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 9 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 536 490
Rank change year-on-year +89 -46 -4
Permanent jobs citing Spreadsheet 80 70 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.15% 0.22%
As % of the Applications category 1.62% 1.52% 2.46%
Number of salaries quoted 51 24 47
10th Percentile - £24,738 £21,328
25th Percentile £26,250 £26,500 £25,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £30,072 £35,840
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% -16.10% +21.49%
75th Percentile £49,125 £51,313 £45,000
90th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £56,000
UK median annual salary £38,000 £47,500 £41,860
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.47% -1.51%

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 4,940 4,602 2,803
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.97% 9.69% 9.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,803 1,416 1,971
10th Percentile £26,090 £26,375 £23,750
25th Percentile £28,750 £32,438 £27,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £43,500 £38,750
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +12.26% -0.64%
75th Percentile £49,563 £58,750 £55,000
90th Percentile £63,630 £75,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -0.22%

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 9 November 2025.

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 9 November 2025. 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 +45 22 £27,500 -51.11% 70
North of England +30 19 £32,500 +25.00% 20
Midlands +45 12 £52,500 +75.00% 17
East of England +36 10 £57,500 +69.12% 23
Yorkshire +12 10 £38,000 +46.15% 6
West Midlands +40 9 £55,000 +77.42% 12
North West +23 9 £26,500 -21.48% 14
South West +34 8 - - 9
Scotland +5 4 - - 4
Wales - 4 £24,150 -
East Midlands +10 3 £35,000 +16.67% 4
Northern Ireland -2 1 - - 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 (6.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.25%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 39 (48.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 21 (26.25%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (17.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (5.00%) Photoshop
5 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (5.00%) Shopify
2 1 (1.25%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 10 (12.50%) Power Platform
2 5 (6.25%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) Google Analytics
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (6.25%) SaaS
3 3 (3.75%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (3.75%) Google Sheets
4 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
4 2 (2.50%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Bedrock
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
5 1 (1.25%) AWS
5 1 (1.25%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.25%) Google Data Studio
5 1 (1.25%) Google Docs
5 1 (1.25%) Google Drive
5 1 (1.25%) Google Tag Manager
5 1 (1.25%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.25%) DHCP
2 1 (1.25%) DNS
2 1 (1.25%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Internet
2 1 (1.25%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.50%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (2.50%) GIS
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.25%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (1.25%) MS Access
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
General
1 44 (55.00%) Social Skills
2 36 (45.00%) Finance
3 35 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (16.25%) Marketing
5 11 (13.75%) Billing
6 7 (8.75%) Retail
7 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
9 4 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (5.00%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.75%) Games
10 3 (3.75%) Legal
11 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
12 1 (1.25%) Brand Awareness
12 1 (1.25%) Electronics
12 1 (1.25%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 25 (31.25%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Support Analyst
3 14 (17.50%) IT Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) IT Support
4 13 (16.25%) IT Support Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Technical Analyst
4 13 (16.25%) Technical Support
4 13 (16.25%) Technical Support Analyst
5 9 (11.25%) Junior
5 9 (11.25%) Senior
6 8 (10.00%) Administrator
7 5 (6.25%) Developer
7 5 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (5.00%) Account Manager
8 4 (5.00%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 4 (5.00%) Installations Engineer
8 4 (5.00%) Junior Account Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Operations Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Portfolio Manager
8 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (1.25%) CrewAI
2 1 (1.25%) EDI
2 1 (1.25%) JSON
2 1 (1.25%) Kafka
2 1 (1.25%) LangChain
2 1 (1.25%) REST
2 1 (1.25%) SOAP
2 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (21.25%) Onboarding
2 15 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 7 (8.75%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.50%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.25%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
6 1 (1.25%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Windows
2 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (26.25%) Data Analysis
2 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (16.25%) Regulatory Compliance
3 13 (16.25%) Release Management
4 12 (15.00%) Analytics
5 11 (13.75%) Process Improvement
6 9 (11.25%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (11.25%) CRM
7 8 (10.00%) Business Development
7 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (10.00%) Portfolio Management
7 8 (10.00%) Workflow
8 6 (7.50%) Agile
8 6 (7.50%) AI
8 6 (7.50%) Customer Experience
8 6 (7.50%) Data Entry
8 6 (7.50%) Project Management
9 5 (6.25%) Digital Marketing
9 5 (6.25%) E-Commerce
9 5 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (15.00%) SQL
2 5 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) R
4 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (10.00%) AAT
1 8 (10.00%) ACCA
2 7 (8.75%) Degree
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (5.00%) NVQ Level 3
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.75%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CBAP
6 1 (1.25%) CCNA
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) HND
6 1 (1.25%) MCP
6 1 (1.25%) MCSA
6 1 (1.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.25%) PMO
2 4 (5.00%) QA
3 1 (1.25%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.25%) ISO 19650
3 1 (1.25%) P3O
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
1 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 33 (41.25%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Google
2 8 (10.00%) Sage
2 8 (10.00%) Xero
3 5 (6.25%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.25%) Adobe
4 1 (1.25%) Cognos
4 1 (1.25%) ESRI
4 1 (1.25%) Facebook
4 1 (1.25%) Freshdesk
4 1 (1.25%) Instagram
4 1 (1.25%) OpenAI
4 1 (1.25%) Oracle
4 1 (1.25%) SAP