Microsoft Excel Job Trends in Somerset

Microsoft Excel
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 40 46
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 +27
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 17 14 7
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 3.75% 2.06% 1.67%
As % of the Applications category 14.29% 19.72% 25.00%
Number of salaries quoted 10 6 6
10th Percentile £32,375 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £44,500 £33,849
Median % change year-on-year -21.35% +31.47% -3.29%
75th Percentile £38,750 £54,750 £42,229
90th Percentile - £56,750 £58,125
South West median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +4.02%

All Software Application Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 119 71 28
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 26.27% 10.46% 6.67%
Number of salaries quoted 37 16 21
10th Percentile - £28,475 £26,750
25th Percentile £26,500 £29,290 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £31,000 £37,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.33% +7.14% -30.00%
75th Percentile £37,500 £55,000 £45,000
90th Percentile £38,750 £56,250 £67,500
South West median annual salary £36,000 £35,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.86% -12.50% +6.67%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in Somerset

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend in Somerset

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 28 October 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Taunton - 9 £35,000 - 1
Bath +3 7 £32,500 -13.33% 3
Weston-super-Mare - 2 - - 1
Clevedon - 2 - - 1
Castle Cary - 1 - -
Microsoft Excel
South West

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 17 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 6 (35.29%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) Power BI
2 6 (35.29%) BusinessObjects
2 6 (35.29%) Data Mining
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.88%) Tableau
General
1 11 (64.71%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (52.94%) Social Skills
3 6 (35.29%) Retail
4 5 (29.41%) Advertising
4 5 (29.41%) Manufacturing
5 4 (23.53%) Finance
5 4 (23.53%) Legal
6 1 (5.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Analyst
1 6 (35.29%) Developer
1 6 (35.29%) Junior
1 6 (35.29%) Junior Developer
2 5 (29.41%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Business Intelligence Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Business Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Data Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Insight Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (35.29%) Data Structures
3 4 (23.53%) Management Information System
3 4 (23.53%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Data Analysis
2 11 (64.71%) Business Intelligence
3 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) Coaching
4 6 (35.29%) Commercial Awareness
4 6 (35.29%) Customer Experience
4 6 (35.29%) Data Management
4 6 (35.29%) Performance Management
4 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
4 6 (35.29%) WFM
5 4 (23.53%) Case Management
5 4 (23.53%) Data Extraction
5 4 (23.53%) Practice Management
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow
5 4 (23.53%) Workflow Management
6 2 (11.76%) Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) Data Analytics
7 1 (5.88%) Data Transformation
7 1 (5.88%) Qualitative Analysis
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) VBA
3 1 (5.88%) Python
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Facebook
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle