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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 464 454 497
Rank change year-on-year -10 +43 -53
Permanent jobs citing Spreadsheet 97 49 242
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.18% 0.36%
As % of the Applications category 2.43% 1.74% 3.51%
Number of salaries quoted 74 35 176
10th Percentile £27,694 £24,500 £21,375
25th Percentile £28,000 £25,000 £24,781
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £32,000 £27,965
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.43% -20.10%
75th Percentile £60,000 £44,313 £40,250
90th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £48,475
UK median annual salary £42,500 £34,965 £27,965
% change year-on-year +21.55% +25.03% -37.86%

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 3,992 2,813 6,903
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 6.34% 10.59% 10.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1,743 1,465 4,549
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,850 £23,500
25th Percentile £30,370 £31,250 £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 £66,274 £61,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -29 34 £62,500 +78.75% 21
North of England -50 28 £30,000 +20.00% 21
North West -5 23 £30,000 -30.64% 12
Midlands -28 19 £27,694 -20.88% 10
West Midlands -14 15 £27,694 -10.67% 8
East of England -26 11 £50,000 +50.38% 6
Yorkshire -51 5 £40,000 +46.79% 5
East Midlands -55 4 £28,750 -64.06% 2
South West -55 2 £60,000 +82.65% 3
Scotland - 2 £105,000 - 5
Wales - 1 £28,500 - 2
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 8 (8.25%) CMS
2 7 (7.22%) WordPress
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 35 (36.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.03%) Sage 200
3 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.71%) Power Platform
2 7 (7.22%) Google Analytics
2 7 (7.22%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (4.12%) SaaS
3 4 (4.12%) Smartsheet
4 3 (3.09%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.09%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.03%) Azure
5 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.03%) Google Sheets
5 1 (1.03%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.37%) Internet
2 3 (3.09%) Firewall
2 3 (3.09%) NAS
2 3 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (23.71%) Power BI
2 5 (5.15%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.12%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (3.09%) Power Query
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.06%) Tableau
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (4.12%) JIRA
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle APEX
General
1 36 (37.11%) Social Skills
2 24 (24.74%) Finance
3 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Influencing Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (11.34%) Marketing
6 3 (3.09%) Law
7 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.03%) Advertising
8 1 (1.03%) Billing
8 1 (1.03%) Games
8 1 (1.03%) Legal
8 1 (1.03%) Police
8 1 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Analyst
2 15 (15.46%) Data Analyst
3 13 (13.40%) Financial Analyst
4 12 (12.37%) Instructor
5 11 (11.34%) Coordinator
6 7 (7.22%) Administrator
7 6 (6.19%) Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) IT Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) IT Sales Consultant
7 6 (6.19%) Sales Consultant
8 5 (5.15%) Business Intelligence Lead
8 5 (5.15%) Lead
9 4 (4.12%) Applications Specialist
9 4 (4.12%) QA Manager
10 3 (3.09%) Accountant
10 3 (3.09%) Applications Support
10 3 (3.09%) Commercial Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Data Administrator
10 3 (3.09%) Pricing Analyst
10 3 (3.09%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.22%) CSS
1 7 (7.22%) HTML
2 4 (4.12%) .NET
2 4 (4.12%) .NET Framework
2 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.03%) Spring
3 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.40%) Social Media
2 10 (10.31%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.15%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.09%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.09%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.06%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.46%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (29.90%) Business Intelligence
3 24 (24.74%) ERP
4 21 (21.65%) Decision-Making
5 16 (16.49%) Budgeting and Forecasting
6 15 (15.46%) Budgeting
6 15 (15.46%) ETL
7 14 (14.43%) Agile
7 14 (14.43%) CRM
8 13 (13.40%) Data Analysis
8 13 (13.40%) Financial Analysis
9 12 (12.37%) Cost Optimisation
9 12 (12.37%) Performance Analysis
10 11 (11.34%) B2B
11 10 (10.31%) Analytics
12 8 (8.25%) Digital Marketing
12 8 (8.25%) Project Delivery
13 7 (7.22%) B2C
13 7 (7.22%) Content Management
13 7 (7.22%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) SQL
1 22 (22.68%) VBA
2 15 (15.46%) Python
3 4 (4.12%) C#
3 4 (4.12%) JavaScript
3 4 (4.12%) VBScript
4 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 13 (13.40%) ACCA
1 13 (13.40%) CIMA
1 13 (13.40%) DBS Check
2 11 (11.34%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.03%) ICAEW
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.09%) Actionable Recommendations
3 3 (3.09%) GDPR
3 3 (3.09%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.03%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 14 (14.43%) Google
1 14 (14.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.37%) SAP
3 4 (4.12%) SYSPRO
4 3 (3.09%) Adobe
4 3 (3.09%) Meraki
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) Sage
4 3 (3.09%) Sophos
4 3 (3.09%) Synology
4 3 (3.09%) Ubiquiti
5 2 (2.06%) HubSpot
5 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.03%) Facebook
6 1 (1.03%) Instagram
6 1 (1.03%) ServiceNow