Spreadsheet Contracts

Spreadsheets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Spreadsheet skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Spreadsheet over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 422 390 550
Rank change year-on-year -32 +160 +29
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 97 213 163
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.33% 0.49% 0.27%
As % of the Applications category 4.00% 6.18% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 76 99
10th Percentile £143 £201 £167
25th Percentile £241 £308 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £424 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% -0.29% +0.59%
75th Percentile £538 £525 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £640
UK excluding London median daily rate £283 £340 £381
% change year-on-year -16.91% -10.64% +32.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 68 17
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.71 £13.42
25th Percentile £18.32 £13.00 £13.91
Median hourly rate £24.58 £15.79 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.68% -29.82% +39.75%
75th Percentile £28.99 £29.48 £49.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £50.13 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £15.79 £24.25
% change year-on-year +71.79% -34.89% +67.24%

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 2,424 3,448 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.29% 7.91% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,446 1,743 2,896
10th Percentile £188 £163 £188
25th Percentile £261 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -0.76%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £684
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £350 £391
% change year-on-year +7.14% -10.54% +4.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 635 264
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.57 £13.94
25th Percentile £15.62 £14.00 £18.48
Median hourly rate £23.59 £17.80 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% -51.23% +69.77%
75th Percentile £43.75 £39.92 £53.45
90th Percentile £70.00 £57.50 £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £32.30
% change year-on-year +40.10% -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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 2025. 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 -49 82 £475 +12.43% 195
UK excluding London -25 57 £283 -16.91% 100
London +4 36 £525 +8.02% 97
Work from Home +15 28 £515 +21.89% 103
North of England +24 19 £505 +80.36% 31
North West +11 18 £505 +29.49% 19
Scotland +13 9 £425 +21.43% 2
South East +26 7 £140 -58.82% 22
Midlands +9 7 £525 +64.06% 14
South West +9 6 £283 +5.98% 15
West Midlands +6 6 £525 +65.35% 6
East of England +17 5 £140 -65.00% 15
Wales +8 4 £147 - 5
Yorkshire +11 1 £175 +2.82% 11
East Midlands +6 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 7 (7.22%) Confluence
2 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 29 (29.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Primavera
1 6 (6.19%) SAP PS
2 3 (3.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.12%) Power Platform
2 3 (3.09%) Google Analytics
2 3 (3.09%) Google Data Studio
3 1 (1.03%) AWS
3 1 (1.03%) Azure
3 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.03%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (1.03%) Internet
1 1 (1.03%) RTP
1 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.12%) Power BI
1 4 (4.12%) Tableau
2 1 (1.03%) EDMS
2 1 (1.03%) EDRMS
2 1 (1.03%) GIS
2 1 (1.03%) MS Access
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.03%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Git
General
1 42 (43.30%) Social Skills
2 33 (34.02%) Finance
3 12 (12.37%) Banking
4 11 (11.34%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (7.22%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) General Ledger
6 6 (6.19%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.15%) Local Government
8 4 (4.12%) Aerospace
8 4 (4.12%) Front Office
9 2 (2.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (2.06%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Back Office
10 1 (1.03%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (1.03%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.03%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (31.96%) Analyst
2 8 (8.25%) Data Analyst
2 8 (8.25%) Senior
3 6 (6.19%) Business Analyst
3 6 (6.19%) Change Manager
3 6 (6.19%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (5.15%) Administrator
4 5 (5.15%) Developer
4 5 (5.15%) IT Analyst
4 5 (5.15%) PMO Analyst
4 5 (5.15%) Project Planner
4 5 (5.15%) Support Specialist
4 5 (5.15%) Technical Specialist
4 5 (5.15%) Technical Support
4 5 (5.15%) Technical Support Specialist
5 4 (4.12%) Deployment Engineer
5 4 (4.12%) Operational Change Manager
5 4 (4.12%) Project Controller
5 4 (4.12%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
5 4 (4.12%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.09%) .NET
1 3 (3.09%) .NET Core
2 2 (2.06%) LDAP
3 1 (1.03%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.03%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.03%) Matplotlib
3 1 (1.03%) Pandas
3 1 (1.03%) PySpark
3 1 (1.03%) React
3 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.12%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) EPoS
4 3 (3.09%) Mainframe
5 2 (2.06%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.06%) FMCG
5 2 (2.06%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.03%) CCTV
6 1 (1.03%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.03%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.03%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.68%) Project Management
2 13 (13.40%) Agile
3 12 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (11.34%) Programme Management
4 11 (11.34%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (10.31%) Decision-Making
6 9 (9.28%) Data Analysis
6 9 (9.28%) Time Management
7 8 (8.25%) Data Security
7 8 (8.25%) Performance Measurement
7 8 (8.25%) Risk Management
8 7 (7.22%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (7.22%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (7.22%) Coaching
8 7 (7.22%) Critical Path Analysis
8 7 (7.22%) Information Security
8 7 (7.22%) Migration
9 6 (6.19%) Matrix Organization
9 6 (6.19%) Service Management
9 6 (6.19%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (6.19%) Python
1 6 (6.19%) VBA
2 4 (4.12%) SQL
3 2 (2.06%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (19.59%) Security Cleared
2 18 (18.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.15%) FFIEC
4 4 (4.12%) Degree
5 3 (3.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) PMO
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
2 5 (5.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (4.12%) QA
4 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.06%) IFRS
4 2 (2.06%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.03%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.03%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.03%) NCSC
5 1 (1.03%) NIST
5 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.03%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.03%) Terminal Server
Vendors
1 26 (26.80%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.28%) SAP
3 4 (4.12%) Google
4 3 (3.09%) Workday
5 2 (2.06%) Ariba
5 2 (2.06%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.06%) Foundry
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle
5 2 (2.06%) Trayport
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe
6 1 (1.03%) Cisco
6 1 (1.03%) Databricks
6 1 (1.03%) ESRI
6 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.03%) QAD
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.03%) Snow