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

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 26 51
Rank change year-on-year -22 +25 -3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 197 304 155
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.75% 6.99% 4.65%
As % of the Applications category 38.86% 60.80% 50.16%
Number of salaries quoted 113 79 130
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,300 £21,500
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £43,250
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -19.08% +13.07%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £60,938
90th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% - -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 507 500 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.65% 11.49% 9.27%
Number of salaries quoted 230 186 234
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,750 £24,393
25th Percentile £30,250 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - -11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £48,438 £53,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,750 £65,700
England median annual salary £40,000 £47,683 £42,500
% change year-on-year -16.11% +12.20% -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 31 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 31 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 +26 57 £40,000 -5.88% 30
Staffordshire -17 37 £35,000 - 20
Warwickshire -19 31 £36,500 +1.39% 5
Herefordshire +6 18 £30,000 +14.50% 1
Coventry -4 14 £60,000 +118.18% 15
Walsall - 12 £45,000 - 2
Shropshire -16 7 £25,500 -55.65% 25
Wolverhampton - 5 - - 18
Worcestershire -17 4 £31,000 -20.00% 9
Dudley -3 1 £40,000 +14.29% 2
Solihull -10 1 £75,000 - 2
Wednesbury - 1 £55,000 - 2
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 (2.03%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) Confluence
3 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 57 (28.93%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (10.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.02%) Trello
5 1 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.03%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.51%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.52%) Power Platform
2 38 (19.29%) Azure
3 25 (12.69%) Azure AI
4 17 (8.63%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (4.57%) Smartsheet
6 8 (4.06%) AWS
6 8 (4.06%) Dynamics 365
7 6 (3.05%) OCI
8 4 (2.03%) Snowflake
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.02%) Google Analytics
9 2 (1.02%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.51%) Asana
10 1 (0.51%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.51%) GitHub
10 1 (0.51%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.51%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.52%) Internet
2 3 (1.52%) Intranet
3 1 (0.51%) DHCP
3 1 (0.51%) DNS
3 1 (0.51%) Firewall
3 1 (0.51%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.51%) Network Security
3 1 (0.51%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.51%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.51%) SMS
3 1 (0.51%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (34.52%) Power BI
2 42 (21.32%) Tableau
3 17 (8.63%) Data Mining
4 14 (7.11%) GIS
5 7 (3.55%) Relational Database
6 6 (3.05%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (3.05%) Power Query
7 5 (2.54%) SQL Server
8 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.02%) MS Access
8 2 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 1 (0.51%) Looker
9 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (3.05%) JIRA
2 2 (1.02%) Git
3 1 (0.51%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.51%) Maven
3 1 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (51.27%) Social Skills
2 84 (42.64%) Finance
3 54 (27.41%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (13.20%) Legal
5 22 (11.17%) Marketing
6 20 (10.15%) Manufacturing
7 15 (7.61%) Organisational Skills
8 14 (7.11%) Fire and Rescue
9 12 (6.09%) Retail
10 11 (5.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (5.08%) Electronics
12 4 (2.03%) Law
13 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
14 2 (1.02%) Billing
14 2 (1.02%) Police
14 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.51%) Military
15 1 (0.51%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.51%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 84 (42.64%) Analyst
2 43 (21.83%) Data Analyst
3 27 (13.71%) Junior
3 27 (13.71%) Junior Analyst
4 25 (12.69%) Junior Data Analyst
5 14 (7.11%) Network Engineer
5 14 (7.11%) Senior
5 14 (7.11%) Trainee
6 13 (6.60%) Trainee Analyst
6 13 (6.60%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 12 (6.09%) Support Analyst
8 10 (5.08%) Administrator
9 7 (3.55%) Accounts Assistant
9 7 (3.55%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (3.55%) Delivery Manager
10 6 (3.05%) Accountant
10 6 (3.05%) Insight Analyst
10 6 (3.05%) Systems Support
11 5 (2.54%) Support Officer
11 5 (2.54%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.02%) .NET
2 2 (1.02%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.02%) ADO
2 2 (1.02%) Blazor
2 2 (1.02%) ODBC
2 2 (1.02%) REST
2 2 (1.02%) WPF
3 1 (0.51%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.51%) Ember.js
3 1 (0.51%) JSON
3 1 (0.51%) LDAP
3 1 (0.51%) RAML
3 1 (0.51%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.18%) Onboarding
2 14 (7.11%) SCADA
3 11 (5.58%) Driving Licence
3 11 (5.58%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.06%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (3.05%) FMCG
6 6 (3.05%) Pricing Data
7 5 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (2.03%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.52%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.02%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (1.02%) Housing Association
10 2 (1.02%) 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%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.06%) Windows
2 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.51%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.51%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (34.52%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (34.01%) Business Intelligence
3 38 (19.29%) Analytics
4 37 (18.78%) Data Analysis
5 36 (18.27%) AI
6 33 (16.75%) Project Management
7 30 (15.23%) ERP
8 25 (12.69%) Data Analytics
8 25 (12.69%) Decision-Making
9 21 (10.66%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (9.64%) Actionable Insight
10 19 (9.64%) Customer Service
11 18 (9.14%) Process Improvement
11 18 (9.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 17 (8.63%) Data Cleansing
13 16 (8.12%) Collaborative Working
13 16 (8.12%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (8.12%) Visualisation
14 15 (7.61%) Business Analysis
14 15 (7.61%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 74 (37.56%) SQL
2 51 (25.89%) Python
3 7 (3.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 7 (3.55%) VBA
4 3 (1.52%) Java
4 3 (1.52%) PHP
4 3 (1.52%) R
4 3 (1.52%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.02%) C#
5 2 (1.02%) Delphi
5 2 (1.02%) JavaScript
5 2 (1.02%) XAML
6 1 (0.51%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (17.77%) Degree
2 25 (12.69%) Azure Certification
3 20 (10.15%) ACCA
3 20 (10.15%) CIMA
4 10 (5.08%) AAT
5 8 (4.06%) AWS Certification
6 5 (2.54%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.52%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.52%) PMP
8 2 (1.02%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.02%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.51%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (0.51%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.51%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.51%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (8.63%) Data Quality
2 6 (3.05%) PMO
3 5 (2.54%) SLA
4 4 (2.03%) GDPR
5 3 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
6 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
1 131 (66.50%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.08%) Adobe
3 9 (4.57%) SAP
4 8 (4.06%) Apple
4 8 (4.06%) Oracle
5 6 (3.05%) Sage
6 5 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.03%) Databricks
8 3 (1.52%) Cognos
8 3 (1.52%) Remedy
8 3 (1.52%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 2 (1.02%) Google
9 2 (1.02%) HubSpot
10 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
10 1 (0.51%) DocuSign
10 1 (0.51%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.51%) Pegasus
10 1 (0.51%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.51%) Symantec
10 1 (0.51%) Workday