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

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 21 45
Rank change year-on-year -29 +24 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 195 396 162
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 4.18% 7.94% 4.94%
As % of the Applications category 36.25% 64.39% 47.37%
Number of salaries quoted 115 75 124
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,800 £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 £46,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £62,125
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 538 615 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.52% 12.34% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 236 191 234
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,750 £24,293
25th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £30,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -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 7 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 7 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 +24 50 £40,000 -5.88% 36
Staffordshire -24 37 £35,000 - 24
Warwickshire -17 34 £32,500 -9.72% 27
Herefordshire +7 16 £30,000 +14.50% 2
Coventry -8 13 £60,000 +118.18% 14
Walsall - 13 £45,000 - 3
Worcestershire -4 8 £31,000 -20.00% 14
Shropshire -9 8 £25,500 -55.65% 29
Wolverhampton - 4 - - 17
Dudley 0 1 £40,000 +14.29% 6
Solihull -13 1 £34,000 - 1
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 -
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 (4.10%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.05%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 63 (32.31%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (8.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.05%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) Elite 3E
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 64 (32.82%) Power Platform
2 25 (12.82%) Azure
3 22 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (10.26%) Azure AI
5 9 (4.62%) Smartsheet
6 8 (4.10%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.08%) OCI
8 5 (2.56%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.03%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.03%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) AWS
10 1 (0.51%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub
10 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.59%) Intranet
2 4 (2.05%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.54%) Internet
4 1 (0.51%) DHCP
4 1 (0.51%) DNS
4 1 (0.51%) Firewall
4 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.51%) Network Security
4 1 (0.51%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.51%) SMS
4 1 (0.51%) VPN
4 1 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (32.82%) Power BI
2 34 (17.44%) Tableau
3 15 (7.69%) Data Mining
4 14 (7.18%) GIS
5 7 (3.59%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.08%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (3.08%) Power Query
7 5 (2.56%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.03%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.03%) MS Access
8 2 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.51%) Looker
9 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (3.59%) JIRA
2 2 (1.03%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Maven
3 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 103 (52.82%) Social Skills
2 94 (48.21%) Finance
3 53 (27.18%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.33%) Legal
5 23 (11.79%) Marketing
6 22 (11.28%) Organisational Skills
7 20 (10.26%) Manufacturing
8 14 (7.18%) Fire and Rescue
9 12 (6.15%) Retail
10 10 (5.13%) Electronics
10 10 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.56%) Law
11 5 (2.56%) Telecoms
12 4 (2.05%) Public Sector
13 2 (1.03%) Military
13 2 (1.03%) Police
14 1 (0.51%) Back Office
14 1 (0.51%) Billing
14 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 72 (36.92%) Analyst
2 36 (18.46%) Data Analyst
3 22 (11.28%) Junior
3 22 (11.28%) Junior Analyst
4 20 (10.26%) Junior Data Analyst
5 14 (7.18%) Network Engineer
5 14 (7.18%) Senior
6 12 (6.15%) Support Analyst
7 11 (5.64%) Trainee
8 10 (5.13%) Administrator
8 10 (5.13%) Delivery Manager
8 10 (5.13%) Trainee Analyst
8 10 (5.13%) Trainee Data Analyst
9 9 (4.62%) Coordinator
10 8 (4.10%) Accountant
10 8 (4.10%) Service Manager
11 7 (3.59%) Accounts Assistant
11 7 (3.59%) Business Intelligence Analyst
11 7 (3.59%) Service Delivery Manager
12 6 (3.08%) Insight Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.08%) Oracle Fusion
2 3 (1.54%) EDI
3 2 (1.03%) .NET
3 2 (1.03%) .NET Framework
3 2 (1.03%) ADO
3 2 (1.03%) Blazor
3 2 (1.03%) ODBC
3 2 (1.03%) REST
3 2 (1.03%) WPF
4 1 (0.51%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (0.51%) Ember.js
4 1 (0.51%) JSON
4 1 (0.51%) LDAP
4 1 (0.51%) RAML
4 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (9.23%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.18%) SCADA
3 13 (6.67%) Management Information System
4 12 (6.15%) Driving Licence
5 7 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.08%) FMCG
6 6 (3.08%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.05%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.54%) Algorithms
9 3 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.03%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.03%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.51%) Data Protection Act
11 1 (0.51%) iSeries
11 1 (0.51%) NHS
11 1 (0.51%) Product Ownership
11 1 (0.51%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.10%) Windows
2 2 (1.03%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (37.44%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (31.79%) Business Intelligence
3 37 (18.97%) Data Analysis
4 36 (18.46%) Analytics
5 33 (16.92%) Project Management
6 30 (15.38%) ERP
7 27 (13.85%) Decision-Making
8 24 (12.31%) Data Analytics
8 24 (12.31%) Process Improvement
9 23 (11.79%) AI
10 22 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (10.77%) Actionable Insight
12 20 (10.26%) Customer Service
13 19 (9.74%) Collaborative Working
14 18 (9.23%) User Acceptance Testing
15 17 (8.72%) Data Cleansing
16 16 (8.21%) Mathematics
17 15 (7.69%) Incident Management
17 15 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 15 (7.69%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 68 (34.87%) SQL
2 44 (22.56%) Python
3 8 (4.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 4 (2.05%) R
4 4 (2.05%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.05%) VBA
5 3 (1.54%) Java
5 3 (1.54%) PHP
6 2 (1.03%) C#
6 2 (1.03%) Delphi
6 2 (1.03%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.03%) XAML
7 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (18.46%) Degree
2 23 (11.79%) ACCA
2 23 (11.79%) CIMA
3 20 (10.26%) Azure Certification
4 16 (8.21%) AAT
5 5 (2.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.03%) CCAB
6 2 (1.03%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.03%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.03%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.51%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.74%) Data Quality
2 9 (4.62%) PMO
3 5 (2.56%) SLA
4 3 (1.54%) Actionable Recommendations
4 3 (1.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.51%) EMIR
5 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.51%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.51%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 128 (65.64%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.62%) SAP
3 8 (4.10%) Oracle
4 5 (2.56%) Databricks
4 5 (2.56%) Sage
4 5 (2.56%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.05%) Google
6 3 (1.54%) Adobe
6 3 (1.54%) Cognos
6 3 (1.54%) Remedy
6 3 (1.54%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 2 (1.03%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.51%) Apple
8 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.51%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.51%) Symantec
8 1 (0.51%) Workday