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 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 38 48
Rank change year-on-year -4 +10 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 26 10 8
As % of all permanent jobs in Somerset 4.25% 2.48% 1.53%
As % of the Applications category 22.22% 40.00% 17.39%
Number of salaries quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32,500 - £30,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 - £33,250
Median % change year-on-year - - -44.58%
75th Percentile £38,750 - £37,438
90th Percentile - - £38,750
South West median annual salary £39,849 £42,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -6.24% +13.33% +5.63%

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 117 25 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Somerset 19.12% 6.20% 8.81%
Number of salaries quoted 30 3 42
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,200 £26,525
25th Percentile £27,000 £28,875 £28,540
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £30,000 £32,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.67% -6.25% -32.63%
75th Percentile £37,500 - £43,750
90th Percentile £39,500 - £45,900
South West median annual salary £35,000 £42,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year -17.65% +8.97% +4.00%

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 5 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
Taunton - 10 £35,000 -
Bath -7 8 £32,500 - 1
Street - 7 - - 2
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:

Business Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 26 (100.00%) Power Platform
2 14 (53.85%) Azure
2 14 (53.85%) Azure AI
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (100.00%) Power BI
2 15 (57.69%) Tableau
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.85%) Oracle Reports
General
1 24 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Advertising
2 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Legal
2 5 (19.23%) Manufacturing
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
4 1 (3.85%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Analyst
2 15 (57.69%) Data Analyst
3 14 (53.85%) Junior
3 14 (53.85%) Junior Analyst
3 14 (53.85%) Junior Data Analyst
4 6 (23.08%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.85%) Business Intelligence Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Business Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Insight Manager
5 1 (3.85%) Legal Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (19.23%) Onboarding
3 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (53.85%) AI
3 10 (38.46%) Process Improvement
4 6 (23.08%) Data Analysis
5 5 (19.23%) Data Extraction
5 5 (19.23%) Practice Management
5 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (15.38%) Case Management
6 4 (15.38%) Workflow
6 4 (15.38%) Workflow Management
7 2 (7.69%) Analytics
8 1 (3.85%) Data Analytics
8 1 (3.85%) Data Science
8 1 (3.85%) Data Transformation
8 1 (3.85%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 1 (3.85%) Decision-Making
8 1 (3.85%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.85%) Qualitative Analysis
8 1 (3.85%) Visualisation
8 1 (3.85%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) SQL
2 15 (57.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (53.85%) Azure Certification
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle