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 16 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 55 62
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 243 120 172
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.73% 3.55% 3.08%
As % of the Applications category 57.86% 45.80% 43.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 51 87
10th Percentile £238 £150 £132
25th Percentile £306 £156 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £295 £351
Median % change year-on-year +53.98% -15.95% -17.41%
75th Percentile £539 £438 £469
90th Percentile £594 £513 £538
England median daily rate £432 £400 £413
% change year-on-year +7.94% -3.03% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 22 28
10th Percentile £13.34 £13.87 £11.45
25th Percentile £15.12 - £11.95
Median hourly rate £21.00 £14.20 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.89% -5.33% -34.07%
75th Percentile £31.41 £15.44 £34.50
90th Percentile £85.43 £23.51 £45.00
England median hourly rate £20.00 £18.85 £15.00
% change year-on-year +6.10% +25.67% -31.82%

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 420 262 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.45% 7.75% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 133 199
10th Percentile £227 £150 £150
25th Percentile £325 £190 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £375 £375
Median % change year-on-year +25.60% - -
75th Percentile £543 £500 £505
90th Percentile £598 £598 £635
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 53 75
10th Percentile £12.60 £13.57 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.40 £14.20 £12.81
Median hourly rate £22.86 £15.50 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +47.45% -12.92% -28.80%
75th Percentile £48.75 £32.31 £32.49
90th Percentile £85.08 £47.26 £52.23
England median hourly rate £23.06 £25.00 £16.65
% change year-on-year -7.78% +50.15% -35.24%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -9 110 £463 +105.67% 62
Berkshire +3 84 £507 +45.97% 34
Hampshire -5 53 £500 +25.00% 38
Surrey +9 49 £500 +53.85% 14
West Sussex -5 24 £223 -19.78% 7
Buckinghamshire -33 19 £360 +150.00% 20
Oxfordshire -26 7 £400 +77.78% 9
Sussex - 4 £275 - 3
Kent 0 1 - - 10
Middlesex - 1 - - 5
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 37 (15.23%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.65%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) CMS
3 2 (0.82%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.41%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.41%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.41%) WebLogic
Applications
1 66 (27.16%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 28 (11.52%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (5.76%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.82%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.41%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.41%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.41%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.41%) InDesign
6 1 (0.41%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.70%) iTrent
2 5 (2.06%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.65%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.65%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.23%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (1.23%) Primavera
5 2 (0.82%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.41%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 56 (23.05%) Power Platform
2 17 (7.00%) Azure
3 15 (6.17%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (4.53%) OCI
5 9 (3.70%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.06%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.06%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.65%) AWS
8 4 (1.65%) SaaS
9 3 (1.23%) Google Workspace
9 3 (1.23%) IaaS
9 3 (1.23%) Smartsheet
10 2 (0.82%) Google Sheets
10 2 (0.82%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.41%) ChatGPT
11 1 (0.41%) Google Docs
11 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.06%) MPLS
1 5 (2.06%) WAN
2 4 (1.65%) BGP
2 4 (1.65%) RSVP
2 4 (1.65%) SNMP
2 4 (1.65%) TACACS
2 4 (1.65%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.23%) Firewall
3 3 (1.23%) Internet
3 3 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.82%) LAN
4 2 (0.82%) Wireless
5 1 (0.41%) ADSL
5 1 (0.41%) DWDM
5 1 (0.41%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.41%) Intranet
5 1 (0.41%) PSTN
5 1 (0.41%) SDH
5 1 (0.41%) VPN
5 1 (0.41%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (22.63%) Power BI
2 10 (4.12%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
3 9 (3.70%) Tableau
4 7 (2.88%) Metadata
5 2 (0.82%) GIS
5 2 (0.82%) Power Query
5 2 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.41%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.41%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.41%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.41%) SQLite
6 1 (0.41%) Tableau Desktop
6 1 (0.41%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 27 (11.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.41%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.41%) Metasploit
General
1 121 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 89 (36.63%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (22.63%) Finance
4 37 (15.23%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.58%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.76%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.29%) Marketing
9 5 (2.06%) Arabic Language
9 5 (2.06%) French Language
9 5 (2.06%) Legal
10 4 (1.65%) Advertising
10 4 (1.65%) Aviation
10 4 (1.65%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.65%) Retail
11 3 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.82%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.82%) Automotive
12 2 (0.82%) Local Government
13 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 84 (34.57%) Analyst
2 31 (12.76%) Data Analyst
3 25 (10.29%) Consultant
4 20 (8.23%) Implementation Consultant
5 18 (7.41%) Administrator
6 16 (6.58%) IT Analyst
7 12 (4.94%) Business Analyst
8 9 (3.70%) Data Administrator
8 9 (3.70%) Oracle Analyst
8 9 (3.70%) Payroll Consultant
9 8 (3.29%) HR Analyst
9 8 (3.29%) Test Analyst
10 7 (2.88%) Coordinator
10 7 (2.88%) HR Data Analyst
10 7 (2.88%) Lead
10 7 (2.88%) PMO Analyst
10 7 (2.88%) Project Officer
11 6 (2.47%) Change Manager
11 6 (2.47%) IT Business Analyst
11 6 (2.47%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.23%) XML
2 8 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.06%) EDI
4 4 (1.65%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.65%) OpenConfig
4 4 (1.65%) RESTCONF
4 4 (1.65%) YANG
5 3 (1.23%) CSS
6 1 (0.41%) ADO
6 1 (0.41%) HTML
6 1 (0.41%) OLE
6 1 (0.41%) SOAP
6 1 (0.41%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 20 (8.23%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.17%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.88%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.88%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.47%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.06%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.65%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.23%) FMCG
7 3 (1.23%) PMI
7 3 (1.23%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.23%) Taxonomies
8 2 (0.82%) CMDB
8 2 (0.82%) Housing Association
8 2 (0.82%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.82%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.41%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.41%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.76%) Windows
2 6 (2.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.41%) Linux
3 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.41%) Solaris
3 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (21.81%) Business Intelligence
1 53 (21.81%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (20.58%) Decision-Making
3 46 (18.93%) Continuous Improvement
4 39 (16.05%) Project Management
5 36 (14.81%) Data Analysis
6 35 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 30 (12.35%) Agile
7 30 (12.35%) Project Delivery
8 26 (10.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 25 (10.29%) Process Improvement
10 23 (9.47%) Service Delivery
10 23 (9.47%) Validation
11 22 (9.05%) Analytics
12 18 (7.41%) Actionable Insight
12 18 (7.41%) Dashboard Development
12 18 (7.41%) Migration
13 17 (7.00%) ITIL
14 16 (6.58%) Collaborative Working
14 16 (6.58%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.40%) SQL
2 21 (8.64%) T-SQL
3 12 (4.94%) Python
4 5 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (1.65%) VBA
6 2 (0.82%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.82%) R
7 1 (0.41%) C
7 1 (0.41%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.41%) Java
7 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 59 (24.28%) Security Cleared
2 45 (18.52%) Degree
3 32 (13.17%) SC Cleared
4 25 (10.29%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.17%) PMI Certification
6 13 (5.35%) ACCA
7 12 (4.94%) PMP
8 11 (4.53%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (4.53%) CIMA
9 4 (1.65%) CCIE
9 4 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.65%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.65%) JNCIE
10 2 (0.82%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.41%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Scheme
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (18.11%) PMO
2 23 (9.47%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.29%) SLA
4 7 (2.88%) GDPR
4 7 (2.88%) QA
5 4 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.23%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.23%) GRC
6 3 (1.23%) ISO 22301
6 3 (1.23%) ISO 31000
6 3 (1.23%) NIST
7 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.41%) GMP
8 1 (0.41%) P3O
8 1 (0.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.41%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 4 (1.65%) Ansible
2 3 (1.23%) SCCM
3 1 (0.41%) Data Guard
3 1 (0.41%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.41%) Nmap
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
3 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 101 (41.56%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.35%) Oracle
3 22 (9.05%) SAP
4 19 (7.82%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.12%) Workday
6 6 (2.47%) Cisco
7 5 (2.06%) Baan
7 5 (2.06%) Google
8 4 (1.65%) F5
8 4 (1.65%) Fortinet
8 4 (1.65%) Juniper
8 4 (1.65%) Remedy
8 4 (1.65%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.82%) Adobe
10 1 (0.41%) Apple
10 1 (0.41%) Ariba
10 1 (0.41%) Autodesk
10 1 (0.41%) BT
10 1 (0.41%) HP
10 1 (0.41%) Planview