Microsoft Excel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 10 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 104 86 107
Rank change year-on-year -18 +21 +74
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 1,612 4,519 4,086
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.70% 3.22%
As % of the Applications category 38.34% 40.55% 37.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,006 2,502 2,371
10th Percentile £26,000 £27,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,875 £47,500 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £60,105 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,450 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +2.56% +6.85%

All Software Application Skills
UK

Microsoft Excel is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 4,205 11,143 10,811
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 8.04% 9.12% 8.51%
Number of salaries quoted 2,965 6,271 6,766
10th Percentile £25,390 £26,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,750 £44,107
Median % change year-on-year -7.10% +3.73% +3.78%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,088 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £38,250 £37,500
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 10 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the UK over the 6 months to 10 December 2023. 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
England -11 1,465 £45,000 -5.26% 1,738
UK excluding London -42 865 £37,500 -6.25% 1,180
London +27 672 £60,000 +9.09% 642
Work from Home -5 566 £47,500 -1.04% 596
North of England -7 204 £35,500 -5.33% 293
Midlands -14 202 £40,000 - 236
South East -47 196 £40,000 -15.79% 317
West Midlands -1 150 £40,000 +4.58% 158
South West -38 103 £37,500 - 124
Yorkshire +4 102 £45,000 +21.62% 81
North West -3 91 £32,500 -14.47% 188
East of England +6 72 £36,750 -0.68% 146
East Midlands +10 52 £37,000 -10.30% 78
Scotland -24 43 £43,586 +9.13% 76
Wales -30 30 £24,000 -40.00% 36
North East +15 11 £32,500 -7.14% 28
Isle of Man 0 10 £45,000 +5.88%
Northern Ireland +5 7 £25,500 -7.27% 9
Channel Islands +11 2 - -

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 70 (4.34%) SharePoint
2 45 (2.79%) Confluence
3 14 (0.87%) MS Exchange
4 10 (0.62%) Oracle Service Bus
4 10 (0.62%) SAS
4 10 (0.62%) WebLogic
5 6 (0.37%) IIS
6 5 (0.31%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) WordPress
8 1 (0.062%) Jupyter
Applications
1 659 (40.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 566 (35.11%) Microsoft Office
3 105 (6.51%) MS Visio
4 80 (4.96%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (1.86%) Spreadsheet
6 17 (1.05%) AutoCAD
7 14 (0.87%) Photoshop
8 12 (0.74%) InDesign
9 8 (0.50%) SPSS
10 6 (0.37%) Acrobat
11 5 (0.31%) Adobe Illustrator
12 4 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 2 (0.12%) Adobe Premiere
13 2 (0.12%) EViews
13 2 (0.12%) Trello
14 1 (0.062%) Adobe After Effects
14 1 (0.062%) CATIA
14 1 (0.062%) ProjectWise
14 1 (0.062%) Simulink
14 1 (0.062%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 30 (1.86%) Oracle Payables
2 26 (1.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 20 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 16 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
5 11 (0.68%) ResourceLink
6 9 (0.56%) iTrent
6 9 (0.56%) SAP QM
7 8 (0.50%) SAP MM
7 8 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
8 7 (0.43%) Sage X3
9 6 (0.37%) Epicor Tropos
9 6 (0.37%) Sage 200
9 6 (0.37%) SAP SD
10 5 (0.31%) Dynamics AX
10 5 (0.31%) Dynamics NAV
10 5 (0.31%) Infor M3
10 5 (0.31%) SystmOne
11 4 (0.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
12 3 (0.19%) SAP FI
12 3 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 453 (28.10%) Power Platform
2 154 (9.55%) Azure
3 127 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
4 45 (2.79%) OneDrive
5 44 (2.73%) Entra ID
6 40 (2.48%) AWS
7 23 (1.43%) PowerApps
8 21 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 21 (1.30%) Power Automate
9 20 (1.24%) Google Analytics
10 15 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
11 13 (0.81%) GCP
11 13 (0.81%) SaaS
12 12 (0.74%) Smartsheet
13 8 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.43%) Snowflake
14 7 (0.43%) Yammer
15 6 (0.37%) Firebase
15 6 (0.37%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 31 (1.92%) Broadband
2 29 (1.80%) 5G
3 23 (1.43%) WAN
4 19 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 15 (0.93%) DNS
6 13 (0.81%) DHCP
6 13 (0.81%) Firewall
7 11 (0.68%) Intranet
7 11 (0.68%) Network Security
7 11 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 11 (0.68%) Wireless
8 10 (0.62%) Internet
8 10 (0.62%) SD-WAN
9 9 (0.56%) LAN
9 9 (0.56%) VPN
9 9 (0.56%) Wi-Fi
10 8 (0.50%) BGP
10 8 (0.50%) Cisco IOS
10 8 (0.50%) OSPF
11 6 (0.37%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 449 (27.85%) Power BI
2 124 (7.69%) SQL Server
3 108 (6.70%) Tableau
4 84 (5.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 77 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 73 (4.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 39 (2.42%) Power Query
8 37 (2.30%) MS Access
9 22 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 22 (1.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 20 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
11 14 (0.87%) Data Mining
12 12 (0.74%) GIS
13 11 (0.68%) Microsoft Analysis Services
13 11 (0.68%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.62%) Oracle Database 10g
14 10 (0.62%) Oracle Database 11g
14 10 (0.62%) VLDB
15 9 (0.56%) OLAP
15 9 (0.56%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 64 (3.97%) JIRA
2 14 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 11 (0.68%) Visual Studio
4 5 (0.31%) Postman
5 4 (0.25%) SoapUI
6 3 (0.19%) Git
6 3 (0.19%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.12%) Dreamweaver
7 2 (0.12%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.062%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.062%) Gradle
8 1 (0.062%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.062%) LSMW
8 1 (0.062%) NUnit
8 1 (0.062%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 733 (45.47%) Social Skills
2 702 (43.55%) Finance
3 442 (27.42%) Analytical Skills
4 211 (13.09%) Banking
5 180 (11.17%) Retail
6 147 (9.12%) Investment Banking
7 145 (9.00%) Legal
8 140 (8.68%) Marketing
9 118 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
10 107 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 98 (6.08%) Public Sector
12 88 (5.46%) Law
13 79 (4.90%) Presentation Skills
14 75 (4.65%) Manufacturing
15 67 (4.16%) Telecoms
16 35 (2.17%) Electronics
17 25 (1.55%) Advertising
18 24 (1.49%) Influencing Skills
19 23 (1.43%) French Language
20 20 (1.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 740 (45.91%) Analyst
2 173 (10.73%) Senior
3 134 (8.31%) Data Analyst
4 122 (7.57%) Business Strategy Analyst
4 122 (7.57%) Strategy Analyst
5 90 (5.58%) Business Analyst
6 85 (5.27%) Senior Analyst
7 78 (4.84%) Project Manager
8 55 (3.41%) Support Analyst
9 52 (3.23%) Developer
10 51 (3.16%) Support Engineer
11 50 (3.10%) Administrator
12 48 (2.98%) Lead
13 43 (2.67%) Senior Manager
14 41 (2.54%) Consultant
15 39 (2.42%) Business Intelligence Analyst
16 37 (2.30%) Desktop Support
16 37 (2.30%) Financial Analyst
17 36 (2.23%) IT Manager
18 34 (2.11%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (1.86%) HTML
2 20 (1.24%) .NET
3 11 (0.68%) XML
4 9 (0.56%) CSS
5 6 (0.37%) ASP.NET
5 6 (0.37%) MDX
5 6 (0.37%) REST
5 6 (0.37%) SAP Fiori
6 5 (0.31%) AngularJS
6 5 (0.31%) EDI
6 5 (0.31%) Flash
6 5 (0.31%) JSON
6 5 (0.31%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.25%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.25%) Blazor
7 4 (0.25%) Django
7 4 (0.25%) Pandas
7 4 (0.25%) React
8 3 (0.19%) TensorFlow
8 3 (0.19%) Universal Windows Platform
Miscellaneous
1 268 (16.63%) Self-Motivation
2 124 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 87 (5.40%) Onboarding
4 62 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 38 (2.36%) Data Centre
6 33 (2.05%) Taxonomies
7 30 (1.86%) Data Structures
8 23 (1.43%) Product Ownership
9 21 (1.30%) NHS
10 20 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 19 (1.18%) Digital Media
12 15 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (0.74%) Biopharmaceutical
14 11 (0.68%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (0.68%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.62%) PMI
16 9 (0.56%) FMCG
16 9 (0.56%) Low-Code
16 9 (0.56%) Marketing Technology
16 9 (0.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 127 (7.88%) Windows
2 39 (2.42%) Mac OS
3 27 (1.67%) Apple iOS
4 25 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 24 (1.49%) Android
6 20 (1.24%) Windows Server
7 18 (1.12%) Linux
8 15 (0.93%) Unix
9 10 (0.62%) Solaris
10 4 (0.25%) Windows Vista
11 3 (0.19%) Windows 7
12 2 (0.12%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.12%) Windows 8
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (27.54%) Business Intelligence
2 418 (25.93%) Problem-Solving
3 250 (15.51%) Agile
4 221 (13.71%) Data Analysis
5 219 (13.59%) Business Strategy
6 215 (13.34%) Analytics
7 193 (11.97%) Decision-Making
8 188 (11.66%) Project Management
9 158 (9.80%) Asset Management
10 153 (9.49%) Planning and Forecasting
11 149 (9.24%) Customer Service
12 146 (9.06%) Time Management
13 139 (8.62%) Visualisation
14 136 (8.44%) Creative Thinking
15 127 (7.88%) Benchmarking
16 125 (7.75%) Business Forecasting
17 124 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 124 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
18 123 (7.63%) Competitor Analysis
19 111 (6.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 451 (27.98%) SQL
2 126 (7.82%) Python
3 70 (4.34%) VBA
4 57 (3.54%) T-SQL
5 40 (2.48%) R
6 33 (2.05%) C#
7 30 (1.86%) PowerShell
8 29 (1.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 20 (1.24%) JavaScript
10 11 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 7 (0.43%) VBScript
12 5 (0.31%) Java
12 5 (0.31%) VB
13 4 (0.25%) PHP
14 3 (0.19%) ABAP
14 3 (0.19%) Shell Script
15 2 (0.12%) C++
15 2 (0.12%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.12%) sed
16 1 (0.062%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 430 (26.67%) Degree
2 102 (6.33%) Security Cleared
3 65 (4.03%) SC Cleared
4 32 (1.99%) PMI Certification
5 31 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 26 (1.61%) ACCA
7 25 (1.55%) Master's Degree
8 23 (1.43%) PMP
9 22 (1.36%) CIMA
9 22 (1.36%) DBS Check
10 15 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (0.74%) DV Cleared
12 10 (0.62%) AAT
12 10 (0.62%) MBA
13 9 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.50%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (0.50%) HNC
15 7 (0.43%) IIBA
16 6 (0.37%) A+ Certification
16 6 (0.37%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.53%) QA
2 68 (4.22%) PMO
3 59 (3.66%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.66%) SLA
4 30 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (1.80%) GDPR
6 21 (1.30%) ISO 9001
7 20 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 19 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 14 (0.87%) GRC
10 10 (0.62%) NIST
11 9 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.56%) COBIT
11 9 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 9 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 5 (0.31%) GAAP
13 2 (0.12%) P3O
14 1 (0.062%) Accessibility
14 1 (0.062%) IFRS
14 1 (0.062%) RMADS
System Software
1 81 (5.02%) Active Directory
2 27 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
3 13 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (0.62%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (0.56%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.25%) vSphere
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.12%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.062%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 48 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (1.18%) EnCase
3 13 (0.81%) SCCM
4 10 (0.62%) Data Guard
4 10 (0.62%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (0.37%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
5 6 (0.37%) Terraform
6 2 (0.12%) Ansible
6 2 (0.12%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.12%) XenMobile
7 1 (0.062%) Grafana
7 1 (0.062%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.062%) WSUS
7 1 (0.062%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 875 (54.28%) Microsoft
2 84 (5.21%) SAP
3 71 (4.40%) Oracle
4 54 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 39 (2.42%) Remedy
6 33 (2.05%) Adobe
7 31 (1.92%) Google
8 29 (1.80%) Virgin Media
9 27 (1.67%) Alteryx
10 25 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 21 (1.30%) Teradata
11 21 (1.30%) VMware
12 16 (0.99%) Sage
13 14 (0.87%) Cisco
13 14 (0.87%) FactSet
14 12 (0.74%) Apple
15 11 (0.68%) Hyperion
15 11 (0.68%) Sun
16 10 (0.62%) Bloomberg
16 10 (0.62%) Databricks