Microsoft Excel Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Excel
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Microsoft Excel skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 62 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 70 39 89
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 3.51% 2.88% 3.54%
As % of the Applications category 29.29% 29.10% 38.20%
Number of salaries quoted 42 28 47
10th Percentile £26,500 £25,000 £25,016
25th Percentile £30,038 £25,250 £26,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £26,250 £44,750
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% -41.34% +11.88%
75th Percentile £45,000 £35,750 £51,250
90th Percentile £62,625 £48,750 £75,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £32,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year +23.08% -23.53% +14.86%

All Software Application Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 239 134 233
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 11.97% 9.88% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 81 51 179
10th Percentile £25,675 - £24,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £25,250 £26,301
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £36,000 £31,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +16.13% -27.06%
75th Percentile £45,000 £49,375 £49,000
90th Percentile £57,500 £57,500 £67,750
Yorkshire median annual salary £35,000 £38,961 £32,250
% change year-on-year -10.17% +20.81% -21.34%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Excel relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Microsoft Excel job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram in West Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in West Yorkshire

Microsoft Excel
Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 3 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
Leeds -6 60 £40,000 +56.86% 29
Bradford - 7 - - 7
Huddersfield - 2 £40,000 - 2
Halifax - 1 £31,000 - 1
Microsoft Excel
Yorkshire

Microsoft Excel
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 5 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 13 (18.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 10 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (8.57%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.86%) Magento
3 1 (1.43%) Odoo
3 1 (1.43%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 32 (45.71%) Power Platform
2 18 (25.71%) Azure
3 14 (20.00%) Azure AI
4 9 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (5.71%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (5.71%) Power Automate
5 4 (5.71%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.86%) IaaS
6 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.86%) PaaS
6 2 (2.86%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.86%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (47.14%) Tableau
2 32 (45.71%) Power BI
3 15 (21.43%) Data Mining
4 6 (8.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (7.14%) BusinessObjects
6 4 (5.71%) SQL Server
7 3 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (4.29%) OLAP
7 3 (4.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (2.86%) Power Query
8 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (2.86%) Star Schema
9 1 (1.43%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 45 (64.29%) Finance
2 30 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 25 (35.71%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
5 7 (10.00%) Marketing
6 6 (8.57%) Legal
7 3 (4.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.86%) Advertising
8 2 (2.86%) Billing
8 2 (2.86%) Retail
9 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 37 (52.86%) Analyst
2 32 (45.71%) Data Analyst
3 15 (21.43%) Trainee
4 14 (20.00%) Junior
4 14 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
4 14 (20.00%) Junior Data Analyst
5 13 (18.57%) Trainee Analyst
5 13 (18.57%) Trainee Data Analyst
6 7 (10.00%) Support Assistant
6 7 (10.00%) Support Officer
7 6 (8.57%) Project Officer
7 6 (8.57%) Project Support Officer
8 5 (7.14%) Developer
9 4 (5.71%) HR Analyst
9 4 (5.71%) HR Data Analyst
10 3 (4.29%) Insight Manager
10 3 (4.29%) Senior
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Project Officer
10 3 (4.29%) Senior Project Support Officer
10 3 (4.29%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Management Information System
2 7 (10.00%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.86%) Blog
3 2 (2.86%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.43%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Business Intelligence
2 22 (31.43%) Analytics
3 21 (30.00%) Data Analysis
3 21 (30.00%) Project Management
4 19 (27.14%) AI
4 19 (27.14%) Decision-Making
5 15 (21.43%) Business Analysis
6 14 (20.00%) Data Analytics
7 13 (18.57%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (17.14%) Actionable Insight
8 12 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (15.71%) CRM
10 10 (14.29%) Order Management
11 9 (12.86%) Agile
11 9 (12.86%) Service Delivery
11 9 (12.86%) Visualisation
12 8 (11.43%) Data Governance
12 8 (11.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (10.00%) Business Development
13 7 (10.00%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 44 (62.86%) SQL
2 30 (42.86%) Python
3 6 (8.57%) T-SQL
4 4 (5.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Azure Certification
2 6 (8.57%) Degree
3 3 (4.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.43%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.14%) GDPR
3 4 (5.71%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.71%) PMO
4 2 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (1.43%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 52 (74.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Xero
3 6 (8.57%) SAP
4 3 (4.29%) Openreach
5 1 (1.43%) Planon