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 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 21 48
Rank change year-on-year -17 +27 -1
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 191 408 159
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.93% 7.99% 4.91%
As % of the Applications category 35.77% 64.45% 47.32%
Number of salaries quoted 116 74 121
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,725 £21,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £27,760
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -12.50% +4.58%
75th Percentile £45,000 £46,875 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £41,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -7.78% - -5.26%

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 534 633 336
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.77% 12.39% 10.38%
Number of salaries quoted 237 191 228
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,750 £23,988
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £30,510
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% -11.11% +9.09%
75th Percentile £45,000 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £66,250
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% +11.76% -8.60%

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 4 December 2025.

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 4 December 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
Birmingham +22 49 £40,000 -5.88% 28
Staffordshire -11 37 £36,250 +3.57% 22
Warwickshire -6 33 £33,500 -6.94% 31
Herefordshire +8 15 £30,000 +14.50% 2
Walsall - 13 £45,000 - 5
Coventry -6 12 £60,000 +118.18% 7
Worcestershire +9 8 £31,000 -20.00% 8
Shropshire -4 8 £25,500 -55.65% 8
Wolverhampton - 3 - - 7
Solihull -12 2 £34,000 - 2
Wednesbury - 2 £50,000 -
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 8 (4.19%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.09%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 63 (32.98%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.52%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.52%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 62 (32.46%) Power Platform
2 22 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (9.95%) Azure
4 15 (7.85%) Azure AI
5 9 (4.71%) Smartsheet
6 7 (3.66%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.14%) OCI
8 5 (2.62%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.05%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.05%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.05%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.52%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.52%) GitHub
10 1 (0.52%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.52%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.66%) Intranet
2 4 (2.09%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.57%) Internet
4 1 (0.52%) DHCP
4 1 (0.52%) DNS
4 1 (0.52%) Firewall
4 1 (0.52%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.52%) Network Security
4 1 (0.52%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.52%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.52%) SMS
4 1 (0.52%) VPN
4 1 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (32.46%) Power BI
2 28 (14.66%) Tableau
3 14 (7.33%) Data Mining
3 14 (7.33%) GIS
4 6 (3.14%) Oracle Reports
4 6 (3.14%) Power Query
4 6 (3.14%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.62%) SQL Server
6 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.05%) MS Access
6 2 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.52%) Looker
7 1 (0.52%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.66%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Git
3 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Maven
3 1 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 98 (51.31%) Social Skills
2 96 (50.26%) Finance
3 53 (27.75%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.61%) Legal
5 24 (12.57%) Marketing
6 22 (11.52%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (10.47%) Manufacturing
8 14 (7.33%) Fire and Rescue
9 12 (6.28%) Retail
10 10 (5.24%) Electronics
11 9 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (3.14%) Law
12 6 (3.14%) Telecoms
13 4 (2.09%) Public Sector
14 3 (1.57%) Military
15 2 (1.05%) Police
16 1 (0.52%) Billing
16 1 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
16 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
16 1 (0.52%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 66 (34.55%) Analyst
2 31 (16.23%) Data Analyst
3 17 (8.90%) Junior
3 17 (8.90%) Junior Analyst
4 15 (7.85%) Junior Data Analyst
5 14 (7.33%) Network Engineer
5 14 (7.33%) Senior
6 11 (5.76%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.24%) Administrator
7 10 (5.24%) Delivery Manager
7 10 (5.24%) Trainee
8 9 (4.71%) Coordinator
8 9 (4.71%) Trainee Analyst
8 9 (4.71%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 8 (4.19%) Accountant
9 8 (4.19%) Service Manager
10 7 (3.66%) Accounts Assistant
10 7 (3.66%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Insight Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.14%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.57%) EDI
3 2 (1.05%) .NET
3 2 (1.05%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.05%) ADO
3 2 (1.05%) Blazor
3 2 (1.05%) ODBC
3 2 (1.05%) REST
3 2 (1.05%) WPF
4 1 (0.52%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.52%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.52%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) LDAP
4 1 (0.52%) RAML
4 1 (0.52%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.90%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.33%) SCADA
3 13 (6.81%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.81%) Management Information System
4 7 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 6 (3.14%) FMCG
5 6 (3.14%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
7 4 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (2.09%) Data Structures
7 4 (2.09%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.57%) Algorithms
9 2 (1.05%) Housing Association
9 2 (1.05%) Renewable Energy
9 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.52%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.52%) iSeries
10 1 (0.52%) NHS
10 1 (0.52%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.19%) Windows
2 2 (1.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (39.27%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (31.41%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (19.37%) Data Analysis
4 35 (18.32%) Project Management
5 34 (17.80%) Analytics
6 30 (15.71%) ERP
7 29 (15.18%) Decision-Making
8 25 (13.09%) Process Improvement
9 23 (12.04%) Data Analytics
10 22 (11.52%) Actionable Insight
10 22 (11.52%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.99%) Customer Service
12 19 (9.95%) Collaborative Working
13 17 (8.90%) AI
13 17 (8.90%) User Acceptance Testing
14 16 (8.38%) Data Cleansing
14 16 (8.38%) Mathematics
15 15 (7.85%) Incident Management
15 15 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 15 (7.85%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 62 (32.46%) SQL
2 38 (19.90%) Python
3 8 (4.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.09%) R
4 4 (2.09%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.09%) VBA
5 3 (1.57%) Java
5 3 (1.57%) PHP
6 2 (1.05%) C#
6 2 (1.05%) Delphi
6 2 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.05%) XAML
7 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (18.85%) Degree
2 23 (12.04%) ACCA
2 23 (12.04%) CIMA
3 16 (8.38%) AAT
4 15 (7.85%) Azure Certification
5 5 (2.62%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.05%) CCAB
6 2 (1.05%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.05%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.95%) Data Quality
2 10 (5.24%) PMO
3 5 (2.62%) SLA
4 4 (2.09%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.52%) EMIR
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.52%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 122 (63.87%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.71%) SAP
3 8 (4.19%) Oracle
4 5 (2.62%) Databricks
4 5 (2.62%) Sage
4 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.09%) Google
6 3 (1.57%) Cognos
6 3 (1.57%) HubSpot
6 3 (1.57%) Remedy
6 3 (1.57%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.52%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.52%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.52%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.52%) Symantec
8 1 (0.52%) Workday