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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
20 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 39 65
Rank change year-on-year -47 +26 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 53 102 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.19% 5.43% 2.96%
As % of the Applications category 51.96% 50.25% 45.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 65 42
10th Percentile £201 £252 £174
25th Percentile £380 £325 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £433 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.39% -13.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £608 £675 £550
90th Percentile £712 £838 £699
Central London median daily rate £513 £429 £475
% change year-on-year +19.53% -9.74% -13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - £14.05 -
25th Percentile - £15.63 £19.92
Median hourly rate - £22.58 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year - +9.56% +34.32%
75th Percentile - £30.35 £21.29
90th Percentile - £32.95 -
Central London median hourly rate - £28.15 £20.61
% change year-on-year - +36.62% +34.32%

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 102 203 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 4.22% 10.80% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 128 84
10th Percentile £201 £260 £161
25th Percentile £375 £331 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -0.52%
75th Percentile £595 £619 £581
90th Percentile £735 £812 £688
Central London median daily rate £475 £475 £460
% change year-on-year - +3.20% -3.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 5
10th Percentile - £15.45 -
25th Percentile - £23.44 £12.75
Median hourly rate - £31.08 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year - +50.81% +24.88%
75th Percentile - £39.19 £27.00
90th Percentile - £51.15 -
Central London median hourly rate - £29.07 £20.61
% change year-on-year - +41.08% +24.88%

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 20 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 (16.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.66%) Confluence
4 1 (1.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.89%) CMS
4 1 (1.89%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (5.66%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.89%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.89%) CA PPM
1 1 (1.89%) iTrent
1 1 (1.89%) Loan IQ
1 1 (1.89%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 20 (37.74%) Power Platform
2 6 (11.32%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.43%) SaaS
4 4 (7.55%) Entra ID
4 4 (7.55%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.77%) Azure
5 2 (3.77%) Collibra
5 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.89%) GCP
6 1 (1.89%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.89%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.89%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
1 4 (7.55%) TCP/IP
2 3 (5.66%) DHCP
2 3 (5.66%) DNS
2 3 (5.66%) LAN
2 3 (5.66%) Unified Communications
2 3 (5.66%) WAN
3 2 (3.77%) Wireshark
4 1 (1.89%) IP Telephony
4 1 (1.89%) PSTN
4 1 (1.89%) VLAN
4 1 (1.89%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) Power BI
2 5 (9.43%) Tableau
3 4 (7.55%) Power Query
4 1 (1.89%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.89%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.89%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.89%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.89%) GIS
4 1 (1.89%) Metadata
4 1 (1.89%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.89%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.89%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 7 (13.21%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) Fiddler
2 2 (3.77%) MSI
2 2 (3.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (50.94%) Finance
2 17 (32.08%) Social Skills
3 16 (30.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (18.87%) Banking
5 4 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.55%) Telecoms
6 3 (5.66%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.77%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.77%) Marketing
7 2 (3.77%) Retail
8 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Front Office
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) International Banking
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (1.89%) Military
8 1 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (49.06%) Analyst
2 7 (13.21%) Data Analyst
3 3 (5.66%) Consultant
3 3 (5.66%) Senior
4 2 (3.77%) Business Analyst
4 2 (3.77%) IT Analyst
4 2 (3.77%) Junior
4 2 (3.77%) Lead
4 2 (3.77%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (3.77%) PMO Analyst
4 2 (3.77%) Risk Analyst
4 2 (3.77%) Service Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Accountant
5 1 (1.89%) Asset Management Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Business Intelligence Data Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Digital Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Financial Accountant
5 1 (1.89%) Pensions Analyst
5 1 (1.89%) Scrum Product Owner
5 1 (1.89%) Transformation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) .NET
1 2 (3.77%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.89%) JSON
2 1 (1.89%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) CMDB
2 2 (3.77%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (3.77%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (3.77%) PMI
2 2 (3.77%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.89%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.89%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.89%) Derivative
3 1 (1.89%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.89%) Equities
3 1 (1.89%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.89%) FMCG
3 1 (1.89%) Freedom of Information
3 1 (1.89%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
2 1 (1.89%) VMS
2 1 (1.89%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Business Intelligence
2 12 (22.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 12 (22.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (18.87%) Analytics
4 9 (16.98%) Agile
4 9 (16.98%) Decision-Making
4 9 (16.98%) Validation
5 8 (15.09%) Data Analysis
5 8 (15.09%) Migration
6 7 (13.21%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (13.21%) User Experience
7 6 (11.32%) PRINCE2
7 6 (11.32%) Waterfall
8 5 (9.43%) Asset Management
8 5 (9.43%) Data Governance
8 5 (9.43%) Data Management
8 5 (9.43%) Use Case
9 4 (7.55%) Financial Modelling
9 4 (7.55%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (7.55%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.98%) SQL
2 5 (9.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 4 (7.55%) PowerShell
3 4 (7.55%) Python
4 2 (3.77%) C++
5 1 (1.89%) PL/SQL
5 1 (1.89%) VB
5 1 (1.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (15.09%) Degree
2 3 (5.66%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.77%) CCNA
3 2 (3.77%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (3.77%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.77%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) MCSE
4 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.89%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (1.89%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.75%) Data Quality
2 8 (15.09%) PMO
2 8 (15.09%) QA
3 2 (3.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.77%) P3O
4 1 (1.89%) COBIT
4 1 (1.89%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.89%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.89%) GAAP
4 1 (1.89%) GMP
4 1 (1.89%) HMG Security Policy Framework
4 1 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.89%) NCSC
4 1 (1.89%) NIST
4 1 (1.89%) NIST 800
4 1 (1.89%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (1.89%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.89%) Firmware
1 1 (1.89%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.89%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.77%) SCCM
3 1 (1.89%) Ansible
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.66%) Anaplan
3 3 (5.66%) F5
4 2 (3.77%) Nexthink
4 2 (3.77%) Oracle
4 2 (3.77%) SAP
5 1 (1.89%) Adobe
5 1 (1.89%) Automation Anywhere
5 1 (1.89%) Cisco
5 1 (1.89%) EMC
5 1 (1.89%) Google
5 1 (1.89%) Murex
5 1 (1.89%) Qualtrics
5 1 (1.89%) Remedy
5 1 (1.89%) Splunk
5 1 (1.89%) TikTok
5 1 (1.89%) VMware
5 1 (1.89%) Wallstreet Suite
5 1 (1.89%) Workday
24 Microsoft Excel jobs in the City of London