Microsoft Excel Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft Excel
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 32 37
Rank change year-on-year -18 +5 +11
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 201 226 337
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.01% 6.39% 5.39%
As % of the Applications category 41.70% 58.55% 48.28%
Number of salaries quoted 90 93 233
10th Percentile £25,250 £29,250 £24,600
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £41,250 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +12.50% -11.11%

All Software Application Skills
West Midlands

Microsoft Excel 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 482 386 698
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.21% 10.92% 11.17%
Number of salaries quoted 226 192 493
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £23,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £26,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £42,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.41% +13.33% -10.24%
75th Percentile £47,924 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,450 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £48,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +28.00% -16.67%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the West Midlands

Microsoft Excel
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 March 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
Birmingham +5 57 £40,000 -11.11% 19
Staffordshire 0 41 £35,500 +1.43% 13
Warwickshire -27 24 £33,500 -6.94% 8
Herefordshire - 20 - - 1
Coventry -11 16 £41,000 - 5
Wolverhampton - 15 £60,000 - 4
Shropshire -15 10 £28,000 - 8
Worcestershire -20 5 £27,500 -42.11% 11
Walsall +7 3 £44,000 +4.76% 3
Solihull +4 1 £75,000 - 3
Dudley -5 1 £40,000 +14.29%
Microsoft Excel
England

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (1.49%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.00%) Confluence
3 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 39 (19.40%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (16.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.00%) Trello
4 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.50%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 104 (51.74%) Power Platform
2 87 (43.28%) Azure
3 70 (34.83%) Azure AI
4 12 (5.97%) Dynamics 365
4 12 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.48%) Power Automate
5 9 (4.48%) PowerApps
6 8 (3.98%) AWS
7 6 (2.99%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.99%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (1.99%) OCI
9 3 (1.49%) SaaS
10 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (1.00%) IaaS
10 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (1.00%) PaaS
11 1 (0.50%) Asana
11 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.50%) Contentsquare
11 1 (0.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.49%) Internet
3 2 (1.00%) DHCP
3 2 (1.00%) DNS
4 1 (0.50%) Firewall
4 1 (0.50%) Modbus
4 1 (0.50%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.50%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (51.74%) Power BI
2 87 (43.28%) Tableau
3 17 (8.46%) Data Mining
4 7 (3.48%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.99%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.49%) Power Query
6 3 (1.49%) SQL Server
7 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.00%) Metadata
7 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.00%) Star Schema
8 1 (0.50%) Looker
8 1 (0.50%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.49%) JIRA
2 2 (1.00%) Git
2 2 (1.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.50%) Maven
3 1 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 137 (68.16%) Social Skills
2 59 (29.35%) Finance
3 55 (27.36%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.96%) Manufacturing
5 16 (7.96%) Legal
6 12 (5.97%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (4.98%) Marketing
8 8 (3.98%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.48%) Law
10 6 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.49%) Billing
11 5 (2.49%) Retail
12 2 (1.00%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.50%) Games
13 1 (0.50%) Local Government
13 1 (0.50%) Police
13 1 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 130 (64.68%) Analyst
2 91 (45.27%) Data Analyst
3 75 (37.31%) Junior
3 75 (37.31%) Junior Analyst
4 73 (36.32%) Junior Data Analyst
5 19 (9.45%) Trainee
6 18 (8.96%) Trainee Analyst
7 16 (7.96%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (5.47%) Administrator
9 10 (4.98%) Support Analyst
10 9 (4.48%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (3.48%) Systems Analyst
12 5 (2.49%) Commissioning Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) Coordinator
12 5 (2.49%) Installations Engineer
12 5 (2.49%) IT Analyst
12 5 (2.49%) Lead
12 5 (2.49%) Support Technician
12 5 (2.49%) Telecoms Engineer
13 4 (1.99%) Power BI Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.00%) REST
3 1 (0.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.50%) JSON
3 1 (0.50%) RAML
3 1 (0.50%) SOAP
3 1 (0.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.98%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.98%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.99%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.49%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.50%) IoT
9 1 (0.50%) iSeries
9 1 (0.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.50%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.50%) Linux
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (53.23%) Business Intelligence
2 86 (42.79%) AI
3 40 (19.90%) Analytics
4 35 (17.41%) Problem-Solving
5 34 (16.92%) Decision-Making
6 30 (14.93%) Project Management
7 29 (14.43%) Data Analysis
8 28 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (9.95%) Data Analytics
10 17 (8.46%) Business Analysis
11 16 (7.96%) Data Cleansing
12 15 (7.46%) Visualisation
13 14 (6.97%) Mathematics
14 13 (6.47%) CRM
14 13 (6.47%) Data Visualisation
14 13 (6.47%) Validation
15 12 (5.97%) Coaching
15 12 (5.97%) Mentoring
15 12 (5.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 11 (5.47%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 116 (57.71%) SQL
2 93 (46.27%) Python
3 10 (4.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.98%) VBA
5 7 (3.48%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.99%) R
7 1 (0.50%) Java
7 1 (0.50%) PHP
7 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 70 (34.83%) Azure Certification
2 21 (10.45%) Degree
3 10 (4.98%) CIMA
4 9 (4.48%) ACCA
5 8 (3.98%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.49%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.49%) PMP
7 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.50%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.50%) CCAB
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.50%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.50%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.50%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.46%) Data Quality
2 7 (3.48%) PMO
3 5 (2.49%) ISO 9001
4 4 (1.99%) QA
5 3 (1.49%) SLA
6 2 (1.00%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (1.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Firmware
2 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.50%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 144 (71.64%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.98%) Adobe
3 8 (3.98%) Apple
3 8 (3.98%) SAP
4 6 (2.99%) Oracle
4 6 (2.99%) Sage
5 5 (2.49%) Cisco
6 3 (1.49%) Cognos
6 3 (1.49%) Remedy
6 3 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.00%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.00%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.50%) Google
8 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.50%) Symantec
8 1 (0.50%) VMware
8 1 (0.50%) Workday