Spreadsheet Contract Job Trends

Spreadsheets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Spreadsheet skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 430 383
Rank change year-on-year -25 -47 +150
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 174 96 210
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.33% 0.49%
As % of the Applications category 6.18% 3.95% 6.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 63 73
10th Percentile £263 £143 £201
25th Percentile £312 £241 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £423
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% +0.59% -0.59%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £494
90th Percentile £561 £670 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £283 £345
% change year-on-year +45.13% -18.12% -9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 21 66
10th Percentile £16.48 £14.00 £11.71
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.61 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.91 £22.04 £15.79
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +39.58% -54.23%
75th Percentile £28.75 £28.99 £26.39
90th Percentile £40.75 £60.00 £50.89
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.50 £27.13 £15.79
% change year-on-year -31.80% +71.79% -63.28%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Spreadsheet 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,817 2,432 3,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.93% 8.33% 7.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,645 1,430 1,701
10th Percentile £250 £188 £163
25th Percentile £344 £263 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £565 £540 £538
90th Percentile £654 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £434 £375 £350
% change year-on-year +15.73% +7.14% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 252 628
10th Percentile £13.39 £14.20 £11.50
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.62 £14.00
Median hourly rate £20.35 £22.70 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% +29.71% -48.91%
75th Percentile £34.54 £43.94 £39.19
90th Percentile £72.60 £73.38 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.00 £22.25 £16.06
% change year-on-year -10.11% +38.54% -48.64%

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Spreadsheet relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Spreadsheet job vacancy trend in the UK

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 12 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK over the 6 months to 12 May 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
England -44 164 £410 -4.09% 101
UK excluding London -42 120 £410 +45.13% 73
East of England +19 55 £450 +221.43% 3
London -46 44 £350 -28.21% 45
North of England -60 25 £375 -25.74% 25
Work from Home -52 22 £416 -17.72% 41
Midlands -44 17 £420 -20.00% 12
Yorkshire -41 14 £275 +57.32% 10
South West -25 13 £425 +50.44% 9
East Midlands - 11 £450 - 3
North West -46 8 £393 -22.18% 13
South East -55 8 £425 +203.57% 20
West Midlands -64 6 £390 -25.71% 9
North East - 3 £375 - 2
Scotland -9 1 £275 -35.29% 3
Wales -14 1 £213 +44.85% 2

Spreadsheet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 6 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.72%) ArcGIS
4 2 (1.15%) CMS
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) Confluence
5 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 61 (35.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (4.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (4.02%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg TOMS
2 1 (0.57%) IntelliMatch
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (0.57%) Primavera
2 1 (0.57%) SAP BPC
2 1 (0.57%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.57%) SAP PLM
2 1 (0.57%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.57%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (7.47%) Power Platform
2 7 (4.02%) Azure
3 6 (3.45%) Google Sheets
4 5 (2.87%) AWS
4 5 (2.87%) Google Workspace
4 5 (2.87%) SaaS
5 4 (2.30%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.72%) dbt
6 3 (1.72%) Google Docs
7 2 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.15%) GCP
7 2 (1.15%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.57%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.57%) OCI
8 1 (0.57%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.57%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.57%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.57%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.15%) Internet
2 1 (0.57%) LAN
2 1 (0.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.90%) Power BI
2 6 (3.45%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (2.30%) Star Schema
4 3 (1.72%) Delta Lake
4 3 (1.72%) GIS
4 3 (1.72%) Metadata
4 3 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (1.72%) Spatial Data
4 3 (1.72%) Tableau
5 2 (1.15%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 2 (1.15%) Power Query
5 2 (1.15%) QlikView
5 2 (1.15%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.57%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.57%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.57%) Looker
6 1 (0.57%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (4.60%) JIRA
2 2 (1.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.57%) GCC
General
1 96 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 45 (25.86%) Finance
3 27 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (8.05%) Public Sector
6 7 (4.02%) Legal
7 4 (2.30%) Local Government
8 3 (1.72%) Billing
8 3 (1.72%) Law
8 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.72%) Marketing
9 2 (1.15%) Front Office
10 1 (0.57%) Back Office
10 1 (0.57%) Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Games
10 1 (0.57%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.57%) Military
10 1 (0.57%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.57%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (17.24%) Analyst
2 28 (16.09%) Administrator
2 28 (16.09%) IT Support
3 10 (5.75%) Developer
4 9 (5.17%) Data Analyst
4 9 (5.17%) Project Officer
5 8 (4.60%) Data Administrator
5 8 (4.60%) Desktop Support
5 8 (4.60%) IT Administrator
6 7 (4.02%) Lead
7 6 (3.45%) Senior
7 6 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (2.87%) Coordinator
8 5 (2.87%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (2.87%) Project Control Officer
8 5 (2.87%) Support Officer
9 4 (2.30%) Data Engineer
9 4 (2.30%) Financial Controller
9 4 (2.30%) Project Coordinator
9 4 (2.30%) Project Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.45%) Oracle Fusion
1 6 (3.45%) REST
2 4 (2.30%) HTML
3 3 (1.72%) CSS
4 2 (1.15%) Matplotlib
4 2 (1.15%) Pandas
4 2 (1.15%) SOAP
5 1 (0.57%) Laravel
5 1 (0.57%) NumPy
5 1 (0.57%) PySpark
5 1 (0.57%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.57%) Seaborn
5 1 (0.57%) Symfony
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.17%) Onboarding
2 8 (4.60%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.60%) Virtual Team
3 6 (3.45%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.87%) Data Structures
5 4 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.72%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.72%) Equities
6 3 (1.72%) Freedom of Information
6 3 (1.72%) NHS
7 2 (1.15%) EPoS
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.15%) Life Science
7 2 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.57%) Mobile Games
8 1 (0.57%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.87%) Windows
2 2 (1.15%) Linux
2 2 (1.15%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.57%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.57%) Ubuntu
3 1 (0.57%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (22.99%) Time Management
2 32 (18.39%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (17.82%) Migration
4 21 (12.07%) Validation
5 20 (11.49%) Data Analysis
6 19 (10.92%) Decision-Making
7 18 (10.34%) Data Migration
7 18 (10.34%) Project Management
8 16 (9.20%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (8.62%) Agile
9 15 (8.62%) Process Improvement
10 14 (8.05%) Analytics
10 14 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (7.47%) Data Governance
11 13 (7.47%) Data Protection
12 12 (6.90%) Data Management
13 11 (6.32%) Collaborative Working
13 11 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (5.75%) Workflow
15 9 (5.17%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.79%) SQL
2 20 (11.49%) Python
3 7 (4.02%) VBA
4 3 (1.72%) Java
4 3 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (1.15%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.57%) PHP
6 1 (0.57%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.57%) R
Qualifications
1 21 (12.07%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.05%) SC Cleared
3 13 (7.47%) Degree
4 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.30%) ACCA
5 4 (2.30%) CIMA
6 2 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.15%) PMP
7 1 (0.57%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.57%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.57%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.57%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.11%) SLA
2 19 (10.92%) Data Quality
3 9 (5.17%) PMO
4 4 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.72%) GDPR
5 3 (1.72%) QA
6 2 (1.15%) IFRS
7 1 (0.57%) GRC
7 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.57%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 63 (36.21%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.47%) SAP
3 12 (6.90%) Oracle
4 7 (4.02%) Google
5 6 (3.45%) Databricks
6 4 (2.30%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.72%) ServiceNow
8 2 (1.15%) RightScale
8 2 (1.15%) Yardi
9 1 (0.57%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.57%) Anaplan
9 1 (0.57%) Ariba
9 1 (0.57%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.57%) Dataiku
9 1 (0.57%) Dell
9 1 (0.57%) FIS
9 1 (0.57%) Informatica
9 1 (0.57%) NEC
9 1 (0.57%) Sage
9 1 (0.57%) Splunk