Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in London

Microsoft Excel
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 72 97
Rank change year-on-year -46 +25 -20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 443 434 439
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.35% 3.53% 2.48%
As % of the Applications category 47.53% 45.68% 41.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 276 291
10th Percentile £256 £263 £243
25th Percentile £363 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% -5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £569 £650 £591
90th Percentile £638 £769 £765
England median daily rate £425 £408 £438
% change year-on-year +4.29% -6.86% +1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 37 35
10th Percentile £16.70 - £13.67
25th Percentile £19.03 £15.84 £15.46
Median hourly rate £22.75 £22.04 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.22% +13.03% -2.50%
75th Percentile £32.90 £29.07 £26.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £36.24 £49.00
England median hourly rate £19.03 £17.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year +11.94% +13.33% -32.58%

All Software Application Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 932 950 1,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 4.94% 7.72% 6.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 595 695
10th Percentile £270 £225 £189
25th Percentile £363 £322 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £448 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% +5.29% -12.82%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £569
90th Percentile £675 £738 £691
England median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 58 81
10th Percentile £16.70 £15.84 £12.75
25th Percentile £19.76 £16.50 £16.24
Median hourly rate £28.72 £24.66 £21.12
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% +16.79% -18.33%
75th Percentile £45.84 £33.94 £27.96
90th Percentile £55.75 £51.43 £53.50
England median hourly rate £22.66 £25.08 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.66% +54.53% -40.44%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in London

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in London over the 6 months to 14 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in London

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 June 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
Central London -46 63 £480 +6.72% 59
South London +2 19 £463 - 10
West London -21 13 £320 +31.28% 18
East London -3 2 £423 -0.59% 17
North London - 2 £364 - 6
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 37 (8.35%) SharePoint
2 25 (5.64%) Confluence
3 10 (2.26%) IIS
4 9 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.35%) CMS
5 6 (1.35%) Jupyter
6 4 (0.90%) SAS
7 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.45%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.23%) Moodle
Applications
1 146 (32.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 93 (20.99%) Microsoft Office
3 40 (9.03%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (7.45%) MS Visio
5 18 (4.06%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.45%) Notion
6 2 (0.45%) Trello
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.23%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 12 (2.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (2.26%) Loan IQ
3 7 (1.58%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (1.35%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.90%) Magento
6 3 (0.68%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.68%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.68%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.45%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.45%) iTrent
7 2 (0.45%) Markit EDM
7 2 (0.45%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.45%) Shopify
8 1 (0.23%) Advent Geneva
8 1 (0.23%) Integrated Workplace Management System
8 1 (0.23%) OneSumX
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.23%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 140 (31.60%) Power Platform
2 41 (9.26%) Azure
3 40 (9.03%) AWS
4 29 (6.55%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.93%) Power Automate
6 11 (2.48%) Serverless
7 10 (2.26%) Amazon S3
7 10 (2.26%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.26%) PowerApps
7 10 (2.26%) Snowflake
8 9 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (2.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 8 (1.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 8 (1.81%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (1.58%) SaaS
10 7 (1.58%) SuccessFactors
11 6 (1.35%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.35%) GCP
11 6 (1.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.26%) Internet
2 4 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 3 (0.68%) Firewall
3 3 (0.68%) Wireless
4 2 (0.45%) IP Telephony
4 2 (0.45%) LAN
4 2 (0.45%) Network Security
4 2 (0.45%) PSTN
4 2 (0.45%) VLAN
4 2 (0.45%) VoIP
4 2 (0.45%) WAN
4 2 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.23%) DHCP
5 1 (0.23%) DNS
5 1 (0.23%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 128 (28.89%) Power BI
2 33 (7.45%) Tableau
3 25 (5.64%) Power Query
4 24 (5.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.71%) Oracle Database
6 11 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.03%) Amazon RDS
7 9 (2.03%) BigQuery
7 9 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.35%) Star Schema
9 4 (0.90%) Looker
9 4 (0.90%) PowerPivot
10 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.68%) Delta Lake
10 3 (0.68%) Metadata
10 3 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
11 2 (0.45%) Apache Hive
11 2 (0.45%) GIS
11 2 (0.45%) MS Access
11 2 (0.45%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 59 (13.32%) JIRA
2 13 (2.93%) Git
3 6 (1.35%) Jenkins
3 6 (1.35%) MLflow
4 4 (0.90%) Subversion
5 3 (0.68%) Toad
6 2 (0.45%) Oracle Forms
6 2 (0.45%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.23%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.23%) GCC
7 1 (0.23%) MSI
7 1 (0.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.23%) SpecFlow
General
1 237 (53.50%) Finance
2 211 (47.63%) Social Skills
3 154 (34.76%) Analytical Skills
4 83 (18.74%) Banking
5 56 (12.64%) Organisational Skills
6 36 (8.13%) Public Sector
7 28 (6.32%) Legal
8 27 (6.09%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (5.87%) Investment Banking
10 20 (4.51%) Marketing
11 16 (3.61%) Retail
12 13 (2.93%) Front Office
13 11 (2.48%) Local Government
13 11 (2.48%) Telecoms
14 10 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (2.26%) Financial Institution
14 10 (2.26%) Influencing Skills
15 9 (2.03%) Billing
16 7 (1.58%) Games
17 5 (1.13%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (41.53%) Analyst
2 58 (13.09%) Business Analyst
3 56 (12.64%) Data Analyst
4 41 (9.26%) Senior
5 33 (7.45%) Project Manager
6 30 (6.77%) Consultant
6 30 (6.77%) Developer
7 20 (4.51%) Lead
8 15 (3.39%) Coordinator
9 14 (3.16%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 14 (3.16%) Senior Analyst
10 13 (2.93%) Migration Analyst
10 13 (2.93%) Report Analyst
11 12 (2.71%) Transformation Analyst
12 10 (2.26%) Administrator
12 10 (2.26%) C# Developer
12 10 (2.26%) Data Engineer
12 10 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
12 10 (2.26%) Project Coordinator
12 10 (2.26%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.61%) .NET
2 11 (2.48%) .NET Framework
3 10 (2.26%) WinForms
3 10 (2.26%) WPF
4 8 (1.81%) Pandas
5 7 (1.58%) NumPy
5 7 (1.58%) Seaborn
6 6 (1.35%) JSON
6 6 (1.35%) scikit-learn
7 5 (1.13%) Middleware
7 5 (1.13%) VML
8 4 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.45%) Apache Avro
9 2 (0.45%) Apache Beam
9 2 (0.45%) Boost C++ Libraries
9 2 (0.45%) COM
9 2 (0.45%) Qt
9 2 (0.45%) Web Services
10 1 (0.23%) Playwright
10 1 (0.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 24 (5.42%) Management Information System
1 24 (5.42%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (4.29%) Product Ownership
3 14 (3.16%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (3.16%) CMDB
3 14 (3.16%) Onboarding
4 11 (2.48%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.26%) Equities
6 9 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.58%) Algorithms
7 7 (1.58%) Credit Risk
7 7 (1.58%) Derivative
8 6 (1.35%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.13%) Data Centre
9 5 (1.13%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (1.13%) Freedom of Information
9 5 (1.13%) Reinsurance
9 5 (1.13%) Tandem
10 4 (0.90%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 29 (6.55%) Windows
2 6 (1.35%) Linux
3 5 (1.13%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.13%) Windows 10
4 4 (0.90%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.68%) Android
6 2 (0.45%) Unix
6 2 (0.45%) VMS
7 1 (0.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (31.15%) Business Intelligence
2 110 (24.83%) Problem-Solving
3 109 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
4 95 (21.44%) Agile
5 89 (20.09%) Data Analysis
5 89 (20.09%) Decision-Making
6 78 (17.61%) Migration
7 74 (16.70%) Analytics
8 69 (15.58%) Project Management
9 67 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 63 (14.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 57 (12.87%) Visualisation
12 56 (12.64%) Project Delivery
13 55 (12.42%) Validation
14 45 (10.16%) Waterfall
15 44 (9.93%) Data Modelling
16 41 (9.26%) Requirements Gathering
17 40 (9.03%) AI
18 38 (8.58%) Data Management
19 37 (8.35%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 141 (31.83%) SQL
2 60 (13.54%) Python
3 33 (7.45%) VBA
4 18 (4.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 17 (3.84%) C#
6 12 (2.71%) PL/SQL
6 12 (2.71%) T-SQL
6 12 (2.71%) VB
7 6 (1.35%) C++
7 6 (1.35%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.35%) R
8 5 (1.13%) PowerShell
9 2 (0.45%) Java
9 2 (0.45%) Scala
9 2 (0.45%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.23%) Korn
10 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 85 (19.19%) Degree
2 37 (8.35%) Security Cleared
3 33 (7.45%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.93%) PMI Certification
5 11 (2.48%) CBAP
6 10 (2.26%) IIBA
6 10 (2.26%) PMP
7 6 (1.35%) Azure Certification
7 6 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (1.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (1.35%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.13%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (1.13%) CISM
8 5 (1.13%) CISSP
9 4 (0.90%) ACCA
9 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (0.90%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.90%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 3 (0.68%) CRISC
10 3 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (15.35%) PMO
2 65 (14.67%) Data Quality
3 30 (6.77%) QA
4 13 (2.93%) SLA
5 10 (2.26%) GDPR
6 6 (1.35%) MiFID
7 5 (1.13%) GRC
8 4 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 4 (0.90%) NIST
9 3 (0.68%) Accessibility
9 3 (0.68%) P3O
9 3 (0.68%) Solvency II
10 2 (0.45%) COBIT
10 2 (0.45%) COREP
10 2 (0.45%) FINREP
10 2 (0.45%) GAAP
10 2 (0.45%) GMP
10 2 (0.45%) IFRS
11 1 (0.23%) Def Stans
11 1 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 10 (2.26%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.35%) Docker
3 1 (0.23%) Firmware
3 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.23%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.35%) SCCM
3 2 (0.45%) Ansible
3 2 (0.45%) Control-M
3 2 (0.45%) TeamSite
3 2 (0.45%) Terraform
4 1 (0.23%) Nessus
4 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 171 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.64%) Oracle
3 23 (5.19%) SAP
3 23 (5.19%) ServiceNow
4 14 (3.16%) Salesforce
5 13 (2.93%) Google
6 12 (2.71%) Databricks
7 11 (2.48%) Citrix
8 9 (2.03%) Informatica
9 8 (1.81%) Murex
10 6 (1.35%) Planview
11 5 (1.13%) Adobe
11 5 (1.13%) Anaplan
11 5 (1.13%) Remedy
11 5 (1.13%) Workday
12 4 (0.90%) Apple
12 4 (0.90%) Bloomberg
12 4 (0.90%) Cisco
12 4 (0.90%) FactSet
13 3 (0.68%) Charles River