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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 87 56
Rank change year-on-year +22 -31 +45
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 85 22 79
As % of all permanent jobs in West Yorkshire 2.08% 1.43% 3.25%
As % of the Applications category 53.13% 11.96% 32.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50 11 38
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,500 £24,475
25th Percentile £31,625 £38,500 £25,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,136 £40,000 £32,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.66% +23.08% -31.58%
75th Percentile £55,938 £41,500 £40,296
90th Percentile £61,625 £45,000 £54,200
Yorkshire median annual salary £38,772 £40,000 £29,500
% change year-on-year -3.07% +35.59% -30.59%

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 160 184 245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 3.91% 11.95% 10.07%
Number of salaries quoted 103 44 103
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,250 £24,700
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,250 £26,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,772 £34,250 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.20% -8.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £58,750 £41,075 £48,750
90th Percentile £69,500 £49,175 £66,250
Yorkshire median annual salary £38,772 £34,000 £33,750
% change year-on-year +14.04% +0.74% -6.25%

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 19 August 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 19 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
Leeds -11 55 £38,772 -3.07% 34
Bradford - 17 £57,500 - 7
Wakefield - 5 £37,500 - 5
Brighouse - 4 - -
Castleford - 1 - -
Cleckheaton - 1 £36,000 -
Keighley - 1 £28,250 - 2
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 (7.06%) SharePoint
Applications
1 23 (27.06%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (8.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.53%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.71%) iTrent
1 4 (4.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.18%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (52.94%) Power Platform
2 30 (35.29%) Azure
3 23 (27.06%) Azure AI
4 7 (8.24%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.24%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
6 4 (4.71%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.24%) LAN
1 7 (8.24%) WAN
2 2 (2.35%) WebEx
3 1 (1.18%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (52.94%) Power BI
2 25 (29.41%) Tableau
3 5 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.35%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (4.71%) Git
2 1 (1.18%) JIRA
General
1 54 (63.53%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (22.35%) Finance
4 13 (15.29%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Legal
6 7 (8.24%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (7.06%) Law
8 5 (5.88%) Public Sector
9 4 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.71%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.53%) Marketing
11 2 (2.35%) Billing
11 2 (2.35%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.18%) Advertising
12 1 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.18%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 46 (54.12%) Analyst
2 36 (42.35%) Data Analyst
3 22 (25.88%) Junior
3 22 (25.88%) Junior Analyst
3 22 (25.88%) Junior Data Analyst
4 8 (9.41%) Administrator
5 7 (8.24%) IT Manager
6 6 (7.06%) IT Operations Manager
6 6 (7.06%) Operations Manager
7 5 (5.88%) Coordinator
7 5 (5.88%) Data Administrator
7 5 (5.88%) HR Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) HR Data Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Business Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Lecturer
8 4 (4.71%) Pensions Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Systems Analyst
8 4 (4.71%) Systems Manager
9 3 (3.53%) Portfolio Manager
10 2 (2.35%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) JSON
1 1 (1.18%) REST
1 1 (1.18%) SOAP
1 1 (1.18%) Web Services
1 1 (1.18%) WSDL
1 1 (1.18%) XML
1 1 (1.18%) XSD
1 1 (1.18%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.24%) Onboarding
2 6 (7.06%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.71%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (4.71%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.18%) ASTM
5 1 (1.18%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.24%) Windows
2 6 (7.06%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (52.94%) Business Intelligence
2 29 (34.12%) AI
3 27 (31.76%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (25.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (16.47%) Data Analysis
6 12 (14.12%) Decision-Making
7 11 (12.94%) Analytics
8 10 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 9 (10.59%) Time Management
10 8 (9.41%) Data Governance
10 8 (9.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (9.41%) ITSM
10 8 (9.41%) Risk Management
10 8 (9.41%) Service Management
10 8 (9.41%) Validation
11 7 (8.24%) Anti-Money Laundering
11 7 (8.24%) Budgeting and Forecasting
11 7 (8.24%) Case Management
11 7 (8.24%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.24%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (52.94%) SQL
2 28 (32.94%) Python
3 4 (4.71%) C#
3 4 (4.71%) Java
4 3 (3.53%) VBA
4 3 (3.53%) XAML
5 1 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (1.18%) XPath
Qualifications
1 22 (25.88%) Azure Certification
2 7 (8.24%) Degree
3 5 (5.88%) DBS Check
4 1 (1.18%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (8.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 6 (7.06%) QA
4 2 (2.35%) GDPR
5 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 61 (71.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.06%) SAP
3 5 (5.88%) Oracle
4 1 (1.18%) Foundry
4 1 (1.18%) HubSpot
4 1 (1.18%) Planon
4 1 (1.18%) Salesforce