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 20 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 45 20
Rank change year-on-year -14 -25 +35
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 183 167 471
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 2.14% 4.86% 7.28%
As % of the Applications category 47.78% 32.49% 52.68%
Number of salaries quoted 83 112 79
10th Percentile £27,552 £28,000 £25,635
25th Percentile £29,375 £31,000 £29,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,000 £42,500 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.29% +21.43% -12.50%
75th Percentile £46,000 £53,750 £53,750
90th Percentile £58,750 £60,000 £73,000
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £44,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% -2.87%

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 383 514 894
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.49% 14.95% 13.82%
Number of salaries quoted 237 247 259
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £24,657
25th Percentile £31,000 £28,500 £28,525
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,250 £37,000 £39,750
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -6.92% -0.63%
75th Percentile £52,500 £45,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £60,000 £59,250 £67,500
England median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - -5.88% -5.56%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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
Staffordshire +5 36 £35,500 -5.33% 15
Birmingham -24 35 £36,500 -31.78% 32
Warwickshire -16 25 £31,750 -17.53% 29
Herefordshire -3 24 £75,000 +150.00% 2
Coventry -7 16 £42,750 -28.75% 14
Shropshire -10 13 £33,250 -39.55% 7
Worcestershire -20 12 £28,750 -7.26% 12
Wolverhampton - 11 - - 3
Walsall +2 6 £37,500 -16.67% 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 7 (3.83%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.64%) IIS
3 1 (0.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 32 (17.49%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (15.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (7.65%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.19%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.19%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (1.64%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.55%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (2.73%) Primavera
1 5 (2.73%) SAP EHS
2 3 (1.64%) Magento
3 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 92 (50.27%) Power Platform
2 59 (32.24%) Azure
3 55 (30.05%) Azure AI
4 13 (7.10%) Smartsheet
5 9 (4.92%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.83%) SaaS
7 4 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.64%) AWS
8 3 (1.64%) Google Sheets
9 2 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Copilot
10 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.55%) DHCP
1 1 (0.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (49.73%) Power BI
2 63 (34.43%) Tableau
3 10 (5.46%) Power Query
4 3 (1.64%) MySQL
5 1 (0.55%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.55%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.55%) Metadata
5 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (1.64%) JIRA
2 2 (1.09%) Git
3 1 (0.55%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.55%) GitLab
3 1 (0.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.55%) JMeter
3 1 (0.55%) Postman
3 1 (0.55%) Selenium
3 1 (0.55%) SoapUI
3 1 (0.55%) Zephyr
General
1 122 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 38 (20.77%) Finance
3 35 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.39%) Manufacturing
5 17 (9.29%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (8.74%) Influencing Skills
7 15 (8.20%) Legal
7 15 (8.20%) Public Sector
8 11 (6.01%) Retail
9 8 (4.37%) Law
9 8 (4.37%) Telecoms
10 7 (3.83%) Marketing
11 4 (2.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.64%) Billing
12 3 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.64%) Social Housing
13 2 (1.09%) Brand Awareness
13 2 (1.09%) Electronics
14 1 (0.55%) Military
14 1 (0.55%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 80 (43.72%) Analyst
2 73 (39.89%) Data Analyst
3 66 (36.07%) Junior
4 64 (34.97%) Junior Analyst
4 64 (34.97%) Junior Data Analyst
5 12 (6.56%) Lead
6 11 (6.01%) Coordinator
7 10 (5.46%) Administrator
7 10 (5.46%) Technologist
8 9 (4.92%) Accountant
9 6 (3.28%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 4 (2.19%) Data Scientist
10 4 (2.19%) IT Support
10 4 (2.19%) Management Accountant
10 4 (2.19%) Project Engineer
10 4 (2.19%) Project Leader
10 4 (2.19%) Project Planner
11 3 (1.64%) Commissioning Engineer
11 3 (1.64%) Junior IT Support Analyst
11 3 (1.64%) Junior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.19%) JSON
2 3 (1.64%) CSS
2 3 (1.64%) EDI
2 3 (1.64%) HTML
3 1 (0.55%) ADO
3 1 (0.55%) Playwright
3 1 (0.55%) SOAP
3 1 (0.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.10%) Onboarding
2 9 (4.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.83%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.83%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (3.28%) PMI
5 5 (2.73%) e-Learning
5 5 (2.73%) Social Media
6 3 (1.64%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.64%) Web Conferencing
7 2 (1.09%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.55%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.55%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.55%) Educational Technology
8 1 (0.55%) FMCG
8 1 (0.55%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.19%) Windows
1 4 (2.19%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (50.82%) Business Intelligence
2 68 (37.16%) AI
3 53 (28.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 43 (23.50%) Decision-Making
5 36 (19.67%) Problem-Solving
6 22 (12.02%) Project Management
7 20 (10.93%) Analytics
8 17 (9.29%) Coaching
9 16 (8.74%) Quality Management
9 16 (8.74%) Stakeholder Management
10 15 (8.20%) QMS
11 14 (7.65%) Data Analysis
11 14 (7.65%) Logistics
12 12 (6.56%) Risk Management
13 11 (6.01%) Internal Audit
13 11 (6.01%) Workflow
14 10 (5.46%) Agile
14 10 (5.46%) ERP
15 9 (4.92%) CRM
15 9 (4.92%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 82 (44.81%) SQL
2 63 (34.43%) Python
3 14 (7.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 5 (2.73%) T-SQL
5 4 (2.19%) R
6 3 (1.64%) JavaScript
6 3 (1.64%) PHP
6 3 (1.64%) VBA
7 1 (0.55%) Java
7 1 (0.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 55 (30.05%) Azure Certification
2 37 (20.22%) Degree
3 9 (4.92%) CIMA
4 8 (4.37%) ACCA
5 6 (3.28%) PMI Certification
6 4 (2.19%) CCAB
6 4 (2.19%) CIPD
7 3 (1.64%) AAT
8 2 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 2 (1.09%) SC Cleared
8 2 (1.09%) Security Cleared
9 1 (0.55%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.55%) DBS Check
9 1 (0.55%) ISEB
9 1 (0.55%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.10%) QA
2 7 (3.83%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.28%) ISO 9001
4 5 (2.73%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.64%) GDPR
5 3 (1.64%) SLA
6 1 (0.55%) GMP
6 1 (0.55%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
1 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 122 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.65%) SAP
3 5 (2.73%) Oracle
4 3 (1.64%) Adobe
4 3 (1.64%) Cisco
4 3 (1.64%) Databricks
4 3 (1.64%) Google
5 2 (1.09%) IFS
5 2 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.55%) NEC
6 1 (0.55%) Pega
6 1 (0.55%) Sage
6 1 (0.55%) VMware