Microsoft Excel Contract Job Trends in the South West

Microsoft Excel
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 69 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 73 59 68
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 2.92% 3.06% 2.28%
As % of the Applications category 32.59% 35.54% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 28
10th Percentile £225 £144 £131
25th Percentile £225 £208 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £330 £428
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -22.81% -5.00%
75th Percentile £475 £550 £582
90th Percentile £538 £638 £750
England median daily rate £450 £415 £447
% change year-on-year +8.43% -7.05% +1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 2 31
10th Percentile £6.00 £27.80 £14.00
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.88 £14.54
Median hourly rate £15.60 £37.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.84% +42.31% -60.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £43.38 £48.72
90th Percentile £119.00 £46.60 -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £17.00 £17.63
% change year-on-year +5.88% -3.57% -21.92%

All Software Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 224 166 222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 8.95% 8.62% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 110 116
10th Percentile £209 £149 £153
25th Percentile £263 £213 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £325 £450
Median % change year-on-year +65.38% -27.78% -2.44%
75th Percentile £738 £547 £582
90th Percentile - £689 £675
England median daily rate £450 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +10.43% +1.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 7 47
10th Percentile £12.82 £28.90 £14.00
25th Percentile £15.60 £38.63 £14.54
Median hourly rate £63.00 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +55.56% -30.77%
75th Percentile £84.38 £82.50 £48.72
90th Percentile £134.70 £90.00 £51.40
England median hourly rate £19.91 £25.65 £22.14
% change year-on-year -22.36% +15.84% -32.92%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the South West

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South West over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South West

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Microsoft Excel.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South West over the 6 months to 20 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South West

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 20 January 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
Bristol -3 33 £363 +6.62% 11
Somerset +12 20 £275 -56.00% 11
Gloucestershire - 9 £431 - 14
Wiltshire -24 5 £441 +76.50% 8
Dorset +3 3 - - 11
Devon +5 2 £290 -10.77% 11
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 15 (20.55%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.37%) Confluence
3 1 (1.37%) Moodle
Applications
1 16 (21.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 12 (16.44%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (13.70%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (5.48%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (4.11%) MS Visio
6 2 (2.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (1.37%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (1.37%) InDesign
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Cerner Millennium
1 1 (1.37%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (16.44%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.48%) Azure
4 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.11%) SaaS
4 3 (4.11%) ShareGate
5 2 (2.74%) Figma
6 1 (1.37%) AWS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.18%) PABX
2 3 (4.11%) Kerberos
2 3 (4.11%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (2.74%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.37%) DNS
4 1 (1.37%) LAN
4 1 (1.37%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) Power BI
2 4 (5.48%) Metadata
3 2 (2.74%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (16.44%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.37%) Git
2 1 (1.37%) GitLab
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) Maven
2 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
General
1 33 (45.21%) Social Skills
2 18 (24.66%) Finance
3 15 (20.55%) Organisational Skills
4 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (16.44%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (13.70%) Aerospace
7 8 (10.96%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.74%) Legal
9 1 (1.37%) Military
9 1 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.37%) Police
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (27.40%) Analyst
2 14 (19.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Desktop Support
3 13 (17.81%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 13 (17.81%) Support Engineer
4 9 (12.33%) Administrator
5 7 (9.59%) IT Engineer
5 7 (9.59%) IT Support
5 7 (9.59%) IT Support Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) Data Analyst
6 6 (8.22%) Senior
7 5 (6.85%) Coordinator
7 5 (6.85%) Data Administrator
7 5 (6.85%) Project Coordinator
7 5 (6.85%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Business Analyst
8 4 (5.48%) Project Officer
8 4 (5.48%) Project Support Coordinator
9 3 (4.11%) Migration Analyst
9 3 (4.11%) Pricing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.11%) LDAP
1 3 (4.11%) OAuth
1 3 (4.11%) OpenID
1 3 (4.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 3 (4.11%) SAML
2 1 (1.37%) Bootstrap
2 1 (1.37%) CSS
2 1 (1.37%) CSS3
2 1 (1.37%) HTML
2 1 (1.37%) HTML5
2 1 (1.37%) HTML5 Canvas
2 1 (1.37%) JAX-RS
2 1 (1.37%) LESS
2 1 (1.37%) REST
2 1 (1.37%) Sass
2 1 (1.37%) Spring
2 1 (1.37%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Self-Motivation
1 14 (19.18%) Smartphone
2 7 (9.59%) Onboarding
3 3 (4.11%) AS400
3 3 (4.11%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.74%) NHS
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.37%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (23.29%) Windows
2 8 (10.96%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.11%) Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (4.11%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.37%) Android
4 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.66%) Project Management
2 17 (23.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 12 (16.44%) Agile
3 12 (16.44%) Business Intelligence
4 9 (12.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (12.33%) Data Analysis
4 9 (12.33%) Decision-Making
4 9 (12.33%) Project Planning
4 9 (12.33%) Service Delivery
5 8 (10.96%) Customer Service
5 8 (10.96%) ERP
5 8 (10.96%) Time Management
6 7 (9.59%) Migration
6 7 (9.59%) PRINCE2
6 7 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (8.22%) Data Transformation
8 5 (6.85%) Patch Management
8 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
8 5 (6.85%) Project Governance
8 5 (6.85%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.11%) PowerShell
1 3 (4.11%) SQL
2 1 (1.37%) Java
2 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.37%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (38.36%) Security Cleared
2 25 (34.25%) SC Cleared
3 9 (12.33%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) APMP
4 2 (2.74%) CCNP
4 2 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.74%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (2.74%) JNCIP
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) ECDL
5 1 (1.37%) HND
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.37%) Postgraduate
5 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) PMO
2 11 (15.07%) GDPR
3 7 (9.59%) SLA
4 5 (6.85%) Accessibility
4 5 (6.85%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (4.11%) Kubernetes
1 3 (4.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (4.11%) SCCM
1 3 (4.11%) SCOM
2 2 (2.74%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (1.37%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 26 (35.62%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) ServiceNow
3 4 (5.48%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) SAP
4 3 (4.11%) Adobe
4 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) Cerner
5 2 (2.74%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Progress