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 21 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 52 65
Rank change year-on-year -8 +13 -15
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 235 132 142
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.57% 3.82% 3.11%
As % of the Applications category 56.49% 47.65% 40.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 55 69
10th Percentile £223 £153 £157
25th Percentile £303 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £350 £315
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +11.11% -21.25%
75th Percentile £538 £459 £495
90th Percentile £583 £565 £538
England median daily rate £413 £413 £400
% change year-on-year - +3.13% -8.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 27 10
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.00 £26.83
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £30.41
Median hourly rate £16.33 £17.00 £35.58
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -52.22% +61.74%
75th Percentile £22.50 £21.95 £45.00
90th Percentile £37.38 £23.56 -
England median hourly rate £17.85 £18.85 £16.23
% change year-on-year -5.31% +16.14% -21.14%

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 416 277 350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.32% 8.02% 7.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 136 191
10th Percentile £222 £153 £163
25th Percentile £304 £208 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.19% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £507
90th Percentile £596 £600 £600
England median daily rate £445 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 52 32
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.60 £11.87
25th Percentile £13.52 £14.00 £19.22
Median hourly rate £16.00 £15.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.92% -56.43% +84.21%
75th Percentile £23.28 £22.50 £51.55
90th Percentile £61.25 £32.28 £57.19
England median hourly rate £19.00 £23.54 £16.65
% change year-on-year -19.29% +41.38% -33.40%

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 21 September 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 21 September 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 21 September 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 -10 101 £400 +6.67% 168
Berkshire -11 61 £450 +9.09% 81
Hampshire -18 55 £511 +20.29% 103
Surrey +12 48 £438 +16.67% 59
Buckinghamshire -15 27 £360 +2.86% 68
Oxfordshire -23 13 £400 +77.78% 19
West Sussex -24 11 £223 +31.18% 20
Kent - 8 £650 - 22
Sussex 0 4 £275 - 4
Middlesex - 3 - - 16
East Sussex -2 2 - - 17
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 44 (18.72%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.28%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 79 (33.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 72 (30.64%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (14.89%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (6.38%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.43%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (3.83%) iTrent
2 5 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (2.13%) Primavera
3 4 (1.70%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.28%) Maximo
5 1 (0.43%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (21.28%) Power Platform
2 9 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (3.83%) SuccessFactors
3 8 (3.40%) Azure
4 5 (2.13%) SaaS
4 5 (2.13%) Smartsheet
5 4 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
6 3 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.28%) IaaS
6 3 (1.28%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.85%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.43%) AWS
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.43%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.43%) GCP
8 1 (0.43%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.43%) Google Sheets
8 1 (0.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.70%) MPLS
1 4 (1.70%) RSVP
1 4 (1.70%) WAN
2 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.85%) ADSL
3 2 (0.85%) BGP
3 2 (0.85%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.85%) Internet
3 2 (0.85%) LAN
3 2 (0.85%) PSTN
3 2 (0.85%) SNMP
3 2 (0.85%) TACACS
3 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.43%) Intranet
4 1 (0.43%) Mobile Backhaul
4 1 (0.43%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.43%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (20.85%) Power BI
2 10 (4.26%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.83%) Tableau
4 5 (2.13%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.70%) GIS
5 4 (1.70%) Power Query
6 3 (1.28%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.43%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.43%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.43%) Looker
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.43%) SQLite
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau Desktop
8 1 (0.43%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 19 (8.09%) JIRA
2 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.43%) JMeter
3 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 144 (61.28%) Social Skills
2 93 (39.57%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (29.36%) Finance
4 55 (23.40%) Organisational Skills
5 15 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.68%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.26%) Marketing
7 10 (4.26%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.13%) Arabic Language
9 5 (2.13%) French Language
9 5 (2.13%) Legal
10 4 (1.70%) Advertising
10 4 (1.70%) Aviation
10 4 (1.70%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.28%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.28%) Billing
11 3 (1.28%) Retail
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 54 (22.98%) Analyst
2 31 (13.19%) Administrator
3 29 (12.34%) Data Analyst
4 12 (5.11%) Coordinator
4 12 (5.11%) PMO Planner
5 11 (4.68%) Business Analyst
5 11 (4.68%) Project Officer
6 10 (4.26%) Lead
6 10 (4.26%) PMO Specialist
6 10 (4.26%) Senior
7 8 (3.40%) IT Analyst
7 8 (3.40%) Support Specialist
8 7 (2.98%) HR Analyst
8 7 (2.98%) HR Data Analyst
8 7 (2.98%) Support Assistant
9 6 (2.55%) Change Manager
9 6 (2.55%) Systems Analyst
10 5 (2.13%) Consultant
10 5 (2.13%) Project Manager
10 5 (2.13%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.55%) EDI
2 2 (0.85%) HTML
2 2 (0.85%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.85%) OLE
2 2 (0.85%) OpenConfig
2 2 (0.85%) RESTCONF
2 2 (0.85%) YANG
3 1 (0.43%) .NET
3 1 (0.43%) ADO
3 1 (0.43%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (13.19%) Onboarding
2 14 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.55%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.13%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.13%) FMCG
4 5 (2.13%) LIMS
4 5 (2.13%) PMI
5 4 (1.70%) Product Ownership
5 4 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.70%) Social Media
6 3 (1.28%) Blog
6 3 (1.28%) CCTV
6 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 2 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.85%) CMDB
7 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 2 (0.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.40%) Windows
2 3 (1.28%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.43%) Solaris
3 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.79%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (28.51%) Continuous Improvement
3 51 (21.70%) Business Intelligence
4 48 (20.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (15.74%) Project Management
6 35 (14.89%) Data Analysis
6 35 (14.89%) Decision-Making
7 28 (11.91%) Agile
8 27 (11.49%) Process Improvement
8 27 (11.49%) Service Delivery
9 26 (11.06%) Logistics
9 26 (11.06%) Project Delivery
10 25 (10.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (9.79%) ERP
12 19 (8.09%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (7.23%) Analytics
13 17 (7.23%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (7.23%) Validation
14 16 (6.81%) Change Management
14 16 (6.81%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 34 (14.47%) SQL
2 9 (3.83%) Python
3 5 (2.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (1.70%) R
5 2 (0.85%) VBA
6 1 (0.43%) Java
6 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 70 (29.79%) Security Cleared
2 53 (22.55%) Degree
3 44 (18.72%) DV Cleared
4 26 (11.06%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.11%) ACCA
5 12 (5.11%) PMI Certification
6 11 (4.68%) CIMA
7 8 (3.40%) PMP
8 7 (2.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 2 (0.85%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.85%) CCIE
10 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (0.85%) HNC
10 2 (0.85%) HND
10 2 (0.85%) JNCIE
10 2 (0.85%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) City & Guilds
11 1 (0.43%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (20.00%) PMO
2 22 (9.36%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.40%) QA
4 5 (2.13%) GDPR
4 5 (2.13%) SLA
5 3 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 1 (0.43%) COSHH
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.85%) Ansible
2 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 147 (62.55%) Microsoft
2 33 (14.04%) SAP
3 24 (10.21%) Oracle
4 16 (6.81%) ServiceNow
5 11 (4.68%) Workday
6 6 (2.55%) Baan
7 5 (2.13%) Cisco
7 5 (2.13%) Google
8 3 (1.28%) ESRI
8 3 (1.28%) IBM
8 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
9 2 (0.85%) Adobe
9 2 (0.85%) BT
9 2 (0.85%) F5
9 2 (0.85%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.85%) Juniper
9 2 (0.85%) Openreach
10 1 (0.43%) Facebook
10 1 (0.43%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.43%) IFS