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

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -18 +6 +15
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 218 222 342
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.04% 6.60% 5.09%
As % of the Applications category 52.91% 56.78% 47.04%
Number of salaries quoted 95 97 235
10th Percentile £25,250 £29,250 £25,000
25th Percentile £30,125 £32,500 £29,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £48,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £51,000 £57,000 £65,000
England median annual salary £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -8.89% +12.50% -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 412 391 727
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 5.74% 11.62% 10.82%
Number of salaries quoted 229 199 502
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £40,000 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +6.67% -8.54%
75th Percentile £48,065 £52,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £58,750 £57,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £37,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +27.15% -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 2 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 2 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 +2 58 £40,000 -11.11% 19
Staffordshire -2 42 £35,500 +1.43% 14
Warwickshire -29 25 £34,500 -4.17% 12
Herefordshire - 23 - - 2
Coventry -9 19 £41,000 - 6
Wolverhampton - 18 £60,000 - 2
Shropshire - 12 £30,000 - 2
Worcestershire -19 7 £27,500 -42.11% 7
Walsall +10 4 £44,000 +4.76% 3
Solihull +6 1 £75,000 - 5
Dudley -5 1 £40,000 +14.29%
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 (1.38%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 40 (18.35%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (14.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.92%) Trello
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.46%) Magento
1 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 121 (55.50%) Power Platform
2 102 (46.79%) Azure
3 85 (38.99%) Azure AI
4 12 (5.50%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.05%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (4.13%) Power Automate
6 9 (4.13%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.67%) AWS
8 5 (2.29%) Smartsheet
9 4 (1.83%) Azure Data Factory
9 4 (1.83%) OCI
10 3 (1.38%) SaaS
11 2 (0.92%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 2 (0.92%) IaaS
11 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Copilot
11 2 (0.92%) PaaS
12 1 (0.46%) Asana
12 1 (0.46%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.46%) Contentsquare
12 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (0.92%) DHCP
2 2 (0.92%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) Modbus
3 1 (0.46%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.46%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.46%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (55.50%) Power BI
2 105 (48.17%) Tableau
3 17 (7.80%) Data Mining
4 6 (2.75%) Relational Database
5 5 (2.29%) Power Query
6 4 (1.83%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (1.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.92%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.92%) Metadata
8 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.92%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.46%) Looker
9 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (1.83%) JIRA
2 2 (0.92%) Git
2 2 (0.92%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.46%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.46%) Maven
3 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 149 (68.35%) Social Skills
2 59 (27.06%) Finance
3 57 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.72%) Manufacturing
5 18 (8.26%) Legal
6 12 (5.50%) Marketing
7 10 (4.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.13%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (3.67%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.21%) Law
11 6 (2.75%) Billing
11 6 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.29%) Retail
13 1 (0.46%) Games
13 1 (0.46%) Local Government
13 1 (0.46%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.46%) Police
13 1 (0.46%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.46%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 148 (67.89%) Analyst
2 108 (49.54%) Data Analyst
3 90 (41.28%) Junior
3 90 (41.28%) Junior Analyst
4 89 (40.83%) Junior Data Analyst
5 19 (8.72%) Trainee
6 18 (8.26%) Trainee Analyst
7 16 (7.34%) Trainee Data Analyst
8 11 (5.05%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 10 (4.59%) Support Analyst
10 8 (3.67%) Administrator
11 7 (3.21%) Coordinator
11 7 (3.21%) Systems Analyst
12 5 (2.29%) Commissioning Engineer
12 5 (2.29%) Installations Engineer
12 5 (2.29%) Lead
12 5 (2.29%) Power BI Analyst
12 5 (2.29%) Support Technician
12 5 (2.29%) Telecoms Engineer
13 4 (1.83%) CRM Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (0.92%) REST
3 1 (0.46%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.46%) JSON
3 1 (0.46%) RAML
3 1 (0.46%) SOAP
3 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.88%) Onboarding
2 10 (4.59%) Driving Licence
3 8 (3.67%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
5 6 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.83%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.38%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.92%) Data Centre
10 1 (0.46%) Cyber Threat
10 1 (0.46%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.46%) FMCG
10 1 (0.46%) IoT
10 1 (0.46%) iSeries
10 1 (0.46%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.21%) Windows
2 2 (0.92%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.46%) Linux
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (56.88%) Business Intelligence
2 101 (46.33%) AI
3 41 (18.81%) Analytics
4 38 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
5 35 (16.06%) Decision-Making
6 31 (14.22%) Data Analysis
7 29 (13.30%) Project Management
8 28 (12.84%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (9.63%) Data Analytics
10 17 (7.80%) Business Analysis
10 17 (7.80%) Visualisation
11 16 (7.34%) Mathematics
12 14 (6.42%) Data Cleansing
12 14 (6.42%) Data Visualisation
13 12 (5.50%) Coaching
13 12 (5.50%) CRM
13 12 (5.50%) Validation
14 11 (5.05%) Data-Driven Decision Making
14 11 (5.05%) Mentoring
14 11 (5.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 132 (60.55%) SQL
2 109 (50.00%) Python
3 11 (5.05%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 8 (3.67%) VBA
5 7 (3.21%) T-SQL
6 4 (1.83%) R
7 1 (0.46%) Java
7 1 (0.46%) PHP
7 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.46%) VB
Qualifications
1 85 (38.99%) Azure Certification
2 24 (11.01%) Degree
3 10 (4.59%) CIMA
4 9 (4.13%) ACCA
5 8 (3.67%) AWS Certification
6 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.38%) PMP
7 2 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.92%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.46%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.46%) CCAB
8 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.46%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.75%) PMO
3 5 (2.29%) ISO 9001
3 5 (2.29%) QA
4 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.46%) GDPR
5 1 (0.46%) GMP
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (0.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.46%) Docker
2 1 (0.46%) Firmware
2 1 (0.46%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.46%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 155 (71.10%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.13%) Adobe
3 8 (3.67%) Apple
4 6 (2.75%) Oracle
4 6 (2.75%) Sage
4 6 (2.75%) SAP
5 5 (2.29%) Cisco
6 2 (0.92%) DocuSign
6 2 (0.92%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.92%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.46%) Cognos
7 1 (0.46%) Google
7 1 (0.46%) HubSpot
7 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.46%) Remedy
7 1 (0.46%) Symantec
7 1 (0.46%) VMware
7 1 (0.46%) Workday