Spreadsheet Contracts with Work from Home Options

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UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 399 493
Rank change year-on-year +112 +94 -101
Contract jobs citing Spreadsheet 60 68 126
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.27% 0.28%
As % of the Applications category 5.23% 4.14% 4.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 40 97
10th Percentile £313 £268 £179
25th Percentile £343 £376 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £473 £403
Median % change year-on-year -10.58% +17.39% +0.63%
75th Percentile £547 £611 £525
90th Percentile £700 £762 £653
UK median daily rate £423 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -0.59% - +17.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 6
10th Percentile £12.84 £46.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £13.31 - £19.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £49.00 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.47% +141.98% +47.27%
75th Percentile £43.75 - £23.06
90th Percentile £51.20 - £37.18
UK median hourly rate £15.79 £26.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -39.27% +79.31% -3.33%

All Software Application Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,147 1,641 2,869
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 7.60% 6.53% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 499 1,126 2,004
10th Percentile £182 £213 £196
25th Percentile £284 £349 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £543
90th Percentile £702 £700 £631
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 135
10th Percentile £12.93 £16.03 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £22.16 £19.75
Median hourly rate £36.05 £45.00 £27.67
Median % change year-on-year -19.90% +62.63% +58.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £52.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £67.00 £68.75 £56.33
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.15% +51.16% +16.72%

Spreadsheet
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spreadsheet as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Spreadsheet trend for jobs with a WFH option

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spreadsheet
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Spreadsheet daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Spreadsheet.

Spreadsheet hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Spreadsheet
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Spreadsheet hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Spreadsheet
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (6.67%) Acrobat
4 4 (6.67%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (1.67%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Primavera
2 4 (6.67%) NEC Housing
2 4 (6.67%) SAP PS
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (1.67%) SAP MM
3 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 3 (5.00%) AWS
3 2 (3.33%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Google Workspace
3 2 (3.33%) SaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) Power BI
2 4 (6.67%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.67%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.67%) Power Query
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
General
1 30 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 20 (33.33%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.67%) Banking
5 4 (6.67%) Billing
5 4 (6.67%) Multimedia
5 4 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.67%) Publishing
6 3 (5.00%) Automotive
6 3 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.33%) Local Government
8 1 (1.67%) Aeronautics
8 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.67%) Electronics
8 1 (1.67%) Environmental Health
8 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Marketing
8 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (18.33%) Analyst
2 7 (11.67%) Senior
3 6 (10.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.67%) Administrator
4 4 (6.67%) Data Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (6.67%) Technical Illustrator
5 3 (5.00%) Change Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Consultant
5 3 (5.00%) Developer
5 3 (5.00%) Project Change Manager
5 3 (5.00%) Project Controller
5 3 (5.00%) Project Planner
6 2 (3.33%) Coordinator
6 2 (3.33%) Finance Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (3.33%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Animation
1 4 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.00%) Infotainment
2 3 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) PMI
4 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.67%) NHS
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (21.67%) Project Management
2 7 (11.67%) Decision-Making
2 7 (11.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (8.33%) Coaching
4 5 (8.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (8.33%) Critical Path Analysis
4 5 (8.33%) Data Analysis
4 5 (8.33%) Performance Management
4 5 (8.33%) Project Planning
4 5 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (6.67%) Batch Processing
5 4 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (6.67%) Desktop Publishing
5 4 (6.67%) Earned Value Management
5 4 (6.67%) Economics
5 4 (6.67%) Performance Measurement
5 4 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 4 (6.67%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.33%) SQL
2 6 (10.00%) VBA
3 4 (6.67%) C#
3 4 (6.67%) C++
3 4 (6.67%) VB.NET
4 2 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 2 (3.33%) Python
5 1 (1.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (25.00%) Degree
2 6 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.33%) PMP
4 2 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (1.67%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.67%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) SLA
3 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GAAP
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 14001
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) SAP
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle
4 4 (6.67%) Adobe
4 4 (6.67%) NEC
4 4 (6.67%) Northgate
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Civica
6 1 (1.67%) Remedy