Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 37 65
Rank change year-on-year -51 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 50 102 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.10% 5.41% 2.95%
As % of the Applications category 51.55% 51.26% 46.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 67 41
10th Percentile £201 £252 £206
25th Percentile £378 £346 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% -13.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £550
90th Percentile £712 £838 £700
Central London median daily rate £500 £425 £481
% change year-on-year +17.65% -11.55% -12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £22.58 -
Central London median hourly rate - £28.15 -

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 97 199 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 4.07% 10.55% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 126 79
10th Percentile £185 £266 £171
25th Percentile £361 £352 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £468 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% -6.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £598 £619 £606
90th Percentile £743 £772 £690
Central London median daily rate £475 £460 £471
% change year-on-year +3.26% -2.23% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 3
10th Percentile - £15.45 £15.60
25th Percentile - £23.44 £19.88
Median hourly rate - £31.08 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year - +15.09% +63.64%
75th Percentile - £39.19 -
90th Percentile - £51.15 -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year - +7.67% +63.64%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Excel

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 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the City of London

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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 9 (18.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (6.00%) Confluence
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (2.00%) CMS
4 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 15 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (6.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.00%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.00%) CA PPM
1 1 (2.00%) iTrent
1 1 (2.00%) Loan IQ
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 20 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (10.00%) SaaS
4 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (8.00%) OneDrive
5 2 (4.00%) Azure
5 2 (4.00%) Collibra
5 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (2.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.00%) Google Sheets
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) Firewall
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (6.00%) DHCP
2 3 (6.00%) DNS
2 3 (6.00%) LAN
2 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications
2 3 (6.00%) WAN
3 2 (4.00%) Wireshark
4 1 (2.00%) IP Telephony
4 1 (2.00%) PSTN
4 1 (2.00%) VLAN
4 1 (2.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (38.00%) Power BI
2 5 (10.00%) Tableau
3 4 (8.00%) Power Query
4 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.00%) GIS
4 1 (2.00%) Metadata
4 1 (2.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.00%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.00%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Fiddler
2 2 (4.00%) MSI
2 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (50.00%) Finance
2 15 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 14 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (20.00%) Banking
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 4 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.00%) Front Office
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) International Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Legal
8 1 (2.00%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.00%) Military
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Analyst
2 7 (14.00%) Data Analyst
3 3 (6.00%) Consultant
3 3 (6.00%) Senior
4 2 (4.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) IT Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Junior
4 2 (4.00%) Lead
4 2 (4.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (4.00%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (4.00%) Risk Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Author
5 1 (2.00%) Business Systems Analyst
5 1 (2.00%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) PMO Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.00%) Project Planner
5 1 (2.00%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (2.00%) Senior Implementation Engineer
5 1 (2.00%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.00%) JSON
2 1 (2.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) CMDB
2 2 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.00%) PMI
3 1 (2.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (2.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.00%) Derivative
3 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.00%) Equities
3 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.00%) FMCG
3 1 (2.00%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.00%) VMS
2 1 (2.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (34.00%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 12 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (20.00%) Analytics
4 9 (18.00%) Agile
4 9 (18.00%) Validation
5 8 (16.00%) Data Analysis
5 8 (16.00%) Decision-Making
5 8 (16.00%) Migration
6 7 (14.00%) User Experience
7 6 (12.00%) PRINCE2
7 6 (12.00%) Waterfall
8 5 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 5 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (10.00%) Data Governance
8 5 (10.00%) Data Management
8 5 (10.00%) Use Case
9 4 (8.00%) Financial Modelling
9 4 (8.00%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (8.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.00%) SQL
2 5 (10.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.00%) Python
4 2 (4.00%) C++
5 1 (2.00%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.00%) VB
5 1 (2.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) CCNA
3 2 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) MCSE
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (2.00%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (22.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (16.00%) PMO
2 8 (16.00%) QA
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) P3O
4 1 (2.00%) COBIT
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) Def Stans
4 1 (2.00%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.00%) NCSC
4 1 (2.00%) NIST
4 1 (2.00%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.00%) Firmware
1 1 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.00%) SCCM
3 1 (2.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (44.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.00%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.00%) Anaplan
3 3 (6.00%) F5
4 2 (4.00%) Nexthink
4 2 (4.00%) Oracle
5 1 (2.00%) Adobe
5 1 (2.00%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.00%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (2.00%) Cisco
5 1 (2.00%) EMC
5 1 (2.00%) HubSpot
5 1 (2.00%) Murex
5 1 (2.00%) Qualtrics
5 1 (2.00%) Remedy
5 1 (2.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) TikTok
5 1 (2.00%) VMware
5 1 (2.00%) Workday