Microsoft Excel Contracts in England

Microsoft Excel
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Microsoft Excel skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 68 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 +14 +14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 1,074 1,620 2,103
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.92% 3.31% 3.00%
As % of the Applications category 36.88% 43.41% 39.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 1,084 1,420
10th Percentile £170 £200 £200
25th Percentile £282 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% -5.56% +20.00%
75th Percentile £570 £584 £563
90th Percentile £728 £683 £675
UK median daily rate £440 £425 £431
% change year-on-year +3.53% -1.39% +14.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 84 143
10th Percentile £11.45 £13.29 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.19 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.80 £23.77 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -37.73% +21.76% +0.10%
75th Percentile £23.77 £52.97 £30.50
90th Percentile £34.32 £65.00 £44.49
UK median hourly rate £14.80 £21.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -30.35% +8.97% +7.32%

All Software Application Skills
England

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,912 3,732 5,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.92% 7.62% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,454 2,449 3,522
10th Percentile £163 £194 £160
25th Percentile £213 £286 £256
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £430
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +1.74% +7.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £657 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 231 394
10th Percentile £11.68 £14.75 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.97 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £36.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.92% +67.44% +12.98%
75th Percentile £37.73 £52.01 £46.60
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £35.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.70% +65.12% +16.22%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Microsoft Excel as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in England

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in England

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel in England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in England

Microsoft Excel
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Excel in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in England

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -13 456 £450 -5.26% 583
South East +2 168 £351 -17.53% 315
North of England +5 142 £475 +28.38% 368
East of England +19 124 £400 +14.29% 161
North West +17 108 £475 +23.36% 205
South West +24 82 £475 -1.76% 176
Midlands -15 81 £350 -12.50% 269
West Midlands -20 54 £425 +6.25% 149
East Midlands +9 27 £190 -55.29% 120
Yorkshire -24 27 £475 +26.67% 121
North East +15 8 - - 48
Microsoft Excel
UK

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 101 (9.40%) SharePoint
2 39 (3.63%) Confluence
3 15 (1.40%) IIS
4 14 (1.30%) Microsoft Exchange
5 8 (0.74%) Apache
6 6 (0.56%) SAS
6 6 (0.56%) SharePoint 2010
6 6 (0.56%) SharePoint Server
7 5 (0.47%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.47%) Apache Spark
7 5 (0.47%) Tomcat
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.28%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.19%) Documentum
9 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 433 (40.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 374 (34.82%) Microsoft Office
3 99 (9.22%) MS Visio
4 89 (8.29%) Microsoft Project
5 81 (7.54%) Spreadsheet
6 10 (0.93%) Photoshop
7 5 (0.47%) SPSS
8 3 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
8 3 (0.28%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.28%) Camtasia
8 3 (0.28%) InDesign
8 3 (0.28%) MicroStation
9 2 (0.19%) Revit
10 1 (0.093%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 11 (1.02%) Oracle EBS
1 11 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.74%) ION MarketView
3 7 (0.65%) NEC Housing
4 6 (0.56%) Loan IQ
4 6 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.47%) Aladdin
5 5 (0.47%) SmartPlant
6 4 (0.37%) OPENHousing
6 4 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.28%) NetSuite
7 3 (0.28%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.28%) SAP Hybris
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.19%) SAP ERP
8 2 (0.19%) WebTrends
9 1 (0.093%) Hyperion Planning
9 1 (0.093%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.093%) thinkFolio
Cloud Services
1 169 (15.74%) Power Platform
2 67 (6.24%) Microsoft 365
3 63 (5.87%) Azure
4 19 (1.77%) Power Automate
5 17 (1.58%) SaaS
6 16 (1.49%) Entra ID
6 16 (1.49%) Google Workspace
7 14 (1.30%) Azure DevOps
8 13 (1.21%) Collibra
8 13 (1.21%) IaaS
8 13 (1.21%) PaaS
9 12 (1.12%) AWS
9 12 (1.12%) PowerApps
10 10 (0.93%) OneDrive
11 8 (0.74%) SuccessFactors
12 7 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
13 6 (0.56%) OCI
14 5 (0.47%) Google Sheets
14 5 (0.47%) Oracle Service Cloud
14 5 (0.47%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 19 (1.77%) Internet
2 17 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (1.40%) WAN
4 14 (1.30%) LAN
5 12 (1.12%) FIX Connectivity
6 8 (0.74%) Intranet
6 8 (0.74%) PSTN
6 8 (0.74%) Wireless
7 7 (0.65%) 4G
7 7 (0.65%) 5G
7 7 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (0.65%) HTTP
7 7 (0.65%) Skype
8 6 (0.56%) Diameter Protocol
8 6 (0.56%) GGSN
8 6 (0.56%) LTE
8 6 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
8 6 (0.56%) RANAP
8 6 (0.56%) SGSN
8 6 (0.56%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 165 (15.36%) Power BI
2 66 (6.15%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.63%) Tableau
4 31 (2.89%) Oracle Database
5 21 (1.96%) Metadata
6 17 (1.58%) PowerPivot
7 16 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 13 (1.21%) Big Data
9 10 (0.93%) Data Mining
9 10 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
9 10 (0.93%) Power Query
9 10 (0.93%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.74%) GIS
11 7 (0.65%) SAP HANA
11 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Power View
13 4 (0.37%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.37%) MS Access
14 3 (0.28%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 77 (7.17%) JIRA
2 11 (1.02%) Git
2 11 (1.02%) TeamCity
3 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
4 6 (0.56%) Hudson
5 4 (0.37%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 2 (0.19%) Android Studio
6 2 (0.19%) JUnit
6 2 (0.19%) Mockito
6 2 (0.19%) ScalaTest
6 2 (0.19%) Subversion
6 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (0.19%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.093%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.093%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.093%) NUnit
7 1 (0.093%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (0.093%) RStudio
7 1 (0.093%) Toad
7 1 (0.093%) Zephyr
General
1 478 (44.51%) Social Skills
2 357 (33.24%) Finance
3 264 (24.58%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.68%) Organisational Skills
5 98 (9.12%) Presentation Skills
6 97 (9.03%) Banking
7 76 (7.08%) Telecoms
8 60 (5.59%) Legal
9 58 (5.40%) Public Sector
10 46 (4.28%) Front Office
10 46 (4.28%) Retail
11 44 (4.10%) Marketing
12 33 (3.07%) Manufacturing
13 31 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
13 31 (2.89%) Mandarin Language
14 25 (2.33%) Investment Banking
15 24 (2.23%) Billing
16 23 (2.14%) Pharmaceutical
17 17 (1.58%) Law
18 16 (1.49%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 299 (27.84%) Analyst
2 91 (8.47%) Administrator
3 79 (7.36%) Developer
4 75 (6.98%) Lead
5 65 (6.05%) Data Analyst
6 56 (5.21%) Business Analyst
7 52 (4.84%) Senior
8 51 (4.75%) Service Analyst
9 38 (3.54%) Project Manager
10 37 (3.45%) Coordinator
11 36 (3.35%) C# Developer
12 32 (2.98%) Service Desk Analyst
13 28 (2.61%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
13 28 (2.61%) Senior Analyst
14 26 (2.42%) Project Leader
14 26 (2.42%) Support Engineer
15 19 (1.77%) Consultant
15 19 (1.77%) Data Manager
15 19 (1.77%) IT Support
16 18 (1.68%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (3.54%) .NET
2 28 (2.61%) .NET Framework
3 18 (1.68%) SailPoint
3 18 (1.68%) XML
4 17 (1.58%) HTML
5 12 (1.12%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (1.02%) CSS
6 11 (1.02%) WPF
7 10 (0.93%) WinForms
8 9 (0.84%) WCF
9 6 (0.56%) JSON
10 4 (0.37%) ATL
10 4 (0.37%) Lucene
11 3 (0.28%) ASP.NET
11 3 (0.28%) SAP Fiori
12 2 (0.19%) ActiveX
12 2 (0.19%) ADO
12 2 (0.19%) jQuery
12 2 (0.19%) React
12 2 (0.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 93 (8.66%) Management Information System
2 53 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
3 35 (3.26%) Derivative
4 29 (2.70%) Virtual Team
5 27 (2.51%) Fixed Income
6 21 (1.96%) Product Ownership
7 19 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
8 18 (1.68%) Life Science
9 16 (1.49%) Onboarding
10 15 (1.40%) Smartphone
11 14 (1.30%) NHS
12 13 (1.21%) Distributed Systems
13 12 (1.12%) Equity Derivative
13 12 (1.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
16 8 (0.74%) Data Centre
16 8 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
17 7 (0.65%) PMI
17 7 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 93 (8.66%) Windows
2 22 (2.05%) Windows 10
3 21 (1.96%) Linux
3 21 (1.96%) Unix
4 14 (1.30%) Mac OS
5 12 (1.12%) Android
6 9 (0.84%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.56%) Windows 7
8 5 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.37%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
10 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.093%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 230 (21.42%) Problem-Solving
2 196 (18.25%) Project Management
3 165 (15.36%) Business Intelligence
4 141 (13.13%) Customer Service
5 131 (12.20%) Data Analysis
6 128 (11.92%) Agile
7 125 (11.64%) Stakeholder Management
8 91 (8.47%) Data Management
8 91 (8.47%) Decision-Making
9 81 (7.54%) Mathematics
9 81 (7.54%) Project Delivery
10 77 (7.17%) Change Management
10 77 (7.17%) Service Delivery
11 75 (6.98%) Time Management
12 70 (6.52%) ITIL
13 66 (6.15%) Analytics
14 65 (6.05%) Risk Management
15 63 (5.87%) PRINCE2
16 54 (5.03%) Data Modelling
17 53 (4.93%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 173 (16.11%) SQL
2 70 (6.52%) VBA
3 65 (6.05%) Python
4 57 (5.31%) C#
5 33 (3.07%) PL/SQL
6 29 (2.70%) VB
7 28 (2.61%) T-SQL
8 25 (2.33%) Java
9 20 (1.86%) PowerShell
9 20 (1.86%) VB.NET
10 17 (1.58%) JavaScript
11 13 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 12 (1.12%) C++
13 6 (0.56%) MATLAB
13 6 (0.56%) R
14 5 (0.47%) Scala
14 5 (0.47%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.37%) Perl
16 1 (0.093%) C
16 1 (0.093%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 255 (23.74%) Degree
2 132 (12.29%) Security Cleared
3 74 (6.89%) SC Cleared
4 46 (4.28%) DV Cleared
5 43 (4.00%) APMP
6 30 (2.79%) PMP
7 28 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 19 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
8 19 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (1.49%) ACCA
9 16 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
10 14 (1.30%) A+ Certification
10 14 (1.30%) CIMA
11 13 (1.21%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.21%) MCSA
12 10 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
13 8 (0.74%) Master's Degree
13 8 (0.74%) Numerate Degree
13 8 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 7 (0.65%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (11.45%) PMO
2 93 (8.66%) QA
3 60 (5.59%) SLA
4 54 (5.03%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.63%) GDPR
6 19 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 9 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
7 9 (0.84%) EMIR
8 7 (0.65%) Dodd-Frank
8 7 (0.65%) MiFID
9 6 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.47%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (0.47%) GAMP
10 5 (0.47%) GMP
10 5 (0.47%) GxP
11 4 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.19%) P3O
System Software
1 61 (5.68%) Active Directory
2 6 (0.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.093%) Cronacle
3 1 (0.093%) Firmware
3 1 (0.093%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.093%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 14 (1.30%) SCCM
2 9 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (0.37%) WhatsUp Gold
4 3 (0.28%) AirWatch
5 2 (0.19%) Control-M
5 2 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.093%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.093%) Iperf
6 1 (0.093%) Stealthwatch
Vendors
1 576 (53.63%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.47%) Oracle
3 82 (7.64%) SAP
4 49 (4.56%) ServiceNow
5 38 (3.54%) Citrix
6 35 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.61%) Google
8 27 (2.51%) Bloomberg
9 19 (1.77%) Adobe
9 19 (1.77%) Cisco
10 14 (1.30%) Apple
11 12 (1.12%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.02%) ION Trading
12 11 (1.02%) MarketAxess
12 11 (1.02%) MicroStrategy
12 11 (1.02%) Tradeweb
13 10 (0.93%) Northgate
14 9 (0.84%) Reuters
15 8 (0.74%) Atlassian
15 8 (0.74%) Databricks