Microsoft Excel Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 19 40
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 100 139 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 10.33% 7.19% 4.71%
As % of the Applications category 55.87% 59.66% 42.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 23 51
10th Percentile - £228 £213
25th Percentile £195 £325 £251
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £296 £400 £381
Median % change year-on-year -26.00% +5.12% +14.87%
75th Percentile £494 £494 £488
90th Percentile £500 £552 £588
England median daily rate £404 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -8.92% +4.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 92 15
10th Percentile £14.84 - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.29
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% -16.67% -3.74%
75th Percentile £19.31 £16.85 £38.63
90th Percentile £33.82 £18.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £17.00 £14.84 £22.53
% change year-on-year +14.56% -34.13% +12.65%

All Software Application Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 179 233 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 18.49% 12.06% 11.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 46 113
10th Percentile £181 £146 £173
25th Percentile £225 £240 £215
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £296 £388 £330
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +17.42% +10.00%
75th Percentile £488 £484 £475
90th Percentile £520 £525 £588
England median daily rate £414 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +3.44% -8.57% -1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 149 39
10th Percentile £14.90 £14.16 £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £19.37
Median hourly rate £19.16 £15.76 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +21.54% -67.84% +104.17%
75th Percentile £61.13 £35.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.90 £70.00 £65.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £27.50
% change year-on-year +54.04% -40.98% +22.77%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the East of England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the East of England

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Cambridgeshire +5 60 £248 +10.22% 28
Hertfordshire +32 25 £450 +28.57% 38
Bedfordshire -8 10 £500 - 14
Essex +5 3 £319 -32.89% 38
Norfolk -3 1 - - 10
Suffolk - 1 £519 - 11
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 67 (67.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 8 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (2.00%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.00%) CANalyzer
5 1 (1.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Primavera
2 1 (1.00%) IBM Planning Analytics
2 1 (1.00%) SAP PS
2 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (19.00%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (11.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.00%) AWS
4 1 (1.00%) Azure
4 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.00%) IaaS
4 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
4 1 (1.00%) PaaS
4 1 (1.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.00%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (1.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.00%) Power BI
2 4 (4.00%) Data Mining
2 4 (4.00%) Metadata
3 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.00%) PowerCenter
3 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) CANoe
General
1 41 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 12 (12.00%) Finance
5 11 (11.00%) German Language
6 9 (9.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Automotive
8 3 (3.00%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.00%) Spanish Language
9 2 (2.00%) Hungarian Language
9 2 (2.00%) Legal
9 2 (2.00%) Lithuanian Language
9 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.00%) Aviation
10 1 (1.00%) Back Office
10 1 (1.00%) Electronics
10 1 (1.00%) French Language
10 1 (1.00%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (35.00%) Analyst
2 28 (28.00%) Service Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Technical Analyst
3 18 (18.00%) Technical Services Analyst
4 10 (10.00%) Customer Analyst
4 10 (10.00%) Customer Service Analyst
5 4 (4.00%) Architect
5 4 (4.00%) Data Analyst
5 4 (4.00%) Data Architect
5 4 (4.00%) Project Controller
5 4 (4.00%) Training Manager
6 3 (3.00%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (2.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (2.00%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (2.00%) Support Engineer
8 1 (1.00%) Administrator
8 1 (1.00%) Data Consultant
8 1 (1.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.00%) MDX
1 1 (1.00%) REST
1 1 (1.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.00%) Operational Technology
2 6 (6.00%) CMDB
2 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.00%) e-Learning
3 4 (4.00%) Learning Management System
3 4 (4.00%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.00%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Infotainment
5 1 (1.00%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Apple iOS
2 7 (7.00%) Linux
3 2 (2.00%) Windows
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (63.00%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (54.00%) Incident Management
3 48 (48.00%) Customer Service
4 45 (45.00%) Mathematics
4 45 (45.00%) Service Delivery
5 18 (18.00%) ITIL
6 14 (14.00%) Agile
7 13 (13.00%) Project Management
8 12 (12.00%) Data Analysis
9 11 (11.00%) Asset Management
9 11 (11.00%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.00%) Coaching
10 9 (9.00%) Validation
11 8 (8.00%) Data Management
11 8 (8.00%) Data Visualisation
11 8 (8.00%) Visualisation
12 7 (7.00%) Computer Security
12 7 (7.00%) ITSM
12 7 (7.00%) Software Testing
12 7 (7.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.00%) SQL
2 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 27 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 25 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.00%) A+ Certification
3 18 (18.00%) Degree
3 18 (18.00%) MCSA
3 18 (18.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (7.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.00%) CISSP
5 1 (1.00%) CSPO
5 1 (1.00%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (1.00%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.00%) PMP
5 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.00%) GxP
2 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.00%) SLA
4 2 (2.00%) PMO
5 1 (1.00%) P3O
5 1 (1.00%) QA
5 1 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 27 (27.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.00%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 70 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 26 (26.00%) ServiceNow
3 18 (18.00%) Citrix
4 5 (5.00%) SAP
5 2 (2.00%) Remedy
6 1 (1.00%) Adobe
6 1 (1.00%) Brocade
6 1 (1.00%) Cognos
6 1 (1.00%) IBM
6 1 (1.00%) ICL
6 1 (1.00%) Informatica
6 1 (1.00%) Snow