Microsoft Excel Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 19 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 13 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 8.33% 6.50% 6.49%
As % of the Applications category 54.17% 45.71% 80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 8
10th Percentile £440 £428 £246
25th Percentile - £481 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £369
Median % change year-on-year - +35.59% -
75th Percentile £525 £626 £481
90th Percentile £550 £700 £583
East of England median daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year -6.31% +6.67% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
10th Percentile £20.71 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £23.42 - -
Median hourly rate £27.94 £15.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +80.26% - -
75th Percentile £28.47 £18.00 -
90th Percentile £28.79 - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £23.53
% change year-on-year +9.66% -37.10% -1.96%

All Software Application Skills
Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 24 35 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 15.38% 14.23% 8.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 10
10th Percentile £440 £350 £162
25th Percentile - £369 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £369
Median % change year-on-year - +35.59% -26.25%
75th Percentile £525 £526 £516
90th Percentile £550 £700 £578
East of England median daily rate £313 £363 £330
% change year-on-year -13.79% +9.85% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 0
10th Percentile £26.13 - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £15.39 -
Median hourly rate £30.78 £15.79 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.93% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £18.00 -
90th Percentile £88.00 £28.35 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £15.79 £42.75
% change year-on-year +35.91% -63.06% +74.49%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Luton -6 6 £500 - 28
Dunstable - 1 £350 - 1
Microsoft Excel
East of England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (15.38%) CANalyzer
3 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (7.69%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) ContrOCC
1 1 (7.69%) IBM Planning Analytics
1 1 (7.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Power Platform
2 4 (30.77%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) Power BI
2 1 (7.69%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) CANoe
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 6 (46.15%) Finance
2 4 (30.77%) Automotive
2 4 (30.77%) Pharmaceutical
3 3 (23.08%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
4 2 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Electronics
5 1 (7.69%) Legal
5 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Training Manager
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Active Directory Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Test Technician
4 1 (7.69%) TM1 Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) e-Learning
1 4 (30.77%) Learning Management System
2 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (15.38%) Infotainment
4 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 1 (7.69%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
4 4 (30.77%) Critical Thinking
4 4 (30.77%) Waterfall
5 3 (23.08%) Data Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (15.38%) Workshop Facilitation
7 1 (7.69%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (7.69%) Business Case
7 1 (7.69%) Conversational UI
7 1 (7.69%) Data Collection
7 1 (7.69%) Impact Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Requirements Workshops
7 1 (7.69%) Self-Awareness
7 1 (7.69%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) MATLAB
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) CISSP
2 1 (7.69%) CSPO
2 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.69%) PMP
2 1 (7.69%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.69%) GxP
1 1 (7.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Alteryx
2 1 (7.69%) Cognos
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Liquidlogic