Spreadsheet Job Trends

Spreadsheets
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Spreadsheet skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 542 646 628
Rank change year-on-year +104 -18 +27
Permanent jobs citing Spreadsheet 110 105 104
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.21% 0.16% 0.20%
As % of the Applications category 1.63% 1.72% 2.34%
Number of salaries quoted 67 50 73
10th Percentile - £25,000 £21,328
25th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £47,500 £41,860
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +13.47% +0.87%
75th Percentile £56,250 £62,500 £47,500
90th Percentile £61,250 £150,000 £62,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £32,500 £30,072 £35,840
% change year-on-year +8.08% -16.10% +21.49%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 6,768 6,101 4,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 12.93% 9.06% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2,674 2,118 3,143
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £34,827 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% -1.10%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,000 £80,000 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £43,500 £38,500
% change year-on-year -13.79% +12.99% -0.35%

Spreadsheet
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Spreadsheet job vacancy trend in the UK

Spreadsheet
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Spreadsheet

Spreadsheet
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Spreadsheet over the 6 months to 12 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Spreadsheet in the UK

Spreadsheet
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Spreadsheet within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +83 84 £38,000 -27.62% 115
UK excluding London +93 80 £32,500 +8.08% 77
Work from Home +90 57 £30,000 -43.40% 48
South East +40 22 £27,500 -51.11% 29
North of England +7 19 £32,500 +25.00% 14
Midlands +49 12 £52,500 +75.00% 10
London +34 12 £45,000 -18.18% 52
East of England +21 10 £57,500 +69.12% 13
Yorkshire +4 10 £38,000 +46.15% 4
West Midlands +47 9 £55,000 +77.42% 9
North West +26 9 £26,500 -21.48% 10
South West +28 8 - - 7
Scotland -2 4 - - 4
Wales - 4 £24,150 - 2
East Midlands +18 3 £35,000 +16.67% 1
Northern Ireland +3 1 - -

Spreadsheet
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 9 (8.18%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.45%) IIS
3 4 (3.64%) CMS
4 1 (0.91%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.91%) WordPress
Applications
1 51 (46.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (20.91%) Microsoft Office
3 19 (17.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (3.64%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.64%) Shopify
2 3 (2.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Yoast SEO
3 2 (1.82%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (0.91%) CiviCRM
4 1 (0.91%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 18 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (15.45%) Power Platform
3 12 (10.91%) Azure
4 6 (5.45%) Azure Storage
4 6 (5.45%) Power Automate
4 6 (5.45%) PowerApps
4 6 (5.45%) SaaS
5 5 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (4.55%) Google Analytics
6 3 (2.73%) Azure Data Factory
6 3 (2.73%) Google Sheets
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (0.91%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.91%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.91%) AWS
7 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.91%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (0.91%) Google Docs
7 1 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) Firewall
2 7 (6.36%) SD-WAN
2 7 (6.36%) WAN
3 6 (5.45%) SSL
3 6 (5.45%) VPN
4 4 (3.64%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (0.91%) DHCP
5 1 (0.91%) DNS
5 1 (0.91%) Internet
5 1 (0.91%) Intranet
5 1 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.45%) Power BI
2 4 (3.64%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.73%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.73%) GIS
4 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.82%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.91%) MS Access
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.91%) Power Query
General
1 49 (44.55%) Social Skills
2 48 (43.64%) Finance
3 39 (35.45%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (20.00%) Marketing
5 11 (10.00%) Billing
5 11 (10.00%) Retail
6 10 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (7.27%) Legal
7 8 (7.27%) Manufacturing
8 7 (6.36%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.73%) Games
11 1 (0.91%) Back Office
11 1 (0.91%) Brand Awareness
11 1 (0.91%) Electronics
11 1 (0.91%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 32 (29.09%) Analyst
2 21 (19.09%) Support Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) IT Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) IT Support
4 13 (11.82%) IT Support Analyst
4 13 (11.82%) Technical Analyst
4 13 (11.82%) Technical Support
4 13 (11.82%) Technical Support Analyst
5 11 (10.00%) Administrator
6 10 (9.09%) Senior
7 9 (8.18%) Junior
8 7 (6.36%) Developer
8 7 (6.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Cloud Engineer
9 6 (5.45%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Operations Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Applications Support
11 4 (3.64%) Data Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Installations Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.55%) HTML
2 2 (1.82%) .NET
3 1 (0.91%) CrewAI
3 1 (0.91%) CSS
3 1 (0.91%) EDI
3 1 (0.91%) JSON
3 1 (0.91%) Kafka
3 1 (0.91%) LangChain
3 1 (0.91%) REST
3 1 (0.91%) SOAP
3 1 (0.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (17.27%) Onboarding
2 16 (14.55%) Management Information System
3 8 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (6.36%) CMDB
5 5 (4.55%) Social Media
6 4 (3.64%) Reference Data
7 3 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.82%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.91%) AI Agents
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.91%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.91%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.91%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.91%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.18%) Windows
2 7 (6.36%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.91%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.91%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (25.45%) Data Analysis
2 22 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 18 (16.36%) CRM
4 17 (15.45%) Analytics
5 16 (14.55%) Business Intelligence
6 15 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (11.82%) Regulatory Compliance
7 13 (11.82%) Release Management
8 12 (10.91%) Agile
8 12 (10.91%) Process Improvement
9 11 (10.00%) Migration
10 10 (9.09%) Data Entry
11 8 (7.27%) Business Development
11 8 (7.27%) Disaster Recovery
11 8 (7.27%) Portfolio Management
11 8 (7.27%) Workflow
12 7 (6.36%) AI
12 7 (6.36%) Capacity Planning
12 7 (6.36%) Project Management
12 7 (6.36%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 23 (20.91%) SQL
2 7 (6.36%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (1.82%) Ada
4 2 (1.82%) R
5 1 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (0.91%) T-SQL
5 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 10 (9.09%) AAT
1 10 (9.09%) Degree
2 8 (7.27%) ACCA
3 6 (5.45%) DBS Check
4 5 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Azure Certification
5 4 (3.64%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (1.82%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.82%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.82%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.91%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.91%) CBAP
7 1 (0.91%) CCNA
7 1 (0.91%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.91%) HND
7 1 (0.91%) MCP
7 1 (0.91%) MCSA
7 1 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.45%) Accessibility
2 5 (4.55%) PMO
2 5 (4.55%) QA
3 4 (3.64%) GDPR
4 3 (2.73%) SLA
5 1 (0.91%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.91%) ISO 19650
5 1 (0.91%) P3O
System Software
1 7 (6.36%) Hyper-V
1 7 (6.36%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (6.36%) Terraform
3 3 (2.73%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 43 (39.09%) Microsoft
2 9 (8.18%) Sage
3 8 (7.27%) Google
3 8 (7.27%) HubSpot
3 8 (7.27%) Xero
4 6 (5.45%) SonicWALL
5 4 (3.64%) ServiceNow
6 3 (2.73%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.73%) Scality
6 3 (2.73%) Veeam
6 3 (2.73%) YouTube
7 2 (1.82%) Capita
7 2 (1.82%) Civica
7 2 (1.82%) SAP
7 2 (1.82%) Workday
8 1 (0.91%) Adobe
8 1 (0.91%) Apple
8 1 (0.91%) Cognos
8 1 (0.91%) ESRI
8 1 (0.91%) Oracle