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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 60 35
Rank change year-on-year +10 -25 +14
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 230 128 388
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.73% 4.08% 5.27%
As % of the Applications category 54.37% 35.65% 42.04%
Number of salaries quoted 92 89 229
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,300 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,750 £29,000
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 £60,000
90th Percentile £52,755 £56,400 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £43,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.05% +8.75% -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 423 359 923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.02% 11.43% 12.53%
Number of salaries quoted 233 207 515
10th Percentile £27,694 £26,000 £24,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -4.00% -6.25%
75th Percentile £50,000 £48,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £56,250 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -14.89% +25.33% -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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -3 58 £40,000 -11.11% 20
Staffordshire +3 41 £36,000 +2.86% 5
Herefordshire - 28 - - 1
Coventry - 24 £47,500 - 3
Warwickshire -20 23 £40,000 +11.11% 11
Wolverhampton - 22 £60,000 - 2
Walsall +9 8 £37,500 -10.71% 1
Worcestershire -17 8 £37,500 -50.00% 4
Shropshire - 8 £30,250 - 6
Dudley -2 1 £40,000 +14.29% 1
Solihull - 1 £75,000 -
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 4 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.30%) IIS
Applications
1 34 (14.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 32 (13.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.30%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.30%) Magento
2 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 144 (62.61%) Power Platform
2 120 (52.17%) Azure
3 105 (45.65%) Azure AI
4 10 (4.35%) AWS
5 9 (3.91%) Power Automate
5 9 (3.91%) PowerApps
6 8 (3.48%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.74%) Smartsheet
9 3 (1.30%) SaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.87%) IaaS
10 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.87%) PaaS
11 1 (0.43%) Asana
11 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
11 1 (0.43%) Contentsquare
11 1 (0.43%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.43%) DHCP
1 1 (0.43%) DNS
1 1 (0.43%) Modbus
1 1 (0.43%) PuTTY
1 1 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 144 (62.61%) Power BI
2 124 (53.91%) Tableau
3 11 (4.78%) Data Mining
4 10 (4.35%) Power Query
5 3 (1.30%) Metadata
5 3 (1.30%) MySQL
5 3 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.30%) Star Schema
6 2 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (0.43%) Git
2 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.43%) Maven
2 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 164 (71.30%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.30%) Finance
3 46 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (9.13%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.09%) Legal
6 12 (5.22%) Influencing Skills
7 11 (4.78%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (3.04%) Law
11 6 (2.61%) Marketing
11 6 (2.61%) Retail
12 5 (2.17%) Billing
12 5 (2.17%) Public Sector
13 3 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.43%) Games
14 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
14 1 (0.43%) Police
14 1 (0.43%) Publishing
14 1 (0.43%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 161 (70.00%) Analyst
2 132 (57.39%) Data Analyst
3 113 (49.13%) Junior
3 113 (49.13%) Junior Analyst
3 113 (49.13%) Junior Data Analyst
4 13 (5.65%) Trainee
4 13 (5.65%) Trainee Analyst
5 12 (5.22%) Business Intelligence Analyst
6 11 (4.78%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 7 (3.04%) Administrator
7 7 (3.04%) Power BI Analyst
7 7 (3.04%) Technologist
8 6 (2.61%) Coordinator
8 6 (2.61%) Support Analyst
9 5 (2.17%) Commissioning Engineer
9 5 (2.17%) Installations Engineer
9 5 (2.17%) IT Analyst
9 5 (2.17%) Systems Analyst
9 5 (2.17%) Telecoms Engineer
10 4 (1.74%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.30%) CSS
1 3 (1.30%) HTML
1 3 (1.30%) JSON
2 1 (0.43%) ActiveMQ
2 1 (0.43%) RAML
2 1 (0.43%) REST
2 1 (0.43%) SOAP
2 1 (0.43%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.52%) Onboarding
2 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
2 8 (3.48%) Public Cloud
3 5 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.30%) Social Media
6 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.87%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.43%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.43%) FMCG
7 1 (0.43%) IoT
7 1 (0.43%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.61%) Windows
2 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.43%) Linux
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (63.91%) Business Intelligence
2 124 (53.91%) AI
3 37 (16.09%) Analytics
4 32 (13.91%) Decision-Making
5 30 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (12.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (10.87%) Data Analysis
8 24 (10.43%) Project Management
9 16 (6.96%) Visualisation
10 15 (6.52%) Data Visualisation
11 14 (6.09%) Coaching
11 14 (6.09%) Data Analytics
12 13 (5.65%) CRM
12 13 (5.65%) Mathematics
13 12 (5.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 11 (4.78%) Business Analysis
14 11 (4.78%) Data-Driven Decision Making
15 10 (4.35%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (4.35%) Logistics
15 10 (4.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 148 (64.35%) SQL
2 122 (53.04%) Python
3 14 (6.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 9 (3.91%) VBA
5 7 (3.04%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.74%) R
7 3 (1.30%) JavaScript
7 3 (1.30%) PHP
8 1 (0.43%) Java
8 1 (0.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 105 (45.65%) Azure Certification
2 27 (11.74%) Degree
3 8 (3.48%) AWS Certification
4 7 (3.04%) CIMA
5 6 (2.61%) ACCA
6 3 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.30%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.30%) PMP
7 2 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.43%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.43%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.43%) CCAB
8 1 (0.43%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.43%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.43%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.22%) Data Quality
2 9 (3.91%) QA
3 5 (2.17%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.17%) PMO
4 2 (0.87%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.43%) Firmware
1 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.43%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 172 (74.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.78%) Adobe
3 8 (3.48%) Apple
4 5 (2.17%) Cisco
4 5 (2.17%) SAP
5 4 (1.74%) Oracle
6 3 (1.30%) Sage
7 2 (0.87%) Databricks
7 2 (0.87%) DocuSign
7 2 (0.87%) IFS
8 1 (0.43%) Google
8 1 (0.43%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.43%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.43%) VMware
8 1 (0.43%) Workday