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Job market reports · Skill · September 2026

excel

167 live US technical postings name excel in September 2026. Here is which roles ask for it, what those roles pay, and where they are.

Which roles ask for it

Share of the 167 postings naming excel that belong to each role. This is the answer to "what would learning this qualify me for".

  1. 1Data Analyst60.5%
  2. 2Software Engineer16.2%
  3. 3Data Scientist15%
  4. 4Data Engineer4.2%
  5. 5DevOps / SRE / Platform Engineer1.8%
  6. 6Security Engineer1.8%

What postings asking for it pay

Across every role, for the postings that both name this skill and disclose a salary. A skill does not cause a salary — senior roles ask for more of everything — so read this as association, not as a raise.

Disclosed pay where excel is named
n = 56
10th
$72k
25th
$89k
Median
$103k
75th
$138k
90th
$170k

Where those jobs are

Metro share of the postings naming this skill.

  1. 1New York, NY12.6%
  2. 2Remote8.4%
  3. 3Austin, TX4.2%
  4. 4Washington, DC4.2%
  5. 5San Francisco, CA3%
  6. 6Denver, CO2.4%
  7. 7Phoenix, AZ2.4%
  8. 8Houston, TX1.8%

How we counted

668,970 live US postings read directly from 79,892 employers’ own careers pages in September 2026 — not from a jobs aggregator, so a role reposted across several sites is counted once. Full methodology, limitations and external checks.