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 12 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 261 127 140
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 4.00% 3.57% 3.25%
As % of the Applications category 58.00% 43.34% 39.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 54 68
10th Percentile £214 £154 £160
25th Percentile £286 £222 £217
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £400 £337
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% +18.67% -20.69%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £510
90th Percentile £600 £575 £538
England median daily rate £425 £425 £390
% change year-on-year - +8.97% -13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 6
10th Percentile £13.35 £14.00 £24.13
25th Percentile £14.50 £14.72 £28.23
Median hourly rate £16.33 £17.30 £30.62
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% -43.50% +40.77%
75th Percentile £18.86 £22.50 £34.81
90th Percentile £27.25 £29.61 £36.37
England median hourly rate £17.50 £20.26 £16.23
% change year-on-year -13.60% +24.80% -25.00%

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 450 293 359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.89% 8.25% 8.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 144 193
10th Percentile £213 £154 £170
25th Percentile £302 £208 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £449 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +12.19% - +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £510
90th Percentile £600 £600 £588
England median daily rate £445 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +4.71% +6.25% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 57 31
10th Percentile £13.18 £12.56 £16.00
25th Percentile £14.06 £13.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate £16.17 £16.36 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% -53.26% +84.21%
75th Percentile £21.02 £29.61 £53.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £32.61 £57.54
England median hourly rate £18.18 £24.31 £20.00
% change year-on-year -25.24% +21.55% -22.65%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 12 October 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 +3 109 £403 -0.80% 47
Berkshire +1 66 £450 +9.09% 29
Hampshire -8 66 £510 +20.00% 38
Surrey +16 52 £438 +16.67% 33
Buckinghamshire -2 31 £360 +2.86% 12
Oxfordshire -22 12 £400 +77.78% 7
West Sussex -23 11 £223 +31.18% 7
Kent - 9 £650 - 4
East Sussex +3 5 - - 5
Middlesex - 4 - - 1
Sussex +1 3 £275 - 3
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 57 (21.84%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.15%) ArcGIS
3 2 (0.77%) Confluence
3 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.38%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.38%) WebLogic
Applications
1 88 (33.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 74 (28.35%) Microsoft Office
3 41 (15.71%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (4.60%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.38%) CATIA
6 1 (0.38%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 6 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.92%) Primavera
3 4 (1.53%) iTrent
4 3 (1.15%) Maximo
4 3 (1.15%) SAP Business One
4 3 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.38%) ENOVIA
5 1 (0.38%) ProductWriter
5 1 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 46 (17.62%) Power Platform
2 13 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (3.07%) Azure
4 6 (2.30%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (1.92%) Smartsheet
6 4 (1.53%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.15%) IaaS
7 3 (1.15%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.15%) SaaS
8 2 (0.77%) GCP
8 2 (0.77%) OpenShift
9 1 (0.38%) AWS
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.38%) BrowserStack
9 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.38%) Google Sheets
9 1 (0.38%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.38%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) MPLS
1 4 (1.53%) WAN
2 3 (1.15%) RSVP
2 3 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.77%) ADSL
3 2 (0.77%) BGP
3 2 (0.77%) Ethernet
3 2 (0.77%) Internet
3 2 (0.77%) IPv4
3 2 (0.77%) IPv6
3 2 (0.77%) LAN
3 2 (0.77%) PSTN
3 2 (0.77%) SNMP
3 2 (0.77%) TACACS
3 2 (0.77%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.77%) VoIP
4 1 (0.38%) Intranet
4 1 (0.38%) Mobile Backhaul
4 1 (0.38%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (17.24%) Power BI
2 10 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.45%) Tableau
4 5 (1.92%) Power Query
5 4 (1.53%) GIS
6 3 (1.15%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.77%) Looker
7 2 (0.77%) Metadata
7 2 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (0.38%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.38%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.38%) EDMS
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database 10g
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database 11g
8 1 (0.38%) Oracle Database 12c
8 1 (0.38%) SQLite
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau Desktop
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 19 (7.28%) JIRA
2 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.38%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.38%) JMeter
3 1 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.38%) Selenium
General
1 165 (63.22%) Social Skills
2 98 (37.55%) Analytical Skills
3 83 (31.80%) Finance
4 65 (24.90%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.13%) Manufacturing
5 16 (6.13%) Public Sector
6 14 (5.36%) Telecoms
7 10 (3.83%) Marketing
8 7 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.30%) Advertising
9 6 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.30%) General Ledger
9 6 (2.30%) Legal
10 5 (1.92%) Arabic Language
10 5 (1.92%) French Language
10 5 (1.92%) Local Government
10 5 (1.92%) Retail
11 4 (1.53%) Banking
11 4 (1.53%) Billing
11 4 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 44 (16.86%) Analyst
2 42 (16.09%) Administrator
3 24 (9.20%) Data Analyst
4 19 (7.28%) Coordinator
5 15 (5.75%) PMO Planner
6 12 (4.60%) PMO Specialist
7 11 (4.21%) Lead
7 11 (4.21%) Project Officer
7 11 (4.21%) Senior
8 10 (3.83%) Support Specialist
9 9 (3.45%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.07%) Project Coordinator
10 8 (3.07%) Support Officer
11 7 (2.68%) Project Manager
11 7 (2.68%) Support Assistant
12 6 (2.30%) Change Manager
12 6 (2.30%) Data Administrator
12 6 (2.30%) IT Analyst
12 6 (2.30%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
12 6 (2.30%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.30%) EDI
2 2 (0.77%) NETCONF
2 2 (0.77%) OLE
2 2 (0.77%) OpenConfig
2 2 (0.77%) RESTCONF
2 2 (0.77%) YANG
3 1 (0.38%) .NET
3 1 (0.38%) ADO
3 1 (0.38%) HTML
3 1 (0.38%) REST
3 1 (0.38%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 34 (13.03%) Onboarding
2 26 (9.96%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.68%) Social Media
4 6 (2.30%) FMCG
4 6 (2.30%) LIMS
5 5 (1.92%) Driving Licence
5 5 (1.92%) PMI
5 5 (1.92%) Public Cloud
5 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.53%) Data Structures
6 4 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.53%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.15%) Blog
7 3 (1.15%) CCTV
7 3 (1.15%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.15%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.15%) NHS
7 3 (1.15%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.77%) CMDB
8 2 (0.77%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.07%) Windows
2 1 (0.38%) Linux
2 1 (0.38%) macOS
2 1 (0.38%) Solaris
2 1 (0.38%) Unix
2 1 (0.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (27.97%) Continuous Improvement
3 59 (22.61%) Stakeholder Management
4 47 (18.01%) Business Intelligence
5 42 (16.09%) Project Management
6 36 (13.79%) Data Analysis
7 35 (13.41%) Decision-Making
8 34 (13.03%) Logistics
9 32 (12.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 31 (11.88%) Service Delivery
11 30 (11.49%) Agile
12 27 (10.34%) Project Delivery
13 26 (9.96%) Process Improvement
14 22 (8.43%) ERP
15 20 (7.66%) Customer Service
16 18 (6.90%) Analytics
17 17 (6.51%) CRM
17 17 (6.51%) PRINCE2
18 16 (6.13%) Actionable Insight
18 16 (6.13%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.64%) SQL
2 7 (2.68%) Python
3 5 (1.92%) R
4 4 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.77%) VBA
6 1 (0.38%) Java
6 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.38%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (27.59%) Security Cleared
2 55 (21.07%) Degree
3 49 (18.77%) DV Cleared
4 24 (9.20%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.60%) ACCA
5 12 (4.60%) CIMA
5 12 (4.60%) PMI Certification
6 8 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
6 8 (3.07%) PMP
7 3 (1.15%) AAT
7 3 (1.15%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.77%) BC Cleared
8 2 (0.77%) CCIE
8 2 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (0.77%) HNC
8 2 (0.77%) HND
8 2 (0.77%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.38%) MCSE
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.38%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (20.69%) PMO
2 19 (7.28%) Data Quality
3 10 (3.83%) QA
4 8 (3.07%) GDPR
5 5 (1.92%) SLA
6 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.77%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.38%) COSHH
System Software
1 1 (0.38%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.38%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (0.77%) Ansible
2 1 (0.38%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.38%) SCCM
Vendors
1 176 (67.43%) Microsoft
2 31 (11.88%) SAP
3 20 (7.66%) Oracle
4 16 (6.13%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.68%) Cisco
6 6 (2.30%) Baan
6 6 (2.30%) Workday
7 5 (1.92%) Google
8 4 (1.53%) IBM
9 3 (1.15%) ESRI
9 3 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.77%) Adobe
10 2 (0.77%) BT
10 2 (0.77%) F5
10 2 (0.77%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.77%) IFS
10 2 (0.77%) Juniper
10 2 (0.77%) Openreach
11 1 (0.38%) Facebook
11 1 (0.38%) HubSpot