Spreadsheet Job Trends in the South East

Spreadsheets
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Spreadsheet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 288 224
Rank change year-on-year +39 -64 +143
Permanent jobs citing Spreadsheet 26 14 45
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.25% 0.15% 0.58%
As % of the Applications category 2.49% 1.57% 5.81%
Number of salaries quoted 19 6 34
10th Percentile - £27,389 £21,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £35,107 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £27,500 £50,000 £27,965
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +78.79% -27.36%
75th Percentile £47,625 - £28,554
90th Percentile £54,750 - £49,075
England median annual salary £30,000 £36,250 £27,965
% change year-on-year -17.24% +29.63% -17.75%

All Software Application Skills
South East

Spreadsheet 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 1,045 893 775
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 10.08% 9.66% 9.99%
Number of salaries quoted 431 380 512
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £25,525
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,000 £28,290
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £50,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +33.33% -3.23%
75th Percentile £55,160 £66,250 £54,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £85,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -8.60%

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Spreadsheet job vacancy trend in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spreadsheet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Spreadsheet

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet in the South East over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Spreadsheet in the South East

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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 Spreadsheet within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Hampshire +51 16 £27,500 - 2
Thames Valley +13 9 £52,500 +5.00% 8
Buckinghamshire +3 4 £52,500 +5.00%
Berkshire - 4 £57,500 - 7
Kent -10 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £40,000 - 1
Spreadsheet
England

Spreadsheet
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 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Power Platform
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Google Ads
2 1 (3.85%) Google Analytics
2 1 (3.85%) Google Data Studio
2 1 (3.85%) Google Sheets
2 1 (3.85%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) DHCP
1 1 (3.85%) DNS
1 1 (3.85%) Firewall
1 1 (3.85%) SD-WAN
1 1 (3.85%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (19.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) Oracle APEX
General
1 20 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 19 (73.08%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (69.23%) Finance
4 5 (19.23%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Brand Awareness
5 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.85%) Marketing
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (73.08%) Analyst
2 13 (50.00%) IT Analyst
2 13 (50.00%) IT Support
2 13 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 13 (50.00%) Support Analyst
2 13 (50.00%) Technical Analyst
2 13 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 13 (50.00%) Technical Support Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Data Analyst
3 5 (19.23%) Financial Analyst
4 3 (11.54%) Administrator
4 3 (11.54%) Data Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Finance Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Lecturer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 13 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 13 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.85%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (57.69%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 13 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 13 (50.00%) Release Management
3 6 (23.08%) ERP
4 5 (19.23%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (15.38%) Agile
5 4 (15.38%) Budgeting
5 4 (15.38%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 4 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
5 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 4 (15.38%) ETL
5 4 (15.38%) Financial Analysis
5 4 (15.38%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (11.54%) Inventory Management
7 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 1 (3.85%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (3.85%) Change Control
8 1 (3.85%) Marketing Strategy
8 1 (3.85%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) Python
1 5 (19.23%) SQL
2 4 (15.38%) VBA
3 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) ACCA
1 4 (15.38%) CIMA
2 1 (3.85%) Azure Certification
2 1 (3.85%) CCNA
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) HND
2 1 (3.85%) MCP
2 1 (3.85%) MCSA
2 1 (3.85%) MCSE
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 1 (3.85%) Hyper-V
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (53.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 2 (7.69%) Oracle
4 1 (3.85%) Facebook
4 1 (3.85%) Google
4 1 (3.85%) Instagram