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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 52 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 -11 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 72 45 77
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 3.81% 3.81% 4.55%
As % of the Applications category 58.06% 56.25% 49.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 16 35
10th Percentile £306 £130 £171
25th Percentile £344 £152 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £406 £350
Median % change year-on-year +27.69% +16.07% -23.91%
75th Percentile £614 £447 £465
90th Percentile £675 £519 £529
South East median daily rate £438 £300 £360
% change year-on-year +45.83% -16.67% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 8
10th Percentile £15.56 - £11.33
25th Percentile £17.53 £14.00 £11.79
Median hourly rate £26.38 £14.15 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year +86.40% -14.99% -33.42%
75th Percentile £73.13 £18.80 £29.18
90th Percentile £87.75 £26.91 £34.99
South East median hourly rate £17.75 £14.20 £35.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% -59.43% +52.21%

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 124 80 155
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 6.56% 6.78% 9.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 34 80
10th Percentile £295 £136 £178
25th Percentile £349 £240 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £361
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +14.40% -6.89%
75th Percentile £574 £497 £538
90th Percentile £625 £618 £776
South East median daily rate £460 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +31.43% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 16
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £11.79
25th Percentile £17.18 £14.15 £17.01
Median hourly rate £28.25 £32.05 £29.41
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +8.97% +58.99%
75th Percentile £83.75 £32.18 £46.59
90th Percentile £87.33 £38.39 £62.98
South East median hourly rate £17.50 £15.25 £24.50
% change year-on-year +14.75% -37.76% +16.06%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +7 55 £563 +262.90% 15
Bracknell +4 8 £313 +5.93% 6
Slough +3 1 - - 11
Windsor 0 1 - - 2
Maidenhead - 1 - - 6
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 3 (4.17%) ArcGIS
2 2 (2.78%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Service Bus
3 1 (1.39%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.39%) WebLogic
Applications
1 28 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (9.72%) MS Visio
4 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.39%) Autodesk Inventor
5 1 (1.39%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (12.50%) iTrent
2 5 (6.94%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (2.78%) Maximo
5 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (1.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) Power Platform
2 9 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
3 6 (8.33%) OCI
4 4 (5.56%) Azure
5 2 (2.78%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.78%) Google Workspace
5 2 (2.78%) OpenShift
5 2 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.39%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.39%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.39%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.33%) MPLS
1 6 (8.33%) WAN
2 4 (5.56%) BGP
2 4 (5.56%) SNMP
2 4 (5.56%) TACACS
2 4 (5.56%) TCP/IP
3 3 (4.17%) Internet
4 2 (2.78%) ADSL
4 2 (2.78%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.78%) LAN
4 2 (2.78%) PSTN
4 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.39%) DWDM
5 1 (1.39%) Firewall
5 1 (1.39%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.06%) Power BI
2 9 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
3 7 (9.72%) SQL Server
4 3 (4.17%) GIS
5 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 10g
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 11g
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database 12c
5 1 (1.39%) SQLite
5 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (1.39%) JIRA
General
1 39 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 31 (43.06%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (20.83%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.17%) Advertising
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Banking
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (33.33%) Analyst
2 15 (20.83%) Data Analyst
3 13 (18.06%) Consultant
4 11 (15.28%) Implementation Consultant
5 8 (11.11%) HR Analyst
6 7 (9.72%) HR Data Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Change Manager
8 5 (6.94%) Payroll Consultant
8 5 (6.94%) Support Assistant
8 5 (6.94%) Systems Support
9 4 (5.56%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Workflow Consultant
10 3 (4.17%) IT Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Lead
10 3 (4.17%) Senior
11 2 (2.78%) IP Network Consultant
11 2 (2.78%) Migration Analyst
11 2 (2.78%) Migration Specialist
11 2 (2.78%) Oracle Specialist
11 2 (2.78%) Senior Portfolio Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.28%) XML
2 5 (6.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (5.56%) NETCONF
3 4 (5.56%) OpenConfig
3 4 (5.56%) RESTCONF
3 4 (5.56%) YANG
4 1 (1.39%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.56%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.17%) LIMS
4 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.78%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 2 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Blog
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.94%) Windows
2 1 (1.39%) Linux
2 1 (1.39%) Solaris
2 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (18.06%) Business Intelligence
3 11 (15.28%) Data Analysis
3 11 (15.28%) ITIL
4 10 (13.89%) Dashboard Development
5 9 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (11.11%) Change Management
6 8 (11.11%) Project Management
6 8 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 7 (9.72%) Analytics
7 7 (9.72%) Migration
7 7 (9.72%) Service Management
8 6 (8.33%) ITSM
8 6 (8.33%) Order Management
8 6 (8.33%) Performance Management
8 6 (8.33%) Process Improvement
8 6 (8.33%) Workflow
9 5 (6.94%) Computer Science
9 5 (6.94%) Network Design
9 5 (6.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 20 (27.78%) SQL
2 11 (15.28%) T-SQL
3 5 (6.94%) Python
4 1 (1.39%) Google Apps Script
4 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.39%) R
4 1 (1.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 19 (26.39%) Degree
3 13 (18.06%) SC Cleared
4 8 (11.11%) PMI Certification
4 8 (11.11%) PMP
5 4 (5.56%) CCIE
5 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (5.56%) JNCIE
6 3 (4.17%) BC Cleared
6 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
8 1 (1.39%) CISA
8 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.39%) NVQ Level 3
8 1 (1.39%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.72%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.94%) PMO
3 3 (4.17%) SLA
4 2 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.39%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 35 (48.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (25.00%) Oracle
3 12 (16.67%) SAP
4 10 (13.89%) Workday
5 8 (11.11%) ServiceNow
6 6 (8.33%) Cisco
7 4 (5.56%) F5
7 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 4 (5.56%) Juniper
8 3 (4.17%) Google
9 2 (2.78%) BT
9 2 (2.78%) ESRI
9 2 (2.78%) IBM
9 2 (2.78%) Openreach
9 2 (2.78%) Salesforce
10 1 (1.39%) Autodesk
10 1 (1.39%) HubSpot
10 1 (1.39%) Planview