Microsoft Excel
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with 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 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 87 141
Rank change year-on-year +37 +54 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Excel 4,585 3,707 4,819
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.53% 3.78% 2.94%
As % of the Applications category 46.37% 43.33% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2,249 1,844 2,711
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,250 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £33,171
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £43,625 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.31% -3.06% +5.88%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £36,736 £36,975 £40,000
% change year-on-year -0.65% -7.56% -

All Software Application Skills
UK

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 requirement for software application skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 9,888 8,556 13,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 9.76% 8.72% 8.48%
Number of salaries quoted 6,051 4,697 7,115
10th Percentile £24,500 £25,750 £26,000
25th Percentile £27,965 £31,250 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,500 £44,235 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% -1.70% +4.65%
75th Percentile £53,750 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £35,000 £37,500 £39,322
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.63% -1.23%

Microsoft Excel
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Excel.

Salary trend for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Excel over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Excel in the UK

Microsoft Excel
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Excel within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +43 4,146 £40,000 -11.11% 2,123
UK excluding London +27 3,204 £36,736 -0.65% 1,586
Work from Home +38 1,477 £44,000 +1.15% 748
London +52 1,232 £54,850 -4.61% 691
South East +36 1,098 £42,000 +5.00% 411
Midlands +26 684 £37,500 +4.17% 283
North of England +14 550 £33,659 -2.44% 434
West Midlands +14 442 £38,500 -3.75% 155
North West +21 360 £35,000 +12.00% 259
East of England +27 278 £32,500 +4.00% 173
South West -4 264 £37,500 +2.18% 185
East Midlands +43 241 £32,000 +3.23% 127
Scotland -3 209 £35,000 -4.63% 81
Yorkshire +19 136 £35,000 - 129
Wales +3 94 £28,500 -12.31% 48
North East -35 54 £30,000 -11.81% 53
Northern Ireland +34 19 £35,000 +25.00% 17
Isle of Man - 9 £42,500 -
Channel Islands -4 1 £67,500 +8.00% 2

Microsoft Excel
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 272 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 51 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (0.96%) Oracle Service Bus
3 44 (0.96%) WebLogic
4 33 (0.72%) SAS
5 28 (0.61%) Confluence
6 24 (0.52%) WordPress
7 23 (0.50%) CMS
8 16 (0.35%) Apache
9 7 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.15%) Apache Spark
10 6 (0.13%) IBM Notes
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (0.11%) IIS
12 4 (0.087%) ColdFusion
12 4 (0.087%) Jupyter
12 4 (0.087%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.065%) GlassFish
13 3 (0.065%) JBoss
13 3 (0.065%) Smallworld
Applications
1 1,473 (32.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1,177 (25.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 176 (3.84%) MS Visio
4 170 (3.71%) Microsoft Project
5 120 (2.62%) Spreadsheet
6 38 (0.83%) SPSS
7 34 (0.74%) AutoCAD
8 19 (0.41%) Photoshop
9 16 (0.35%) InDesign
9 16 (0.35%) Trello
10 10 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 8 (0.17%) Adobe Illustrator
11 8 (0.17%) InfoPath
12 5 (0.11%) Stata
13 4 (0.087%) Revit
14 3 (0.065%) Adobe Captivate
14 3 (0.065%) Autodesk Inventor
15 2 (0.044%) Adobe Premiere
15 2 (0.044%) FileZilla
15 2 (0.044%) Gliffy
Business Applications
1 66 (1.44%) Primavera
2 48 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
3 14 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 14 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 12 (0.26%) Epicor Tropos
5 11 (0.24%) ResourceLink
6 10 (0.22%) NEC Housing
6 10 (0.22%) NetSuite
7 9 (0.20%) SAP BPC
7 9 (0.20%) SAP Business One
8 8 (0.17%) Magento
8 8 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
8 8 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
8 8 (0.17%) SAP QM
9 7 (0.15%) Elite 3E
9 7 (0.15%) Relativity
10 6 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
10 6 (0.13%) SAP PLM
10 6 (0.13%) Shopify
10 6 (0.13%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 885 (19.30%) Power Platform
2 289 (6.30%) Microsoft 365
3 249 (5.43%) Azure
4 85 (1.85%) AWS
5 69 (1.50%) OneDrive
6 66 (1.44%) Entra ID
7 60 (1.31%) PowerApps
8 59 (1.29%) SaaS
9 53 (1.16%) Power Automate
10 49 (1.07%) Google Analytics
11 40 (0.87%) Google Sheets
12 37 (0.81%) Dynamics 365
13 27 (0.59%) GCP
14 22 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
15 19 (0.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (0.41%) Google Ads
16 16 (0.35%) WhatsApp
17 15 (0.33%) Snowflake
18 14 (0.31%) Smartsheet
18 14 (0.31%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 508 (11.08%) Broadband
2 56 (1.22%) Firewall
3 53 (1.16%) Internet
4 46 (1.00%) Intranet
5 33 (0.72%) DNS
6 31 (0.68%) Remote Desktop
7 23 (0.50%) WAN
7 23 (0.50%) Wireless
8 21 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
9 17 (0.37%) LAN
9 17 (0.37%) TCP/IP
10 13 (0.28%) DHCP
10 13 (0.28%) VPN
11 11 (0.24%) FTP
12 10 (0.22%) HTTP
13 9 (0.20%) Network Security
13 9 (0.20%) SD-WAN
14 7 (0.15%) MPLS
15 6 (0.13%) Cisco IPT
15 6 (0.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 862 (18.80%) Power BI
2 259 (5.65%) Tableau
3 205 (4.47%) SQL Server
4 102 (2.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 92 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
6 71 (1.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 61 (1.33%) Oracle Database
8 58 (1.26%) MS Access
8 58 (1.26%) Power Query
9 45 (0.98%) Oracle Database 10g
9 45 (0.98%) Relational Database
10 44 (0.96%) Oracle Database 11g
10 44 (0.96%) VLDB
11 36 (0.79%) Data Mining
12 35 (0.76%) QlikView
13 34 (0.74%) GIS
14 30 (0.65%) Big Data
15 25 (0.55%) Amazon QuickSight
16 24 (0.52%) Qlik Sense
17 23 (0.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 147 (3.21%) JIRA
2 37 (0.81%) Git
3 25 (0.55%) Visual Studio
4 19 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 9 (0.20%) Jenkins
6 7 (0.15%) Oracle Forms
6 7 (0.15%) RStudio
7 6 (0.13%) Mercurial
8 5 (0.11%) Postman
8 5 (0.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (0.087%) GitLab
9 4 (0.087%) Katalon Studio
10 3 (0.065%) PeopleTools
10 3 (0.065%) Toad
10 3 (0.065%) Visual Studio Code
11 2 (0.044%) Balsamiq
11 2 (0.044%) Selenium
11 2 (0.044%) Subversion
12 1 (0.022%) JMeter
12 1 (0.022%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2,572 (56.10%) Social Skills
2 1,779 (38.80%) Finance
3 1,591 (34.70%) Analytical Skills
4 629 (13.72%) Retail
5 532 (11.60%) Influencing Skills
6 393 (8.57%) Legal
7 364 (7.94%) Marketing
8 328 (7.15%) Organisational Skills
9 267 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 233 (5.08%) Banking
11 223 (4.86%) German Language
12 210 (4.58%) Military
13 194 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
14 172 (3.75%) Law
15 142 (3.10%) Telecoms
16 129 (2.81%) Manufacturing
17 113 (2.46%) Public Sector
18 103 (2.25%) Investment Banking
19 95 (2.07%) Pharmaceutical
20 86 (1.88%) Billing
Job Titles
1 1,546 (33.72%) Analyst
2 612 (13.35%) Senior
3 402 (8.77%) Senior Analyst
4 396 (8.64%) Graduate
5 312 (6.80%) Data Analyst
6 252 (5.50%) Project Manager
7 234 (5.10%) Financial Analyst
8 227 (4.95%) Coordinator
9 190 (4.14%) Commercial Analyst
10 189 (4.12%) Administrator
11 148 (3.23%) Development Manager
12 141 (3.08%) Lead
13 122 (2.66%) Developer
14 113 (2.46%) Business Manager
15 107 (2.33%) Business Development Manager
16 97 (2.12%) Support Engineer
17 94 (2.05%) Business Analyst
18 87 (1.90%) Support Analyst
19 78 (1.70%) IT Support
20 77 (1.68%) SQL Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (1.22%) .NET
2 55 (1.20%) HTML
3 35 (0.76%) CSS
4 29 (0.63%) EDI
5 26 (0.57%) XML
6 23 (0.50%) Web Services
7 22 (0.48%) .NET Framework
8 21 (0.46%) JSON
9 12 (0.26%) HTML5
10 11 (0.24%) ASP.NET Web API
10 11 (0.24%) COM
10 11 (0.24%) SOAP
11 10 (0.22%) REST
11 10 (0.22%) RESTful
12 8 (0.17%) AngularJS
12 8 (0.17%) jQuery
13 7 (0.15%) LDAP
13 7 (0.15%) PySpark
13 7 (0.15%) React
13 7 (0.15%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 656 (14.31%) Self-Motivation
2 349 (7.61%) Onboarding
3 347 (7.57%) Management Information System
4 320 (6.98%) Driving Licence
5 86 (1.88%) Social Media
6 65 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
7 43 (0.94%) Data Centre
7 43 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
8 40 (0.87%) Life Science
9 39 (0.85%) Product Ownership
10 37 (0.81%) FMCG
11 36 (0.79%) NHS
12 35 (0.76%) Data Structures
13 32 (0.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 29 (0.63%) PMI
15 28 (0.61%) Biopharmaceutical
16 23 (0.50%) Blog
16 23 (0.50%) Digital Media
17 22 (0.48%) Virtual Team
18 21 (0.46%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 283 (6.17%) Windows
2 77 (1.68%) Linux
3 57 (1.24%) Unix
4 47 (1.03%) Solaris
4 47 (1.03%) Windows Server
5 32 (0.70%) Windows 10
6 11 (0.24%) Windows 7
7 9 (0.20%) Android
8 8 (0.17%) Windows Vista
9 7 (0.15%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.087%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.087%) Windows 8
12 3 (0.065%) AIX
13 2 (0.044%) VxWorks
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.044%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.022%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.022%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.022%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 964 (21.03%) Problem-Solving
2 908 (19.80%) Decision-Making
3 845 (18.43%) Business Intelligence
4 839 (18.30%) Agile
5 665 (14.50%) Actionable Insight
6 646 (14.09%) Mentoring
7 640 (13.96%) Data Analysis
8 558 (12.17%) Project Management
9 530 (11.56%) Continuous Improvement
10 522 (11.38%) Business Case
11 504 (10.99%) Budgeting and Forecasting
12 502 (10.95%) Customer Service
13 497 (10.84%) Budgeting
14 441 (9.62%) Process Improvement
15 410 (8.94%) Analytics
16 378 (8.24%) Logistics
17 339 (7.39%) Data Management
18 323 (7.04%) Time Management
19 287 (6.26%) Creative Thinking
20 279 (6.09%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 788 (17.19%) SQL
2 239 (5.21%) Python
3 143 (3.12%) VBA
4 104 (2.27%) R
5 92 (2.01%) C#
6 71 (1.55%) T-SQL
7 70 (1.53%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 60 (1.31%) JavaScript
9 53 (1.16%) PL/SQL
10 43 (0.94%) PowerShell
11 29 (0.63%) VB
12 25 (0.55%) Java
13 19 (0.41%) PHP
14 12 (0.26%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.22%) VB.NET
16 9 (0.20%) Groovy
17 8 (0.17%) C++
18 7 (0.15%) Bash
19 4 (0.087%) Scala
19 4 (0.087%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 1,474 (32.15%) Degree
2 559 (12.19%) CIMA
3 549 (11.97%) ACCA
4 325 (7.09%) DBS Check
5 149 (3.25%) Security Cleared
6 81 (1.77%) SC Cleared
7 50 (1.09%) Master's Degree
8 49 (1.07%) HNC
9 44 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
10 43 (0.94%) PMI Certification
11 37 (0.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 32 (0.70%) HND
13 29 (0.63%) ITIL Certification
14 27 (0.59%) CIPD
15 25 (0.55%) MRICS
16 24 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
17 23 (0.50%) BPSS Clearance
18 22 (0.48%) Microsoft Certification
19 21 (0.46%) PMP
20 19 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 200 (4.36%) Data Quality
2 161 (3.51%) GDPR
3 149 (3.25%) QA
4 122 (2.66%) SLA
5 112 (2.44%) PMO
6 65 (1.42%) ISO 9001
7 46 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
8 42 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 32 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 27 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
11 17 (0.37%) COBIT
11 17 (0.37%) ISO 14001
12 15 (0.33%) IFRS
13 14 (0.31%) COSHH
14 13 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 11 (0.24%) Good Clinical Practice
15 11 (0.24%) NEBOSH
16 9 (0.20%) GMP
17 7 (0.15%) NIST
System Software
1 151 (3.29%) Active Directory
2 44 (0.96%) Oracle RAC
2 44 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (0.41%) Hyper-V
4 11 (0.24%) Docker
5 6 (0.13%) VMware Server
6 4 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.087%) vSphere
7 3 (0.065%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.044%) VirtualBox
8 2 (0.044%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.022%) Firmware
9 1 (0.022%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 45 (0.98%) Oracle RMAN
2 44 (0.96%) Data Guard
2 44 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (0.50%) EnCase
4 11 (0.24%) Kubernetes
5 10 (0.22%) Ansible
6 6 (0.13%) Control-M
7 5 (0.11%) Stealthwatch
8 4 (0.087%) AirWatch
8 4 (0.087%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (0.087%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (0.087%) SCCM
8 4 (0.087%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.087%) Terraform
9 3 (0.065%) Oracle Statspack
9 3 (0.065%) WSUS
10 2 (0.044%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.044%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.022%) DatAdvantage
11 1 (0.022%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
Vendors
1 2,373 (51.76%) Microsoft
2 195 (4.25%) SAP
3 167 (3.64%) Google
4 158 (3.45%) Oracle
5 70 (1.53%) Alteryx
6 68 (1.48%) Salesforce
7 63 (1.37%) VMware
8 57 (1.24%) Virgin Media
9 56 (1.22%) NEC
9 56 (1.22%) Remedy
10 48 (1.05%) Adobe
11 47 (1.03%) Sun
12 33 (0.72%) Sage
12 33 (0.72%) ServiceNow
13 32 (0.70%) Databricks
14 30 (0.65%) Cisco
15 27 (0.59%) NCR
16 21 (0.46%) Xero
17 20 (0.44%) Citrix
18 18 (0.39%) Workday