Microsoft Excel Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Excel
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 80 44
Rank change year-on-year +31 -36 +16
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 440 272 576
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 3.77% 3.53% 4.56%
As % of the Applications category 43.22% 37.52% 38.53%
Number of salaries quoted 195 94 371
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £24,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,250 £27,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,680 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £56,938 £50,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £57,500
England median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -11.11%

All Software Application Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,018 725 1,495
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 8.72% 9.40% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 469 310 1,061
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,225 £23,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £31,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £46,250 £34,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +34.06% -8.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £50,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £60,000
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 the South East

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

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the South East over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the South East

Microsoft Excel
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the South East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Thames Valley +46 189 £47,500 -9.71% 49
Berkshire +21 91 £43,000 -18.10% 30
Buckinghamshire +36 73 £52,500 -8.70% 13
Surrey +4 73 £45,000 +28.57% 20
Hampshire +8 72 £48,750 +8.33% 37
Kent -7 47 £36,500 +4.29% 18
West Sussex +20 36 £57,500 +52.12% 17
Oxfordshire +26 26 £47,500 -9.52% 7
East Sussex +5 17 £27,500 -12.70% 4
Middlesex +23 4 - - 7
Sussex -10 2 £31,500 -37.00% 3
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 25 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (0.91%) Confluence
3 2 (0.45%) CMS
Applications
1 101 (22.95%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (18.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 21 (4.77%) Spreadsheet
4 7 (1.59%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.91%) InDesign
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.23%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 9 (2.05%) NetSuite
2 8 (1.82%) Oracle Payables
3 6 (1.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.91%) SAP BPC
5 1 (0.23%) Raiser’s Edge
5 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 238 (54.09%) Power Platform
2 125 (28.41%) Azure
3 110 (25.00%) Azure AI
4 35 (7.95%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (5.68%) PowerApps
6 9 (2.05%) Power Automate
6 9 (2.05%) SaaS
7 5 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.91%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.91%) Entra ID
8 4 (0.91%) Miro
8 4 (0.91%) Smartsheet
9 3 (0.68%) Figma
10 1 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 1 (0.23%) Asana
10 1 (0.23%) Canva
10 1 (0.23%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.23%) OCI
10 1 (0.23%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.27%) Intranet
2 4 (0.91%) Unified Communications
2 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (0.68%) 4G
3 3 (0.68%) 5G
3 3 (0.68%) GSM
3 3 (0.68%) IP Telephony
3 3 (0.68%) TETRA
3 3 (0.68%) UMTS
3 3 (0.68%) Wireless
4 2 (0.45%) Broadband
5 1 (0.23%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 238 (54.09%) Power BI
2 138 (31.36%) Tableau
3 13 (2.95%) Power Query
4 12 (2.73%) GIS
5 11 (2.50%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.27%) Spotfire
7 8 (1.82%) PowerPivot
8 7 (1.59%) Data Mining
8 7 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
9 6 (1.36%) Data Lake
9 6 (1.36%) SAP BW
10 5 (1.14%) Metadata
11 4 (0.91%) Qlik Sense
11 4 (0.91%) SQL Server
12 3 (0.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
13 2 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (1.36%) JIRA
2 1 (0.23%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 329 (74.77%) Social Skills
2 157 (35.68%) Analytical Skills
3 143 (32.50%) Finance
4 50 (11.36%) Organisational Skills
5 36 (8.18%) Marketing
6 23 (5.23%) Influencing Skills
6 23 (5.23%) Retail
7 14 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
8 13 (2.95%) Manufacturing
9 11 (2.50%) Legal
10 10 (2.27%) Automotive
10 10 (2.27%) Public Sector
11 9 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.36%) Billing
12 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.36%) Telecoms
13 4 (0.91%) General Ledger
13 4 (0.91%) Military
14 3 (0.68%) Law
15 2 (0.45%) Aeronautics
Job Titles
1 254 (57.73%) Analyst
2 167 (37.95%) Data Analyst
3 126 (28.64%) Junior
4 110 (25.00%) Junior Analyst
4 110 (25.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 27 (6.14%) Report Analyst
6 26 (5.91%) Financial Analyst
7 20 (4.55%) Lead
7 20 (4.55%) Technical Support
8 19 (4.32%) Support Analyst
9 17 (3.86%) Consultant
9 17 (3.86%) Procurement Analyst
10 16 (3.64%) Administrator
10 16 (3.64%) Data Manager
10 16 (3.64%) Senior
11 13 (2.95%) Principal Consultant
12 12 (2.73%) Commercial Analyst
12 12 (2.73%) Commercial Data Analyst
12 12 (2.73%) IT Support
13 11 (2.50%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.91%) Middleware
2 3 (0.68%) CSS
2 3 (0.68%) HTML
3 1 (0.23%) JSON
3 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.36%) Management Information System
1 28 (6.36%) Onboarding
2 20 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (4.09%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.86%) FMCG
5 12 (2.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (2.27%) Driving Licence
7 4 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (0.91%) Social Media
7 4 (0.91%) Virtual Team
8 3 (0.68%) CCTV
8 3 (0.68%) Robotics
8 3 (0.68%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.45%) Learning Management System
9 2 (0.45%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.45%) SCADA
10 1 (0.23%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.23%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
10 1 (0.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (1.82%) Windows
2 4 (0.91%) Unix
2 4 (0.91%) Windows 10
3 3 (0.68%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (51.82%) Business Intelligence
2 141 (32.05%) AI
3 101 (22.95%) Decision-Making
4 93 (21.14%) Data Analysis
5 73 (16.59%) Problem-Solving
6 69 (15.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 61 (13.86%) Analytics
8 55 (12.50%) Visualisation
9 45 (10.23%) Project Management
10 41 (9.32%) Agile
11 34 (7.73%) Data Visualisation
11 34 (7.73%) Mathematics
12 29 (6.59%) ERP
12 29 (6.59%) ETL
13 28 (6.36%) Actionable Insight
14 27 (6.14%) Budgeting and Forecasting
14 27 (6.14%) Customer Service
15 26 (5.91%) CRM
16 24 (5.45%) Validation
17 23 (5.23%) Data Cleansing
Programming Languages
1 196 (44.55%) SQL
2 161 (36.59%) Python
3 47 (10.68%) VBA
4 8 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 4 (0.91%) T-SQL
6 3 (0.68%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.23%) R
Qualifications
1 116 (26.36%) Degree
2 110 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 53 (12.05%) ACCA
4 51 (11.59%) CIMA
5 32 (7.27%) Security Cleared
6 23 (5.23%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.55%) Master's Degree
8 14 (3.18%) AAT
8 14 (3.18%) MBA
9 13 (2.95%) APMP
10 6 (1.36%) DV Cleared
11 4 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (0.91%) HNC
12 2 (0.45%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (8.18%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.27%) Good Clinical Practice
3 8 (1.82%) GDPR
4 6 (1.36%) ISO 9001
4 6 (1.36%) SLA
5 5 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.14%) QA
6 4 (0.91%) PMO
6 4 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.68%) ISO 14001
8 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) IFRS
9 1 (0.23%) GAAP
9 1 (0.23%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (1.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.68%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 254 (57.73%) Microsoft
2 42 (9.55%) SAP
3 12 (2.73%) Oracle
4 10 (2.27%) Adobe
5 9 (2.05%) Informatica
6 4 (0.91%) MuleSoft
6 4 (0.91%) Salesforce
7 3 (0.68%) Cisco
7 3 (0.68%) HubSpot
7 3 (0.68%) Sage
7 3 (0.68%) Zoho
8 2 (0.45%) Cvent
8 2 (0.45%) IFS
9 1 (0.23%) BT
9 1 (0.23%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.23%) Google
9 1 (0.23%) Mitel
9 1 (0.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.23%) Xero