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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 41 20
Rank change year-on-year -18 -21 +29
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 201 161 439
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.25% 4.95% 7.24%
As % of the Applications category 46.21% 30.96% 54.00%
Number of salaries quoted 89 112 60
10th Percentile £27,402 £28,000 £26,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £47,500 £50,500 £44,375
90th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £68,250
England median annual salary £37,500 £40,000 £43,337
% change year-on-year -6.25% -7.70% -3.70%

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 435 520 813
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.86% 15.98% 13.41%
Number of salaries quoted 253 251 184
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,250 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £32,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £37,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -7.50% -3.75%
75th Percentile £53,750 £45,000 £56,045
90th Percentile £62,000 £60,000 £63,225
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% -

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 September 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 September 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
Warwickshire -11 37 £32,500 -8.45% 32
Birmingham -27 36 £45,000 +5.88% 62
Staffordshire +5 29 £35,500 -11.25% 25
Herefordshire -5 25 £75,000 +150.00% 3
Worcestershire -14 19 £29,000 -6.45% 9
Coventry -12 16 £38,000 -36.67% 11
Shropshire -7 15 £35,000 -36.36% 10
Wolverhampton - 7 - - 3
Walsall 0 5 £37,500 -16.67% 5
Tipton - 5 £33,500 -
Solihull +9 2 £38,000 +11.76% 13
Smethwick - 1 - - 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 9 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.99%) Confluence
3 3 (1.49%) IIS
4 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 39 (19.40%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (13.93%) Microsoft Project
3 25 (12.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.99%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 3 (1.49%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.50%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.50%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (8.46%) Primavera
1 17 (8.46%) SAP EHS
2 3 (1.49%) Magento
2 3 (1.49%) Sage 50
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Maximo
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 71 (35.32%) Power Platform
2 40 (19.90%) Azure
3 35 (17.41%) Azure AI
4 21 (10.45%) Smartsheet
5 12 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.99%) AWS
6 4 (1.99%) SaaS
7 3 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.49%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.00%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.50%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.50%) DHCP
1 1 (0.50%) DNS
1 1 (0.50%) LAN
1 1 (0.50%) VPN
1 1 (0.50%) WAN
1 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (34.83%) Power BI
2 43 (21.39%) Tableau
3 10 (4.98%) Power Query
4 3 (1.49%) MySQL
5 2 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.50%) Metadata
6 1 (0.50%) MS Access
6 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 6 (2.99%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) Git
3 2 (1.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.00%) GitLab
3 2 (1.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.00%) JMeter
3 2 (1.00%) Postman
3 2 (1.00%) Selenium
3 2 (1.00%) SoapUI
3 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
General
1 133 (66.17%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 38 (18.91%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (15.92%) Organisational Skills
5 29 (14.43%) Manufacturing
6 23 (11.44%) Legal
7 17 (8.46%) Public Sector
8 15 (7.46%) Influencing Skills
9 11 (5.47%) Retail
10 8 (3.98%) Marketing
11 5 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.49%) Social Housing
12 4 (1.99%) Electronics
12 4 (1.99%) Law
12 4 (1.99%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.00%) Automotive
14 2 (1.00%) Brand Awareness
14 2 (1.00%) Military
15 1 (0.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 63 (31.34%) Analyst
2 50 (24.88%) Data Analyst
3 44 (21.89%) Junior
4 41 (20.40%) Junior Analyst
4 41 (20.40%) Junior Data Analyst
5 21 (10.45%) Lead
6 19 (9.45%) Administrator
7 13 (6.47%) Coordinator
8 10 (4.98%) Technologist
9 9 (4.48%) Accountant
10 6 (2.99%) Development Manager
11 5 (2.49%) Business Intelligence Analyst
12 4 (1.99%) IT Support Engineer
12 4 (1.99%) PMO Analyst
12 4 (1.99%) Project Engineer
12 4 (1.99%) Project Leader
12 4 (1.99%) Project Manager
12 4 (1.99%) Project Planner
12 4 (1.99%) SAP Administrator
12 4 (1.99%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.49%) JSON
2 3 (1.49%) CSS
2 3 (1.49%) EDI
2 3 (1.49%) HTML
3 2 (1.00%) ADO
3 2 (1.00%) Playwright
3 2 (1.00%) SOAP
3 2 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (8.96%) PMI
2 16 (7.96%) Management Information System
3 14 (6.97%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.47%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (4.48%) e-Learning
6 7 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (2.99%) Data Centre
8 5 (2.49%) Social Media
9 3 (1.49%) Web Conferencing
10 2 (1.00%) Driving Licence
10 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
11 1 (0.50%) AI Agents
11 1 (0.50%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.50%) FMCG
11 1 (0.50%) NHS
11 1 (0.50%) Photography
11 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.50%) Robotics
11 1 (0.50%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.99%) Windows
2 3 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (34.83%) Business Intelligence
2 60 (29.85%) Continuous Improvement
3 54 (26.87%) Decision-Making
4 47 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
5 45 (22.39%) AI
6 39 (19.40%) Project Management
7 30 (14.93%) ERP
8 27 (13.43%) QMS
9 24 (11.94%) Agile
10 23 (11.44%) Stakeholder Management
11 22 (10.95%) Coaching
11 22 (10.95%) Logistics
12 20 (9.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 19 (9.45%) Analytics
13 19 (9.45%) Customer Service
14 18 (8.96%) Project Planning
15 17 (8.46%) Conflict Management
15 17 (8.46%) Data Analysis
15 17 (8.46%) Quality Management
15 17 (8.46%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 61 (30.35%) SQL
2 39 (19.40%) Python
3 10 (4.98%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 3 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.49%) PHP
4 3 (1.49%) VBA
5 2 (1.00%) Java
6 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 48 (23.88%) Degree
2 35 (17.41%) Azure Certification
3 18 (8.96%) PMI Certification
4 14 (6.97%) SC Cleared
4 14 (6.97%) Security Cleared
5 6 (2.99%) ACCA
6 5 (2.49%) CIMA
7 4 (1.99%) CIPD
7 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 3 (1.49%) AAT
8 3 (1.49%) CCAB
9 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.00%) ISEB
9 2 (1.00%) ISTQB
9 2 (1.00%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.50%) HNC
10 1 (0.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (7.46%) QA
2 7 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.99%) GDPR
4 5 (2.49%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.99%) PMO
5 4 (1.99%) SLA
6 3 (1.49%) ISO 9001
7 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.50%) GMP
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 129 (64.18%) Microsoft
2 32 (15.92%) SAP
3 5 (2.49%) Oracle
4 4 (1.99%) Sage
5 3 (1.49%) Adobe
5 3 (1.49%) Databricks
5 3 (1.49%) Google
5 3 (1.49%) Zoho
6 2 (1.00%) IFS
6 2 (1.00%) NEC
6 2 (1.00%) Pega
6 2 (1.00%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.50%) Apple
7 1 (0.50%) Autodesk
7 1 (0.50%) Facebook