Microsoft Excel Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Excel
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 64 39 56
Rank change year-on-year -25 +17 +6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 57 116 122
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.90% 4.21% 3.82%
As % of the Applications category 34.76% 31.27% 48.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 33 60
10th Percentile £161 £293 £176
25th Percentile £253 £343 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £475 £385
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +23.30% +28.42%
75th Percentile £513 £600 £438
90th Percentile £586 £730 £500
England median daily rate £413 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -6.88% +4.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 53 18
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.96 £12.90
25th Percentile £18.25 £11.77 £15.38
Median hourly rate £24.39 £13.78 £45.08
Median % change year-on-year +77.04% -69.44% +114.46%
75th Percentile £33.75 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 -
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £25.13
% change year-on-year +9.66% -41.09% +25.63%

All Software Application Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 164 371 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 8.33% 13.47% 7.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 130 156
10th Percentile £163 £158 £200
25th Percentile £250 £220 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £423 £400
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% +5.63% +6.67%
75th Percentile £512 £525 £475
90th Percentile £552 £639 £613
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 134 28
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £13.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £11.26 £18.83
Median hourly rate £27.13 £16.06 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.90% -59.85% +90.48%
75th Percentile £34.81 £26.62 £56.68
90th Percentile £59.79 £45.55 £65.00
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the North West

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the North West

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the North West

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the North West

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the North West

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Manchester +1 34 £350 - 116
Cheshire -10 13 £450 -7.69% 42
Merseyside -1 6 £625 +48.81% 28
Lancashire -8 4 - - 67
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (26.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (12.28%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (10.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) NetSuite
1 2 (3.51%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.54%) Power Platform
2 6 (10.53%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (5.26%) GCP
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
4 2 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (3.51%) PowerApps
4 2 (3.51%) Serverless
5 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.53%) LAN
2 3 (5.26%) Unified Communications
2 3 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) DHCP
3 1 (1.75%) DNS
3 1 (1.75%) Intranet
3 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.75%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) Power BI
2 9 (15.79%) Tableau
3 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (5.26%) Data Mining
4 3 (5.26%) SQL Server
5 2 (3.51%) MySQL
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) Hudson
3 2 (3.51%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 27 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 14 (24.56%) Finance
3 12 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (17.54%) Pharmaceutical
5 7 (12.28%) Banking
5 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.53%) Manufacturing
7 5 (8.77%) Local Government
8 4 (7.02%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (5.26%) Billing
9 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (5.26%) Marketing
9 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (3.51%) Italian Language
10 2 (3.51%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.75%) Aerospace
11 1 (1.75%) Aviation
11 1 (1.75%) Games
11 1 (1.75%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 20 (35.09%) Analyst
2 8 (14.04%) Data Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Senior
4 6 (10.53%) Administrator
5 5 (8.77%) Facilities Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Facilities Project Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Project Manager
6 4 (7.02%) Business Analyst
6 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 3 (5.26%) 1st Line Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) 1st Line Support
7 3 (5.26%) 1st Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.26%) Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Coordinator
7 3 (5.26%) Data Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Network Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Senior Data Architect
7 3 (5.26%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.26%) D3.js
2 1 (1.75%) LDAP
2 1 (1.75%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.75%) Shiny
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.77%) NHS
2 4 (7.02%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.75%) Blog
5 1 (1.75%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.75%) PMI
5 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Windows
2 3 (5.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
1 14 (24.56%) Project Management
2 10 (17.54%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (12.28%) Analytics
3 7 (12.28%) Change Management
3 7 (12.28%) Data Analytics
4 6 (10.53%) Data Visualisation
4 6 (10.53%) ITIL
4 6 (10.53%) Migration
4 6 (10.53%) Visualisation
5 5 (8.77%) Contract Negotiation
5 5 (8.77%) Customer Service
5 5 (8.77%) Data Science
5 5 (8.77%) Decision-Making
5 5 (8.77%) ETL
5 5 (8.77%) Facilities Management
5 5 (8.77%) Resource Management
5 5 (8.77%) Risk Management
6 4 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (7.02%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) SQL
2 1 (1.75%) R
2 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (24.56%) Degree
2 5 (8.77%) HNC
3 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) ACCA
5 1 (1.75%) CIMA
5 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.02%) Data Quality
1 4 (7.02%) PMO
2 3 (5.26%) GDPR
3 1 (1.75%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (7.02%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (1.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.02%) SAP
3 3 (5.26%) Databricks
3 3 (5.26%) Oracle
4 2 (3.51%) Brio
4 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.75%) Ping Identity