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 13 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 65 58
Rank change year-on-year +27 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 100 72 113
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 5.30% 3.07% 3.66%
As % of the Applications category 61.35% 44.44% 46.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 46 73
10th Percentile £256 £209 £233
25th Percentile £318 £273 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -7.50% -3.85%
75th Percentile £597 £638 £625
90th Percentile £825 £741 £725
London median daily rate £450 £440 £475
% change year-on-year +2.27% -7.37% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £13.70 £27.32 -
25th Percentile £14.75 £30.20 £12.25
Median hourly rate £17.00 £35.00 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.43% +180.00% -51.92%
75th Percentile £23.21 - £12.75
90th Percentile £26.63 - -
London median hourly rate £23.45 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -33.00% +68.67% -6.07%

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 163 162 244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 8.63% 6.90% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 90 163
10th Percentile £260 £165 £163
25th Percentile £329 £264 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £473 £463
Median % change year-on-year -6.93% +2.22% -7.50%
75th Percentile £614 £614 £584
90th Percentile £738 £701 £700
London median daily rate £450 £426 £475
% change year-on-year +5.76% -10.42% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 2
10th Percentile £14.75 £26.04 £14.83
25th Percentile £18.81 - £18.69
Median hourly rate £27.33 £27.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% +6.93% -2.88%
75th Percentile £34.23 £35.00 £31.69
90th Percentile £46.38 - £35.48
London median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £25.86
% change year-on-year -6.85% +4.43% -0.56%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +33 95 £439 -7.63% 108
Camden +4 1 - - 3
City of Westminster 0 1 - - 5
West End of London -3 1 £110 -53.68% 4
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 16 (16.00%) SharePoint
2 10 (10.00%) Confluence
3 3 (3.00%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.00%) CMS
4 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 34 (34.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 23 (23.00%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (14.00%) MS Visio
4 10 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (4.00%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) Power Platform
2 10 (10.00%) Azure
3 7 (7.00%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (6.00%) SaaS
5 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.00%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.00%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.00%) AWS
7 2 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.00%) GitHub
7 2 (2.00%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.00%) Cloud Functions
8 1 (1.00%) Collibra
8 1 (1.00%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.00%) GCP
8 1 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) LAN
2 3 (3.00%) Skype
2 3 (3.00%) WAN
2 3 (3.00%) WebEx
3 2 (2.00%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (1.00%) DNS
4 1 (1.00%) HTTP
4 1 (1.00%) VPN
4 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (32.00%) Power BI
2 12 (12.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (8.00%) Tableau
4 6 (6.00%) Data Mining
5 4 (4.00%) Relational Database
5 4 (4.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.00%) MySQL
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.00%) Power Query
7 1 (1.00%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) Informix
7 1 (1.00%) Metadata
7 1 (1.00%) Parquet
7 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 14 (14.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 50 (50.00%) Finance
2 45 (45.00%) Social Skills
3 26 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (24.00%) Banking
5 10 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (9.00%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.00%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (6.00%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (5.00%) Legal
10 4 (4.00%) Financial Institution
11 3 (3.00%) Front Office
11 3 (3.00%) Law
11 3 (3.00%) Marketing
11 3 (3.00%) Public Sector
12 2 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
12 2 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (2.00%) Retail
12 2 (2.00%) Telecoms
13 1 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 38 (38.00%) Analyst
2 14 (14.00%) Data Analyst
2 14 (14.00%) Senior
3 13 (13.00%) Business Analyst
4 11 (11.00%) Consultant
5 10 (10.00%) Developer
6 8 (8.00%) Project Manager
7 6 (6.00%) Risk Consultant
7 6 (6.00%) Senior Consultant
8 5 (5.00%) Programme Manager
9 4 (4.00%) Applications Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Automation Developer
9 4 (4.00%) Support Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Support Specialist
10 3 (3.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 3 (3.00%) Audio Visual Support
10 3 (3.00%) Junior
10 3 (3.00%) PMO Analyst
10 3 (3.00%) Support Assistant
10 3 (3.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) .NET
2 2 (2.00%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.00%) ADO
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Avro
3 1 (1.00%) DCOM
3 1 (1.00%) JSON
3 1 (1.00%) REST
3 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (7.00%) Market Risk
1 7 (7.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.00%) Derivative
2 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.00%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.00%) Credit Risk
3 3 (3.00%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.00%) PMI
3 3 (3.00%) Pricing Data
3 3 (3.00%) Reinsurance
4 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.00%) Swaptions
4 2 (2.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.00%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.00%) Windows
2 1 (1.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.00%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (32.00%) Business Intelligence
3 23 (23.00%) Agile
4 21 (21.00%) Data Analysis
5 20 (20.00%) Analytics
6 19 (19.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.00%) Project Management
8 14 (14.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (13.00%) Data Modelling
9 13 (13.00%) Decision-Making
9 13 (13.00%) User Acceptance Testing
10 12 (12.00%) Scenario Testing
11 11 (11.00%) Scrum
12 10 (10.00%) Validation
12 10 (10.00%) Visualisation
13 9 (9.00%) Business Case
13 9 (9.00%) SDLC
14 8 (8.00%) Actionable Insight
14 8 (8.00%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 32 (32.00%) SQL
2 10 (10.00%) VBA
3 9 (9.00%) Python
4 8 (8.00%) C#
5 4 (4.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.00%) Korn
6 2 (2.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.00%) Java
7 1 (1.00%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (21.00%) Degree
2 5 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.00%) CBAP
3 2 (2.00%) CISA
3 2 (2.00%) PMP
3 2 (2.00%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.00%) ACCA
4 1 (1.00%) CFA
4 1 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.00%) IIBA
4 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.00%) Data Quality
2 12 (12.00%) PMO
3 7 (7.00%) QA
4 6 (6.00%) Basel II
5 5 (5.00%) GDPR
6 3 (3.00%) COBIT
6 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (3.00%) NIST
7 1 (1.00%) Accessibility
7 1 (1.00%) Basel III
7 1 (1.00%) CRD IV
7 1 (1.00%) GAAP
7 1 (1.00%) GRC
7 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
7 1 (1.00%) PSD2
7 1 (1.00%) SEPA
7 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (2.00%) SCCM
2 1 (1.00%) Ansible
2 1 (1.00%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 48 (48.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.00%) Oracle
3 6 (6.00%) ServiceNow
4 5 (5.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.00%) Polycom
6 2 (2.00%) Adobe
6 2 (2.00%) Arista
6 2 (2.00%) Cisco
6 2 (2.00%) SAP
6 2 (2.00%) UiPath
7 1 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 1 (1.00%) Automation Anywhere
7 1 (1.00%) Citrix
7 1 (1.00%) Duck Creek
7 1 (1.00%) Marketo
7 1 (1.00%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.00%) Progress
7 1 (1.00%) Sonatype
7 1 (1.00%) Workday
7 1 (1.00%) Xceptor