Microsoft 365 Contracts in Bedfordshire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 12 25
Rank change year-on-year -17 +13 -20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 9 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 3.61% 11.92% 5.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.50% 33.33% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 19 11
10th Percentile - £163 £129
25th Percentile - £205 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £250 £350
Median % change year-on-year - -28.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £502 £388
90th Percentile - £550 -
East of England median daily rate £250 £275 £319
% change year-on-year -9.09% -13.73% +18.60%

All Cloud Skills
Bedfordshire

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 40 69 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 16.06% 35.75% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 53 44
10th Percentile £215 £165 £187
25th Percentile £263 £263 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £520 £506
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +2.72% +26.56%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £538
90th Percentile £578 £630 £615
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £58.25 - £53.00
25th Percentile £65.25 - £53.75
Median hourly rate £65.50 £35.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +87.14% -36.36% -
75th Percentile £65.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £59.75
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £18.25 £15.50
% change year-on-year -10.68% +17.74% +3.33%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Bedfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Bedfordshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Bedfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Bedfordshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Bedfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 19 April 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
Luton -5 5 - - 2
Bedford -6 1 - - 3
Microsoft 365
East of England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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 8 (88.89%) SharePoint
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Intranet
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
General
1 8 (88.89%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Influencing Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Manufacturing
2 4 (44.44%) Marketing
2 4 (44.44%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (44.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Intranet Specialist
1 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Graphic Design
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Analytics
1 4 (44.44%) Business Case
1 4 (44.44%) ITIL
1 4 (44.44%) Journey Map
1 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
1 4 (44.44%) Service Delivery
1 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (44.44%) Web Design
2 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
2 1 (11.11%) Email Migration
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (11.11%) Patch Management
2 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CCNA
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) MCSA
1 4 (44.44%) MCSE
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) VMware