Spreadsheet Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Spreadsheets
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Spreadsheet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 476 465
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 -31
Permanent jobs citing Spreadsheet 81 57 238
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.16% 0.19% 0.42%
As % of the Applications category 1.89% 1.94% 4.03%
Number of salaries quoted 69 33 170
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,500 £21,250
25th Percentile £27,694 £25,000 £24,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £31,000 £27,965
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +10.85% -6.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £44,875 £38,750
90th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £50,125
UK median annual salary £40,000 £32,500 £27,965
% change year-on-year +23.08% +16.22% -20.10%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,289 2,935 5,907
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.32% 10.02% 10.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1,694 1,411 4,222
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,370 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £50,000 £58,750 £48,750
90th Percentile £60,000 £66,296 £61,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £48,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.00% -16.67%

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Spreadsheet relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Spreadsheet job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Spreadsheet
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spreadsheet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK excluding London

Spreadsheet
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 March 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
South East +7 29 £52,500 +27.33% 21
North of England -27 21 £30,000 +20.00% 28
Midlands +1 19 £27,694 -20.88% 12
North West +12 18 £30,000 -30.03% 14
West Midlands +16 16 £27,694 -10.67% 7
East of England +11 6 £57,500 +139.58% 6
East Midlands -23 3 £28,750 -64.06% 5
Yorkshire -41 3 £40,000 +48.15% 9
South West -20 2 £60,000 - 5
Wales - 2 - - 1
Northern Ireland -30 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
Spreadsheet
UK

Spreadsheet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 5 (6.17%) CMS
1 5 (6.17%) WordPress
2 3 (3.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.23%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 35 (43.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (9.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.23%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.69%) Power Platform
2 6 (7.41%) Google Analytics
3 5 (6.17%) SaaS
4 3 (3.70%) Azure
4 3 (3.70%) Smartsheet
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (2.47%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.23%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (1.23%) AWS
6 1 (1.23%) Google Sheets
6 1 (1.23%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) DHCP
2 1 (1.23%) DNS
2 1 (1.23%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (24.69%) Power BI
2 4 (4.94%) Power Query
3 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.23%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (1.23%) GIS
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.94%) JIRA
2 1 (1.23%) Oracle APEX
General
1 35 (43.21%) Social Skills
2 32 (39.51%) Finance
3 27 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (17.28%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (16.05%) Influencing Skills
5 13 (16.05%) Marketing
6 3 (3.70%) Billing
6 3 (3.70%) Games
7 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.23%) Advertising
8 1 (1.23%) Electronics
8 1 (1.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.23%) Law
8 1 (1.23%) Police
8 1 (1.23%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (30.86%) Analyst
2 13 (16.05%) Data Analyst
2 13 (16.05%) Financial Analyst
3 12 (14.81%) Instructor
4 9 (11.11%) Coordinator
5 7 (8.64%) IT Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) IT Support
5 7 (8.64%) IT Support Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Support Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Technical Analyst
5 7 (8.64%) Technical Support
5 7 (8.64%) Technical Support Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Administrator
7 5 (6.17%) IT Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) IT Sales Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Sales Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Operations Manager
9 3 (3.70%) Data Administrator
9 3 (3.70%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.41%) HTML
2 5 (6.17%) CSS
3 1 (1.23%) EDI
3 1 (1.23%) JSON
3 1 (1.23%) Kafka
3 1 (1.23%) REST
3 1 (1.23%) SOAP
3 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (19.75%) Onboarding
2 13 (16.05%) Social Media
3 9 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.23%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.23%) CMDB
6 1 (1.23%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.23%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.23%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (32.10%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (27.16%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (23.46%) ERP
4 17 (20.99%) Decision-Making
4 17 (20.99%) ETL
5 16 (19.75%) Data Analysis
6 14 (17.28%) Agile
7 13 (16.05%) CRM
8 12 (14.81%) Budgeting
8 12 (14.81%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 12 (14.81%) Cost Optimisation
8 12 (14.81%) Financial Analysis
8 12 (14.81%) Performance Analysis
9 10 (12.35%) Analytics
10 8 (9.88%) Data Entry
11 7 (8.64%) AI
11 7 (8.64%) Digital Marketing
11 7 (8.64%) Release Management
11 7 (8.64%) Time Management
11 7 (8.64%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (22.22%) SQL
2 15 (18.52%) Python
2 15 (18.52%) VBA
3 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.23%) R
3 1 (1.23%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (16.05%) DBS Check
2 12 (14.81%) ACCA
2 12 (14.81%) CIMA
3 11 (13.58%) Degree
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.47%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.23%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.23%) CBAP
6 1 (1.23%) CCNA
6 1 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.23%) HND
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) MCSA
6 1 (1.23%) MCSE
6 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 1 (1.23%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.23%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.23%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Google
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
1 13 (16.05%) SAP
2 5 (6.17%) HubSpot
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Sage
5 1 (1.23%) ESRI
5 1 (1.23%) Facebook
5 1 (1.23%) Instagram
5 1 (1.23%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow