Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Microsoft Excel
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 32 39
Rank change year-on-year -14 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 29 23 25
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.23% 4.11% 3.43%
As % of the Applications category 33.33% 41.82% 24.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 21
10th Percentile £321 £249 £166
25th Percentile £413 £273 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £293 £350
Median % change year-on-year +55.29% -16.29% +55.56%
75th Percentile £469 £388 £438
90th Percentile £530 £418 £450
England median daily rate £450 £420 £425
% change year-on-year +7.14% -1.18% -2.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 3
10th Percentile - £14.30 £11.33
25th Percentile - £15.10 £11.52
Median hourly rate £13.54 £17.00 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +43.70% -28.30%
75th Percentile - - £17.78
90th Percentile - £19.60 £21.35
England median hourly rate £18.50 £17.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% -6.98%

All Software Application Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 87 55 101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 9.68% 9.82% 13.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 31 61
10th Percentile £154 £200 £160
25th Percentile £306 £239 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £407 £340 £300
Median % change year-on-year +19.78% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £465 £413 £450
90th Percentile £513 £488 £664
England median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 11 10
10th Percentile £13.13 £14.65 £10.33
25th Percentile £13.39 £16.05 £10.88
Median hourly rate £17.77 £17.00 £13.04
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% +30.37% -20.20%
75th Percentile £24.03 £20.38 £27.49
90th Percentile £24.99 £23.75 £30.13
England median hourly rate £19.91 £25.79 £25.50
% change year-on-year -22.80% +1.14% -21.54%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Northamptonshire -10 15 £460 +32.76% 12
Nottinghamshire -11 5 £413 - 17
Lincolnshire - 4 £625 - 9
Derbyshire -8 1 - - 13
Leicestershire -12 1 £313 -10.57% 24
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 10 (34.48%) Confluence
2 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (48.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (20.69%) MS Visio
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (6.90%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (13.79%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Power Platform
2 4 (13.79%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (6.90%) Azure
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (6.90%) Power Automate
3 2 (6.90%) PowerApps
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
4 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.45%) OpenShift
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (41.38%) Tableau
2 7 (24.14%) Power BI
3 1 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.45%) Metadata
3 1 (3.45%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 12 (41.38%) JIRA
2 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 11 (37.93%) Finance
2 10 (34.48%) Banking
3 8 (27.59%) Social Skills
4 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (3.45%) Bulgarian Language
7 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.45%) Law
7 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.45%) Retail
7 1 (3.45%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Architect
1 11 (37.93%) Solutions Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Payments Architect
2 7 (24.14%) Payments Solutions Architect
3 4 (13.79%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Consultant
4 3 (10.34%) Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 2 (6.90%) HR Consultant
5 2 (6.90%) Integration Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Security Specialist
6 1 (3.45%) Governance Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) HR Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) HR Data Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Lead
6 1 (3.45%) Lead Consultant
6 1 (3.45%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Support Officer
6 1 (3.45%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) SailPoint
2 1 (3.45%) JSON
2 1 (3.45%) Web Services
2 1 (3.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.90%) Data Fabric
2 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (44.83%) DevOps
1 13 (44.83%) Project Delivery
2 12 (41.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (34.48%) Records Management
3 10 (34.48%) Regulatory Compliance
3 10 (34.48%) Technical Architecture
4 9 (31.03%) Architectural Design
5 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (13.79%) Agile
7 4 (13.79%) Analytics
7 4 (13.79%) Data Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
7 4 (13.79%) Migration
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) ERP
8 3 (10.34%) Project Management
8 3 (10.34%) Workshop Facilitation
9 2 (6.90%) Logistics
9 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) T-SQL
2 2 (6.90%) X++
3 1 (3.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (6.90%) CISA
2 2 (6.90%) CISM
2 2 (6.90%) CISSP
2 2 (6.90%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
3 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.45%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) PMO
2 2 (6.90%) COBIT
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (6.90%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) NIST 800
3 1 (3.45%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 19650
3 1 (3.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (6.90%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 9 (31.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.90%) Alteryx
2 2 (6.90%) Rapid7
2 2 (6.90%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.90%) Workday
3 1 (3.45%) Autodesk
3 1 (3.45%) Planview