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 3 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 53 61
Rank change year-on-year -7 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 237 139 149
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.56% 3.97% 3.02%
As % of the Applications category 56.97% 49.64% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 57 82
10th Percentile £238 £150 £163
25th Percentile £306 £170 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £300 £363
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -17.24% -14.71%
75th Percentile £547 £450 £475
90th Percentile £600 £513 £538
England median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - -8.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 18
10th Percentile £13.37 £13.94 £11.79
25th Percentile £16.08 - £14.15
Median hourly rate £22.25 £14.20 £31.16
Median % change year-on-year +56.69% -54.43% +36.98%
75th Percentile £33.00 £17.50 £44.69
90th Percentile £87.24 £22.33 £45.00
England median hourly rate £22.50 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year +19.36% +16.14% -22.71%

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 416 280 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.25% 8.00% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 137 195
10th Percentile £224 £152 £165
25th Percentile £325 £200 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £358 £375
Median % change year-on-year +29.05% -4.53% -
75th Percentile £548 £500 £510
90th Percentile £599 £600 £621
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 57 51
10th Percentile £13.23 £13.40 £11.71
25th Percentile £14.88 £14.20 £16.00
Median hourly rate £23.21 £15.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.74% -27.91% +2.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £32.05 £45.00
90th Percentile £87.03 £46.30 £55.11
England median hourly rate £23.81 £23.45 £17.00
% change year-on-year +1.55% +37.94% -32.00%

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 3 August 2026.

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 3 August 2026.

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 3 August 2026. 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 -17 107 £450 +73.08% 84
Berkshire -2 79 £507 +26.81% 40
Surrey +6 48 £513 +13.89% 49
Hampshire -15 48 £503 +25.63% 51
West Sussex -3 24 £223 +31.18% 14
Buckinghamshire -36 21 £358 +44.74% 20
Oxfordshire -19 7 £400 +77.78% 25
Sussex -1 4 £275 - 5
Kent +5 2 £650 - 24
Middlesex - 2 - - 7
East Sussex -2 1 - - 8
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 (13.92%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.27%) Confluence
3 2 (0.84%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.42%) CMS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.42%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.42%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (28.27%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (24.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 32 (13.50%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (5.91%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.84%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.84%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.42%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.42%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.42%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.42%) InDesign
6 1 (0.42%) MicroStation
Business Applications
1 9 (3.80%) iTrent
2 6 (2.53%) Primavera
3 5 (2.11%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (1.69%) SAP Business One
4 4 (1.69%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.42%) Maximo
7 1 (0.42%) ProductWriter
7 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (22.36%) Power Platform
2 14 (5.91%) Azure
3 10 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (3.80%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (3.38%) OCI
6 5 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.11%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.69%) AWS
7 4 (1.69%) SaaS
8 3 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 3 (1.27%) Google Workspace
8 3 (1.27%) IaaS
8 3 (1.27%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.27%) Smartsheet
9 2 (0.84%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.42%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.42%) GCP
10 1 (0.42%) Google Docs
10 1 (0.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) MPLS
1 5 (2.11%) WAN
2 4 (1.69%) BGP
2 4 (1.69%) RSVP
2 4 (1.69%) SNMP
2 4 (1.69%) TACACS
2 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) Firewall
3 3 (1.27%) Internet
3 3 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.84%) LAN
4 2 (0.84%) Wireless
5 1 (0.42%) ADSL
5 1 (0.42%) DWDM
5 1 (0.42%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.42%) Intranet
5 1 (0.42%) PSTN
5 1 (0.42%) SDH
5 1 (0.42%) VPN
5 1 (0.42%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (21.94%) Power BI
2 10 (4.22%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.22%) Tableau
3 9 (3.80%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (2.53%) Metadata
5 3 (1.27%) GIS
6 2 (0.84%) Power Query
6 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.42%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 10g
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 11g
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
7 1 (0.42%) PowerPivot
7 1 (0.42%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.42%) SQLite
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau Desktop
7 1 (0.42%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 25 (10.55%) JIRA
2 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.42%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.42%) Metasploit
General
1 118 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 88 (37.13%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (24.89%) Finance
4 40 (16.88%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 12 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.80%) Marketing
8 8 (3.38%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.11%) Arabic Language
9 5 (2.11%) French Language
9 5 (2.11%) Legal
10 4 (1.69%) Advertising
10 4 (1.69%) Aviation
10 4 (1.69%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.69%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.84%) Billing
11 2 (0.84%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Local Government
11 2 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 74 (31.22%) Analyst
2 30 (12.66%) Data Analyst
3 25 (10.55%) Consultant
4 20 (8.44%) Implementation Consultant
5 18 (7.59%) Administrator
6 14 (5.91%) IT Analyst
7 11 (4.64%) Business Analyst
8 10 (4.22%) Project Officer
9 9 (3.80%) Payroll Consultant
10 8 (3.38%) Change Manager
10 8 (3.38%) HR Analyst
10 8 (3.38%) Lead
10 8 (3.38%) Senior
11 7 (2.95%) Data Administrator
11 7 (2.95%) HR Data Analyst
11 7 (2.95%) PMO Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Business IT Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Coordinator
12 6 (2.53%) IT Business Analyst
12 6 (2.53%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.44%) XML
2 6 (2.53%) EDI
3 5 (2.11%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.69%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.69%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.69%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.69%) YANG
5 2 (0.84%) OLE
6 1 (0.42%) .NET
6 1 (0.42%) ADO
6 1 (0.42%) CSS
6 1 (0.42%) HTML
6 1 (0.42%) SOAP
6 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.02%) Onboarding
2 11 (4.64%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.95%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.53%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.69%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.69%) FMCG
6 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.69%) PMI
7 3 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.27%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.27%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.84%) CMDB
8 2 (0.84%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.84%) Social Media
9 1 (0.42%) Life Science
9 1 (0.42%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.06%) Windows
2 4 (1.69%) Unix
3 1 (0.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.42%) Solaris
3 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (22.36%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (21.52%) Business Intelligence
3 50 (21.10%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (18.14%) Decision-Making
5 41 (17.30%) Project Management
6 37 (15.61%) Data Analysis
7 34 (14.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 29 (12.24%) Agile
9 27 (11.39%) Project Delivery
9 27 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 24 (10.13%) Process Improvement
11 23 (9.70%) Service Delivery
12 22 (9.28%) Validation
13 21 (8.86%) Analytics
14 19 (8.02%) Migration
15 18 (7.59%) ERP
16 17 (7.17%) Dashboard Development
16 17 (7.17%) ITIL
17 16 (6.75%) Collaborative Working
17 16 (6.75%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.94%) SQL
2 21 (8.86%) T-SQL
3 11 (4.64%) Python
4 5 (2.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.27%) R
6 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.84%) VBA
7 1 (0.42%) C
7 1 (0.42%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.42%) Java
7 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 63 (26.58%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.10%) Degree
3 31 (13.08%) SC Cleared
4 30 (12.66%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.33%) PMI Certification
6 13 (5.49%) ACCA
7 12 (5.06%) PMP
8 11 (4.64%) CIMA
9 10 (4.22%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.11%) DBS Check
11 4 (1.69%) CCIE
11 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.69%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 2 (0.84%) BC Cleared
13 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
14 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
14 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
14 1 (0.42%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 1 (0.42%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (18.99%) PMO
2 22 (9.28%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.53%) GDPR
3 6 (2.53%) QA
3 6 (2.53%) SLA
4 4 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.27%) GRC
5 3 (1.27%) ISO 22301
5 3 (1.27%) ISO 31000
5 3 (1.27%) NIST
6 1 (0.42%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (0.42%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.42%) Nmap
2 1 (0.42%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 107 (45.15%) Microsoft
2 31 (13.08%) Oracle
3 25 (10.55%) SAP
4 19 (8.02%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.22%) Workday
6 6 (2.53%) Baan
6 6 (2.53%) Cisco
6 6 (2.53%) Google
7 4 (1.69%) F5
7 4 (1.69%) Fortinet
7 4 (1.69%) Juniper
7 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.27%) Remedy
9 2 (0.84%) Adobe
10 1 (0.42%) Apple
10 1 (0.42%) Ariba
10 1 (0.42%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.42%) ESRI
10 1 (0.42%) HP
10 1 (0.42%) IBM