Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 17 24
Rank change year-on-year -17 +7 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 6 14 14
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.14% 10.22% 5.02%
As % of the Applications category 23.08% 70.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile £430 £455 £474
25th Percentile £494 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile - £550 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £375 £450 £350
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.57% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - £13.69
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year - +87.10% -
75th Percentile - - £18.00
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £17.05 £16.23 £14.80
% change year-on-year +5.05% +9.66% -77.40%

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 26 20 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 9.25% 14.60% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £61 £485 £196
25th Percentile £313 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £513 £425
Median % change year-on-year -34.15% +20.59% -5.56%
75th Percentile £434 £547 £500
90th Percentile £600 £550 -
East of England median daily rate £400 £370 £350
% change year-on-year +8.11% +5.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 14
10th Percentile - £29.36 -
25th Percentile - £29.89 £15.39
Median hourly rate £60.00 £30.78 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year +94.93% +94.93% -72.30%
75th Percentile £65.63 - £17.55
90th Percentile £73.75 - £20.46
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £21.46 £30.00
% change year-on-year -12.30% -28.47% -28.40%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 15 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Excel

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 15 February 2026. 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 -14 2 £600 +20.00% 4
Bedford -6 1 £425 -
Microsoft Excel
East of England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CATIA
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Veeva
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
4 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
4 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Financial Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (33.33%) Document Management
1 2 (33.33%) Lean Six Sigma
1 2 (33.33%) Order to Cash
1 2 (33.33%) People Management
1 2 (33.33%) Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (33.33%) Quality Management
1 2 (33.33%) Record to Report
1 2 (33.33%) Six Sigma
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) ERP
2 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) SWOT Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (16.67%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Cognos
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Ariba