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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 234 109 179
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.71% 3.47% 3.15%
As % of the Applications category 55.32% 44.31% 44.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 47 85
10th Percentile £223 £148 £114
25th Percentile £305 £153 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £295 £350
Median % change year-on-year +48.31% -15.71% -17.65%
75th Percentile £543 £431 £469
90th Percentile £598 £513 £538
England median daily rate £428 £401 £425
% change year-on-year +6.66% -5.69% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 21 37
10th Percentile £13.31 £14.00 £11.45
25th Percentile £14.83 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £20.00 £14.20 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -5.33% -31.43%
75th Percentile £31.13 £15.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £37.02 £23.75 £45.00
England median hourly rate £19.03 £18.74 £15.00
% change year-on-year +1.55% +24.93% -29.41%

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 423 246 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.71% 7.82% 7.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 128 192
10th Percentile £223 £150 £146
25th Percentile £325 £188 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £387 £363
Median % change year-on-year +20.31% +6.62% -6.45%
75th Percentile £545 £492 £476
90th Percentile £600 £591 £599
England median daily rate £450 £424 £400
% change year-on-year +6.13% +6.00% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 51 86
10th Percentile £12.29 £13.85 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.18 £14.20 £12.72
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £17.55
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -11.68% -29.80%
75th Percentile £36.38 £32.68 £26.84
90th Percentile £58.20 £47.50 £45.00
England median hourly rate £22.68 £25.15 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.82% +54.96% -36.87%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -16 107 £491 +66.44% 53
Berkshire 0 79 £505 +45.32% 28
Hampshire -5 51 £500 +37.93% 31
Surrey +11 46 £450 +16.13% 21
West Sussex +5 24 £223 +31.18% 10
Buckinghamshire -31 21 £400 +177.78% 13
Oxfordshire -25 7 £400 +28.00% 15
Sussex - 4 £275 - 5
Kent -2 1 - - 10
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 36 (15.38%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.71%) Confluence
3 3 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
Applications
1 60 (25.64%) Microsoft Office
2 50 (21.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (8.97%) Microsoft Project
4 13 (5.56%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.85%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.43%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.43%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.43%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.43%) InDesign
6 1 (0.43%) MicroStation
6 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.85%) iTrent
2 5 (2.14%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.71%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.43%) Primavera
6 1 (0.43%) ProductWriter
6 1 (0.43%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (25.21%) Power Platform
2 17 (7.26%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (5.98%) Azure
4 11 (4.70%) OCI
5 9 (3.85%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (2.99%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (2.56%) AWS
8 5 (2.14%) OneDrive
8 5 (2.14%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.71%) SaaS
10 3 (1.28%) Google Workspace
11 2 (0.85%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.85%) Google Sheets
12 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
12 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.43%) GCP
12 1 (0.43%) Google Docs
12 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
12 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
12 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.14%) Firewall
1 5 (2.14%) WAN
1 5 (2.14%) Wireless
2 4 (1.71%) BGP
2 4 (1.71%) MPLS
2 4 (1.71%) RSVP
3 3 (1.28%) Internet
3 3 (1.28%) SNMP
3 3 (1.28%) TACACS
3 3 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.85%) LAN
4 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.43%) ADSL
5 1 (0.43%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.43%) Intranet
5 1 (0.43%) OSPF
5 1 (0.43%) PSTN
5 1 (0.43%) SDH
5 1 (0.43%) VPN
5 1 (0.43%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (24.79%) Power BI
2 9 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (3.85%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.42%) Tableau
4 7 (2.99%) Metadata
5 2 (0.85%) GIS
5 2 (0.85%) Power Query
5 2 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.43%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 27 (11.54%) JIRA
2 3 (1.28%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.28%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 115 (49.15%) Social Skills
2 79 (33.76%) Analytical Skills
3 48 (20.51%) Finance
4 33 (14.10%) Organisational Skills
5 17 (7.26%) Documentation Skills
6 11 (4.70%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.42%) Marketing
8 6 (2.56%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.14%) Arabic Language
9 5 (2.14%) French Language
10 4 (1.71%) Advertising
10 4 (1.71%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.71%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.71%) Legal
11 3 (1.28%) Retail
12 2 (0.85%) Automotive
12 2 (0.85%) Aviation
12 2 (0.85%) Law
12 2 (0.85%) Local Government
13 1 (0.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (37.61%) Analyst
2 30 (12.82%) Data Analyst
3 24 (10.26%) Consultant
4 20 (8.55%) Implementation Consultant
5 18 (7.69%) Administrator
5 18 (7.69%) IT Analyst
6 13 (5.56%) Business Analyst
7 10 (4.27%) PMO Analyst
8 9 (3.85%) Data Administrator
8 9 (3.85%) Oracle Analyst
8 9 (3.85%) Payroll Consultant
9 8 (3.42%) HR Analyst
9 8 (3.42%) Test Analyst
10 7 (2.99%) Business IT Analyst
10 7 (2.99%) Coordinator
10 7 (2.99%) HR Data Analyst
10 7 (2.99%) IT Business Analyst
10 7 (2.99%) IT Support
10 7 (2.99%) Lead
10 7 (2.99%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.55%) XML
2 8 (3.42%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.14%) EDI
4 3 (1.28%) CSS
4 3 (1.28%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.28%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.28%) RESTCONF
4 3 (1.28%) YANG
5 1 (0.43%) ADO
5 1 (0.43%) HTML
5 1 (0.43%) SOAP
5 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.12%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.99%) Data Structures
3 7 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.14%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.71%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.71%) Security Posture
5 4 (1.71%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.28%) FMCG
6 3 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.28%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.85%) CMDB
7 2 (0.85%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.84%) Windows
2 5 (2.14%) Unix
3 1 (0.43%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (23.93%) Business Intelligence
2 50 (21.37%) Problem-Solving
3 48 (20.51%) Decision-Making
4 37 (15.81%) Project Management
5 34 (14.53%) Data Analysis
5 34 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 32 (13.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (12.82%) Project Delivery
8 28 (11.97%) Agile
9 26 (11.11%) Process Improvement
10 23 (9.83%) Validation
11 21 (8.97%) Analytics
12 19 (8.12%) Customer Service
12 19 (8.12%) Migration
12 19 (8.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.26%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (7.26%) Service Delivery
14 16 (6.84%) Dashboard Development
14 16 (6.84%) Visualisation
15 14 (5.98%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 48 (20.51%) SQL
2 21 (8.97%) T-SQL
3 10 (4.27%) Python
4 5 (2.14%) VBA
5 4 (1.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (0.43%) C
6 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
6 1 (0.43%) Java
6 1 (0.43%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.43%) R
6 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (20.94%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.67%) Degree
3 31 (13.25%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.12%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.56%) ACCA
6 11 (4.70%) CIMA
7 8 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (2.99%) PMI Certification
8 7 (2.99%) PMP
9 4 (1.71%) DBS Check
10 3 (1.28%) CCIE
10 3 (1.28%) CHECK Team Member
10 3 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (1.28%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.28%) Cyber Scheme
10 3 (1.28%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.28%) Postgraduate
11 2 (0.85%) BC Cleared
12 1 (0.43%) NVQ Level 3
12 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (17.95%) PMO
2 22 (9.40%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.85%) GDPR
4 8 (3.42%) SLA
5 7 (2.99%) QA
6 6 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.28%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.28%) GRC
7 3 (1.28%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.28%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.28%) NIST
7 3 (1.28%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.43%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.43%) GMP
8 1 (0.43%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.28%) Ansible
1 3 (1.28%) Nmap
1 3 (1.28%) SCCM
2 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 86 (36.75%) Microsoft
2 29 (12.39%) Oracle
3 21 (8.97%) SAP
4 14 (5.98%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.27%) Workday
6 6 (2.56%) Cisco
6 6 (2.56%) Google
7 5 (2.14%) Baan
8 4 (1.71%) F5
8 4 (1.71%) Remedy
8 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.28%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.28%) Juniper
10 2 (0.85%) Adobe
11 1 (0.43%) Apple
11 1 (0.43%) Ariba
11 1 (0.43%) Autodesk
11 1 (0.43%) BT
11 1 (0.43%) HP
11 1 (0.43%) HubSpot