Microsoft Excel Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 66 64
Rank change year-on-year +27 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 89 62 130
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 5.07% 2.82% 3.57%
As % of the Applications category 48.90% 44.60% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 36 91
10th Percentile £225 £213 £270
25th Percentile £313 £317 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -9.78% +16.04%
75th Percentile £706 £680 £700
90th Percentile £851 £750 £763
Central London median daily rate £475 £486 £550
% change year-on-year -2.26% -11.64% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £28.11 - £14.39
25th Percentile £29.20 £19.92 £14.72
Median hourly rate £31.40 £20.61 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +52.39% +24.88% +26.92%
75th Percentile £33.23 £21.29 £35.75
90th Percentile £34.10 - £46.55
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £20.61 £16.50
% change year-on-year +41.08% +24.88% +26.92%

All Software Application Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 182 139 303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.36% 6.33% 8.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 91 204
10th Percentile £229 £195 £197
25th Percentile £305 £287 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.71%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £650
90th Percentile £738 £681 £738
Central London median daily rate £475 £481 £480
% change year-on-year -1.14% +0.10% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 5
10th Percentile £28.84 - £14.61
25th Percentile £31.01 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £34.65 £17.05 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +103.20% -1.14% -43.76%
75th Percentile £41.71 £22.72 £52.75
90th Percentile £45.94 £25.29 £53.35
Central London median hourly rate £31.86 £18.93 £17.25
% change year-on-year +68.30% +9.74% -43.76%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (8.99%) Confluence
2 7 (7.87%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (4.49%) CMS
5 2 (2.25%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 37 (41.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 27 (30.34%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (11.24%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (10.11%) MS Visio
5 6 (6.74%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.12%) Maximo
2 1 (1.12%) Orchestrade
2 1 (1.12%) SAP CAR
2 1 (1.12%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.12%) SAP MM
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.35%) Power Platform
2 6 (6.74%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.49%) SaaS
4 3 (3.37%) AWS
4 3 (3.37%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.25%) IBM Blueworks
6 1 (1.12%) Adobe Analytics
6 1 (1.12%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.12%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.12%) Google Docs
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.12%) Miro
6 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.12%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.12%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.12%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.25%) LAN
1 2 (2.25%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.12%) DHCP
2 1 (1.12%) DNS
2 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.12%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (21.35%) Power BI
2 6 (6.74%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.74%) Tableau
3 5 (5.62%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.37%) BigQuery
4 3 (3.37%) Data Mining
4 3 (3.37%) Power Query
5 2 (2.25%) Big Data
5 2 (2.25%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.12%) Apache Hive
6 1 (1.12%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (1.12%) Data Hub
6 1 (1.12%) Essbase
6 1 (1.12%) Flink
6 1 (1.12%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.12%) Looker
6 1 (1.12%) MS Access
6 1 (1.12%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.12%) Parquet
6 1 (1.12%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (14.61%) JIRA
2 1 (1.12%) MSI
General
1 48 (53.93%) Social Skills
2 46 (51.69%) Finance
3 27 (30.34%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (24.72%) Banking
5 9 (10.11%) Front Office
5 9 (10.11%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (8.99%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.87%) Legal
8 6 (6.74%) Financial Institution
9 5 (5.62%) Marketing
10 4 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (3.37%) Back Office
11 3 (3.37%) Billing
11 3 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (3.37%) Retail
12 2 (2.25%) Advertising
12 2 (2.25%) International Banking
12 2 (2.25%) Law
12 2 (2.25%) Manufacturing
12 2 (2.25%) Military
Job Titles
1 34 (38.20%) Analyst
2 15 (16.85%) Data Analyst
3 8 (8.99%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.99%) Project Manager
4 7 (7.87%) Senior
5 6 (6.74%) Administrator
6 5 (5.62%) Coordinator
6 5 (5.62%) Data Administrator
6 5 (5.62%) Developer
6 5 (5.62%) Lead
7 4 (4.49%) Pensions Analyst
7 4 (4.49%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Consultant
8 3 (3.37%) Data Business Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) IT Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Support Analyst
8 3 (3.37%) Support Engineer
9 2 (2.25%) Data Cleansing Analyst
9 2 (2.25%) Data Entry Assistant
9 2 (2.25%) Email Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) CSS
1 3 (3.37%) HTML
2 2 (2.25%) .NET
2 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.25%) Bootstrap
2 2 (2.25%) jQuery
3 1 (1.12%) ADO
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Avro
3 1 (1.12%) Apache Beam
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.74%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.49%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.49%) Market Risk
3 4 (4.49%) Onboarding
3 4 (4.49%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.37%) PMI
4 3 (3.37%) Reference Data
5 2 (2.25%) Credit Risk
5 2 (2.25%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.25%) Derivative
5 2 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.12%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.12%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.12%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.12%) PKI
6 1 (1.12%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Windows
2 5 (5.62%) Unix
3 4 (4.49%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.12%) Android
5 1 (1.12%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.58%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (28.09%) Project Management
3 19 (21.35%) Data Management
4 16 (17.98%) Business Intelligence
4 16 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (16.85%) Data Analysis
6 14 (15.73%) Agile
7 13 (14.61%) Analytics
7 13 (14.61%) Migration
8 10 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (10.11%) Business Analysis
9 9 (10.11%) Risk Management
9 9 (10.11%) Time Management
10 8 (8.99%) Change Management
10 8 (8.99%) Requirements Gathering
11 7 (7.87%) CRM
11 7 (7.87%) Customer Service
11 7 (7.87%) SDLC
11 7 (7.87%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (7.87%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 27 (30.34%) SQL
2 16 (17.98%) Python
3 5 (5.62%) VBA
4 3 (3.37%) C
4 3 (3.37%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.25%) C#
5 2 (2.25%) R
6 1 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.12%) Java
6 1 (1.12%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.12%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.12%) Scala
6 1 (1.12%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (23.60%) Degree
2 8 (8.99%) PMI Certification
3 5 (5.62%) PMP
4 3 (3.37%) CBAP
4 3 (3.37%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.12%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.12%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.12%) CFA
6 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.12%) IIBA
6 1 (1.12%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.11%) PMO
2 8 (8.99%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (4.49%) MiFID
4 3 (3.37%) Basel II
4 3 (3.37%) GDPR
5 2 (2.25%) EMIR
5 2 (2.25%) QA
6 1 (1.12%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.12%) GAAP
6 1 (1.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (6.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.12%) BitLocker
2 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (3.37%) SCCM
2 2 (2.25%) AirWatch
2 2 (2.25%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (2.25%) Terraform
3 1 (1.12%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 34 (38.20%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.99%) SAP
3 7 (7.87%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.49%) Google
4 4 (4.49%) Oracle
5 3 (3.37%) Adobe
5 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.37%) Symantec
5 3 (3.37%) TOWER Software
6 2 (2.25%) Alteryx
6 2 (2.25%) Apple
6 2 (2.25%) Arista
6 2 (2.25%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.25%) Cisco
6 2 (2.25%) Dell
6 2 (2.25%) HP
6 2 (2.25%) iManage
6 2 (2.25%) Intapp
6 2 (2.25%) Trayport
7 1 (1.12%) Cegedim Rx