Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in Central London

Microsoft Excel
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 62 55
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 97 74 88
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 4.87% 3.16% 3.20%
As % of the Applications category 60.25% 43.53% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 47 58
10th Percentile £260 £218 £254
25th Percentile £319 £313 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year -7.11% +0.53% -10.43%
75th Percentile £568 £716 £686
90th Percentile £636 £821 £745
London median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 0
10th Percentile £21.29 £27.32 -
25th Percentile - £30.20 -
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £35.24 - -
London median hourly rate £22.00 £31.50 £25.59
% change year-on-year -30.16% +23.12% +11.24%

All Software Application Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 161 170 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.08% 7.26% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 98 131
10th Percentile £255 £191 £160
25th Percentile £320 £300 £270
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £469 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.07% +4.17% -13.46%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £725
London median daily rate £466 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +3.44% - -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 3
10th Percentile £24.08 £25.88 -
25th Percentile £25.47 £26.60 -
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.00 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +63.76% -16.79%
75th Percentile £36.00 £35.00 £28.47
90th Percentile £44.75 - £34.19
London median hourly rate £25.15 £25.65 £29.47
% change year-on-year -1.93% -12.96% +22.77%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in Central London

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Central London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Central London

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Central London over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Central London

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
City of London +27 90 £443 -9.23% 20
Camden +6 3 - - 2
City of Westminster -2 2 - - 5
Microsoft Excel
London

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 19 (19.59%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.22%) Confluence
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 47 (48.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (23.71%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (21.65%) MS Visio
4 12 (12.37%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (6.19%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.06%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.03%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.03%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.90%) Power Platform
2 11 (11.34%) Azure
3 8 (8.25%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.19%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.15%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (3.09%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.06%) AWS
7 2 (2.06%) Collibra
7 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.06%) GitHub
7 2 (2.06%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.03%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.03%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.03%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.03%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) LAN
1 4 (4.12%) VPN
1 4 (4.12%) WAN
2 3 (3.09%) Softphone
2 3 (3.09%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.03%) HTTP
3 1 (1.03%) Skype
3 1 (1.03%) WebEx
3 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (28.87%) Power BI
2 9 (9.28%) Tableau
3 6 (6.19%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.09%) Metadata
5 3 (3.09%) Power Query
6 2 (2.06%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) MySQL
6 2 (2.06%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.06%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.06%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.03%) Informix
7 1 (1.03%) Looker
7 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.03%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 12 (12.37%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) Toad
3 1 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 44 (45.36%) Finance
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 27 (27.84%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (17.53%) Banking
5 13 (13.40%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (7.22%) Front Office
6 7 (7.22%) Legal
7 6 (6.19%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (5.15%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
10 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
11 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Law
12 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 1 (1.03%) Military
12 1 (1.03%) Private Banking
12 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 41 (42.27%) Analyst
2 17 (17.53%) Business Analyst
3 11 (11.34%) Data Analyst
4 7 (7.22%) Developer
5 6 (6.19%) Programme Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.19%) Senior
6 4 (4.12%) Consultant
6 4 (4.12%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Data Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Financial Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Governance Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) IT Manager
7 3 (3.09%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Junior
7 3 (3.09%) PMO Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.03%) ADO
1 1 (1.03%) DCOM
1 1 (1.03%) JSON
1 1 (1.03%) Middleware
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.03%) REST
1 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
1 8 (8.25%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.12%) Derivative
2 4 (4.12%) Fixed Income
2 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.06%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.06%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (2.06%) PMI
4 2 (2.06%) Swaptions
4 2 (2.06%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.06%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.03%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.03%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.12%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Unix
3 1 (1.03%) Linux
3 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (28.87%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (21.65%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (19.59%) Data Analysis
5 16 (16.49%) Analytics
5 16 (16.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 15 (15.46%) Decision-Making
7 14 (14.43%) Data Modelling
8 13 (13.40%) Project Management
9 12 (12.37%) Actionable Insight
9 12 (12.37%) Agile
9 12 (12.37%) Data Governance
9 12 (12.37%) User Acceptance Testing
10 11 (11.34%) Project Delivery
11 10 (10.31%) Process Improvement
11 10 (10.31%) Visualisation
12 9 (9.28%) Change Management
12 9 (9.28%) ETL
13 8 (8.25%) Data Management
13 8 (8.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) SQL
2 15 (15.46%) Python
3 6 (6.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 6 (6.19%) VBA
4 2 (2.06%) C#
4 2 (2.06%) Korn
4 2 (2.06%) Perl
4 2 (2.06%) PHP
4 2 (2.06%) PL/SQL
4 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
4 2 (2.06%) R
4 2 (2.06%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Degree
2 3 (3.09%) ACCA
2 3 (3.09%) MCP
2 3 (3.09%) MCSE
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.09%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.06%) CBAP
3 2 (2.06%) CISA
3 2 (2.06%) IIBA
3 2 (2.06%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.06%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.03%) CFA
4 1 (1.03%) CIMA
4 1 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) PMO
2 14 (14.43%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.19%) GDPR
3 6 (6.19%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) COBIT
4 2 (2.06%) MiFID
4 2 (2.06%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.03%) Basel III
5 1 (1.03%) CRD IV
5 1 (1.03%) GRC
5 1 (1.03%) IFRS
5 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) PSD2
5 1 (1.03%) SEPA
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.03%) Ansible
2 1 (1.03%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.03%) SCCM
Vendors
1 55 (56.70%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.22%) Oracle
2 7 (7.22%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.09%) Arista
3 3 (3.09%) Cisco
3 3 (3.09%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.06%) Google
4 2 (2.06%) Planview
5 1 (1.03%) Adobe
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) Citrix
5 1 (1.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.03%) Marketo
5 1 (1.03%) Polycom
5 1 (1.03%) Progress
5 1 (1.03%) Remedy
5 1 (1.03%) SAP
5 1 (1.03%) Sonatype
5 1 (1.03%) Talend
5 1 (1.03%) Xceptor