Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the North East

Microsoft Excel
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 30 28
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +37
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 5 12 7
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.26% 3.95% 2.76%
As % of the Applications category 31.25% 44.44% 23.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 4
10th Percentile £371 £450 £211
25th Percentile £383 £488 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £550 £228
Median % change year-on-year -21.36% +141.76% -44.85%
75th Percentile £516 £741 £294
90th Percentile £521 £750 £410
England median daily rate £442 £413 £425
% change year-on-year +7.12% -2.94% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £18.50 £16.73 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.58% -25.64% +4.65%

All Software Application Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 16 27 30
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 4.04% 8.88% 11.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 11
10th Percentile - £143 £140
25th Percentile £170 £203 £163
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £195
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +130.77% -39.72%
75th Percentile £390 £525 £230
90th Percentile £494 £744 £260
England median daily rate £447 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +8.42% +3.13% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
10th Percentile £21.75 £23.64 -
25th Percentile £22.50 £32.09 -
Median hourly rate £25.00 £46.18 £15.46
Median % change year-on-year -45.86% +198.71% -
75th Percentile £27.50 - -
90th Percentile £28.25 - -
England median hourly rate £20.35 £25.00 £30.24
% change year-on-year -18.60% -17.32% +13.12%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the North East

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the North East over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the North East

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Tyne and Wear -14 4 £390 -22.00% 10
Durham +4 1 £500 -33.33% 4
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) French Language
3 1 (20.00%) German Language
3 1 (20.00%) Italian Language
3 1 (20.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Governance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Security Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Financial Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) IT Governance
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CISA
1 1 (20.00%) CISSP
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) COBIT
1 1 (20.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft