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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 43 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 20 23 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.53% 2.88% 2.67%
As % of the Applications category 35.71% 30.26% 34.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 20
10th Percentile £111 £160 £163
25th Percentile £370 £228 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £300 £350
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% -14.29% +100.00%
75th Percentile £464 £438 £547
90th Percentile £541 £460 £658
England median daily rate £413 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +3.13% -8.57% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 2
10th Percentile - £14.26 £11.27
25th Percentile - £15.00 £11.36
Median hourly rate £16.35 £17.00 £11.62
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% +46.27% -49.47%
75th Percentile - - £11.78
90th Percentile - - £11.81
England median hourly rate £18.85 £16.23 £20.58
% change year-on-year +16.14% -21.14% +24.65%

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 56 76 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 7.10% 9.50% 7.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 39 48
10th Percentile £132 £185 £130
25th Percentile £186 £216 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £340 £350
Median % change year-on-year +21.32% -2.86% +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £444 £526
90th Percentile £785 £506 £664
England median daily rate £425 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 7
10th Percentile £16.57 - £10.76
25th Percentile £16.89 £12.75 £10.99
Median hourly rate £17.68 £15.00 £11.83
Median % change year-on-year +17.83% +26.80% -10.38%
75th Percentile £18.71 £17.00 £13.84
90th Percentile £19.19 £19.70 £20.21
England median hourly rate £24.81 £17.00 £24.25
% change year-on-year +45.94% -29.90% +7.78%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel 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 19 September 2025.

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 19 September 2025. 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
Nottinghamshire -2 7 £413 - 30
Northamptonshire -12 4 £375 -11.76% 22
Derbyshire -1 2 - - 25
Lincolnshire - 2 £550 - 18
Leicestershire -4 1 - - 21
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (5.00%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Power Platform
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Functions
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 2 (10.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) AWS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Power BI
2 6 (30.00%) Tableau
3 3 (15.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (15.00%) Power Query
4 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Local Government
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Power BI Developer
4 2 (10.00%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365 Developer
4 2 (10.00%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) First Line Help Desk Support
4 2 (10.00%) Help Desk Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Help Desk Support
4 2 (10.00%) Help Desk Support Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Integration Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead
4 2 (10.00%) Security Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (5.00%) Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.00%) IT Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (10.00%) Data Fabric
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.00%) Derivative
3 1 (5.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (35.00%) Analytics
1 7 (35.00%) Business Intelligence
1 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
2 5 (25.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (20.00%) Agile
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 3 (15.00%) Active Listening
4 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) Data Transformation
4 3 (15.00%) Decision-Making
4 3 (15.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) ETL
4 3 (15.00%) IT Audit
4 3 (15.00%) Kanban
4 3 (15.00%) Logistics
5 2 (10.00%) Fintech
5 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (10.00%) X++
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CISA
1 3 (15.00%) CISM
1 3 (15.00%) CISSP
1 3 (15.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) COBIT
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (15.00%) NIST
1 3 (15.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) PMO
3 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Alteryx
2 3 (15.00%) Rapid7
3 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.00%) Genesys