Spreadsheet Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Spreadsheets
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Spreadsheet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 104 84 87
Rank change year-on-year -20 +3 +9
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 19 11 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.79% 0.82% 0.34%
As % of the Applications category 10.80% 6.75% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile - - £322
25th Percentile £133 £98 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £375 £371
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +1.08% +21.64%
75th Percentile £600 £388 £393
90th Percentile - - £397
England median daily rate £410 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +26.15% -13.33% -18.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 3
10th Percentile - £17.55 £14.87
25th Percentile £13.50 £19.26 £15.54
Median hourly rate £14.45 £19.91 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year -27.42% +19.58% -62.14%
75th Percentile £16.45 £30.29 £22.70
90th Percentile £16.69 £39.25 £26.33
England median hourly rate £15.25 £19.10 £30.00
% change year-on-year -20.14% -36.35% -7.69%

All Software Application Skills
East of England

Spreadsheet 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 176 163 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 7.34% 12.12% 13.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 44 39
10th Percentile £132 £114 £169
25th Percentile £152 £313 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £463 £370
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% +25.00% +5.71%
75th Percentile £513 £578 £475
90th Percentile £606 £625 £550
England median daily rate £443 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.24% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 69 129
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.99 £14.53
25th Percentile £14.96 £16.06 £15.00
Median hourly rate £26.44 £19.91 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +32.77% +22.67% -53.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £51.13
England median hourly rate £17.93 £24.31 £18.88
% change year-on-year -26.25% +28.79% -26.58%

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spreadsheet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Spreadsheet job vacancy trend in the East of England

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spreadsheet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spreadsheet in the East of England

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spreadsheet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
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 Spreadsheet within the East of England region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
Hertfordshire -18 10 £139 -63.00% 5
Cambridgeshire +5 3 - - 8
Norfolk - 2 - - 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £600 - 3
Suffolk - 1 - - 2
Essex - 1 - - 1
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (26.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (26.32%) Entra ID
2 5 (26.32%) Mimecast
3 2 (10.53%) Google Sheets
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 5 (26.32%) Firewall
1 5 (26.32%) NAS
1 5 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.26%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) JIRA
General
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Retail
4 2 (10.53%) Advertising
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
5 1 (5.26%) Billing
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Administrator
2 4 (21.05%) Applications Support
3 2 (10.53%) Coordinator
3 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Help Desk Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) IT Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) IT Technician
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Project Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Management Information System
1 3 (15.79%) Onboarding
2 2 (10.53%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Mac OS
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
2 5 (26.32%) Antivirus Management
2 5 (26.32%) CRM
2 5 (26.32%) Time Management
3 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
4 2 (10.53%) Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (10.53%) Customer Experience
4 2 (10.53%) Dashboard Development
4 2 (10.53%) Data Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) Data Entry
4 2 (10.53%) Data Management
4 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (10.53%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
4 2 (10.53%) ETL
4 2 (10.53%) PDM
4 2 (10.53%) SEO
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (10.53%) GDPR
1 2 (10.53%) QA
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 13 (68.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Adobe
2 5 (26.32%) Meraki
2 5 (26.32%) Sophos
2 5 (26.32%) Synology
2 5 (26.32%) Ubiquiti
3 2 (10.53%) Databricks
3 2 (10.53%) Google
3 2 (10.53%) WooCommerce
4 1 (5.26%) GoCardless
4 1 (5.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow