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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 87 130
Rank change year-on-year +32 +43 +21
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 4,313 4,002 4,589
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.44% 3.76% 3.00%
As % of the Applications category 44.83% 42.48% 35.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,238 1,984 2,644
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,343
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,583 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.28% -0.93% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,300 £36,975 £40,000
% change year-on-year +0.88% -7.56% -

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 9,621 9,421 12,971
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.90% 8.84% 8.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,117 5,112 7,169
10th Percentile £24,500 £26,000 £25,750
25th Percentile £27,945 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% - +5.88%
75th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £77,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £38,750
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% -0.64%

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 19 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Top 18 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 19 April 2024. 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 +34 3,876 £40,000 -11.11% 1,615
UK excluding London +17 2,951 £37,300 +0.88% 1,190
Work from Home +41 1,502 £44,000 +3.53% 581
London +65 1,222 £54,850 -4.61% 541
South East +33 1,005 £42,000 +6.33% 319
Midlands +17 573 £37,500 -6.25% 221
North of England +14 511 £33,750 +2.27% 306
West Midlands +16 357 £40,000 -4.76% 125
North West +27 323 £35,000 +12.90% 178
East of England +31 288 £32,500 +2.98% 133
South West -17 241 £37,500 +7.14% 125
Scotland -1 216 £40,144 +9.95% 92
East Midlands +33 215 £31,500 -3.82% 96
Yorkshire +24 139 £35,000 +4.48% 84
Wales -13 90 £28,500 -24.00% 29
North East -42 49 £30,000 -7.69% 49
Isle of Man -3 14 £45,000 +28.57% 1
Northern Ireland +24 13 £35,000 +22.81% 25

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
1 257 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 55 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (1.02%) Oracle Service Bus
3 44 (1.02%) WebLogic
4 34 (0.79%) SAS
5 32 (0.74%) Confluence
6 24 (0.56%) WordPress
7 23 (0.53%) CMS
8 16 (0.37%) Apache
9 7 (0.16%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.16%) Apache Spark
9 7 (0.16%) IIS
10 6 (0.14%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.093%) ColdFusion
11 4 (0.093%) Jupyter
11 4 (0.093%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.070%) GlassFish
12 3 (0.070%) JBoss
12 3 (0.070%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1,294 (30.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1,181 (27.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 172 (3.99%) Microsoft Project
4 167 (3.87%) MS Visio
5 121 (2.81%) Spreadsheet
6 40 (0.93%) SPSS
7 36 (0.83%) AutoCAD
8 27 (0.63%) Photoshop
9 25 (0.58%) InDesign
10 16 (0.37%) Trello
11 11 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 9 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
13 6 (0.14%) InfoPath
14 5 (0.12%) Stata
15 4 (0.093%) Revit
16 3 (0.070%) Adobe Captivate
16 3 (0.070%) Adobe Premiere
16 3 (0.070%) Autodesk Inventor
17 2 (0.046%) FileZilla
17 2 (0.046%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 66 (1.53%) Primavera
2 49 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
3 16 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
4 14 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
5 13 (0.30%) Epicor Tropos
6 12 (0.28%) SAP QM
7 10 (0.23%) NetSuite
8 9 (0.21%) SAP BPC
8 9 (0.21%) SAP Business One
9 8 (0.19%) Magento
9 8 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
9 8 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
10 7 (0.16%) Elite 3E
10 7 (0.16%) Relativity
11 6 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
11 6 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
11 6 (0.14%) SAP PLM
11 6 (0.14%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 886 (20.54%) Power Platform
2 287 (6.65%) Microsoft 365
3 239 (5.54%) Azure
4 88 (2.04%) AWS
5 63 (1.46%) Entra ID
6 59 (1.37%) OneDrive
7 58 (1.34%) PowerApps
8 56 (1.30%) SaaS
9 51 (1.18%) Power Automate
10 48 (1.11%) Google Analytics
11 38 (0.88%) Dynamics 365
12 37 (0.86%) Google Sheets
13 28 (0.65%) GCP
14 23 (0.53%) Azure DevOps
15 20 (0.46%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 16 (0.37%) GitHub
17 15 (0.35%) Google Ads
17 15 (0.35%) Snowflake
17 15 (0.35%) WhatsApp
18 14 (0.32%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 510 (11.82%) Broadband
2 53 (1.23%) Firewall
3 50 (1.16%) Internet
4 43 (1.00%) Intranet
5 31 (0.72%) DNS
6 27 (0.63%) Remote Desktop
7 24 (0.56%) WAN
7 24 (0.56%) Wireless
8 21 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
9 14 (0.32%) LAN
9 14 (0.32%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.30%) SD-WAN
10 13 (0.30%) VPN
11 11 (0.26%) DHCP
11 11 (0.26%) Network Security
12 9 (0.21%) FTP
13 8 (0.19%) Cisco Firepower
13 8 (0.19%) HTTP
14 7 (0.16%) Cisco ISE
14 7 (0.16%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 864 (20.03%) Power BI
2 243 (5.63%) Tableau
3 204 (4.73%) SQL Server
4 109 (2.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 86 (1.99%) Data Warehouse
6 65 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 61 (1.41%) Oracle Database
8 60 (1.39%) MS Access
9 53 (1.23%) Power Query
10 47 (1.09%) Relational Database
11 45 (1.04%) Oracle Database 10g
12 44 (1.02%) Oracle Database 11g
12 44 (1.02%) VLDB
13 34 (0.79%) Data Mining
14 33 (0.77%) Big Data
14 33 (0.77%) GIS
15 28 (0.65%) QlikView
16 25 (0.58%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 21 (0.49%) Amazon QuickSight
17 21 (0.49%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 153 (3.55%) JIRA
2 34 (0.79%) Git
3 23 (0.53%) Visual Studio
4 21 (0.49%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (0.21%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.16%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.16%) RStudio
7 6 (0.14%) Mercurial
8 4 (0.093%) GitLab
8 4 (0.093%) Katalon Studio
8 4 (0.093%) Postman
8 4 (0.093%) Team Foundation Server
9 3 (0.070%) PeopleTools
9 3 (0.070%) Toad
9 3 (0.070%) Visual Studio Code
10 2 (0.046%) Balsamiq
10 2 (0.046%) Selenium
10 2 (0.046%) Subversion
11 1 (0.023%) SoapUI
11 1 (0.023%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2,483 (57.57%) Social Skills
2 1,672 (38.77%) Finance
3 1,528 (35.43%) Analytical Skills
4 533 (12.36%) Retail
5 524 (12.15%) Influencing Skills
6 342 (7.93%) Legal
7 319 (7.40%) Marketing
8 285 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
9 253 (5.87%) Banking
10 234 (5.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 221 (5.12%) German Language
12 192 (4.45%) Presentation Skills
13 140 (3.25%) Law
14 137 (3.18%) Telecoms
15 129 (2.99%) Manufacturing
16 123 (2.85%) Public Sector
17 121 (2.81%) Investment Banking
18 108 (2.50%) Military
19 78 (1.81%) Billing
20 75 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 1,533 (35.54%) Analyst
2 580 (13.45%) Senior
3 392 (9.09%) Senior Analyst
4 290 (6.72%) Graduate
5 289 (6.70%) Data Analyst
6 249 (5.77%) Project Manager
7 220 (5.10%) Financial Analyst
8 189 (4.38%) Commercial Analyst
9 188 (4.36%) Administrator
10 167 (3.87%) Coordinator
11 129 (2.99%) Lead
12 121 (2.81%) Developer
13 103 (2.39%) Business Analyst
14 100 (2.32%) Support Engineer
15 95 (2.20%) Development Manager
16 84 (1.95%) Business Manager
16 84 (1.95%) Business Strategy Analyst
16 84 (1.95%) Strategy Analyst
17 83 (1.92%) Support Analyst
18 79 (1.83%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (1.28%) HTML
2 49 (1.14%) .NET
3 35 (0.81%) CSS
4 29 (0.67%) EDI
5 28 (0.65%) XML
6 23 (0.53%) Web Services
7 22 (0.51%) .NET Framework
8 21 (0.49%) JSON
9 11 (0.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 11 (0.26%) REST
9 11 (0.26%) SOAP
10 10 (0.23%) HTML5
11 9 (0.21%) COM
12 8 (0.19%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.19%) jQuery
12 8 (0.19%) RESTful
13 7 (0.16%) LDAP
13 7 (0.16%) PySpark
13 7 (0.16%) React
14 6 (0.14%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 648 (15.02%) Self-Motivation
2 344 (7.98%) Management Information System
3 320 (7.42%) Driving Licence
4 245 (5.68%) Onboarding
5 83 (1.92%) Social Media
6 61 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
8 40 (0.93%) Product Ownership
9 39 (0.90%) Data Centre
10 38 (0.88%) FMCG
11 36 (0.83%) Data Structures
12 33 (0.77%) NHS
13 32 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 31 (0.72%) PMI
15 30 (0.70%) Biopharmaceutical
16 29 (0.67%) Taxonomies
17 28 (0.65%) Life Science
18 21 (0.49%) Blog
19 20 (0.46%) Virtual Team
20 19 (0.44%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 261 (6.05%) Windows
2 74 (1.72%) Linux
3 53 (1.23%) Unix
4 47 (1.09%) Solaris
5 45 (1.04%) Windows Server
6 33 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.26%) Windows 7
8 10 (0.23%) Android
9 9 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.19%) Windows Vista
11 5 (0.12%) Apple iOS
11 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.093%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.070%) AIX
14 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2008
14 2 (0.046%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.023%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.023%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.023%) VMS
15 1 (0.023%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 917 (21.26%) Problem-Solving
2 888 (20.59%) Decision-Making
3 847 (19.64%) Business Intelligence
4 796 (18.46%) Agile
5 668 (15.49%) Actionable Insight
6 642 (14.89%) Mentoring
7 516 (11.96%) Business Case
8 512 (11.87%) Data Analysis
8 512 (11.87%) Project Management
9 499 (11.57%) Budgeting
10 481 (11.15%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 408 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
12 396 (9.18%) Customer Service
13 385 (8.93%) Analytics
14 368 (8.53%) Process Improvement
15 345 (8.00%) Time Management
16 317 (7.35%) Data Management
17 258 (5.98%) Visualisation
18 250 (5.80%) Coaching
19 240 (5.56%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 784 (18.18%) SQL
2 242 (5.61%) Python
3 139 (3.22%) VBA
4 96 (2.23%) R
5 93 (2.16%) C#
6 68 (1.58%) T-SQL
7 67 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 56 (1.30%) JavaScript
9 52 (1.21%) PL/SQL
10 41 (0.95%) PowerShell
11 29 (0.67%) VB
12 24 (0.56%) Java
13 21 (0.49%) PHP
14 13 (0.30%) MATLAB
15 9 (0.21%) Groovy
16 7 (0.16%) Bash
16 7 (0.16%) VB.NET
17 6 (0.14%) C++
18 5 (0.12%) Shell Script
19 4 (0.093%) CFML
Qualifications
1 1,321 (30.63%) Degree
2 546 (12.66%) CIMA
3 543 (12.59%) ACCA
4 325 (7.54%) DBS Check
5 155 (3.59%) Security Cleared
6 85 (1.97%) SC Cleared
7 49 (1.14%) HNC
8 46 (1.07%) Master's Degree
9 45 (1.04%) PMI Certification
10 38 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (0.88%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 32 (0.74%) HND
12 28 (0.65%) CIPD
13 24 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (0.56%) MRICS
14 23 (0.53%) BPSS Clearance
15 22 (0.51%) Numerate Degree
16 21 (0.49%) PMP
17 20 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
18 16 (0.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (4.43%) Data Quality
2 160 (3.71%) QA
3 158 (3.66%) GDPR
4 119 (2.76%) SLA
5 111 (2.57%) PMO
6 81 (1.88%) ISO 9001
7 62 (1.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 55 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 43 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 17025
10 25 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 17 (0.39%) COBIT
11 17 (0.39%) ISO 14001
11 17 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 14 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
12 14 (0.32%) COSHH
13 12 (0.28%) IFRS
14 11 (0.26%) NEBOSH
15 9 (0.21%) GMP
16 6 (0.14%) GRC
17 2 (0.046%) NIST
System Software
1 140 (3.25%) Active Directory
2 44 (1.02%) Oracle RAC
3 42 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (0.46%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.26%) Docker
6 6 (0.14%) VMware Server
7 5 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
7 5 (0.12%) vSphere
8 3 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.046%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.023%) Firmware
10 1 (0.023%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (1.04%) Oracle RMAN
2 44 (1.02%) Data Guard
3 40 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
4 39 (0.90%) EnCase
5 11 (0.26%) Kubernetes
6 10 (0.23%) Ansible
7 7 (0.16%) Cisco CUCM
7 7 (0.16%) Stealthwatch
8 5 (0.12%) Terraform
9 4 (0.093%) AirWatch
9 4 (0.093%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.093%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.070%) Control-M
10 3 (0.070%) Oracle Statspack
10 3 (0.070%) SCCM
11 2 (0.046%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.046%) PaperCut
11 2 (0.046%) WSUS
12 1 (0.023%) Thomson Reuters DACS
12 1 (0.023%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 2,262 (52.45%) Microsoft
2 191 (4.43%) SAP
3 159 (3.69%) Oracle
4 151 (3.50%) Google
5 73 (1.69%) Alteryx
6 71 (1.65%) Salesforce
7 62 (1.44%) VMware
8 61 (1.41%) Virgin Media
9 56 (1.30%) Adobe
10 55 (1.28%) Remedy
11 49 (1.14%) NEC
12 47 (1.09%) Sun
13 36 (0.83%) ServiceNow
14 34 (0.79%) Sage
15 30 (0.70%) Databricks
16 28 (0.65%) Cisco
17 27 (0.63%) NCR
18 21 (0.49%) Xero
19 20 (0.46%) Citrix
20 18 (0.42%) Openreach