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 14 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 40 54
Rank change year-on-year -26 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 73 97 82
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.98% 4.93% 3.41%
As % of the Applications category 54.07% 51.05% 50.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 55 47
10th Percentile £200 £221 £193
25th Percentile £366 £276 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £450 £486
Median % change year-on-year +9.72% -7.41% -11.64%
75th Percentile £568 £725 £676
90th Percentile £701 £846 £775
London median daily rate £475 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -4.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.73 -
25th Percentile £39.25 £28.23 £19.92
Median hourly rate £40.50 £29.07 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +39.32% +41.08% +24.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 £31.87 £21.29
90th Percentile - £33.55 -
London median hourly rate £26.50 £22.04 £19.50
% change year-on-year +20.24% +13.03% -7.14%

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 135 190 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 5.52% 9.65% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 111 104
10th Percentile £200 £225 £177
25th Percentile £369 £300 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £475 £486
Median % change year-on-year +4.74% -2.26% +2.32%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £619
90th Percentile £632 £786 £694
London median daily rate £475 £448 £425
% change year-on-year +6.15% +5.29% -12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 4
10th Percentile £27.33 £27.89 -
25th Percentile £29.31 £28.65 £12.75
Median hourly rate £33.25 £31.86 £17.05
Median % change year-on-year +4.36% +86.83% -1.14%
75th Percentile £37.81 £38.19 £22.72
90th Percentile £40.18 £44.53 £25.29
London median hourly rate £28.55 £24.66 £21.00
% change year-on-year +15.77% +17.43% -23.64%

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 14 May 2026.

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
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 14 May 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
City of London -27 64 £510 +2.00% 60
West End of London +2 5 £475 +331.82% 2
City of Westminster 0 3 £475 +26.67% 4
Southwark - 1 £188 - 2
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 8 (10.96%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) Confluence
3 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.74%) SAS
Applications
1 29 (39.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (12.33%) MS Visio
4 6 (8.22%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (4.11%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.37%) Adobe After Effects
6 1 (1.37%) Adobe XD
6 1 (1.37%) Photoshop
6 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.37%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 24 (32.88%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.85%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
4 3 (4.11%) Collibra
4 3 (4.11%) SaaS
5 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.74%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.37%) AWS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.37%) Figma
6 1 (1.37%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.37%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.37%) Firewall
1 1 (1.37%) LAN
1 1 (1.37%) WAN
1 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (1.37%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (31.51%) Power BI
2 7 (9.59%) Tableau
3 3 (4.11%) Power Query
3 3 (4.11%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.74%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.74%) Metadata
4 2 (2.74%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.74%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.74%) SQLPlus
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) GIS
5 1 (1.37%) Looker
5 1 (1.37%) QlikView
5 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) ThoughtSpot
Development Applications
1 7 (9.59%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.74%) Toad
3 1 (1.37%) Fiddler
3 1 (1.37%) MSI
3 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 37 (50.68%) Finance
2 25 (34.25%) Social Skills
3 21 (28.77%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (23.29%) Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Legal
5 7 (9.59%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.85%) Investment Banking
6 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Front Office
8 3 (4.11%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.74%) Marketing
9 2 (2.74%) Military
9 2 (2.74%) Retail
10 1 (1.37%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.37%) International Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (47.95%) Analyst
2 12 (16.44%) Data Analyst
3 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
4 6 (8.22%) Service Analyst
5 5 (6.85%) Developer
5 5 (6.85%) Senior
6 3 (4.11%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 3 (4.11%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Governance Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Security Specialist
6 3 (4.11%) Support Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Administrator
7 2 (2.74%) C++ Developer
7 2 (2.74%) MiFID Business Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Oracle Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Report Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Senior C++ Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Senior Developer
7 2 (2.74%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) Boost C++ Libraries
1 2 (2.74%) COM
1 2 (2.74%) Qt
1 2 (2.74%) Web Services
2 1 (1.37%) .NET
2 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.37%) CSS
2 1 (1.37%) HTML
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.37%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Credit Risk
4 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.74%) PMI
4 2 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Equities
5 1 (1.37%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.37%) FMCG
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.37%) Motion Graphics
5 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.37%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
2 2 (2.74%) Unix
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (28.77%) Business Intelligence
2 17 (23.29%) Analytics
3 13 (17.81%) Data Analysis
3 13 (17.81%) Decision-Making
3 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 12 (16.44%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (16.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (12.33%) Data Governance
6 8 (10.96%) Data Modelling
6 8 (10.96%) Migration
6 8 (10.96%) Validation
7 7 (9.59%) Agile
7 7 (9.59%) Project Delivery
7 7 (9.59%) Risk Management
7 7 (9.59%) Use Case
7 7 (9.59%) Visualisation
8 6 (8.22%) Actionable Insight
8 6 (8.22%) Business Analysis
8 6 (8.22%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.55%) SQL
2 9 (12.33%) Python
3 5 (6.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (4.11%) C++
4 3 (4.11%) VBA
5 2 (2.74%) C#
5 2 (2.74%) Perl
5 2 (2.74%) PHP
5 2 (2.74%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.74%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.74%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.37%) R
6 1 (1.37%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) CISM
3 3 (4.11%) CISSP
3 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.11%) CRISC
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) CASP
4 2 (2.74%) GSEC
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) ACCA
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.37%) MCSE
5 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.37%) PMP
5 1 (1.37%) RIBA
5 1 (1.37%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (1.37%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.92%) Data Quality
2 11 (15.07%) PMO
3 7 (9.59%) QA
4 3 (4.11%) SLA
5 2 (2.74%) GRC
5 2 (2.74%) MiFID
6 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.37%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.37%) Def Stans
6 1 (1.37%) GAAP
6 1 (1.37%) GDPR
6 1 (1.37%) GMP
6 1 (1.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.37%) NCSC
6 1 (1.37%) NIST
6 1 (1.37%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.37%) P3O
6 1 (1.37%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.37%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.37%) Firmware
1 1 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
Vendors
1 30 (41.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow
3 5 (6.85%) Oracle
4 3 (4.11%) Anaplan
4 3 (4.11%) Google
4 3 (4.11%) Workday
5 2 (2.74%) Alteryx
5 2 (2.74%) Planview
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
6 1 (1.37%) Adobe
6 1 (1.37%) Citrix
6 1 (1.37%) Databricks
6 1 (1.37%) Dataiku
6 1 (1.37%) EMC
6 1 (1.37%) Murex
6 1 (1.37%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.37%) Remedy
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) Wallstreet Suite