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

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 38 41
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 172 241 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 3.06% 6.01% 5.07%
As % of the Applications category 35.46% 58.21% 49.72%
Number of salaries quoted 89 85 225
10th Percentile £25,850 £28,300 £24,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £35,000 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -9.09% -2.25%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,750 £57,300 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% -15.79%

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 485 414 535
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 8.61% 10.32% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 205 182 423
10th Percentile £27,000 £29,550 £22,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,000 £42,500 £38,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.24% +10.39% -3.75%
75th Percentile £48,750 £53,016 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £58,625 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +33.33% -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 5 February 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 5 February 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 +4 54 £40,000 -11.11% 18
Staffordshire -9 36 £29,500 -15.71% 15
Warwickshire -20 26 £34,500 -4.17% 19
Herefordshire +1 15 £30,000 +14.50% 1
Coventry -2 12 £60,000 - 9
Shropshire -19 10 £30,000 -47.83% 8
Wolverhampton - 7 - - 7
Walsall - 4 £45,000 - 4
Solihull -3 1 £75,000 - 1
Dudley -4 1 £40,000 +14.29% 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 3 (1.74%) Confluence
1 3 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 44 (25.58%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (12.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.16%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.16%) Trello
4 1 (0.58%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.58%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.58%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 72 (41.86%) Power Platform
2 51 (29.65%) Azure
3 35 (20.35%) Azure AI
4 15 (8.72%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (4.65%) AWS
5 8 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (3.49%) Power Automate
6 6 (3.49%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.49%) Smartsheet
7 4 (2.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 4 (2.33%) OCI
8 2 (1.16%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (1.16%) IaaS
8 2 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.16%) PaaS
8 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Asana
9 1 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.58%) GitHub
9 1 (0.58%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (1.74%) Internet
3 1 (0.58%) DHCP
3 1 (0.58%) DNS
3 1 (0.58%) Firewall
3 1 (0.58%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.58%) Modbus
3 1 (0.58%) Network Security
3 1 (0.58%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.58%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.58%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (41.86%) Power BI
2 53 (30.81%) Tableau
3 17 (9.88%) Data Mining
4 7 (4.07%) Relational Database
5 6 (3.49%) Power Query
6 5 (2.91%) GIS
6 5 (2.91%) SQL Server
7 4 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (2.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 2 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.16%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (1.16%) MS Access
8 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.16%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.58%) Looker
9 1 (0.58%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.91%) JIRA
2 2 (1.16%) Git
2 2 (1.16%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (0.58%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.58%) Maven
3 1 (0.58%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 101 (58.72%) Social Skills
2 56 (32.56%) Finance
3 52 (30.23%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (10.47%) Manufacturing
5 15 (8.72%) Legal
5 15 (8.72%) Marketing
6 12 (6.98%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (3.49%) Retail
9 5 (2.91%) Fire and Rescue
10 4 (2.33%) Electronics
10 4 (2.33%) Law
11 3 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (1.16%) Billing
13 1 (0.58%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.58%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 91 (52.91%) Analyst
2 53 (30.81%) Data Analyst
3 37 (21.51%) Junior
3 37 (21.51%) Junior Analyst
4 35 (20.35%) Junior Data Analyst
5 16 (9.30%) Trainee
6 15 (8.72%) Trainee Analyst
6 15 (8.72%) Trainee Data Analyst
7 10 (5.81%) Administrator
7 10 (5.81%) Support Analyst
8 8 (4.65%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (4.07%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 6 (3.49%) Developer
10 6 (3.49%) Systems Support
11 5 (2.91%) Graduate
11 5 (2.91%) Network Engineer
11 5 (2.91%) Senior
12 4 (2.33%) CRM Officer
12 4 (2.33%) Power BI Analyst
12 4 (2.33%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (1.16%) .NET
2 2 (1.16%) .NET Framework
2 2 (1.16%) ADO
2 2 (1.16%) Blazor
2 2 (1.16%) ODBC
2 2 (1.16%) REST
2 2 (1.16%) WPF
3 1 (0.58%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (0.58%) Ember.js
3 1 (0.58%) JSON
3 1 (0.58%) LDAP
3 1 (0.58%) RAML
3 1 (0.58%) SOAP
3 1 (0.58%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.88%) Onboarding
2 10 (5.81%) Driving Licence
3 8 (4.65%) Public Cloud
4 7 (4.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.07%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.49%) FMCG
5 6 (3.49%) Pricing Data
6 5 (2.91%) SCADA
7 4 (2.33%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.58%) Algorithms
10 1 (0.58%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.58%) Housing Association
10 1 (0.58%) IoT
10 1 (0.58%) iSeries
10 1 (0.58%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.65%) Windows
2 2 (1.16%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.58%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.58%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (41.28%) Business Intelligence
2 47 (27.33%) AI
3 46 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
4 37 (21.51%) Analytics
5 34 (19.77%) Project Management
6 31 (18.02%) Data Analysis
7 23 (13.37%) Data Analytics
7 23 (13.37%) Decision-Making
8 21 (12.21%) ERP
9 19 (11.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (9.30%) Business Analysis
10 16 (9.30%) CRM
10 16 (9.30%) Data Cleansing
11 15 (8.72%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (8.72%) Visualisation
12 14 (8.14%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (7.56%) Customer Service
13 13 (7.56%) Data Visualisation
13 13 (7.56%) Mathematics
14 12 (6.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 81 (47.09%) SQL
2 57 (33.14%) Python
3 10 (5.81%) VBA
4 4 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 3 (1.74%) Java
5 3 (1.74%) PHP
6 2 (1.16%) C#
6 2 (1.16%) Delphi
6 2 (1.16%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.16%) XAML
7 1 (0.58%) R
7 1 (0.58%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.58%) VB
Qualifications
1 35 (20.35%) Azure Certification
2 22 (12.79%) Degree
3 8 (4.65%) ACCA
3 8 (4.65%) AWS Certification
3 8 (4.65%) CIMA
4 5 (2.91%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.74%) PMI Certification
5 3 (1.74%) PMP
6 2 (1.16%) AAT
6 2 (1.16%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.58%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.58%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.58%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.58%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (9.88%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.07%) PMO
3 4 (2.33%) QA
4 3 (1.74%) SLA
5 2 (1.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.58%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (0.58%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.58%) Docker
1 1 (0.58%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.58%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 117 (68.02%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.81%) Adobe
3 8 (4.65%) Apple
4 6 (3.49%) Oracle
4 6 (3.49%) Sage
5 5 (2.91%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.91%) SAP
6 3 (1.74%) Cognos
6 3 (1.74%) Remedy
7 2 (1.16%) DocuSign
7 2 (1.16%) HubSpot
7 2 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.58%) Databricks
8 1 (0.58%) Google
8 1 (0.58%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.58%) Pegasus
8 1 (0.58%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.58%) Symantec
8 1 (0.58%) Workday