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 30 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 68 63
Rank change year-on-year +22 -5 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 88 59 83
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.97% 2.74% 3.08%
As % of the Applications category 59.06% 39.60% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 45 57
10th Percentile £270 £223 £251
25th Percentile £330 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.10% +10.53% -9.52%
75th Percentile £575 £688 £630
90th Percentile £668 £780 £733
Central London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -9.95%
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 149 149 198
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 8.41% 6.91% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 91 133
10th Percentile £257 £206 £160
25th Percentile £326 £313 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +8.11% -11.90%
75th Percentile £575 £644 £594
90th Percentile £667 £738 £699
Central London median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% -11.76%
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 30 November 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 (21.59%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.09%) Confluence
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (1.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.14%) CMS
4 1 (1.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 40 (45.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 20 (22.73%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (18.18%) MS Visio
4 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (6.82%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.14%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.14%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 28 (31.82%) Power Platform
2 9 (10.23%) Azure
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (5.68%) Power Automate
4 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.27%) AWS
5 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.27%) GitHub
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (2.27%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.27%) SaaS
6 1 (1.14%) Asana
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.14%) Collibra
6 1 (1.14%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.55%) LAN
1 4 (4.55%) WAN
2 3 (3.41%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.14%) HTTP
3 1 (1.14%) Skype
3 1 (1.14%) VPN
3 1 (1.14%) WebEx
3 1 (1.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (30.68%) Power BI
2 7 (7.95%) Tableau
3 6 (6.82%) SQL Server
4 5 (5.68%) Relational Database
5 3 (3.41%) Power Query
6 2 (2.27%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.27%) Metadata
6 2 (2.27%) MySQL
6 2 (2.27%) Oracle Database
6 2 (2.27%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.27%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.14%) Data Mining
7 1 (1.14%) Informix
7 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.77%) JIRA
2 2 (2.27%) Toad
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 46 (52.27%) Finance
2 31 (35.23%) Social Skills
3 25 (28.41%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (17.05%) Banking
5 13 (14.77%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.82%) Legal
6 6 (6.82%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (5.68%) Front Office
7 5 (5.68%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.41%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.41%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Billing
10 1 (1.14%) Law
10 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.14%) Marketing
10 1 (1.14%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 31 (35.23%) Analyst
2 16 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Data Analyst
3 8 (9.09%) Senior
4 7 (7.95%) Developer
5 6 (6.82%) Programme Manager
5 6 (6.82%) Project Manager
6 5 (5.68%) Consultant
7 4 (4.55%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Data Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Governance Manager
8 3 (3.41%) IT Manager
8 3 (3.41%) IT Project Manager
8 3 (3.41%) Junior
8 3 (3.41%) PMO Analyst
8 3 (3.41%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Technical Business Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Data Business Analyst
9 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Power BI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) .NET
1 1 (1.14%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.14%) ADO
1 1 (1.14%) DCOM
1 1 (1.14%) JSON
1 1 (1.14%) Middleware
1 1 (1.14%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.14%) REST
1 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.09%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.55%) Derivative
3 4 (4.55%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.41%) Credit Risk
4 3 (3.41%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.41%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 2 (2.27%) Market Risk
5 2 (2.27%) PMI
5 2 (2.27%) Swaptions
5 2 (2.27%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Linux
3 1 (1.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 27 (30.68%) Business Intelligence
3 21 (23.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (17.05%) Data Analysis
4 15 (17.05%) Project Management
4 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 14 (15.91%) Analytics
6 13 (14.77%) Agile
6 13 (14.77%) Decision-Making
7 12 (13.64%) Data Modelling
8 10 (11.36%) Data Governance
8 10 (11.36%) Process Improvement
9 9 (10.23%) Actionable Insight
9 9 (10.23%) Change Management
9 9 (10.23%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.23%) Requirements Gathering
9 9 (10.23%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (10.23%) Visualisation
10 8 (9.09%) Migration
10 8 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (23.86%) SQL
2 13 (14.77%) Python
3 6 (6.82%) VBA
4 5 (5.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (3.41%) C#
6 2 (2.27%) Korn
6 2 (2.27%) Perl
6 2 (2.27%) PHP
6 2 (2.27%) PL/SQL
6 2 (2.27%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) R
6 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (19.32%) Degree
2 3 (3.41%) ACCA
2 3 (3.41%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.27%) CBAP
3 2 (2.27%) CISA
3 2 (2.27%) IIBA
3 2 (2.27%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) CFA
4 1 (1.14%) CIMA
4 1 (1.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.14%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) PMO
2 12 (13.64%) Data Quality
3 6 (6.82%) QA
4 5 (5.68%) GDPR
5 3 (3.41%) COBIT
5 3 (3.41%) NIST
6 1 (1.14%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.14%) Basel II
6 1 (1.14%) Basel III
6 1 (1.14%) CRD IV
6 1 (1.14%) GRC
6 1 (1.14%) IFRS
6 1 (1.14%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.14%) PSD2
6 1 (1.14%) SEPA
6 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.14%) Ansible
2 1 (1.14%) RSA Archer
2 1 (1.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 48 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.09%) ServiceNow
3 7 (7.95%) Oracle
4 3 (3.41%) Arista
4 3 (3.41%) Cisco
4 3 (3.41%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.27%) Planview
6 1 (1.14%) Adobe
6 1 (1.14%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.14%) Citrix
6 1 (1.14%) Google
6 1 (1.14%) Informatica
6 1 (1.14%) Marketo
6 1 (1.14%) Polycom
6 1 (1.14%) Progress
6 1 (1.14%) Remedy
6 1 (1.14%) SAP
6 1 (1.14%) Sonatype
6 1 (1.14%) Talend
6 1 (1.14%) Xceptor