Microsoft Excel Jobs with Work from Home Options

Microsoft Excel
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 104 179
Rank change year-on-year +42 +75 +3
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 1,498 1,372 1,522
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.44% 3.18% 2.28%
As % of the Applications category 51.42% 43.38% 32.50%
Number of salaries quoted 662 888 1,030
10th Percentile £25,500 - £27,750
25th Percentile £30,250 £30,500 £33,171
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,933 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £56,000 £57,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £72,595
UK median annual salary £40,000 £44,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.11% -1.11% +5.88%

All Software Application Skills
Work from Home

Microsoft Excel is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,913 3,163 4,683
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 8.63% 7.33% 7.01%
Number of salaries quoted 1,799 2,107 2,744
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £26,567
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,750 £33,171
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £37,500 £44,666 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.04% -0.74% +5.88%

Microsoft Excel
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Excel trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Microsoft Excel.

Microsoft Excel salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Microsoft Excel salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 38 (2.54%) SharePoint
2 15 (1.00%) Confluence
3 14 (0.93%) SAS
4 9 (0.60%) CMS
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
5 7 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (0.47%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.20%) GlassFish
6 3 (0.20%) JBoss
6 3 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
6 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
6 3 (0.20%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.13%) WordPress
8 1 (0.067%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.067%) Jupyter
Applications
1 316 (21.09%) Microsoft Office
2 265 (17.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 86 (5.74%) Microsoft Project
4 41 (2.74%) MS Visio
5 26 (1.74%) Spreadsheet
6 21 (1.40%) SPSS
7 11 (0.73%) InDesign
7 11 (0.73%) Photoshop
8 6 (0.40%) Trello
9 3 (0.20%) Adobe Captivate
10 2 (0.13%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.13%) AutoCAD
10 2 (0.13%) EViews
10 2 (0.13%) FileZilla
10 2 (0.13%) Fireworks
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.067%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 57 (3.81%) Primavera
2 8 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 7 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 6 (0.40%) SAP Business One
5 5 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
5 5 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.33%) Relativity
6 4 (0.27%) Elite 3E
6 4 (0.27%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.27%) SAP Travel Management
6 4 (0.27%) Unit4 Business World
7 3 (0.20%) NEC Housing
7 3 (0.20%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.20%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.13%) Sage 200
8 2 (0.13%) Sage 50
8 2 (0.13%) Shopify
9 1 (0.067%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 278 (18.56%) Power Platform
2 79 (5.27%) Azure
3 48 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (2.20%) AWS
5 25 (1.67%) PowerApps
6 23 (1.54%) Power Automate
7 18 (1.20%) SaaS
8 17 (1.13%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (1.07%) Google Analytics
10 15 (1.00%) Google Sheets
11 14 (0.93%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (0.80%) Snowflake
13 8 (0.53%) Entra ID
14 7 (0.47%) Adobe Analytics
14 7 (0.47%) Amazon Kinesis
14 7 (0.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 7 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
15 6 (0.40%) OCI
15 6 (0.40%) Smartsheet
15 6 (0.40%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 472 (31.51%) Broadband
2 10 (0.67%) Internet
3 9 (0.60%) WAN
4 8 (0.53%) Wireless
5 7 (0.47%) LAN
6 6 (0.40%) Cisco IPT
6 6 (0.40%) Intranet
6 6 (0.40%) Skype
7 5 (0.33%) Network Security
8 4 (0.27%) 5G
8 4 (0.27%) Firewall
9 3 (0.20%) MPLS
9 3 (0.20%) Radio Access Network
9 3 (0.20%) Reverse Proxy
9 3 (0.20%) SD-WAN
9 3 (0.20%) TCP/IP
9 3 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (0.13%) DNS
10 2 (0.13%) FTP
10 2 (0.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (17.89%) Power BI
2 76 (5.07%) Tableau
3 68 (4.54%) SQL Server
4 39 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 36 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.40%) MS Access
6 21 (1.40%) Relational Database
6 21 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 17 (1.13%) Power Query
7 17 (1.13%) QlikView
8 13 (0.87%) Big Data
9 9 (0.60%) Amazon QuickSight
9 9 (0.60%) Data Mining
9 9 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
10 8 (0.53%) Data Lake
10 8 (0.53%) GIS
10 8 (0.53%) Oracle Database
11 7 (0.47%) Geospatial Data
11 7 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
11 7 (0.47%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 42 (2.80%) JIRA
2 9 (0.60%) Git
2 9 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (0.33%) Mercurial
4 4 (0.27%) Katalon Studio
4 4 (0.27%) Postman
4 4 (0.27%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.13%) Balsamiq
5 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.067%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 968 (64.62%) Social Skills
2 816 (54.47%) Finance
3 699 (46.66%) Analytical Skills
4 464 (30.97%) Influencing Skills
5 121 (8.08%) Marketing
6 107 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 95 (6.34%) Legal
8 81 (5.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 81 (5.41%) Retail
9 54 (3.60%) Presentation Skills
10 48 (3.20%) Law
11 38 (2.54%) Public Sector
12 37 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
13 26 (1.74%) Banking
14 25 (1.67%) Advertising
15 22 (1.47%) General Ledger
16 20 (1.34%) Manufacturing
17 18 (1.20%) Aerospace
18 14 (0.93%) German Language
18 14 (0.93%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 830 (55.41%) Analyst
2 353 (23.56%) Senior
3 299 (19.96%) Senior Analyst
4 159 (10.61%) Financial Analyst
5 125 (8.34%) Commercial Analyst
6 96 (6.41%) Data Analyst
7 81 (5.41%) Coordinator
8 55 (3.67%) Business Analyst
9 52 (3.47%) Project Controller
10 47 (3.14%) Lead
11 41 (2.74%) Administrator
12 40 (2.67%) Project Manager
13 37 (2.47%) Developer
13 37 (2.47%) Systems Analyst
14 28 (1.87%) Consultant
15 19 (1.27%) Business Manager
16 18 (1.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
16 18 (1.20%) Development Manager
17 17 (1.13%) Business Intelligence Analyst
18 16 (1.07%) Business Development Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.13%) HTML
2 15 (1.00%) CSS
3 11 (0.73%) .NET
4 7 (0.47%) PySpark
4 7 (0.47%) XML
5 6 (0.40%) ODBC
5 6 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (0.33%) .NET Framework
6 5 (0.33%) Gherkin
6 5 (0.33%) RESTful
6 5 (0.33%) Web Services
7 4 (0.27%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.27%) jQuery
7 4 (0.27%) JSON
7 4 (0.27%) Kafka
7 4 (0.27%) Node.js
7 4 (0.27%) React
7 4 (0.27%) REST
7 4 (0.27%) SAP TM
7 4 (0.27%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 109 (7.28%) Self-Motivation
2 96 (6.41%) Management Information System
3 47 (3.14%) Social Media
4 42 (2.80%) Onboarding
5 26 (1.74%) Life Science
6 22 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 20 (1.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 20 (1.34%) Product Ownership
8 16 (1.07%) Taxonomies
9 14 (0.93%) PMI
10 13 (0.87%) Driving Licence
11 12 (0.80%) Biopharmaceutical
11 12 (0.80%) Data Structures
12 11 (0.73%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (0.73%) NHS
13 8 (0.53%) e-Learning
14 7 (0.47%) Data Protection Act
14 7 (0.47%) Marketing Technology
14 7 (0.47%) Photography
14 7 (0.47%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 47 (3.14%) Windows
2 15 (1.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (0.60%) Linux
4 8 (0.53%) Unix
4 8 (0.53%) Windows Vista
5 6 (0.40%) Solaris
5 6 (0.40%) Windows 10
6 5 (0.33%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.20%) AIX
7 3 (0.20%) Android
7 3 (0.20%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.13%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.067%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.067%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 606 (40.45%) Agile
2 600 (40.05%) Decision-Making
3 493 (32.91%) Actionable Insight
4 487 (32.51%) Mentoring
5 474 (31.64%) Business Case
6 459 (30.64%) Budgeting
7 454 (30.31%) Budgeting and Forecasting
8 308 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
9 297 (19.83%) Business Intelligence
10 175 (11.68%) Data Analysis
11 126 (8.41%) Project Management
12 123 (8.21%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (7.68%) Time Management
14 113 (7.54%) Customer Service
15 108 (7.21%) Analytics
16 96 (6.41%) Visualisation
17 79 (5.27%) Data Management
18 76 (5.07%) Process Improvement
19 75 (5.01%) Risk Management
20 74 (4.94%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 270 (18.02%) SQL
2 69 (4.61%) Python
3 52 (3.47%) VBA
4 36 (2.40%) T-SQL
5 30 (2.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 29 (1.94%) R
7 22 (1.47%) JavaScript
8 20 (1.34%) C#
9 10 (0.67%) MATLAB
9 10 (0.67%) PL/SQL
10 6 (0.40%) PowerShell
11 5 (0.33%) VB
12 4 (0.27%) Groovy
12 4 (0.27%) VB.NET
13 3 (0.20%) Java
13 3 (0.20%) Scala
14 2 (0.13%) PHP
15 1 (0.067%) C++
15 1 (0.067%) Formula Language
15 1 (0.067%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 484 (32.31%) CIMA
2 475 (31.71%) ACCA
3 305 (20.36%) Degree
4 97 (6.48%) DBS Check
5 26 (1.74%) Security Cleared
6 20 (1.34%) PMI Certification
7 19 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 15 (1.00%) CFA
8 15 (1.00%) MRICS
9 13 (0.87%) Master's Degree
10 10 (0.67%) ISEB
10 10 (0.67%) MBA
10 10 (0.67%) PhD
11 9 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
12 7 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
13 6 (0.40%) AAT
13 6 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 6 (0.40%) HNC
13 6 (0.40%) PMP
13 6 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (2.87%) Data Quality
2 38 (2.54%) QA
3 25 (1.67%) PMO
4 21 (1.40%) GDPR
5 19 (1.27%) SLA
6 10 (0.67%) ISO 9001
7 6 (0.40%) Accessibility
8 5 (0.33%) COBIT
9 4 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.13%) COSHH
11 2 (0.13%) GRC
11 2 (0.13%) GxP
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 14001
11 2 (0.13%) SEPA
12 1 (0.067%) GAAP
12 1 (0.067%) HIPAA
12 1 (0.067%) P3O
12 1 (0.067%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 1 (0.067%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (1.13%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.27%) VMware Server
4 3 (0.20%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.13%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (0.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (0.27%) Terraform
3 3 (0.20%) Data Guard
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
3 3 (0.20%) Oracle Statspack
3 3 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (0.20%) WSUS
4 2 (0.13%) Failover Clustering
4 2 (0.13%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.067%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.067%) Ansible
5 1 (0.067%) DatAdvantage
5 1 (0.067%) Grafana
5 1 (0.067%) QRadar
5 1 (0.067%) SCCM
5 1 (0.067%) Stealthwatch
5 1 (0.067%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
5 1 (0.067%) Thomson Reuters DACS
5 1 (0.067%) vCenter Server
5 1 (0.067%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 986 (65.82%) Microsoft
2 83 (5.54%) SAP
3 47 (3.14%) Google
4 32 (2.14%) Oracle
5 26 (1.74%) Adobe
6 15 (1.00%) Alteryx
7 14 (0.93%) Databricks
8 13 (0.87%) ServiceNow
9 11 (0.73%) CA
9 11 (0.73%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.60%) VMware
11 8 (0.53%) Cisco
11 8 (0.53%) Cognos
11 8 (0.53%) Sage
12 7 (0.47%) Jitterbit
12 7 (0.47%) Remedy
13 6 (0.40%) Informatica
13 6 (0.40%) Talend
13 6 (0.40%) Virgin Media
13 6 (0.40%) Xero