Microsoft Excel Contracts

Microsoft Excel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 76 85
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 1,275 1,879 2,576
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.92% 3.12% 2.89%
As % of the Applications category 37.23% 42.66% 39.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 644 1,233 1,754
10th Percentile £170 £205 £200
25th Percentile £286 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £425 £426
Median % change year-on-year +3.53% -0.29% +13.67%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £539
90th Percentile £725 £676 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £388 £390 £389
% change year-on-year -0.64% +0.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 273 103 155
10th Percentile £11.38 £12.50 £10.49
25th Percentile £13.31 £15.25 £12.28
Median hourly rate £14.80 £22.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -34.22% +15.27% +5.51%
75th Percentile £23.54 £50.00 £32.13
90th Percentile £33.25 £65.00 £43.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £14.54 £22.16 £19.50
% change year-on-year -34.39% +13.64% +18.18%

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 contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,425 4,405 6,510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.85% 7.32% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,747 2,897 4,324
10th Percentile £161 £188 £162
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £428
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -0.70% +7.00%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £546
90th Percentile £650 £684 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £393 £369
% change year-on-year -10.83% +6.51% +7.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 631 262 444
10th Percentile £11.50 £13.78 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.45 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.72 £38.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -53.37% +76.74% +13.16%
75th Percentile £39.92 £53.65 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -50.58% +71.05% +2.70%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the UK over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England 0 1,074 £441 +3.76% 1,642
UK excluding London +6 712 £388 -0.64% 1,239
London -8 480 £450 -3.74% 541
Work from Home -3 367 £450 +5.88% 624
South East -3 164 £334 -15.18% 330
North of England +5 149 £475 +31.94% 325
Scotland +52 122 £400 +14.29% 101
North West +17 114 £475 +22.58% 190
East of England +9 112 £350 -7.35% 140
Midlands -21 76 £413 +3.13% 222
South West +7 72 £475 +1.71% 123
West Midlands -14 49 £425 +6.92% 125
East Midlands -1 27 £180 -58.86% 97
Yorkshire -20 27 £500 +48.15% 92
Northern Ireland -4 11 £168 -48.46% 25
North East +17 8 £230 -21.54% 48
Wales +14 7 £513 +24.24% 33

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
1 134 (10.51%) SharePoint
2 53 (4.16%) Confluence
3 25 (1.96%) IIS
4 19 (1.49%) Apache
5 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 16 (1.25%) Tomcat
6 6 (0.47%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (0.47%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.39%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.39%) SAS
8 4 (0.31%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 2 (0.16%) Documentum
10 2 (0.16%) Moodle
10 2 (0.16%) WordPress
11 1 (0.078%) Drupal
11 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 497 (38.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 422 (33.10%) Microsoft Office
3 122 (9.57%) MS Visio
4 113 (8.86%) Microsoft Project
5 79 (6.20%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.78%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.39%) Camtasia
8 4 (0.31%) SPSS
9 3 (0.24%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.24%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.24%) InDesign
9 3 (0.24%) MicroStation
10 2 (0.16%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.16%) Lectora
10 2 (0.16%) Revit
11 1 (0.078%) Chatbot
11 1 (0.078%) InfoPath
11 1 (0.078%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (0.86%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (0.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.63%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.55%) ION MarketView
3 7 (0.55%) NEC Housing
3 7 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.47%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.39%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.39%) OPENHousing
5 5 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.39%) SmartPlant
6 4 (0.31%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 4 (0.31%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.24%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.24%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.16%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.16%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 191 (14.98%) Power Platform
2 95 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
3 78 (6.12%) Azure
4 31 (2.43%) Power Automate
5 24 (1.88%) Entra ID
6 20 (1.57%) SaaS
7 17 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (1.33%) Google Workspace
8 15 (1.18%) Yammer
9 14 (1.10%) AWS
9 14 (1.10%) OCI
9 14 (1.10%) PaaS
10 13 (1.02%) Collibra
10 13 (1.02%) IaaS
10 13 (1.02%) PowerApps
11 11 (0.86%) OneDrive
12 9 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
12 9 (0.71%) SuccessFactors
13 6 (0.47%) Google Analytics
13 6 (0.47%) Google Sheets
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.49%) HTTP
2 18 (1.41%) Internet
3 16 (1.25%) H.323
3 16 (1.25%) TCP/IP
3 16 (1.25%) WAN
3 16 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
4 14 (1.10%) LAN
5 13 (1.02%) FIX Connectivity
6 10 (0.78%) Intranet
7 9 (0.71%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (0.71%) Wireless
8 8 (0.63%) PSTN
8 8 (0.63%) Skype
9 6 (0.47%) VoIP
10 5 (0.39%) 4G
10 5 (0.39%) 5G
10 5 (0.39%) SD-WAN
10 5 (0.39%) VPN
11 4 (0.31%) Diameter Protocol
11 4 (0.31%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (14.67%) Power BI
2 75 (5.88%) SQL Server
3 45 (3.53%) Tableau
4 35 (2.75%) Oracle Database
5 20 (1.57%) Metadata
6 18 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
7 17 (1.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 16 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
9 14 (1.10%) PowerPivot
10 12 (0.94%) Power Query
11 11 (0.86%) Data Mining
12 10 (0.78%) Relational Database
13 9 (0.71%) Big Data
13 9 (0.71%) GIS
14 7 (0.55%) MS Access
14 7 (0.55%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 7 (0.55%) SAP HANA
15 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Power View
16 5 (0.39%) Elasticsearch
16 5 (0.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 98 (7.69%) JIRA
2 12 (0.94%) Git
2 12 (0.94%) TeamCity
3 8 (0.63%) Visual Studio
4 7 (0.55%) Hudson
5 4 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.16%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.16%) ER Studio
6 2 (0.16%) ERwin
6 2 (0.16%) JUnit
6 2 (0.16%) Mockito
6 2 (0.16%) ScalaTest
6 2 (0.16%) Subversion
6 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.16%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.078%) NUnit
7 1 (0.078%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.078%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.078%) Toad
7 1 (0.078%) Zephyr
General
1 570 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 452 (35.45%) Finance
3 317 (24.86%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.78%) Banking
4 112 (8.78%) Organisational Skills
5 99 (7.76%) Public Sector
6 96 (7.53%) Telecoms
7 92 (7.22%) Presentation Skills
8 82 (6.43%) Legal
9 58 (4.55%) Marketing
10 50 (3.92%) Retail
11 48 (3.76%) Front Office
12 44 (3.45%) Manufacturing
13 40 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
14 36 (2.82%) Mandarin Language
15 32 (2.51%) Billing
16 26 (2.04%) Investment Banking
16 26 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
17 25 (1.96%) Law
18 24 (1.88%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 391 (30.67%) Analyst
2 98 (7.69%) Administrator
3 84 (6.59%) Business Analyst
4 83 (6.51%) Developer
5 78 (6.12%) Data Analyst
6 65 (5.10%) Senior
7 64 (5.02%) Lead
8 58 (4.55%) Project Manager
9 57 (4.47%) Service Analyst
10 41 (3.22%) C# Developer
10 41 (3.22%) Coordinator
11 37 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
12 34 (2.67%) IT Support
13 33 (2.59%) Support Engineer
14 29 (2.27%) Service Desk Analyst
15 28 (2.20%) Financial Analyst
16 25 (1.96%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
17 22 (1.73%) Junior
17 22 (1.73%) Security Analyst
18 21 (1.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.29%) .NET
2 31 (2.43%) .NET Framework
3 25 (1.96%) SailPoint
4 20 (1.57%) XML
5 19 (1.49%) HTML
6 13 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.86%) CSS
7 11 (0.86%) WPF
8 9 (0.71%) WinForms
9 8 (0.63%) WCF
10 7 (0.55%) JSON
10 7 (0.55%) Oracle Fusion
11 5 (0.39%) Lucene
12 3 (0.24%) ADO
12 3 (0.24%) ASP.NET
12 3 (0.24%) ATL
12 3 (0.24%) OpenID
12 3 (0.24%) SAML
12 3 (0.24%) Smart Contracts
13 2 (0.16%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 125 (9.80%) Management Information System
2 59 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
3 37 (2.90%) Derivative
4 29 (2.27%) Fixed Income
4 29 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 28 (2.20%) Virtual Team
6 20 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 20 (1.57%) Life Science
7 17 (1.33%) NHS
8 16 (1.25%) IVR
8 16 (1.25%) Smartphone
9 15 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 14 (1.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 14 (1.10%) Renewable Energy
11 13 (1.02%) Equity Derivative
11 13 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
12 12 (0.94%) Data Structures
12 12 (0.94%) iPhone
13 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 122 (9.57%) Windows
2 34 (2.67%) Linux
3 29 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 25 (1.96%) Unix
5 18 (1.41%) Android
6 16 (1.25%) Mac OS
6 16 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 13 (1.02%) Apple iOS
8 10 (0.78%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.31%) Windows Server
10 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
11 2 (0.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.16%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
2 217 (17.02%) Project Management
3 193 (15.14%) Business Intelligence
4 163 (12.78%) Data Analysis
5 149 (11.69%) Agile
5 149 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 146 (11.45%) Customer Service
7 106 (8.31%) Decision-Making
8 103 (8.08%) Change Management
9 88 (6.90%) Data Management
10 81 (6.35%) Project Delivery
11 78 (6.12%) Time Management
12 73 (5.73%) Analytics
12 73 (5.73%) Risk Management
13 71 (5.57%) Mathematics
14 68 (5.33%) Data Modelling
14 68 (5.33%) Service Delivery
15 67 (5.25%) ITIL
16 65 (5.10%) PRINCE2
16 65 (5.10%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 195 (15.29%) SQL
2 72 (5.65%) VBA
3 63 (4.94%) C#
4 62 (4.86%) Python
5 36 (2.82%) PL/SQL
5 36 (2.82%) T-SQL
6 31 (2.43%) VB
7 28 (2.20%) Java
8 24 (1.88%) VB.NET
9 22 (1.73%) PowerShell
10 20 (1.57%) JavaScript
11 15 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 11 (0.86%) C++
13 8 (0.63%) R
14 6 (0.47%) Perl
14 6 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.39%) Scala
16 4 (0.31%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.078%) Groovy
17 1 (0.078%) XPath
Qualifications
1 314 (24.63%) Degree
2 142 (11.14%) Security Cleared
3 84 (6.59%) SC Cleared
4 38 (2.98%) DV Cleared
5 35 (2.75%) APMP
6 33 (2.59%) PMP
7 30 (2.35%) PMI Certification
8 20 (1.57%) BPSS Clearance
8 20 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 17 (1.33%) ACCA
9 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.18%) CIMA
11 12 (0.94%) A+ Certification
12 11 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (0.86%) Master's Degree
12 11 (0.86%) MCSA
13 10 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.78%) CISM
13 10 (0.78%) CISSP
13 10 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (10.43%) PMO
2 115 (9.02%) QA
3 64 (5.02%) SLA
4 55 (4.31%) Data Quality
5 41 (3.22%) GDPR
6 23 (1.80%) Accessibility
7 21 (1.65%) Disclosure Scotland
8 10 (0.78%) EMIR
9 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (0.63%) Dodd-Frank
9 8 (0.63%) MiFID
10 7 (0.55%) NIST
11 6 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
11 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 5 (0.39%) GAMP
12 5 (0.39%) GMP
12 5 (0.39%) GxP
13 4 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.078%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.078%) Firmware
3 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.078%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.078%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (1.25%) SCCM
2 12 (0.94%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.31%) WhatsUp Gold
4 3 (0.24%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (0.16%) Control-M
5 2 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
6 1 (0.078%) Iperf
Vendors
1 681 (53.41%) Microsoft
2 106 (8.31%) Oracle
3 90 (7.06%) SAP
4 51 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 44 (3.45%) Citrix
6 34 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.27%) Google
8 27 (2.12%) Bloomberg
9 24 (1.88%) Cisco
10 21 (1.65%) Adobe
11 20 (1.57%) Avaya
12 18 (1.41%) Apple
13 16 (1.25%) CyberArk
13 16 (1.25%) Red Hat
14 13 (1.02%) Atlassian
14 13 (1.02%) Verint
15 12 (0.94%) ION Trading
15 12 (0.94%) MarketAxess
15 12 (0.94%) Tradeweb
16 11 (0.86%) Northgate