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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 67 62
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 90 62 85
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.01% 2.90% 3.22%
As % of the Applications category 59.60% 40.26% 43.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 47 57
10th Percentile £257 £224 £251
25th Percentile £316 £333 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.75% +5.26% -9.52%
75th Percentile £565 £706 £673
90th Percentile £637 £821 £744
Central London median daily rate £443 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -9.23% +2.63% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £39.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £41.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year -27.23% - -

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 151 154 194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.40% 7.21% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 95 127
10th Percentile £254 £206 £160
25th Percentile £318 £307 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +2.70% -11.06%
75th Percentile £575 £663 £600
90th Percentile £638 £738 £708
Central London median daily rate £448 £475 £463
% change year-on-year -5.79% +2.70% -9.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £27.63 - £20.84
25th Percentile £30.44 - £23.70
Median hourly rate £37.25 £27.00 £28.47
Median % change year-on-year +37.96% -5.15% +25.12%
75th Percentile £45.50 - £33.23
90th Percentile £52.25 - £36.09
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £31.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -16.18% +63.76% -16.79%

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 7 December 2025.

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 19 (21.11%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.89%) Confluence
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.11%) CMS
4 1 (1.11%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (45.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (18.89%) MS Visio
4 9 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (6.67%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.11%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) Power Platform
2 8 (8.89%) Azure
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.56%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.33%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.22%) AWS
5 2 (2.22%) Collibra
5 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.22%) GitHub
5 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.22%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.11%) Asana
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.11%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.11%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.11%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (1.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.44%) LAN
1 4 (4.44%) WAN
2 3 (3.33%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.11%) HTTP
3 1 (1.11%) Skype
3 1 (1.11%) VPN
3 1 (1.11%) WebEx
3 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (31.11%) Power BI
2 9 (10.00%) Tableau
3 6 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.33%) Metadata
5 3 (3.33%) Power Query
6 2 (2.22%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.22%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.22%) MySQL
6 2 (2.22%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.22%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.22%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.11%) Informix
7 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.44%) JIRA
2 2 (2.22%) Toad
3 1 (1.11%) Git
3 1 (1.11%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (51.11%) Finance
2 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 25 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.67%) Banking
5 13 (14.44%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.67%) Legal
6 6 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.56%) Front Office
7 5 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Billing
10 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.11%) Marketing
10 1 (1.11%) Private Banking
10 1 (1.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 34 (37.78%) Analyst
2 16 (17.78%) Business Analyst
3 11 (12.22%) Data Analyst
4 6 (6.67%) Developer
4 6 (6.67%) Programme Manager
4 6 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 6 (6.67%) Senior
5 4 (4.44%) Consultant
5 4 (4.44%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) Data Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) Governance Manager
6 3 (3.33%) IT Manager
6 3 (3.33%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (3.33%) Junior
6 3 (3.33%) PMO Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) Risk Analyst
6 3 (3.33%) Support Engineer
6 3 (3.33%) Technical Business Analyst
7 2 (2.22%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.11%) ADO
1 1 (1.11%) DCOM
1 1 (1.11%) JSON
1 1 (1.11%) Middleware
1 1 (1.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.11%) REST
1 1 (1.11%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.44%) Derivative
3 4 (4.44%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.33%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.22%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.22%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.22%) PMI
5 2 (2.22%) Swaptions
5 2 (2.22%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.22%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.11%) Educational Technology
6 1 (1.11%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.44%) Windows
2 3 (3.33%) Unix
3 1 (1.11%) Linux
3 1 (1.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (32.22%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (31.11%) Business Intelligence
3 22 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (17.78%) Analytics
4 16 (17.78%) Data Analysis
4 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 15 (16.67%) Project Management
6 14 (15.56%) Data Modelling
7 12 (13.33%) Agile
7 12 (13.33%) Data Governance
8 11 (12.22%) Actionable Insight
9 10 (11.11%) Process Improvement
9 10 (11.11%) Visualisation
10 9 (10.00%) Change Management
10 9 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 9 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 9 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (8.89%) Migration
11 8 (8.89%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.33%) SQL
2 15 (16.67%) Python
3 6 (6.67%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (5.56%) VBA
5 2 (2.22%) C#
5 2 (2.22%) Korn
5 2 (2.22%) Perl
5 2 (2.22%) PHP
5 2 (2.22%) PL/SQL
5 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.22%) R
5 2 (2.22%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (3.33%) ACCA
2 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.22%) CBAP
3 2 (2.22%) CISA
3 2 (2.22%) IIBA
3 2 (2.22%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.22%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.11%) CFA
4 1 (1.11%) CIMA
4 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.11%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (15.56%) Data Quality
2 13 (14.44%) PMO
3 6 (6.67%) GDPR
3 6 (6.67%) QA
4 3 (3.33%) COBIT
4 3 (3.33%) NIST
5 1 (1.11%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.11%) Basel III
5 1 (1.11%) CRD IV
5 1 (1.11%) GRC
5 1 (1.11%) IFRS
5 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.11%) PSD2
5 1 (1.11%) SEPA
5 1 (1.11%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.11%) Ansible
2 1 (1.11%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (54.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.89%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.78%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) Arista
4 3 (3.33%) Cisco
4 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Planview
6 1 (1.11%) Adobe
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) Citrix
6 1 (1.11%) Informatica
6 1 (1.11%) Marketo
6 1 (1.11%) Polycom
6 1 (1.11%) Progress
6 1 (1.11%) Remedy
6 1 (1.11%) SAP
6 1 (1.11%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.11%) Talend
6 1 (1.11%) Xceptor