.29%) PowerApps
7 60 (1.29%) SaaS
8 52 (1.12%) Power Automate
9 48 (1.03%) Google Analytics
10 40 (0.86%) Google Sheets
11 35 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (0.56%) GCP
13 22 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (0.41%) Google Ads
15 18 (0.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (0.34%) WhatsApp
17 15 (0.32%) Snowflake
18 14 (0.30%) Smartsheet
18 14 (0.30%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 508 (10.92%) Broadband
2 56 (1.20%) Firewall
3 54 (1.16%) Internet
4 46 (0.99%) Intranet
5 32 (0.69%) DNS
5 32 (0.69%) Remote Desktop
6 23 (0.49%) WAN
6 23 (0.49%) Wireless
7 21 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (0.37%) LAN
8 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
9 13 (0.28%) VPN
10 12 (0.26%) DHCP
11 11 (0.24%) FTP
12 10 (0.21%) HTTP
13 9 (0.19%) Network Security
13 9 (0.19%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.15%) Ethernet
14 7 (0.15%) MPLS
15 6 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 868 (18.65%) Power BI
2 261 (5.61%) Tableau
3 204 (4.38%) SQL Server
4 99 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 91 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
6 69 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 61 (1.31%) Oracle Database
8 59 (1.27%) Power Query
9 58 (1.25%) MS Access
10 45 (0.97%) Oracle Database 10g
10 45 (0.97%) Relational Database
11 44 (0.95%) Oracle Database 11g
11 44 (0.95%) VLDB
12 36 (0.77%) Data Mining
13 34 (0.73%) GIS
13 34 (0.73%) QlikView
14 33 (0.71%) Big Data
15 25 (0.54%) Amazon QuickSight
16 24 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
17 23 (0.49%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 145 (3.12%) JIRA
2 38 (0.82%) Git
3 27 (0.58%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (0.19%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.15%) RStudio
7 6 (0.13%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.11%) Postman
8 5 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.086%) GitLab
9 4 (0.086%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.064%) PeopleTools
10 3 (0.064%) Toad
10 3 (0.064%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.043%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.043%) Selenium
11 2 (0.043%) Subversion
12 1 (0.021%) JMeter
12 1 (0.021%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2,595 (55.76%) Social Skills
2 1,828 (39.28%) Finance
3 1,640 (35.24%) Analytical Skills
4 682 (14.65%) Retail
5 531 (11.41%) Influencing Skills
6 410 (8.81%) Marketing
7 397 (8.53%) Legal
8 332 (7.13%) Organisational Skills
9 271 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 224 (4.81%) Banking
10 224 (4.81%) German Language
11 210 (4.51%) Military
12 200 (4.30%) Presentation Skills
13 171 (3.67%) Law
14 142 (3.05%) Telecoms
15 129 (2.77%) Manufacturing
16 113 (2.43%) Public Sector
17 99 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
18 95 (2.04%) Investment Banking
19 86 (1.85%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,547 (33.24%) Analyst
2 625 (13.43%) Senior
3 406 (8.72%) Senior Analyst
4 396 (8.51%) Graduate
5 318 (6.83%) Data Analyst
6 252 (5.41%) Project Manager
7 236 (5.07%) Financial Analyst
8 227 (4.88%) Coordinator
9 192 (4.13%) Administrator
10 191 (4.10%) Commercial Analyst
11 171 (3.67%) Development Manager
12 143 (3.07%) Lead
13 128 (2.75%) Business Manager
14 123 (2.64%) Developer
15 119 (2.56%) Business Development Manager
16 97 (2.08%) Support Engineer
17 92 (1.98%) Business Analyst
18 85 (1.83%) Support Analyst
19 79 (1.70%) IT Support
20 76 (1.63%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (1.22%) .NET
2 56 (1.20%) HTML
3 36 (0.77%) CSS
4 29 (0.62%) EDI
5 26 (0.56%) XML
6 23 (0.49%) Web Services
7 22 (0.47%) .NET Framework
8 21 (0.45%) JSON
9 12 (0.26%) HTML5
10 11 (0.24%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (0.24%) COM
10 11 (0.24%) SOAP
11 10 (0.21%) REST
11 10 (0.21%) RESTful
12 8 (0.17%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.17%) jQuery
13 7 (0.15%) LDAP
13 7 (0.15%) PySpark
13 7 (0.15%) React
13 7 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 651 (13.99%) Self-Motivation
2 347 (7.46%) Management Information System
2 347 (7.46%) Onboarding
3 320 (6.88%) Driving Licence
4 86 (1.85%) Social Media
5 66 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
6 45 (0.97%) Data Centre
7 43 (0.92%) Life Science
7 43 (0.92%) Renewable Energy
8 39 (0.84%) NHS
8 39 (0.84%) Product Ownership
9 37 (0.80%) FMCG
10 35 (0.75%) Data Structures
11 32 (0.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 29 (0.62%) PMI
13 27 (0.58%) Biopharmaceutical
14 23 (0.49%) Blog
14 23 (0.49%) Virtual Team
15 21 (0.45%) Derivative
15 21 (0.45%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 288 (6.19%) Windows
2 77 (1.65%) Linux
3 57 (1.22%) Unix
4 47 (1.01%) Solaris
4 47 (1.01%) Windows Server
5 34 (0.73%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.24%) Windows 7
7 10 (0.21%) Android
8 9 (0.19%) Windows Vista
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.086%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.086%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.064%) AIX
12 3 (0.064%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.043%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.043%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.021%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.021%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.021%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 973 (20.91%) Problem-Solving
2 921 (19.79%) Decision-Making
3 880 (18.91%) Agile
4 853 (18.33%) Business Intelligence
5 665 (14.29%) Actionable Insight
6 648 (13.92%) Mentoring
7 644 (13.84%) Data Analysis
8 562 (12.08%) Project Management
9 533 (11.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 524 (11.26%) Business Case
11 510 (10.96%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 503 (10.81%) Customer Service
13 498 (10.70%) Budgeting
14 438 (9.41%) Process Improvement
15 432 (9.28%) Logistics
16 414 (8.90%) Analytics
17 384 (8.25%) Data Management
18 338 (7.26%) Business Development
19 328 (7.05%) Time Management
20 280 (6.02%) Creative Thinking
Programming Languages
1 785 (16.87%) SQL
2 237 (5.09%) Python
3 144 (3.09%) VBA
4 103 (2.21%) R
5 90 (1.93%) C#
6 71 (1.53%) T-SQL
7 70 (1.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 60 (1.29%) JavaScript
9 53 (1.14%) PL/SQL
10 43 (0.92%) PowerShell
11 29 (0.62%) VB
12 25 (0.54%) Java
13 19 (0.41%) PHP
14 12 (0.26%) MATLAB
15 11 (0.24%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.19%) C++
16 9 (0.19%) Groovy
17 7 (0.15%) Bash
18 4 (0.086%) Scala
18 4 (0.086%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1,479 (31.78%) Degree
2 560 (12.03%) CIMA
3 550 (11.82%) ACCA
4 326 (7.00%) DBS Check
5 149 (3.20%) Security Cleared
6 81 (1.74%) SC Cleared
7 51 (1.10%) Master's Degree
8 49 (1.05%) HNC
9 44 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (0.92%) PMI Certification
11 37 (0.80%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 32 (0.69%) HND
13 29 (0.62%) ITIL Certification
14 27 (0.58%) CIPD
15 25 (0.54%) MRICS
16 24 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
17 23 (0.49%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (0.45%) PMP
20 20 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 201 (4.32%) Data Quality
2 162 (3.48%) GDPR
3 153 (3.29%) QA
4 122 (2.62%) SLA
5 112 (2.41%) PMO
6 66 (1.42%) ISO 9001
7 46 (0.99%) Cyber Essentials
8 42 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.69%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 17 (0.37%) COBIT
11 17 (0.37%) ISO 14001
12 15 (0.32%) IFRS
13 14 (0.30%) COSHH
13 14 (0.30%) Good Clinical Practice
14 13 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.24%) NEBOSH
16 9 (0.19%) GMP
17 8 (0.17%) NIST
System Software
1 153 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 45 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 44 (0.95%) Oracle RAC
4 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.24%) Docker
6 6 (0.13%) VMware Server
7 4 (0.086%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.086%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.086%) vSphere
8 3 (0.064%) VirtualBox
9 2 (0.043%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.021%) Firmware
10 1 (0.021%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
1 45 (0.97%) Oracle RMAN
2 44 (0.95%) Data Guard
3 23 (0.49%) EnCase
4 11 (0.24%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.21%) Ansible
6 6 (0.13%) Control-M
7 5 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
8 4 (0.086%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.086%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.086%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.086%) SCCM
8 4 (0.086%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.086%) Terraform
9 3 (0.064%) Oracle Statspack
9 3 (0.064%) WSUS
10 2 (0.043%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.043%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.021%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.021%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 2,433 (52.28%) Microsoft
2 192 (4.13%) SAP
3 167 (3.59%) Google
4 157 (3.37%) Oracle
5 71 (1.53%) Salesforce
6 69 (1.48%) Alteryx
7 64 (1.38%) VMware
8 58 (1.25%) NEC
9 57 (1.22%) Remedy
9 57 (1.22%) Virgin Media
10 48 (1.03%) Adobe
11 47 (1.01%) Sun
12 33 (0.71%) Sage
13 32 (0.69%) Databricks
13 32 (0.69%) ServiceNow
14 30 (0.64%) Cisco
15 27 (0.58%) NCR
16 21 (0.45%) Xero
17 20 (0.43%) Citrix
18 18 (0.39%) Workday