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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 58 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 232 112 176
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.66% 3.45% 3.08%
As % of the Applications category 55.11% 44.27% 44.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 47 85
10th Percentile £223 £148 £114
25th Percentile £305 £153 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £295 £300
Median % change year-on-year +50.42% -1.67% -29.41%
75th Percentile £543 £431 £465
90th Percentile £592 £513 £538
England median daily rate £425 £402 £423
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.11% -5.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 33
10th Percentile £13.31 £13.87 £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 £15.44 £36.75
90th Percentile £37.02 £23.51 £45.00
England median hourly rate £19.03 £17.45 £15.00
% change year-on-year +9.05% +16.33% -27.85%

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 421 253 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 6.64% 7.78% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 233 131 195
10th Percentile £223 £150 £147
25th Percentile £325 £188 £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £386 £360
Median % change year-on-year +23.06% +7.22% -6.74%
75th Percentile £543 £494 £478
90th Percentile £594 £600 £621
England median daily rate £450 £425 £400
% change year-on-year +5.88% +6.25% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 53 80
10th Percentile £12.29 £13.57 £11.71
25th Percentile £13.18 £14.20 £12.32
Median hourly rate £21.00 £15.50 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -12.43% -29.20%
75th Percentile £37.00 £32.31 £27.28
90th Percentile £61.25 £47.26 £45.61
England median hourly rate £22.68 £25.01 £16.23
% change year-on-year -9.30% +54.07% -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 4 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 4 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 4 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 -8 106 £492 +66.69% 65
Berkshire +2 79 £507 +45.97% 34
Hampshire -6 51 £505 +39.31% 31
Surrey +6 44 £438 +12.90% 23
West Sussex +1 24 £223 +31.18% 12
Buckinghamshire -30 20 £400 +177.78% 18
Oxfordshire -24 7 £400 +28.00% 16
Sussex - 4 £275 - 3
Kent -2 1 - - 11
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 (15.95%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.72%) Confluence
3 3 (1.29%) CMS
4 1 (0.43%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.43%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle Service Bus
4 1 (0.43%) Smallworld
4 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
Applications
1 58 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (20.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 20 (8.62%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (6.03%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.86%) 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 (3.88%) iTrent
2 5 (2.16%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.72%) SAP Business One
3 4 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (1.29%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.86%) 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 57 (24.57%) Power Platform
2 17 (7.33%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (5.60%) Azure
4 11 (4.74%) OCI
5 9 (3.88%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (2.16%) OneDrive
7 5 (2.16%) Power Automate
8 4 (1.72%) AWS
8 4 (1.72%) SaaS
9 3 (1.29%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.86%) Google Analytics
10 2 (0.86%) Google Sheets
11 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Cloud
11 1 (0.43%) GCP
11 1 (0.43%) Google Docs
11 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.43%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.16%) WAN
2 4 (1.72%) BGP
2 4 (1.72%) MPLS
2 4 (1.72%) RSVP
3 3 (1.29%) Firewall
3 3 (1.29%) Internet
3 3 (1.29%) SNMP
3 3 (1.29%) TACACS
3 3 (1.29%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.29%) Wireless
4 2 (0.86%) LAN
4 2 (0.86%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.43%) DWDM
5 1 (0.43%) EIGRP
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%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (24.14%) Power BI
2 9 (3.88%) Oracle Reports
2 9 (3.88%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.45%) Tableau
4 7 (3.02%) Metadata
5 2 (0.86%) GIS
5 2 (0.86%) Power Query
5 2 (0.86%) 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%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 10g
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (0.43%) PowerPivot
6 1 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.43%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 25 (10.78%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.43%) Burp Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Metasploit
General
1 112 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 80 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (20.26%) Finance
4 33 (14.22%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
6 12 (5.17%) Public Sector
7 9 (3.88%) Marketing
8 7 (3.02%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.16%) Arabic Language
9 5 (2.16%) French Language
10 4 (1.72%) Advertising
10 4 (1.72%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.72%) Legal
11 3 (1.29%) Retail
12 2 (0.86%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.86%) Automotive
12 2 (0.86%) Aviation
12 2 (0.86%) Law
12 2 (0.86%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 85 (36.64%) Analyst
2 30 (12.93%) Data Analyst
3 24 (10.34%) Consultant
4 20 (8.62%) Implementation Consultant
5 18 (7.76%) Administrator
5 18 (7.76%) IT Analyst
6 13 (5.60%) Business Analyst
7 9 (3.88%) Data Administrator
7 9 (3.88%) Oracle Analyst
7 9 (3.88%) Payroll Consultant
8 8 (3.45%) HR Analyst
8 8 (3.45%) Test Analyst
9 7 (3.02%) Business IT Analyst
9 7 (3.02%) Coordinator
9 7 (3.02%) HR Data Analyst
9 7 (3.02%) IT Business Analyst
9 7 (3.02%) IT Support
9 7 (3.02%) Lead
9 7 (3.02%) PMO Analyst
9 7 (3.02%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.62%) XML
2 8 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (2.16%) EDI
4 3 (1.29%) CSS
4 3 (1.29%) NETCONF
4 3 (1.29%) OpenConfig
4 3 (1.29%) RESTCONF
4 3 (1.29%) YANG
5 1 (0.43%) ADO
5 1 (0.43%) HTML
5 1 (0.43%) OLE
5 1 (0.43%) SOAP
5 1 (0.43%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.19%) Onboarding
2 15 (6.47%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.02%) Data Structures
3 7 (3.02%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.16%) Linux Command Line
4 5 (2.16%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.29%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.29%) FMCG
6 3 (1.29%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.29%) Taxonomies
7 2 (0.86%) CMDB
7 2 (0.86%) Housing Association
7 2 (0.86%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.43%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.43%) iSeries
8 1 (0.43%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.43%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.43%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (6.03%) Windows
2 6 (2.59%) 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 54 (23.28%) Business Intelligence
2 49 (21.12%) Decision-Making
2 49 (21.12%) Problem-Solving
3 36 (15.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 34 (14.66%) Project Management
5 33 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 32 (13.79%) Data Analysis
7 29 (12.50%) Project Delivery
8 27 (11.64%) Agile
8 27 (11.64%) Process Improvement
9 23 (9.91%) Validation
10 21 (9.05%) Analytics
10 21 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 19 (8.19%) Migration
12 18 (7.76%) Actionable Insight
13 17 (7.33%) Customer Service
13 17 (7.33%) Dashboard Development
13 17 (7.33%) Service Delivery
14 16 (6.90%) Visualisation
15 14 (6.03%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 49 (21.12%) SQL
2 21 (9.05%) T-SQL
3 10 (4.31%) Python
4 5 (2.16%) VBA
5 4 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (0.86%) PL/SQL
6 2 (0.86%) R
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) Google Apps Script
7 1 (0.43%) Java
7 1 (0.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (21.12%) Security Cleared
2 39 (16.81%) Degree
3 30 (12.93%) SC Cleared
4 20 (8.62%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.60%) ACCA
6 11 (4.74%) CIMA
7 8 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
7 8 (3.45%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.45%) PMP
8 4 (1.72%) DBS Check
9 3 (1.29%) CCIE
9 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (1.29%) JNCIE
10 2 (0.86%) BC Cleared
10 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.43%) CHECK Team Member
11 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
11 1 (0.43%) Cyber Scheme
11 1 (0.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.43%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.38%) PMO
2 22 (9.48%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.45%) SLA
4 7 (3.02%) GDPR
5 6 (2.59%) QA
6 4 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.29%) GRC
7 3 (1.29%) ISO 22301
7 3 (1.29%) ISO 31000
7 3 (1.29%) NIST
8 2 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.43%) GMP
9 1 (0.43%) P3O
9 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Ansible
1 3 (1.29%) SCCM
2 1 (0.43%) Data Guard
2 1 (0.43%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.43%) Nmap
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (0.43%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 87 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 30 (12.93%) Oracle
3 21 (9.05%) SAP
4 15 (6.47%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.31%) Workday
6 6 (2.59%) Cisco
6 6 (2.59%) Google
7 5 (2.16%) Baan
8 4 (1.72%) F5
8 4 (1.72%) Remedy
8 4 (1.72%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 3 (1.29%) Juniper
10 2 (0.86%) 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%) Planview