Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Microsoft Excel
South East > Berkshire

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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 48 43
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 -7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 77 49 74
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.97% 4.07% 4.24%
As % of the Applications category 61.11% 56.32% 48.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 15 34
10th Percentile £301 £130 £150
25th Percentile £344 £151 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £400 £319
Median % change year-on-year +28.75% +25.49% -30.71%
75th Percentile £600 £428 £450
90th Percentile £655 £483 £517
South East median daily rate £438 £300 £365
% change year-on-year +45.83% -17.81% -14.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 9
10th Percentile £17.08 - £11.48
25th Percentile £23.47 £14.00 £11.79
Median hourly rate £31.13 £14.15 £17.60
Median % change year-on-year +119.96% -19.60% -29.60%
75th Percentile £87.12 £18.80 £28.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £26.91 £33.74
South East median hourly rate £22.25 £14.20 £31.16
% change year-on-year +56.69% -54.43% +36.98%

All Software Application Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 126 87 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.50% 7.22% 8.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 37 82
10th Percentile £306 £142 £164
25th Percentile £349 £240 £201
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £413 £361
Median % change year-on-year +11.88% +14.40% -9.86%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £517
90th Percentile £625 £635 £763
South East median daily rate £462 £354 £400
% change year-on-year +30.51% -11.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 17
10th Percentile £16.30 £14.00 £11.79
25th Percentile £23.47 £14.15 £17.60
Median hourly rate £44.25 £32.05 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.07% +14.46% +49.33%
75th Percentile £86.56 £32.18 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.00 £38.39 £62.90
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £15.38 £21.50
% change year-on-year +43.09% -28.49% +7.50%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Berkshire

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Berkshire

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 August 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
Reading +10 62 £543 +250.00% 19
Bracknell +2 6 £313 +5.93% 6
Wokingham -21 2 £600 - 4
Windsor +1 1 - - 1
Maidenhead - 1 - - 3
Microsoft Excel
South East

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 5 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.60%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.60%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.30%) Confluence
3 1 (1.30%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.30%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.30%) WebLogic
Applications
1 30 (38.96%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (23.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (9.09%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.30%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (1.30%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (11.69%) iTrent
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.30%) Maximo
4 1 (1.30%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.30%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) Power Platform
2 9 (11.69%) SuccessFactors
3 8 (10.39%) OCI
4 7 (9.09%) Azure
5 4 (5.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.90%) AWS
6 3 (3.90%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.60%) Google Workspace
7 2 (2.60%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.60%) SaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.30%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.30%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) MPLS
1 5 (6.49%) WAN
2 4 (5.19%) BGP
2 4 (5.19%) SNMP
2 4 (5.19%) TACACS
2 4 (5.19%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.60%) Firewall
3 2 (2.60%) Internet
3 2 (2.60%) LAN
3 2 (2.60%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.30%) ADSL
4 1 (1.30%) DWDM
4 1 (1.30%) Ethernet
4 1 (1.30%) PSTN
4 1 (1.30%) SDH
4 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (16.88%) Power BI
2 9 (11.69%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (9.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.60%) GIS
4 2 (2.60%) Tableau
5 1 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.30%) Metadata
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.30%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.30%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 1 (1.30%) Burp Suite
1 1 (1.30%) JIRA
1 1 (1.30%) Metasploit
General
1 44 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 32 (41.56%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.18%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.79%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.90%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.60%) Advertising
7 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.60%) Legal
7 2 (2.60%) Local Government
7 2 (2.60%) Marketing
8 1 (1.30%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.30%) Banking
8 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.30%) Military
8 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (33.77%) Analyst
2 16 (20.78%) Data Analyst
3 13 (16.88%) Consultant
4 11 (14.29%) Implementation Consultant
5 8 (10.39%) Change Manager
5 8 (10.39%) HR Analyst
6 7 (9.09%) HR Data Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Oracle Analyst
7 5 (6.49%) Payroll Consultant
7 5 (6.49%) Support Assistant
7 5 (6.49%) Systems Support
8 4 (5.19%) Workflow Consultant
9 3 (3.90%) Administrator
9 3 (3.90%) IT Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Lead
9 3 (3.90%) Senior
9 3 (3.90%) Test Analyst
10 2 (2.60%) Data Migration Analyst
10 2 (2.60%) Oracle Specialist
10 2 (2.60%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.29%) XML
2 5 (6.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (5.19%) NETCONF
3 4 (5.19%) OpenConfig
3 4 (5.19%) RESTCONF
3 4 (5.19%) YANG
4 1 (1.30%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.19%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
2 4 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.60%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.60%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.60%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.30%) Digital Media
4 1 (1.30%) LIMS
4 1 (1.30%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.30%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.79%) Windows
2 1 (1.30%) Linux
2 1 (1.30%) Solaris
2 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (20.78%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (16.88%) Business Intelligence
3 12 (15.58%) ITIL
4 11 (14.29%) Data Analysis
5 10 (12.99%) Dashboard Development
5 10 (12.99%) Project Management
6 9 (11.69%) Analytics
6 9 (11.69%) Change Management
6 9 (11.69%) Service Delivery
6 9 (11.69%) Service Management
6 9 (11.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (10.39%) ITSM
7 8 (10.39%) Performance Management
8 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (9.09%) Migration
9 6 (7.79%) Computer Science
9 6 (7.79%) Process Improvement
9 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (6.49%) Data Migration
10 5 (6.49%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 20 (25.97%) SQL
2 11 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 5 (6.49%) Python
4 1 (1.30%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.30%) R
4 1 (1.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (32.47%) Security Cleared
2 20 (25.97%) Degree
3 18 (23.38%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.99%) PMI Certification
4 10 (12.99%) PMP
5 4 (5.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (5.19%) CCIE
5 4 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.19%) JNCIE
6 2 (2.60%) BC Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.30%) CHECK Team Member
7 1 (1.30%) CISA
7 1 (1.30%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.30%) Cyber Scheme
7 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.30%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (1.30%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 6 (7.79%) PMO
3 3 (3.90%) QA
4 2 (2.60%) GDPR
4 2 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.60%) SLA
5 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.30%) GRC
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.30%) ISO 31000
5 1 (1.30%) NIST
5 1 (1.30%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.30%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.30%) Nmap
2 1 (1.30%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 36 (46.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (24.68%) Oracle
3 11 (14.29%) SAP
4 10 (12.99%) ServiceNow
4 10 (12.99%) Workday
5 5 (6.49%) Cisco
6 4 (5.19%) F5
6 4 (5.19%) Fortinet
6 4 (5.19%) Juniper
7 3 (3.90%) Google
8 2 (2.60%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.30%) Autodesk
9 1 (1.30%) BT
9 1 (1.30%) ESRI
9 1 (1.30%) HubSpot
9 1 (1.30%) IBM
9 1 (1.30%) Openreach
9 1 (1.30%) Planview