Microsoft Excel Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Excel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 62 64
Rank change year-on-year -15 +2 -12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 85 167 208
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.82% 3.00% 3.58%
As % of the Applications category 39.53% 40.14% 37.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 76 125
10th Percentile £143 £114 £197
25th Percentile £150 £179 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £298 £351 £394
Median % change year-on-year -15.12% -10.93% -1.63%
75th Percentile £450 £476 £519
90th Percentile £501 £525 £625
England median daily rate £413 £443 £425
% change year-on-year -6.88% +4.24% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 36 16
10th Percentile £14.10 £11.45 £19.10
25th Percentile - £12.00 £20.47
Median hourly rate £14.20 £15.00 £24.27
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% -38.19% +24.45%
75th Percentile £14.28 £30.94 £30.76
90th Percentile £22.10 £45.00 £40.53
England median hourly rate £16.23 £14.80 £25.13
% change year-on-year +9.66% -41.09% +25.63%

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 215 416 554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.14% 7.48% 9.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 205 326
10th Percentile £150 £134 £186
25th Percentile £225 £200 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £275 £375
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
75th Percentile £513 £465 £500
90th Percentile £600 £573 £618
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 82 51
10th Percentile £14.06 £11.71 £17.72
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.41 £20.85
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%
75th Percentile £32.05 £26.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £61.50 £45.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the South East

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in the South East

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 -7 52 £400 +35.59% 131
Berkshire -20 33 £295 +4.89% 75
Buckinghamshire +7 15 £274 -22.01% 39
Hampshire +15 12 £275 -38.89% 82
Surrey +7 11 £450 -2.70% 46
Oxfordshire +8 4 £450 -14.29% 39
West Sussex +12 2 £386 - 21
Kent +8 2 £125 - 41
East Sussex - 2 £163 - 15
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 13 (15.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.18%) Confluence
2 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 40 (47.06%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (27.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (4.71%) MS Visio
5 2 (2.35%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (1.18%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) SAP GRC
1 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.76%) Power Platform
2 5 (5.88%) Azure
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (1.18%) AWS
5 1 (1.18%) Contentsquare
5 1 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
5 1 (1.18%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.18%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) Internet
2 6 (7.06%) Firewall
2 6 (7.06%) Wireless
3 5 (5.88%) Radio Access Network
4 3 (3.53%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (2.35%) 3G
5 2 (2.35%) 4G
5 2 (2.35%) 5G
5 2 (2.35%) Diameter Protocol
5 2 (2.35%) DNS
5 2 (2.35%) GGSN
5 2 (2.35%) LTE
5 2 (2.35%) RANAP
5 2 (2.35%) SGSN
5 2 (2.35%) VoLTE
5 2 (2.35%) Wireshark
6 1 (1.18%) Ethernet
6 1 (1.18%) PSTN
6 1 (1.18%) VPN
6 1 (1.18%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) Power BI
2 4 (4.71%) Power Query
2 4 (4.71%) Tableau
3 2 (2.35%) Metadata
4 1 (1.18%) Big Data
4 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.18%) Looker
4 1 (1.18%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.18%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.53%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) Toad
General
1 51 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (17.65%) Finance
4 13 (15.29%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (14.12%) Telecoms
6 5 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (4.71%) Automotive
7 4 (4.71%) Marketing
7 4 (4.71%) Retail
8 2 (2.35%) Electronics
8 2 (2.35%) Legal
8 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.35%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Banking
9 1 (1.18%) Billing
9 1 (1.18%) Games
9 1 (1.18%) Law
9 1 (1.18%) Local Government
9 1 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 20 (23.53%) Analyst
2 11 (12.94%) Help Desk Support
3 9 (10.59%) Administrator
4 7 (8.24%) Coordinator
5 6 (7.06%) Data Analyst
5 6 (7.06%) Help Desk Agent
6 5 (5.88%) Administration Assistant
6 5 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 4 (4.71%) Developer
7 4 (4.71%) Project Coordinator
8 3 (3.53%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.53%) Report Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Senior
8 3 (3.53%) Senior Developer
8 3 (3.53%) Service Desk Analyst
9 2 (2.35%) Customer Service Administrator
9 2 (2.35%) IT Administrator
9 2 (2.35%) Lead
9 2 (2.35%) QA Tester
9 2 (2.35%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.88%) Driving Licence
1 5 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (4.71%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.71%) Virtual Team
3 3 (3.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.35%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.18%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.18%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Windows
2 3 (3.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (28.24%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.65%) Time Management
3 12 (14.12%) Data Analysis
4 10 (11.76%) Business Intelligence
4 10 (11.76%) Project Management
5 9 (10.59%) Customer Service
6 8 (9.41%) Analytics
6 8 (9.41%) Project Delivery
6 8 (9.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (8.24%) PRINCE2
8 6 (7.06%) Inventory Management
9 5 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (5.88%) Data Management
9 5 (5.88%) Decision-Making
9 5 (5.88%) Migration
9 5 (5.88%) Validation
10 4 (4.71%) Agile
10 4 (4.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (4.71%) Process Improvement
10 4 (4.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.94%) SQL
2 5 (5.88%) Python
3 3 (3.53%) VBA
4 2 (2.35%) Java
5 1 (1.18%) C++
5 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 15 (17.65%) Degree
2 3 (3.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.35%) A+ Certification
3 2 (2.35%) ISEB
3 2 (2.35%) MCSA
3 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (2.35%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.35%) PMP
3 2 (2.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (2.35%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) APMP
4 1 (1.18%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.18%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.18%) MBA
4 1 (1.18%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Black Belt
4 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (1.18%) Six Sigma Master Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) PMO
2 6 (7.06%) COSHH
3 4 (4.71%) QA
4 3 (3.53%) SLA
5 2 (2.35%) GMP
5 2 (2.35%) GRC
6 1 (1.18%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.18%) P3O
System Software
1 4 (4.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 41 (48.24%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.41%) SAP
3 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.53%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.35%) Ariba
4 2 (2.35%) Autodesk
4 2 (2.35%) Citrix
4 2 (2.35%) Empirix
4 2 (2.35%) NetScout
4 2 (2.35%) Oracle
5 1 (1.18%) Adobe
5 1 (1.18%) Ciena
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) Google
5 1 (1.18%) IFS
5 1 (1.18%) Nokia
5 1 (1.18%) webMethods