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

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 63 73
Rank change year-on-year +7 +10 +46
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 97 33 75
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.99% 2.82% 2.67%
As % of the Applications category 56.07% 30.56% 32.89%
Number of salaries quoted 39 26 42
10th Percentile £26,750 - £23,500
25th Percentile £31,575 £25,250 £25,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £30,250 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.23% -13.57% -17.65%
75th Percentile £45,500 £41,500 £47,125
90th Percentile £58,750 £44,500 £60,425
Yorkshire median annual salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year +14.29% - +2.94%

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 173 108 228
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.32% 9.23% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 101 49 164
10th Percentile £26,750 - £23,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £25,250 £25,020
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,000 £40,000 £30,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +33.33% -29.41%
75th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £41,375
90th Percentile £63,750 £73,886 £56,375
Yorkshire median annual salary £38,772 £37,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year +3.39% +19.05% -21.25%

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 May 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 May 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 -7 67 £40,000 +56.86% 18
Bradford - 21 - - 3
Brighouse - 4 - -
Wakefield - 3 £37,500 -
Halifax - 2 £31,000 -
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 6 (6.19%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (16.49%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.03%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (6.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.09%) iTrent
2 3 (3.09%) Magento
3 2 (2.06%) Odoo
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.03%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 63 (64.95%) Power Platform
2 44 (45.36%) Azure
3 42 (43.30%) Azure AI
4 4 (4.12%) Power Automate
4 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.09%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.06%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.06%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.06%) IaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (2.06%) PaaS
6 2 (2.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.09%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.06%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (64.95%) Power BI
2 59 (60.82%) Tableau
3 12 (12.37%) Data Mining
4 7 (7.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (5.15%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.06%) BusinessObjects
6 2 (2.06%) Power Query
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
6 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.06%) Star Schema
7 1 (1.03%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.03%) Git
2 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 62 (63.92%) Social Skills
2 34 (35.05%) Finance
3 28 (28.87%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Legal
4 6 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.09%) Advertising
6 3 (3.09%) Billing
6 3 (3.09%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.09%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.06%) Retail
8 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.03%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 74 (76.29%) Analyst
2 66 (68.04%) Data Analyst
3 42 (43.30%) Junior
3 42 (43.30%) Junior Analyst
3 42 (43.30%) Junior Data Analyst
4 12 (12.37%) Trainee
4 12 (12.37%) Trainee Analyst
4 12 (12.37%) Trainee Data Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) HR Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) HR Data Analyst
6 5 (5.15%) Administrator
7 4 (4.12%) Systems Manager
8 2 (2.06%) Business Analyst
8 2 (2.06%) Business Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Coordinator
8 2 (2.06%) Data Manager
8 2 (2.06%) Developer
8 2 (2.06%) Product Analyst
8 2 (2.06%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (2.06%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.12%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.12%) Product Ownership
3 3 (3.09%) Blog
4 2 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.06%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (64.95%) Business Intelligence
2 44 (45.36%) AI
3 23 (23.71%) Analytics
4 19 (19.59%) Data Analysis
5 18 (18.56%) Decision-Making
6 17 (17.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.46%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (14.43%) Data Governance
8 14 (14.43%) Project Management
9 12 (12.37%) Business Analysis
9 12 (12.37%) Data Analytics
10 10 (10.31%) Validation
11 9 (9.28%) Visualisation
12 8 (8.25%) Actionable Insight
13 7 (7.22%) Data Management
14 6 (6.19%) CRM
14 6 (6.19%) Customer Service
14 6 (6.19%) ERP
14 6 (6.19%) Project Delivery
15 5 (5.15%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 69 (71.13%) SQL
2 55 (56.70%) Python
3 2 (2.06%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 2 (2.06%) T-SQL
3 2 (2.06%) VBA
4 1 (1.03%) C#
4 1 (1.03%) Java
Qualifications
1 42 (43.30%) Azure Certification
2 3 (3.09%) Degree
3 1 (1.03%) DBS Check
3 1 (1.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.15%) GDPR
3 4 (4.12%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.09%) QA
5 2 (2.06%) PMO
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (1.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 74 (76.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.25%) SAP
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 2 (2.06%) Planon
5 1 (1.03%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.03%) HubSpot
5 1 (1.03%) Openreach
5 1 (1.03%) Salesforce