Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Excel
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 11 14
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 4 4 2
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 8.70% 6.90% 4.35%
As % of the Applications category 80.00% 36.36% 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £678
25th Percentile £463 £463 £681
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £775
Median % change year-on-year - -38.71% -
75th Percentile £488 £488 £881
90th Percentile - - £893
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £446
% change year-on-year -5.00% +12.04% -16.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £20.61
% change year-on-year -27.23% +69.86% -

All Software Application Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 5 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 10.87% 18.97% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 3
10th Percentile - - £415
25th Percentile £463 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -36.67% +76.47%
75th Percentile £506 £488 £863
90th Percentile £540 - £885
Central London median daily rate £475 £475 £469
% change year-on-year - +1.33% -9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 - -
Median hourly rate £19.00 - -
75th Percentile £19.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -27.23% +84.89% -54.93%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 4 February 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Westminster +4 3 £475 - 2
Paddington - 1 - -
Microsoft Excel
Central London

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Analyst
1 3 (75.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) ITIL
1 3 (75.00%) ITSM
1 3 (75.00%) Kalman Filter
1 3 (75.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (75.00%) Service Catalogue
1 3 (75.00%) Service Design
1 3 (75.00%) Service Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (75.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
1 3 (75.00%) Workday
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft