Microsoft Excel Job Trends in London

Microsoft Excel
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 83 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 -12 +37
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 480 582 823
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.17% 3.86% 3.87%
As % of the Applications category 45.11% 34.83% 45.00%
Number of salaries quoted 340 224 493
10th Percentile £32,010 £31,250 £29,307
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,750
England median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -12.28%

All Software Application Skills
London

Microsoft Excel falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring software application skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,064 1,671 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.03% 11.07% 8.59%
Number of salaries quoted 619 575 1,265
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £36,125 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £86,500 £88,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -16.67%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in London

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in London over the 6 months to 9 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in London

Microsoft Excel
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the London region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -7 107 £52,500 +2.44% 50
West London +10 19 £51,750 -17.20% 17
South London +22 15 £45,000 +38.46% 11
East London -1 10 £40,000 -36.00% 11
North London +6 1 £34,500 -50.71% 2
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 46 (9.58%) SharePoint
2 16 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (2.50%) Skype for Business
4 8 (1.67%) SAS
5 6 (1.25%) CMS
6 3 (0.63%) WordPress
7 2 (0.42%) Confluence
8 1 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 166 (34.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 132 (27.50%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (3.75%) MS Visio
4 13 (2.71%) Photoshop
5 9 (1.88%) Adobe Premiere
6 8 (1.67%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (1.25%) InDesign
8 3 (0.63%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.63%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.63%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
9 2 (0.42%) SPSS
9 2 (0.42%) Stata
10 1 (0.21%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) Salesforce CRM
2 5 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 4 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.63%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (0.63%) Yoast SEO
5 2 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
5 2 (0.42%) Relativity
5 2 (0.42%) Towers Watson Igloo
5 2 (0.42%) Visualfiles
6 1 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Pegasus Opera
6 1 (0.21%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.21%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.21%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 164 (34.17%) Power Platform
2 55 (11.46%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (9.38%) Azure
4 43 (8.96%) SaaS
5 20 (4.17%) OneDrive
6 13 (2.71%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (2.71%) Power Automate
7 11 (2.29%) Entra ID
8 10 (2.08%) PowerApps
9 9 (1.88%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
10 8 (1.67%) AWS
10 8 (1.67%) Azure AI
11 6 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
11 6 (1.25%) GCP
12 5 (1.04%) Snowflake
13 3 (0.63%) Asana
13 3 (0.63%) Intacct
13 3 (0.63%) Miro
13 3 (0.63%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (3.54%) WebEx
2 15 (3.13%) Unified Communications
3 12 (2.50%) Skype
4 6 (1.25%) DHCP
4 6 (1.25%) Wireless
5 5 (1.04%) DNS
6 4 (0.83%) Intranet
7 3 (0.63%) Network Security
8 2 (0.42%) LAN
8 2 (0.42%) WAN
8 2 (0.42%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.21%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (0.21%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (32.92%) Power BI
2 67 (13.96%) Tableau
3 24 (5.00%) Data Mining
4 20 (4.17%) SQL Server
5 16 (3.33%) Power Query
6 15 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (2.71%) Big Data
7 13 (2.71%) Qlik Sense
8 11 (2.29%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.46%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (1.25%) GIS
10 6 (1.25%) Looker
11 5 (1.04%) BigQuery
11 5 (1.04%) Metadata
11 5 (1.04%) QlikView
11 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 3 (0.63%) BusinessObjects
12 3 (0.63%) KNIME
12 3 (0.63%) SQLite
12 3 (0.63%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 20 (4.17%) JIRA
2 3 (0.63%) Git
3 2 (0.42%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 226 (47.08%) Finance
2 192 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 161 (33.54%) Analytical Skills
4 78 (16.25%) Marketing
5 61 (12.71%) Legal
6 57 (11.88%) Organisational Skills
7 54 (11.25%) Law
8 28 (5.83%) Banking
9 27 (5.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 25 (5.21%) German Language
11 24 (5.00%) French Language
12 22 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (4.17%) Front Office
13 20 (4.17%) Retail
14 19 (3.96%) Dutch Language
14 19 (3.96%) Telecoms
15 17 (3.54%) Advertising
16 14 (2.92%) Billing
16 14 (2.92%) Financial Institution
16 14 (2.92%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 155 (32.29%) Analyst
2 82 (17.08%) Data Analyst
3 49 (10.21%) Senior
4 43 (8.96%) Support Analyst
5 29 (6.04%) Junior
6 25 (5.21%) Accountant
7 22 (4.58%) Support Specialist
7 22 (4.58%) Trainee
8 20 (4.17%) IT Support
8 20 (4.17%) Lead
8 20 (4.17%) Trainee Analyst
8 20 (4.17%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 19 (3.96%) Junior Analyst
10 18 (3.75%) Administrator
11 17 (3.54%) Senior Analyst
12 16 (3.33%) Service Manager
13 15 (3.13%) Data Insight Analyst
13 15 (3.13%) Insight Analyst
13 15 (3.13%) IT Analyst
13 15 (3.13%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.04%) EDI
2 3 (0.63%) .NET
2 3 (0.63%) FreeMarker
2 3 (0.63%) PySpark
2 3 (0.63%) YAML
3 2 (0.42%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (0.42%) Middleware
3 2 (0.42%) OAuth
3 2 (0.42%) OpenID
3 2 (0.42%) Unity (Game Engine)
3 2 (0.42%) Unreal Engine
4 1 (0.21%) Great Expectations
4 1 (0.21%) HTML
4 1 (0.21%) MFC
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.21%) Pandas
4 1 (0.21%) Plotly
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.21%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 32 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
2 29 (6.04%) Self-Motivation
3 28 (5.83%) Onboarding
4 14 (2.92%) Social Media
5 13 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 9 (1.88%) Social Network
7 8 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.46%) Derivative
8 7 (1.46%) Reference Data
8 7 (1.46%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.04%) CCTV
9 5 (1.04%) Credit Risk
9 5 (1.04%) PMI
10 4 (0.83%) Data Structures
10 4 (0.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.83%) Reinsurance
10 4 (0.83%) Web Conferencing
11 3 (0.63%) Cloud Native
11 3 (0.63%) CMDB
11 3 (0.63%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 43 (8.96%) Windows
2 13 (2.71%) Windows 10
3 9 (1.88%) Linux
4 7 (1.46%) Apple iOS
4 7 (1.46%) Unix
5 4 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (35.63%) Business Intelligence
2 108 (22.50%) Analytics
3 105 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
4 100 (20.83%) Project Management
5 95 (19.79%) Data Analysis
6 79 (16.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (14.17%) Decision-Making
8 61 (12.71%) ITIL
9 57 (11.88%) Process Improvement
9 57 (11.88%) Visualisation
10 55 (11.46%) AI
11 49 (10.21%) Data Analytics
12 48 (10.00%) Project Delivery
13 46 (9.58%) Stakeholder Management
14 45 (9.38%) Agile
15 43 (8.96%) Information Security
16 39 (8.13%) Customer Service
16 39 (8.13%) Mentoring
17 38 (7.92%) Actionable Insight
17 38 (7.92%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 158 (32.92%) SQL
2 95 (19.79%) Python
3 16 (3.33%) VBA
4 15 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 13 (2.71%) R
6 11 (2.29%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 9 (1.88%) PowerShell
8 4 (0.83%) C#
8 4 (0.83%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.63%) VB
10 2 (0.42%) Bash
10 2 (0.42%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.21%) ABAP
11 1 (0.21%) C++
11 1 (0.21%) Java
11 1 (0.21%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 132 (27.50%) Degree
2 32 (6.67%) ACCA
3 27 (5.63%) Master's Degree
4 20 (4.17%) CIMA
5 19 (3.96%) PMI Certification
6 15 (3.13%) PMP
7 13 (2.71%) A+ Certification
7 13 (2.71%) CISSP
8 11 (2.29%) CFA
9 10 (2.08%) CISA
10 8 (1.67%) Azure Certification
10 8 (1.67%) CISM
11 7 (1.46%) MBA
12 5 (1.04%) ISACA
12 5 (1.04%) SANS
13 4 (0.83%) AAT
13 4 (0.83%) CRISC
13 4 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 4 (0.83%) Security Cleared
14 3 (0.63%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 36 (7.50%) QA
3 32 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (3.96%) PMO
5 13 (2.71%) GDPR
6 10 (2.08%) GAAP
7 9 (1.88%) IFRS
7 9 (1.88%) ISO 9001
8 8 (1.67%) GRC
8 8 (1.67%) NIST
9 7 (1.46%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.46%) SLA
10 5 (1.04%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.21%) COBIT
12 1 (0.21%) FATCA
12 1 (0.21%) ISO 14001
12 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (5.63%) Active Directory
2 3 (0.63%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (1.25%) RSA Archer
2 6 (1.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (1.04%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 4 (0.83%) Grafana
4 4 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.42%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.42%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.42%) Terraform
6 1 (0.21%) Control-M
6 1 (0.21%) SCCM
Vendors
1 225 (46.88%) Microsoft
2 23 (4.79%) Salesforce
3 19 (3.96%) Adobe
3 19 (3.96%) SAP
4 18 (3.75%) ServiceNow
5 16 (3.33%) Cisco
6 15 (3.13%) Oracle
7 12 (2.50%) Polycom
8 10 (2.08%) Xero
9 9 (1.88%) Databricks
9 9 (1.88%) Google
10 8 (1.67%) Apple
11 7 (1.46%) Sage
11 7 (1.46%) VMware
11 7 (1.46%) YouTube
12 6 (1.25%) HubSpot
13 5 (1.04%) Atlassian
13 5 (1.04%) JD Edwards
14 4 (0.83%) Epicor
14 4 (0.83%) Intapp