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 28 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 69 45
Rank change year-on-year -47 -24 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 394 501 1,228
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.88% 4.23% 5.21%
As % of the Applications category 39.01% 34.46% 54.48%
Number of salaries quoted 257 285 549
10th Percentile £32,400 £28,898 £29,288
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £54,850
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -2.46% -4.61%
75th Percentile £74,500 £75,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,550 £83,750
England median annual salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -11.11%

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 1,010 1,454 2,254
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 4.82% 12.27% 9.57%
Number of salaries quoted 616 641 1,322
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,625 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,500 £38,500 £34,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,633 £50,000 £48,588
Median % change year-on-year +9.27% +2.91% -11.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £91,875 £91,250 £82,450
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +16.88% -14.44%

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 28 May 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 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -32 87 £60,000 +20.00% 72
West London -19 14 £55,000 -12.00% 18
South London +2 6 £30,000 -28.14% 7
East London -8 6 £55,000 -42.11% 11
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 31 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.78%) Skype for Business
3 4 (1.02%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (0.25%) CMS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 119 (30.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 100 (25.38%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (4.06%) MS Visio
4 10 (2.54%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.76%) AutoCAD
5 3 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.76%) SOLIDWORKS
6 2 (0.51%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.25%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 10 (2.54%) NetSuite
2 8 (2.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (2.03%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (1.52%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.76%) Elite 3E
4 3 (0.76%) Magento
5 1 (0.25%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.25%) FastStats
5 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.25%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.25%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.25%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (30.20%) Power Platform
2 49 (12.44%) Azure
3 45 (11.42%) SaaS
4 33 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
5 19 (4.82%) Azure AI
6 11 (2.79%) OneDrive
7 10 (2.54%) Microsoft Copilot
8 9 (2.28%) AWS
8 9 (2.28%) PowerApps
9 8 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
9 8 (2.03%) Entra ID
9 8 (2.03%) Power Automate
10 7 (1.78%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (1.78%) ChatGPT
11 6 (1.52%) Google Sheets
12 5 (1.27%) GCP
13 3 (0.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (0.76%) Smartsheet
13 3 (0.76%) Snowflake
14 2 (0.51%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.28%) Broadband
2 7 (1.78%) Skype
2 7 (1.78%) Unified Communications
2 7 (1.78%) WebEx
3 5 (1.27%) Firewall
3 5 (1.27%) VPN
4 4 (1.02%) DHCP
4 4 (1.02%) DNS
4 4 (1.02%) LAN
4 4 (1.02%) VLAN
4 4 (1.02%) WAN
4 4 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (0.76%) Intranet
5 3 (0.76%) Network Security
6 2 (0.51%) BGP
6 2 (0.51%) HSRP
7 1 (0.25%) OSPF
7 1 (0.25%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (28.17%) Power BI
2 57 (14.47%) Tableau
3 18 (4.57%) SQL Server
4 17 (4.31%) Power Query
5 14 (3.55%) Data Mining
6 13 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (2.28%) Data Lake
7 9 (2.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (2.03%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.03%) SAP BW
9 7 (1.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (1.27%) Azure SQL Database
11 4 (1.02%) DB2
11 4 (1.02%) DB2 UDB
11 4 (1.02%) Looker
11 4 (1.02%) QlikView
12 3 (0.76%) BigQuery
12 3 (0.76%) GIS
12 3 (0.76%) Qlik Sense
13 2 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (4.82%) JIRA
2 6 (1.52%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.02%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (0.25%) Git
4 1 (0.25%) Postman
4 1 (0.25%) SoapUI
General
1 194 (49.24%) Finance
2 186 (47.21%) Social Skills
3 116 (29.44%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (17.77%) Marketing
5 44 (11.17%) Legal
6 41 (10.41%) Law
7 39 (9.90%) Banking
8 30 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (5.84%) Advertising
9 23 (5.84%) Retail
10 22 (5.58%) Front Office
11 21 (5.33%) Telecoms
12 17 (4.31%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (3.55%) German Language
14 13 (3.30%) French Language
15 10 (2.54%) Dutch Language
15 10 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 9 (2.28%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.52%) Automotive
17 6 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 127 (32.23%) Analyst
2 54 (13.71%) Data Analyst
3 28 (7.11%) Accountant
4 27 (6.85%) Junior
5 25 (6.35%) Senior
6 24 (6.09%) IT Support
7 23 (5.84%) Consultant
8 21 (5.33%) Report Analyst
9 20 (5.08%) Developer
9 20 (5.08%) Management Accountant
10 19 (4.82%) Junior Analyst
10 19 (4.82%) Junior Data Analyst
10 19 (4.82%) Support Analyst
11 14 (3.55%) Business Analyst
11 14 (3.55%) Trainee
11 14 (3.55%) Trainee Analyst
11 14 (3.55%) Trainee Data Analyst
12 12 (3.05%) Financial Analyst
12 12 (3.05%) IT Analyst
12 12 (3.05%) Support Assistant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.79%) Oracle Fusion
2 6 (1.52%) EDI
3 5 (1.27%) FreeMarker
4 4 (1.02%) OAuth
4 4 (1.02%) OpenID
5 2 (0.51%) .NET
5 2 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.51%) Matplotlib
5 2 (0.51%) NumPy
5 2 (0.51%) Pandas
5 2 (0.51%) PySpark
5 2 (0.51%) Seaborn
6 1 (0.25%) ADO
6 1 (0.25%) COM
6 1 (0.25%) JSON
6 1 (0.25%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (0.25%) TAPI
6 1 (0.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (7.87%) Onboarding
2 23 (5.84%) Video Conferencing
3 18 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 13 (3.30%) Data Structures
5 13 (3.30%) Fixed Income
6 12 (3.05%) Derivative
7 10 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.28%) Social Media
9 8 (2.03%) Hedge funds
10 7 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 7 (1.78%) Web Conferencing
11 5 (1.27%) CCTV
11 5 (1.27%) Equities
11 5 (1.27%) Life Science
11 5 (1.27%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.27%) Mobile App
12 4 (1.02%) e-Learning
12 4 (1.02%) PMI
13 3 (0.76%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.36%) Windows
2 10 (2.54%) Linux
3 5 (1.27%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.27%) Unix
4 3 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (28.17%) Business Intelligence
2 73 (18.53%) Process Improvement
3 70 (17.77%) Project Management
4 68 (17.26%) Analytics
5 67 (17.01%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (13.20%) Data Analysis
7 48 (12.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 47 (11.93%) AI
9 43 (10.91%) CRM
10 42 (10.66%) Decision-Making
11 37 (9.39%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 35 (8.88%) Budgeting
13 32 (8.12%) Coaching
13 32 (8.12%) ITIL
14 31 (7.87%) Fintech
15 30 (7.61%) Data Analytics
16 27 (6.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 26 (6.60%) Agile
17 26 (6.60%) ERP
17 26 (6.60%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 121 (30.71%) SQL
2 80 (20.30%) Python
3 24 (6.09%) VBA
4 14 (3.55%) C#
5 12 (3.05%) PowerShell
6 7 (1.78%) VB
7 6 (1.52%) JavaScript
7 6 (1.52%) R
8 5 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 5 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 5 (1.27%) VBScript
9 3 (0.76%) Java
9 3 (0.76%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.51%) Bash
10 2 (0.51%) Rust
11 1 (0.25%) ABAP
11 1 (0.25%) C
11 1 (0.25%) C++
Qualifications
1 105 (26.65%) Degree
2 52 (13.20%) ACCA
3 45 (11.42%) CIMA
4 20 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 11 (2.79%) A+ Certification
6 10 (2.54%) CISSP
6 10 (2.54%) DBS Check
7 7 (1.78%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (1.78%) CISM
7 7 (1.78%) Master's Degree
8 5 (1.27%) CISA
8 5 (1.27%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (1.02%) CFA
9 4 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.02%) ISACA
9 4 (1.02%) MBA
9 4 (1.02%) SANS
9 4 (1.02%) Security Cleared
9 4 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.55%) COREP
1 14 (3.55%) Data Quality
1 14 (3.55%) FINREP
1 14 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 13 (3.30%) PMO
2 13 (3.30%) QA
3 12 (3.05%) GDPR
4 8 (2.03%) GRC
5 7 (1.78%) IFRS
5 7 (1.78%) NIST
6 4 (1.02%) GAAP
6 4 (1.02%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.02%) SLA
6 4 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) COBIT
8 1 (0.25%) COSO
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (3.81%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.51%) Docker
4 1 (0.25%) IAG
4 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (2.28%) SCCM
2 5 (1.27%) RSA Archer
3 4 (1.02%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
3 4 (1.02%) Grafana
3 4 (1.02%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.02%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.02%) Terraform
4 2 (0.51%) Ansible
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 162 (41.12%) Microsoft
2 26 (6.60%) SAP
3 24 (6.09%) Oracle
4 15 (3.81%) Salesforce
5 9 (2.28%) Adobe
5 9 (2.28%) Google
5 9 (2.28%) JD Edwards
5 9 (2.28%) Xero
6 7 (1.78%) Polycom
6 7 (1.78%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.27%) Apple
7 5 (1.27%) IBM
7 5 (1.27%) Snow
7 5 (1.27%) VMware
8 4 (1.02%) Bloomberg
8 4 (1.02%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.76%) Ariba
9 3 (0.76%) Hyperion
10 2 (0.51%) Cisco
10 2 (0.51%) Splunk