Microsoft Excel Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft Excel
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 38 43
Rank change year-on-year -11 +5 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 18 30 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.62% 3.44% 3.88%
As % of the Applications category 29.51% 26.09% 47.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 34
10th Percentile £111 £160 £182
25th Percentile £300 £173 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £270 £548
Median % change year-on-year +52.78% -50.68% +167.07%
75th Percentile £446 £444 £625
90th Percentile £492 £460 £650
England median daily rate £401 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.69% -5.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 0
10th Percentile £15.22 - -
25th Percentile £15.41 £14.00 -
Median hourly rate £15.72 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% - -
75th Percentile £16.04 £26.15 -
90th Percentile £16.22 £26.39 -
England median hourly rate £17.00 £15.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +13.33% -28.57% +7.69%

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 61 115 82
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 8.87% 13.20% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 53 63
10th Percentile £132 £167 £182
25th Percentile £180 £188 £223
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £255 £438
Median % change year-on-year +60.39% -41.71% +45.83%
75th Percentile £506 £392 £575
90th Percentile £745 £450 £625
England median daily rate £423 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.75% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 29 5
10th Percentile £15.59 £12.74 £10.96
25th Percentile £16.35 £13.52 £13.16
Median hourly rate £18.77 £14.27 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +31.50% -1.72% -24.57%
75th Percentile £19.50 £26.15 £26.48
90th Percentile £21.60 £29.70 -
England median hourly rate £25.01 £16.23 £26.00
% change year-on-year +54.10% -37.58% +15.56%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands

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 27 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the East Midlands

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 27 June 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 +3 6 £413 +106.25% 32
Derbyshire +4 3 - - 21
Lincolnshire +4 2 - - 19
Northamptonshire -16 2 £375 -3.23% 19
Leicestershire +3 1 - - 27
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:

Applications
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
4 1 (5.56%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Power Platform
2 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (38.89%) Power BI
2 5 (27.78%) Tableau
3 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (11.11%) Power Query
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Local Government
3 2 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) 1st Line Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Excel Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) First Line Help Desk Support
3 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (11.11%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Power BI Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.56%) Junior IT Support
4 1 (5.56%) Junior IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) Credit Risk
2 1 (5.56%) Derivative
2 1 (5.56%) Fixed Income
2 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Business Intelligence
2 6 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Analytics
3 5 (27.78%) Customer Service
4 4 (22.22%) Agile
4 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Data Visualisation
4 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
5 3 (16.67%) Active Listening
5 3 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 3 (16.67%) IT Audit
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
6 2 (11.11%) Data Privacy
6 2 (11.11%) Data Transformation
6 2 (11.11%) Fintech
6 2 (11.11%) Logistics
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Project Delivery
6 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) CISA
1 3 (16.67%) CISM
1 3 (16.67%) CISSP
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.56%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) COBIT
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 3 (16.67%) NIST
1 3 (16.67%) NIST 800
2 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.56%) PMO
3 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Alteryx
2 3 (16.67%) Rapid7
3 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) CyberArk
4 1 (5.56%) Genesys
4 1 (5.56%) Ivanti