Spreadsheet Contracts

Spreadsheets
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Spreadsheet skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 394 557 575
Rank change year-on-year +163 +18 -81
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 210 163 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.48% 0.27% 0.32%
As % of the Applications category 6.14% 3.70% 4.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 99 186
10th Percentile £201 £167 £146
25th Percentile £308 £250 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £416
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% +2.10% +15.30%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £640 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £340 £381 £288
% change year-on-year -10.64% +32.35% -19.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 17 33
10th Percentile £11.71 £13.42 £12.01
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.91 £13.00
Median hourly rate £15.79 £22.50 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -29.82% +27.12% +3.36%
75th Percentile £29.48 £49.00 £21.50
90th Percentile £50.13 - £28.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.79 £24.25 £16.10
% change year-on-year -34.89% +50.62% -21.46%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Spreadsheet is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,418 4,408 6,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.89% 7.37% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,731 2,901 4,333
10th Percentile £161 £188 £160
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £563 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £390 £375
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 634 264 438
10th Percentile £11.55 £13.91 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £17.76 £36.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.34% +69.77% +13.16%
75th Percentile £39.92 £53.45 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.75 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £32.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year -50.28% +70.00% -

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Spreadsheet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Spreadsheet.

Daily rate trend for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Spreadsheet.

Hourly rate trend for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Top 15 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +184 196 £423 -0.59% 173
UK excluding London +107 134 £340 -10.64% 134
London +105 67 £486 -5.17% 56
Work from Home +127 63 £423 -10.58% 52
South West +50 39 £267 -34.99% 23
South East +35 24 £340 -27.66% 31
North of England +40 23 £280 -39.46% 39
Midlands +32 22 £320 +8.47% 23
East of England +22 21 £400 +4.99% 8
North West +27 18 £390 -8.24% 25
West Midlands +36 16 £318 +7.63% 17
Scotland +22 5 £350 +55.56% 5
East Midlands +20 5 £391 +38.23% 6
Yorkshire +16 5 £170 -66.00% 12
Wales +16 1 - - 7

Spreadsheet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 9 (4.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 83 (39.52%) Microsoft Excel
2 65 (30.95%) Microsoft Office
3 21 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (8.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.90%) Acrobat
5 4 (1.90%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.48%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (4.76%) Primavera
2 7 (3.33%) NEC Housing
3 4 (1.90%) SAP PS
4 2 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.95%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.48%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.48%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 8 (3.81%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (2.86%) Azure
3 6 (2.86%) Google Workspace
4 5 (2.38%) SaaS
5 4 (1.90%) AWS
6 3 (1.43%) Snowflake
7 2 (0.95%) Google Docs
7 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (0.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.48%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.48%) Smartsheet
8 1 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.90%) Internet
2 1 (0.48%) Intranet
2 1 (0.48%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (6.19%) Power BI
2 7 (3.33%) Oracle Database
3 6 (2.86%) Oracle Reports
4 4 (1.90%) SQL Server
5 3 (1.43%) Big Data
6 2 (0.95%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.48%) Power Query
7 1 (0.48%) QlikView
7 1 (0.48%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (10.48%) JIRA
2 1 (0.48%) Oracle Forms
General
1 93 (44.29%) Social Skills
2 61 (29.05%) Finance
3 43 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.81%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 19 (9.05%) Local Government
7 11 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.76%) Banking
9 8 (3.81%) Legal
9 8 (3.81%) Police
10 7 (3.33%) Billing
11 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
12 5 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (2.38%) Publishing
12 5 (2.38%) Retail
13 4 (1.90%) Automotive
13 4 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.90%) Multimedia
13 4 (1.90%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.43%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 48 (22.86%) Analyst
2 24 (11.43%) Lead
3 23 (10.95%) Administrator
4 22 (10.48%) Senior
5 20 (9.52%) Project Leader
6 12 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.24%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (4.76%) Data Analyst
8 10 (4.76%) Project Planner
9 9 (4.29%) Coordinator
10 7 (3.33%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.33%) Performance Analyst
10 7 (3.33%) Technical Engineer
11 6 (2.86%) Developer
12 5 (2.38%) Data Manager
12 5 (2.38%) Project Coordinator
12 5 (2.38%) Senior Manager
12 5 (2.38%) Senior Project Manager
13 4 (1.90%) Change Manager
13 4 (1.90%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.33%) .NET
2 1 (0.48%) Flash
2 1 (0.48%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.86%) Management Information System
2 18 (8.57%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (2.38%) Freedom of Information
4 5 (2.38%) NHS
5 4 (1.90%) Animation
5 4 (1.90%) Infotainment
5 4 (1.90%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.43%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.95%) CMDB
7 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
7 2 (0.95%) PMI
8 1 (0.48%) Derivative
8 1 (0.48%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.48%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.48%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.48%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.48%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.48%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.33%) Windows
2 1 (0.48%) Android
2 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.48%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (25.24%) Project Management
3 32 (15.24%) Agile
4 31 (14.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 29 (13.81%) Project Planning
6 28 (13.33%) Data Management
7 26 (12.38%) PRINCE2
8 22 (10.48%) Project Delivery
8 22 (10.48%) Workshop Facilitation
9 21 (10.00%) Decision-Making
9 21 (10.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 20 (9.52%) Commercial Awareness
10 20 (9.52%) Creative Problem-Solving
11 16 (7.62%) Data Protection
12 14 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
13 13 (6.19%) Migration
13 13 (6.19%) Performance Management
14 12 (5.71%) Data Migration
15 11 (5.24%) Data Analysis
15 11 (5.24%) Data Collection
Programming Languages
1 24 (11.43%) SQL
2 10 (4.76%) VBA
3 7 (3.33%) C#
3 7 (3.33%) C++
3 7 (3.33%) VB.NET
4 6 (2.86%) Python
5 2 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 2 (0.95%) R
6 1 (0.48%) Java
6 1 (0.48%) T-SQL
6 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 38 (18.10%) Security Cleared
2 27 (12.86%) Degree
2 27 (12.86%) DV Cleared
3 21 (10.00%) APMP
4 10 (4.76%) SC Cleared
5 9 (4.29%) DBS Check
6 2 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.95%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.95%) PMP
6 2 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.48%) ECDL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (15.24%) PMO
2 14 (6.67%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.86%) SLA
4 5 (2.38%) GDPR
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 14001
5 3 (1.43%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.95%) QA
7 1 (0.48%) GAAP
7 1 (0.48%) P3O
7 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 100 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 16 (7.62%) Oracle
3 14 (6.67%) SAP
4 10 (4.76%) Google
5 7 (3.33%) NEC
5 7 (3.33%) Northgate
6 4 (1.90%) Adobe
6 4 (1.90%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.95%) Databricks
8 2 (0.95%) Facebook
8 2 (0.95%) Workday
9 1 (0.48%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.48%) Apple
9 1 (0.48%) Civica
9 1 (0.48%) Datix
9 1 (0.48%) Logitech
9 1 (0.48%) Planview
9 1 (0.48%) Remedy
9 1 (0.48%) Samsung