Microsoft Excel Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Excel
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 94 74
Rank change year-on-year +64 -20 +41
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Excel 129 80 105
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.93% 2.90% 3.05%
As % of the Applications category 51.60% 30.19% 34.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 57 81
10th Percentile £156 £175 £208
25th Percentile £204 £250 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £365
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -4.11% +5.04%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £438
90th Percentile £598 £596 £503
UK median daily rate £440 £425 £430
% change year-on-year +3.53% -1.16% +14.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £12.30 £13.41 £12.89
25th Percentile £13.14 £15.07 £14.99
Median hourly rate £18.25 £17.25 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.83% -8.00% +63.14%
75th Percentile £19.75 £20.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £19.94 £22.25 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £14.80 £21.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -29.52% +7.58% +8.44%

All Software Application Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 250 265 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.48% 9.60% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 207 222
10th Percentile £156 £163 £158
25th Percentile £200 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £383 £367
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.29% +17.36%
75th Percentile £488 £481 £450
90th Percentile £550 £560 £522
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 10
10th Percentile £11.50 £14.88 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.00 £17.29 £15.40
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -10.87% +50.82%
75th Percentile £19.75 £56.06 £28.43
90th Percentile £20.13 £63.00 £40.97
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.15% +51.16% +17.23%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in Scotland

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Scotland

Microsoft Excel
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Excel in Scotland

Microsoft Excel
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Excel in Scotland

Microsoft Excel
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 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
Edinburgh +39 50 £488 +8.33% 24
Glasgow +24 49 £350 +10.67% 16
Renfrewshire +1 5 £195 - 1
Aberdeen - 5 £325 - 10
Highlands - 4 - - 2
South Lanarkshire +3 3 £538 -10.42%
Dundee - 1 - - 1
Fife - 1 - - 1
Perthshire - 1 £525 -
Perth and Kinross - 1 £525 -
Microsoft Excel
UK

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 28 (21.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.88%) Confluence
3 2 (1.55%) CMS
4 1 (0.78%) Drupal
4 1 (0.78%) Moodle
4 1 (0.78%) WordPress
Applications
1 44 (34.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 21 (16.28%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (9.30%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (8.53%) MS Visio
5 4 (3.10%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.55%) Adobe Captivate
6 2 (1.55%) Camtasia
6 2 (1.55%) Lectora
7 1 (0.78%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.78%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle ERP
2 4 (3.10%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 2 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.48%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (16.28%) Power Platform
3 15 (11.63%) Yammer
4 11 (8.53%) Entra ID
5 7 (5.43%) OCI
6 4 (3.10%) Azure
7 2 (1.55%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.55%) GCP
7 2 (1.55%) Google Data Studio
7 2 (1.55%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.78%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.55%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (16.28%) Power BI
2 8 (6.20%) Tableau
3 6 (4.65%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 6 (4.65%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (2.33%) BusinessObjects
5 2 (1.55%) BigQuery
5 2 (1.55%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.55%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.78%) DTS
6 1 (0.78%) Metadata
6 1 (0.78%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (4.65%) JIRA
2 2 (1.55%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.55%) ERwin
General
1 74 (57.36%) Social Skills
2 54 (41.86%) Finance
3 40 (31.01%) Public Sector
4 36 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (9.30%) Publishing
6 8 (6.20%) Banking
6 8 (6.20%) Legal
7 6 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.10%) Back Office
8 4 (3.10%) Mandarin Language
9 3 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.55%) Marketing
10 2 (1.55%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.78%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 63 (48.84%) Analyst
2 15 (11.63%) Change Analyst
3 12 (9.30%) Data Analyst
4 10 (7.75%) IT Support
5 8 (6.20%) Administrator
5 8 (6.20%) Architect
5 8 (6.20%) Business Analyst
5 8 (6.20%) Support Officer
6 7 (5.43%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (3.88%) Operations Analyst
7 5 (3.88%) Report Analyst
7 5 (3.88%) Senior
8 4 (3.10%) Commercial Administrator
8 4 (3.10%) IT Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Junior
8 4 (3.10%) Junior Data Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Security Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Vulnerability Analyst
8 4 (3.10%) Vulnerability Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) OpenID
1 7 (5.43%) SAML
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.10%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.55%) Flash
4 1 (0.78%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.98%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.65%) Renewable Energy
4 5 (3.88%) DTCC
4 5 (3.88%) Market Risk
5 4 (3.10%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.33%) Freedom of Information
7 2 (1.55%) Biopharmaceutical
7 2 (1.55%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.55%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.55%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.55%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.55%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.55%) Social Media
7 2 (1.55%) Video Editing
8 1 (0.78%) iPhone
8 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.10%) Windows
2 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.78%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.38%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (14.73%) Data Analysis
2 19 (14.73%) Project Management
3 17 (13.18%) Change Management
4 14 (10.85%) Agile
4 14 (10.85%) Infographics
4 14 (10.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (8.53%) ERP
6 10 (7.75%) Stakeholder Identification
6 10 (7.75%) Workshop Facilitation
7 9 (6.98%) Asset Management
7 9 (6.98%) Visualisation
7 9 (6.98%) Waterfall
8 8 (6.20%) Analytics
8 8 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (6.20%) Data Modelling
8 8 (6.20%) Data Visualisation
8 8 (6.20%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (5.43%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (8.53%) SQL
2 2 (1.55%) JavaScript
2 2 (1.55%) Python
3 1 (0.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (0.78%) Java
3 1 (0.78%) Perl
3 1 (0.78%) R
3 1 (0.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 36 (27.91%) Degree
2 11 (8.53%) Security Cleared
3 9 (6.98%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) CISM
4 4 (3.10%) CISSP
5 3 (2.33%) ACCA
5 3 (2.33%) CIMA
5 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.55%) MCP
7 1 (0.78%) APMG
7 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.78%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.08%) Disclosure Scotland
1 13 (10.08%) PMO
2 9 (6.98%) QA
3 3 (2.33%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.33%) Data Quality
3 3 (2.33%) SLA
4 2 (1.55%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.55%) NIST
5 1 (0.78%) GDPR
5 1 (0.78%) NCSC
5 1 (0.78%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 11 (8.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.10%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (57.36%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.30%) Oracle
3 7 (5.43%) CrowdStrike
3 7 (5.43%) Okta
3 7 (5.43%) SAP
3 7 (5.43%) Zscaler
4 4 (3.10%) CyberArk
4 4 (3.10%) Qualys
5 3 (2.33%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.33%) Informatica
6 2 (1.55%) Adobe
6 2 (1.55%) Brandwatch
6 2 (1.55%) Cadence
6 2 (1.55%) Facebook
6 2 (1.55%) Google
6 2 (1.55%) Hootsuite
6 2 (1.55%) Instagram
6 2 (1.55%) Twitter
6 2 (1.55%) Workday
6 2 (1.55%) YouTube