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Excel in internship postings

From the 12,147 open internship postings we track that have a description · as of Nov 6, 2026

Postings that ask for it26.5%3,214 postings (5,169 requisitions) of 12,147 postings with a description
Remote3.9%125 of the 3,214 Excel postings
Median pay with it-3.7%$26.00/h (N=1169) vs $27.00/h for all postings with pay (N=4545)

How to read this: this compares pay in postings that ask for the skill with pay in all postings. It mostly shows which kinds of jobs ask for it — not what the skill alone does to your pay.

Excel is asked for in every field, including lower-paying business, admin and retail roles, so postings that name it pay about the same as a typical posting. Treat Excel as a baseline: it is expected almost everywhere, and not having it can screen you out — but on its own it does not raise pay. Students aiming higher stack it with the skills these postings most often pair it with: Power BI, SQL and Python.

Fields that ask for it
Share of the 3,214 Excel postings in each field. A posting can be in several fields, or none.
  1. Business28.7% (922 of 3,214)
  2. Finance18.9% (607 of 3,214)
  3. Engineering11.8% (378 of 3,214)
  4. Data Science6% (194 of 3,214)
  5. Computer Science5.4% (174 of 3,214)
  6. Product & Design2.6% (82 of 3,214)
Employers asking for it most
Postings per employer, out of the 3,214 Excel postings.
  1. CVS Health4% (128 of 3,214)
  2. Stryker3.3% (105 of 3,214)
  3. University of Ottawa1.5% (48 of 3,214)
  4. Ryan1.5% (48 of 3,214)
  5. RTX1.5% (47 of 3,214)
  6. Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL)1.3% (43 of 3,214)
  7. Nissan Global1.2% (39 of 3,214)
  8. HNTB1.2% (38 of 3,214)
Learned Excel? Add one of these next
The skills Excel postings most often ask for alongside it: the share of Excel postings that also name each one.
  1. Power BI13.2% (423 of 3,214)
  2. Python12.5% (403 of 3,214)
  3. SQL10.7% (343 of 3,214)
  4. Tableau7.2% (231 of 3,214)
  5. AutoCAD3.9% (124 of 3,214)
How to build it
Free resources, one project and a resume bullet to adapt. Time spans are rough estimates.

Project: A dashboard someone actually uses

about 2 weeks part time (estimate)

Take messy data (a club budget, a job-search tracker) and build a workbook with clean tables, lookups (XLOOKUP), a PivotTable and one chart that answers a question at a glance.

Sample resume bullet

Built an Excel dashboard with PivotTables and XLOOKUP that tracked [N] [items], saving [X] hours a month.

Replace every [bracket] with your real numbers; never invent them.

Open postings that ask for Excel
The newest ones, still open when these numbers were computed.
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How these numbers are made

Counting unit: a posting is one role. Repeat requisitions from the same employer with the same title and the same location (city, state or province, country, and remote or not) count once, using the newest one. Counted over open, de-duplicated postings with a description (12,147), once per posting; the 3,214 Excel postings stand for 5,169 requisitions. Every share, median and pairing below uses postings, not requisitions. A posting counts as asking for Excel when its description matches: capitalized 'Excel', not followed by 'at/in/as' (the verb 'excel at' never counts). A skill is never counted for its own employer's postings. Shares show their N and denominator: 26.5% (3,214 of 12,147).

Pay compares hourly US-dollar pay (weekly, monthly and yearly pay converted, ranges at their midpoint), only for postings that publish it: 1169 Excel postings against 4545 postings overall. Medians, not averages.