Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Excel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 66 50
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 160 122 223
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.83% 3.01% 4.22%
As % of the Applications category 45.85% 37.20% 40.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 64 134
10th Percentile £202 £145 £163
25th Percentile £300 £214 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £358 £394
Median % change year-on-year +25.67% -9.06% -1.56%
75th Percentile £510 £502 £493
90th Percentile £575 £546 £550
England median daily rate £438 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 5 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £22.25 £16.40
25th Percentile £14.50 £24.50 £18.95
Median hourly rate £17.00 £30.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.10% +19.25% +47.02%
75th Percentile £22.50 £36.00 £32.32
90th Percentile £31.21 £36.45 £53.25
England median hourly rate £18.91 £16.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year +16.51% -26.23% +7.47%

All Software Application Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 349 328 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.35% 8.10% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 172 358
10th Percentile £182 £170 £149
25th Percentile £267 £223 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £394 £356
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +10.76% -7.66%
75th Percentile £525 £505 £500
90th Percentile £600 £586 £603
England median daily rate £439 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +7.07% +2.50% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 28 42
10th Percentile £12.50 £17.93 £14.13
25th Percentile £13.56 £23.94 £16.29
Median hourly rate £16.18 £35.00 £24.12
Median % change year-on-year -53.77% +45.11% -2.70%
75th Percentile £22.50 £53.25 £38.44
90th Percentile £29.61 £59.05 £58.31
England median hourly rate £22.27 £24.18 £27.50
% change year-on-year -7.92% -12.07% +7.15%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South East over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South East over the 6 months to 29 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 29 November 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
Thames Valley -6 65 £475 +46.15% 95
Hampshire +20 51 £425 +9.68% 51
Berkshire -12 44 £475 +50.79% 50
Surrey +11 23 £475 +30.14% 33
West Sussex - 14 £213 - 19
Oxfordshire -2 11 £225 +40.63% 18
Buckinghamshire +3 10 £480 +6.56% 28
East Sussex - 1 - - 10
Sussex - 1 - - 9
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 33 (20.63%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.38%) Confluence
3 4 (2.50%) CMS
Applications
1 45 (28.13%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (23.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (3.13%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.63%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Primavera
2 6 (3.75%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.88%) NetSuite
4 2 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.63%) BPCS
5 1 (0.63%) iTrent
5 1 (0.63%) Sage 50
5 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.63%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 41 (25.63%) Power Platform
2 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (8.75%) Azure
4 8 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (3.13%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.50%) AWS
6 4 (2.50%) SaaS
7 3 (1.88%) OCI
8 2 (1.25%) Adobe Analytics
8 2 (1.25%) Contentsquare
8 2 (1.25%) Lucidchart
8 2 (1.25%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.63%) GCP
9 1 (0.63%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.63%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.63%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.63%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Firewall
1 4 (2.50%) Wireless
2 2 (1.25%) BGP
2 2 (1.25%) MPLS
2 2 (1.25%) SNMP
2 2 (1.25%) TACACS
2 2 (1.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.25%) WAN
3 1 (0.63%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) Symposium
3 1 (0.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (25.00%) Power BI
2 7 (4.38%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
2 7 (4.38%) Tableau
3 5 (3.13%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.63%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 15 (9.38%) JIRA
2 4 (2.50%) Burp Suite
2 4 (2.50%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA Agile
General
1 96 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 56 (35.00%) Finance
3 55 (34.38%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (21.88%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (8.75%) Public Sector
6 10 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 10 (6.25%) Marketing
7 9 (5.63%) Electronics
8 7 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (4.38%) Telecoms
9 5 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (2.50%) Local Government
11 3 (1.88%) Retail
12 2 (1.25%) Legal
13 1 (0.63%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.63%) Automotive
13 1 (0.63%) French Language
13 1 (0.63%) Greek Language
13 1 (0.63%) Italian Language
13 1 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 55 (34.38%) Analyst
2 23 (14.38%) Data Analyst
3 13 (8.13%) Senior
4 12 (7.50%) Administrator
5 8 (5.00%) Accountant
5 8 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 6 (3.75%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 6 (3.75%) Desktop Support
6 6 (3.75%) Junior
6 6 (3.75%) Project Planner
6 6 (3.75%) Resource Manager
6 6 (3.75%) Tester
7 5 (3.13%) Business Analyst
7 5 (3.13%) Data Administrator
7 5 (3.13%) Junior Analyst
7 5 (3.13%) Junior Support Analyst
7 5 (3.13%) PMO Analyst
7 5 (3.13%) Portfolio Analyst
7 5 (3.13%) Project Manager
7 5 (3.13%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.50%) ADO
2 2 (1.25%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.25%) OpenConfig
2 2 (1.25%) RESTCONF
2 2 (1.25%) YANG
3 1 (0.63%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 11 (6.88%) Driving Licence
2 10 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 8 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 7 (4.38%) Onboarding
6 5 (3.13%) Mobile App
7 4 (2.50%) Digital Media
7 4 (2.50%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.88%) CMDB
8 3 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.88%) Life Science
9 2 (1.25%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.25%) Data Structures
9 2 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.63%) FPGA
10 1 (0.63%) iPhone
10 1 (0.63%) NHS
10 1 (0.63%) PMI
10 1 (0.63%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (0.63%) Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (0.63%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
2 43 (26.88%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (19.38%) Decision-Making
3 31 (19.38%) Project Management
4 28 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (15.00%) CRM
6 22 (13.75%) Time Management
7 19 (11.88%) Process Improvement
8 17 (10.63%) Agile
8 17 (10.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (10.00%) PRINCE2
9 16 (10.00%) Project Delivery
9 16 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 14 (8.75%) Customer Service
11 13 (8.13%) Change Control
11 13 (8.13%) Data Analysis
11 13 (8.13%) Migration
12 12 (7.50%) Analytics
12 12 (7.50%) Data Entry
13 11 (6.88%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 13 (8.13%) SQL
2 9 (5.63%) Python
3 2 (1.25%) R
Qualifications
1 46 (28.75%) Degree
2 39 (24.38%) Security Cleared
3 27 (16.88%) SC Cleared
4 12 (7.50%) DV Cleared
5 10 (6.25%) ACCA
5 10 (6.25%) CIMA
6 6 (3.75%) PMI Certification
7 5 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.13%) PMP
8 4 (2.50%) CCAB
8 4 (2.50%) CHECK Team Member
9 3 (1.88%) CREST Certified
9 3 (1.88%) Cyber Scheme
9 3 (1.88%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.25%) CCIE
10 2 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.25%) HNC
10 2 (1.25%) HND
10 2 (1.25%) JNCIE
11 1 (0.63%) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.75%) PMO
2 15 (9.38%) QA
3 11 (6.88%) Data Quality
3 11 (6.88%) GDPR
4 5 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 4 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (2.50%) P3O
6 3 (1.88%) ECSS
7 1 (0.63%) GxP
7 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.63%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 4 (2.50%) Nmap
2 2 (1.25%) Ansible
3 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.63%) SCOM
Vendors
1 74 (46.25%) Microsoft
2 20 (12.50%) SAP
3 12 (7.50%) Oracle
4 9 (5.63%) ServiceNow
5 8 (5.00%) Salesforce
6 5 (3.13%) IFS
7 4 (2.50%) Cellebrite
7 4 (2.50%) Google
8 3 (1.88%) Workday
9 2 (1.25%) Adobe
9 2 (1.25%) Cisco
9 2 (1.25%) Cognos
9 2 (1.25%) F5
9 2 (1.25%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.25%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.25%) Juniper
9 2 (1.25%) Sage
10 1 (0.63%) Ariba
10 1 (0.63%) Facebook
10 1 (0.63%) PeopleSoft