Microsoft Excel Contracts in Reading

Microsoft Excel
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 34 23
Rank change year-on-year -12 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 55 55 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.73% 5.42% 7.29%
As % of the Applications category 49.55% 58.51% 51.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 37 64
10th Percentile £159 £268 £153
25th Percentile £185 £350 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £525 £356
Median % change year-on-year -19.24% +47.64% -16.82%
75th Percentile £500 £638 £475
90th Percentile £518 £777 £529
Berkshire median daily rate £277 £425 £362
% change year-on-year -34.76% +17.39% -15.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £10.93 - -
25th Percentile £11.96 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £13.68 - £22.50
75th Percentile £15.64 - £23.75
90th Percentile £16.82 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £17.60 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -29.60% +11.11% +95.14%

All Software Application Skills
Reading

Microsoft Excel is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 111 94 191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 9.54% 9.27% 14.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 65 117
10th Percentile £185 £225 £130
25th Percentile £205 £350 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £425 £325
Median % change year-on-year -49.41% +30.77% -23.80%
75th Percentile £437 £625 £475
90th Percentile £517 £735 £554
Berkshire median daily rate £215 £400 £356
% change year-on-year -46.25% +12.49% -11.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
10th Percentile £11.27 £21.15 £10.90
25th Percentile £12.82 £25.13 £12.63
Median hourly rate £15.64 £32.00 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% +96.92% +6.56%
75th Percentile £26.64 £38.63 £20.38
90th Percentile £42.91 £42.45 £22.40
Berkshire median hourly rate £42.50 £20.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year +107.32% -25.45% +57.14%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in Reading

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Reading.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Reading

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Reading over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Reading

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Reading.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Reading

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (7.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
Applications
1 28 (50.91%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (36.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (10.91%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 10 (18.18%) Azure
1 10 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
1 10 (18.18%) Power Platform
2 4 (7.27%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.82%) AWS
3 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) 3G
1 6 (10.91%) 4G
1 6 (10.91%) 5G
1 6 (10.91%) Diameter Protocol
1 6 (10.91%) DNS
1 6 (10.91%) GGSN
1 6 (10.91%) LTE
1 6 (10.91%) Radio Access Network
1 6 (10.91%) RANAP
1 6 (10.91%) SGSN
1 6 (10.91%) VoLTE
1 6 (10.91%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.82%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (18.18%) Power BI
2 5 (9.09%) Big Data
3 3 (5.45%) Data Mining
3 3 (5.45%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.82%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.82%) Pentaho
4 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.64%) JIRA
1 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (49.09%) Social Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Finance
2 13 (23.64%) Organisational Skills
2 13 (23.64%) Telecoms
3 12 (21.82%) Mandarin Language
4 10 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (16.36%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (14.55%) Legal
7 6 (10.91%) Multimedia
8 3 (5.45%) Billing
9 1 (1.82%) Games
9 1 (1.82%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (38.18%) Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) QA Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) QA Test Analyst
2 6 (10.91%) Test Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Commercial Analyst
3 5 (9.09%) Developer
3 5 (9.09%) Financial Analyst
4 4 (7.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 4 (7.27%) Power BI Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Applications Support
5 3 (5.45%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Report Developer
5 3 (5.45%) Senior
5 3 (5.45%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (5.45%) Telecoms Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Business Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) PMO Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Support Analyst
6 2 (3.64%) Telecoms Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.64%) XML
2 1 (1.82%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.82%) Management Information System
1 1 (1.82%) NHS
1 1 (1.82%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.45%) Project Management
2 12 (21.82%) Agile
2 12 (21.82%) Risk Management
3 11 (20.00%) DevOps
4 10 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (18.18%) Time Management
5 9 (16.36%) Statistics
6 8 (14.55%) Data Analysis
6 8 (14.55%) Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (12.73%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (12.73%) Dashboard Development
8 6 (10.91%) Computer Science
8 6 (10.91%) Customer Experience
8 6 (10.91%) Network Architecture
8 6 (10.91%) Performance Improvement
8 6 (10.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.91%) Test Management
9 5 (9.09%) Financial Modelling
9 5 (9.09%) Project Delivery
10 4 (7.27%) Budgeting and Forecasting
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.27%) SQL
2 3 (5.45%) Python
3 1 (1.82%) VB
3 1 (1.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Degree
2 6 (10.91%) ACCA
2 6 (10.91%) CIMA
2 6 (10.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (7.27%) PMP
4 3 (5.45%) CIPD
5 2 (3.64%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.82%) CIPFA
6 1 (1.82%) ICAEW
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.45%) PMO
2 6 (10.91%) QA
3 1 (1.82%) SLA
Vendors
1 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 7 (12.73%) Oracle
3 6 (10.91%) Empirix
3 6 (10.91%) NetScout
4 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.45%) Databricks
6 2 (3.64%) Ariba
7 1 (1.82%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.82%) Mavenir
7 1 (1.82%) Nokia
7 1 (1.82%) Remedy