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 11 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 38 38
Rank change year-on-year -10 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 40 10 28
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.89% 1.98% 3.65%
As % of the Applications category 46.51% 21.74% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 11
10th Percentile £313 £284 £160
25th Percentile £413 £285 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £289 £180
Median % change year-on-year +57.44% +60.56% -64.71%
75th Percentile £475 £292 £344
90th Percentile £510 £292 £438
England median daily rate £450 £413 £440
% change year-on-year +9.09% -6.25% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 13
10th Percentile £12.86 £13.35 -
25th Percentile £12.91 £14.01 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.06 £15.09 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% -32.26% +35.00%
75th Percentile £13.27 £22.55 £26.15
90th Percentile £13.43 £27.02 £26.43
England median hourly rate £18.50 £16.44 £14.80
% change year-on-year +12.56% +11.05% -40.80%

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 86 46 119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.37% 9.09% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 24 56
10th Percentile £275 £130 £166
25th Percentile £336 £188 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £289 £245
Median % change year-on-year +47.06% +17.96% -38.75%
75th Percentile £469 £425 £356
90th Percentile £500 £449 £430
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 27
10th Percentile £12.94 £14.01 £12.75
25th Percentile £12.94 £15.91 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.08 £20.63 £14.27
Median % change year-on-year -36.63% +44.59% -15.74%
75th Percentile £24.56 £23.56 £26.15
90th Percentile £30.00 £26.88 £27.40
England median hourly rate £20.30 £24.83 £17.72
% change year-on-year -18.24% +40.12% -46.30%

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 11 April 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 11 April 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 -12 12 £455 +57.44% 19
Nottinghamshire -8 11 £525 - 7
Leicestershire +3 9 £319 - 19
Derbyshire -11 4 £488 - 12
Lincolnshire -15 1 £425 - 4
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 8 (20.00%) Confluence
2 3 (7.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (35.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 11 (27.50%) Power Platform
2 2 (5.00%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (27.50%) Power BI
2 9 (22.50%) Tableau
3 2 (5.00%) Power Query
3 2 (5.00%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.50%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
General
1 13 (32.50%) Finance
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.00%) Banking
3 7 (17.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.50%) Billing
5 1 (2.50%) Bulgarian Language
5 1 (2.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Administrator
2 8 (20.00%) Architect
2 8 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Payments Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 6 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Data Administrator
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) SAP Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) Document Controller
7 1 (2.50%) Governance Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) HR Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) HR Data Analyst
7 1 (2.50%) PMO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) JSON
1 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
1 1 (2.50%) Web Services
1 1 (2.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (7.50%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (32.50%) Project Delivery
3 10 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 10 (25.00%) DevOps
4 8 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (20.00%) Records Management
4 8 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
4 8 (20.00%) Technical Architecture
5 7 (17.50%) Architectural Design
5 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (15.00%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.50%) Analytics
7 5 (12.50%) ERP
7 5 (12.50%) Project Management
7 5 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
8 4 (10.00%) Agile
8 4 (10.00%) Migration
9 3 (7.50%) Data Modelling
9 3 (7.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (7.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (2.50%) ACCA
2 1 (2.50%) CIMA
2 1 (2.50%) CISA
2 1 (2.50%) CISM
2 1 (2.50%) CISSP
2 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) PMO
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.50%) SLA
3 1 (2.50%) COBIT
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 19650
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.50%) NIST
3 1 (2.50%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.50%) Autodesk
4 1 (2.50%) Planview
4 1 (2.50%) Rapid7
4 1 (2.50%) Workday