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 26 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 43 36
Rank change year-on-year -6 -7 +13
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 239 180 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.94% 5.40% 4.95%
As % of the Applications category 55.45% 44.55% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 99 91 235
10th Percentile £26,050 £28,000 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £30,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -6.25% -
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £58,125
90th Percentile £52,500 £57,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £44,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -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 431 404 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.30% 12.12% 12.27%
Number of salaries quoted 233 208 512
10th Percentile £26,250 £26,250 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,188 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +26.67% -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 26 April 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 26 April 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 0 59 £40,000 -11.11% 20
Staffordshire -3 46 £35,500 +1.43% 7
Warwickshire -28 28 £37,250 +26.27% 9
Herefordshire - 26 - - 2
Coventry -5 24 £47,500 - 5
Wolverhampton - 22 £60,000 - 3
Shropshire - 10 £30,000 - 3
Worcestershire -17 8 £37,500 -50.00% 10
Walsall +10 6 £40,750 -2.98% 4
Solihull +13 1 £75,000 - 6
Dudley -2 1 £40,000 +14.29% 1
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 (1.26%) IIS
1 3 (1.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 37 (15.48%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (13.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.26%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.84%) Trello
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.26%) Magento
2 1 (0.42%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 145 (60.67%) Power Platform
2 122 (51.05%) Azure
3 105 (43.93%) Azure AI
4 11 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
5 10 (4.18%) Microsoft 365
6 9 (3.77%) AWS
6 9 (3.77%) Power Automate
6 9 (3.77%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.09%) Smartsheet
8 4 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.26%) OCI
9 3 (1.26%) SaaS
10 2 (0.84%) IaaS
10 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.84%) PaaS
11 1 (0.42%) Asana
11 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.42%) Contentsquare
11 1 (0.42%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.84%) DHCP
2 2 (0.84%) DNS
3 1 (0.42%) Firewall
3 1 (0.42%) Modbus
3 1 (0.42%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.42%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.42%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (60.67%) Power BI
2 125 (52.30%) Tableau
3 14 (5.86%) Data Mining
4 7 (2.93%) Power Query
5 6 (2.51%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.26%) Metadata
7 3 (1.26%) MySQL
7 3 (1.26%) Oracle Reports
7 3 (1.26%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.84%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.84%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.67%) JIRA
2 2 (0.84%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.42%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.42%) Maven
3 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 168 (70.29%) Social Skills
2 57 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
2 57 (23.85%) Finance
3 21 (8.79%) Manufacturing
4 16 (6.69%) Legal
5 10 (4.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (3.77%) Marketing
7 8 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.35%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.93%) Law
9 6 (2.51%) Billing
10 5 (2.09%) Retail
11 2 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.84%) Public Sector
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
12 1 (0.42%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.42%) Police
Job Titles
1 173 (72.38%) Analyst
2 133 (55.65%) Data Analyst
3 114 (47.70%) Junior
3 114 (47.70%) Junior Analyst
4 113 (47.28%) Junior Data Analyst
5 16 (6.69%) Trainee
5 16 (6.69%) Trainee Analyst
6 14 (5.86%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 14 (5.86%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 11 (4.60%) Support Analyst
8 7 (2.93%) IT Analyst
8 7 (2.93%) Power BI Analyst
8 7 (2.93%) Systems Analyst
9 6 (2.51%) Administrator
9 6 (2.51%) Coordinator
10 5 (2.09%) Commissioning Engineer
10 5 (2.09%) Installations Engineer
10 5 (2.09%) IT Support
10 5 (2.09%) PMO Analyst
10 5 (2.09%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.26%) CSS
1 3 (1.26%) HTML
1 3 (1.26%) JSON
1 3 (1.26%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.42%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (0.42%) RAML
2 1 (0.42%) REST
2 1 (0.42%) SOAP
2 1 (0.42%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.28%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.18%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.77%) Driving Licence
4 8 (3.35%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
6 3 (1.26%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.26%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.26%) Social Media
7 2 (0.84%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.42%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.42%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.42%) FMCG
8 1 (0.42%) IoT
8 1 (0.42%) iSeries
8 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.42%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.77%) Windows
2 5 (2.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 148 (61.92%) Business Intelligence
2 122 (51.05%) AI
3 42 (17.57%) Analytics
4 39 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
5 36 (15.06%) Decision-Making
6 33 (13.81%) Data Analysis
7 29 (12.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (11.30%) Project Management
9 19 (7.95%) Data Analytics
10 18 (7.53%) Mathematics
10 18 (7.53%) Visualisation
11 15 (6.28%) Data Visualisation
12 14 (5.86%) Business Analysis
13 13 (5.44%) Coaching
14 12 (5.02%) CRM
14 12 (5.02%) Data Cleansing
14 12 (5.02%) Validation
15 11 (4.60%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 11 (4.60%) Mentoring
15 11 (4.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 155 (64.85%) SQL
2 125 (52.30%) Python
3 13 (5.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 10 (4.18%) VBA
5 7 (2.93%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.67%) R
7 3 (1.26%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.26%) PHP
8 1 (0.42%) Java
8 1 (0.42%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (43.93%) Azure Certification
2 25 (10.46%) Degree
3 8 (3.35%) AWS Certification
3 8 (3.35%) CIMA
4 7 (2.93%) ACCA
5 3 (1.26%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.26%) PMP
6 2 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.42%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.42%) CCAB
7 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.42%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (6.69%) Data Quality
2 7 (2.93%) PMO
3 6 (2.51%) QA
4 5 (2.09%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
6 1 (0.42%) GMP
System Software
1 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.42%) Firmware
2 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.42%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 174 (72.80%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.60%) Adobe
3 8 (3.35%) Apple
4 5 (2.09%) Cisco
4 5 (2.09%) Oracle
4 5 (2.09%) SAP
5 4 (1.67%) Sage
6 2 (0.84%) DocuSign
7 1 (0.42%) Databricks
7 1 (0.42%) Google
7 1 (0.42%) IFS
7 1 (0.42%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.42%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.42%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.42%) Symantec
7 1 (0.42%) VMware
7 1 (0.42%) Workday