Microsoft Excel Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -5 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 109 145 187
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.27% 3.06% 3.39%
As % of the Applications category 35.62% 29.71% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 40 112
10th Percentile £174 £174 £200
25th Percentile £268 £283 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £463 £381
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +21.53% +1.48%
75th Percentile £478 £613 £491
90th Percentile £575 £750 £536
England median daily rate £404 £443 £430
% change year-on-year -8.92% +3.02% -4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 68 14
10th Percentile £13.50 £11.00 £15.31
25th Percentile £19.00 £11.77 £22.13
Median hourly rate £24.59 £13.78 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +78.48% -66.06% +105.52%
75th Percentile £59.30 £26.50 £55.64
90th Percentile £63.40 £43.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £17.00 £14.84 £22.64
% change year-on-year +14.56% -34.45% +14.57%

All Software Application Skills
North 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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 306 488 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 9.18% 10.29% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 181 279
10th Percentile £166 £158 £152
25th Percentile £245 £200 £246
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £396 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £497 £518 £500
90th Percentile £551 £650 £590
England median daily rate £415 £400 £440
% change year-on-year +3.75% -9.09% -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 158 35
10th Percentile £17.18 £10.95 £16.08
25th Percentile £19.97 £11.77 £21.38
Median hourly rate £27.38 £15.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +82.50% -58.33% +80.00%
75th Percentile £57.59 £26.47 £43.57
90th Percentile £60.68 £44.70 £57.06
England median hourly rate £25.00 £16.23 £29.08
% change year-on-year +54.04% -44.19% +33.52%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the North of England

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
Yorkshire +38 61 £400 +23.08% 817
North West -40 46 £425 -10.53% 891
North East -2 4 £110 - 234
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 17 (15.60%) SharePoint
2 15 (13.76%) Confluence
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.92%) SAS
Applications
1 51 (46.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 38 (34.86%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (11.93%) MS Visio
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (1.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.83%) NetSuite
1 2 (1.83%) Primavera
1 2 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.92%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.92%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.92%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 26 (23.85%) Power Platform
2 7 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (5.50%) Azure
3 6 (5.50%) Lucidchart
4 3 (2.75%) GCP
5 2 (1.83%) AWS
5 2 (1.83%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.92%) dbt
6 1 (0.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.09%) Intranet
2 4 (3.67%) Kerberos
2 4 (3.67%) LAN
3 3 (2.75%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.83%) Firewall
5 1 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.92%) Skype
5 1 (0.92%) WAN
5 1 (0.92%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (23.85%) Power BI
2 15 (13.76%) Tableau
3 5 (4.59%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (3.67%) QlikView
4 4 (3.67%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.83%) Power Query
5 2 (1.83%) Qlik Sense
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.92%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.92%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.92%) Data Vault
6 1 (0.92%) DB2
6 1 (0.92%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.92%) Easytrieve
6 1 (0.92%) Looker
6 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.92%) Parquet
6 1 (0.92%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 18 (16.51%) JIRA
2 2 (1.83%) Hudson
3 1 (0.92%) Git
3 1 (0.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 54 (49.54%) Social Skills
2 36 (33.03%) Finance
3 22 (20.18%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (11.93%) Public Sector
5 12 (11.01%) Banking
5 12 (11.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (11.01%) Local Government
6 11 (10.09%) Public Speaking
7 7 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (5.50%) Retail
9 5 (4.59%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.67%) Retail Banking
11 3 (2.75%) Billing
11 3 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.75%) Marketing
11 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.83%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.83%) Legal
Job Titles
1 45 (41.28%) Analyst
2 16 (14.68%) Business Analyst
3 13 (11.93%) Data Analyst
4 11 (10.09%) Communications Officer
5 8 (7.34%) Administrator
6 6 (5.50%) Lead
6 6 (5.50%) Senior
7 5 (4.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
8 4 (3.67%) Coordinator
8 4 (3.67%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (3.67%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Data Business Analyst
9 3 (2.75%) Help Desk Administrator
9 3 (2.75%) PMO Manager
9 3 (2.75%) Project Planner
10 2 (1.83%) Data Centre Business Analyst
10 2 (1.83%) Governance Analyst
10 2 (1.83%) Migration Analyst
10 2 (1.83%) Supply Chain Manager
10 2 (1.83%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.67%) OAuth
1 4 (3.67%) OpenID
1 4 (3.67%) SAML
2 1 (0.92%) JSON
2 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
2 1 (0.92%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.75%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (2.75%) PMI
2 3 (2.75%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
3 2 (1.83%) NHS
3 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.92%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.92%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.92%) Windows
1 1 (0.92%) Windows 7
1 1 (0.92%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (22.94%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (17.43%) Data Analysis
4 17 (15.60%) Stakeholder Management
5 14 (12.84%) Analytics
6 13 (11.93%) Agile
6 13 (11.93%) Visualisation
7 12 (11.01%) Decision-Making
7 12 (11.01%) Project Management
8 11 (10.09%) Business Analysis
8 11 (10.09%) Business Case
8 11 (10.09%) Business Continuity
8 11 (10.09%) Business Development
8 11 (10.09%) Change Management
8 11 (10.09%) Performance Metrics
8 11 (10.09%) Process Improvement
9 10 (9.17%) ITIL
10 9 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (8.26%) Dashboard Development
10 9 (8.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.68%) SQL
2 6 (5.50%) VB
3 4 (3.67%) PowerShell
3 4 (3.67%) T-SQL
3 4 (3.67%) VBA
4 3 (2.75%) Python
5 1 (0.92%) ANSI SQL
5 1 (0.92%) CLIST
5 1 (0.92%) COBOL
5 1 (0.92%) JCL
5 1 (0.92%) Korn
5 1 (0.92%) REXX
Qualifications
1 30 (27.52%) Degree
2 5 (4.59%) SC Cleared
2 5 (4.59%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.75%) PMI Certification
4 2 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.92%) A+ Certification
5 1 (0.92%) ACCA
5 1 (0.92%) CIMA
5 1 (0.92%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.92%) MBA
5 1 (0.92%) MCSA
5 1 (0.92%) MCSE
5 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.92%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.01%) PMO
2 8 (7.34%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.59%) GDPR
4 3 (2.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (2.75%) SOC 2
5 1 (0.92%) QA
5 1 (0.92%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) Single Sign-On
1 4 (3.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.83%) HP Data Protector
3 2 (1.83%) NetBackup
4 1 (0.92%) Ansible
4 1 (0.92%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.92%) SCOM
4 1 (0.92%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 41 (37.61%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.42%) ServiceNow
3 6 (5.50%) SAP
4 3 (2.75%) Dell
5 2 (1.83%) Google
5 2 (1.83%) IBM
5 2 (1.83%) Veritas
6 1 (0.92%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.92%) Ariba
6 1 (0.92%) Bomgar
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Citrix
6 1 (0.92%) Cognos
6 1 (0.92%) Databricks
6 1 (0.92%) HP
6 1 (0.92%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.92%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.92%) Oracle
6 1 (0.92%) Ping Identity