Microsoft 365 Contracts in Central London

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 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 28 35 37
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 152 209 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 6.26% 5.54% 6.16%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.82% 14.41% 14.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 153 230
10th Percentile £159 £153 £161
25th Percentile £243 £200 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £419
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -16.42% -6.94%
75th Percentile £575 £488 £538
90th Percentile £675 £598 £625
London median daily rate £400 £425 £425
% change year-on-year -5.88% - +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.75 - £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £25.00 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +23.85% +46.80%
75th Percentile £23.75 - £27.75
90th Percentile £25.70 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £22.00 £23.75 £25.50
% change year-on-year -7.37% -6.86% +34.21%

All Cloud Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 961 1,450 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 39.55% 38.46% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 687 985 1,571
10th Percentile £350 £313 £381
25th Percentile £429 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £755 £800 £763
London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 13
10th Percentile £12.75 £32.00 -
25th Percentile £17.00 £47.19 £13.88
Median hourly rate £22.50 £83.30 £20.19
Median % change year-on-year -72.99% +312.66% -13.92%
75th Percentile £25.38 £88.30 £27.75
90th Percentile £36.30 - £48.30
London median hourly rate £26.00 £50.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -48.00% +23.46% +8.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Central London

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Central London

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Central London

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Central London

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Central London

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London +11 130 £475 +46.15% 38
West End of London -7 4 £178 -52.47% 6
Lambeth +2 2 £196 +3.29%
City of Westminster -9 2 £400 +8.11% 3
Camden -3 1 £850 +243.43% 3
Microsoft 365
London

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 39 (25.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 34 (22.37%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.95%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (2.63%) Confluence
5 3 (1.97%) IBM Domino
5 3 (1.97%) IBM Notes
6 2 (1.32%) IIS
7 1 (0.66%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (0.66%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.66%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.66%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Camtasia
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.66%) Carpe Diem
2 1 (0.66%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.66%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 72 (47.37%) Azure
2 31 (20.39%) Entra ID
3 29 (19.08%) Power Platform
4 20 (13.16%) OneDrive
5 14 (9.21%) PowerApps
6 13 (8.55%) Mimecast
7 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Purview
7 10 (6.58%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.26%) AWS
8 8 (5.26%) IaaS
9 6 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (3.95%) Azure Key Vault
10 4 (2.63%) Google Workspace
10 4 (2.63%) PaaS
11 3 (1.97%) Azure Storage
11 3 (1.97%) WhatsApp
12 2 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
12 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
13 1 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 18 (11.84%) Firewall
2 15 (9.87%) DNS
3 10 (6.58%) VPN
4 6 (3.95%) DHCP
5 5 (3.29%) MPLS
5 5 (3.29%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.63%) Network Security
6 4 (2.63%) Wireless
7 3 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (1.97%) LAN
7 3 (1.97%) Skype
7 3 (1.97%) SMTP
7 3 (1.97%) Unified Communications
7 3 (1.97%) WAN
8 2 (1.32%) NAS
8 2 (1.32%) SAN
8 2 (1.32%) VoIP
9 1 (0.66%) iSCSI
9 1 (0.66%) WebEx
9 1 (0.66%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.24%) Power BI
2 9 (5.92%) SQL Server
3 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (3.95%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.66%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.66%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.63%) Hudson
2 3 (1.97%) Visual Studio
3 2 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.66%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 52 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 44 (28.95%) Finance
3 20 (13.16%) Legal
4 14 (9.21%) Banking
5 13 (8.55%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (8.55%) Financial Institution
6 8 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (3.29%) French Language
8 5 (3.29%) Law
9 4 (2.63%) Local Government
9 4 (2.63%) Retail
10 3 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.66%) Billing
11 1 (0.66%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.66%) German Language
11 1 (0.66%) Italian Language
11 1 (0.66%) Marketing
11 1 (0.66%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 26 (17.11%) Architect
2 19 (12.50%) Support Engineer
3 13 (8.55%) IT Support
4 12 (7.89%) Analyst
5 11 (7.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) Desktop Engineer
6 10 (6.58%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 9 (5.92%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.26%) Desktop Support
8 8 (5.26%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (4.61%) Developer
9 7 (4.61%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.95%) Consultant
10 6 (3.95%) Platform Architect
10 6 (3.95%) Power Platform Architect
11 5 (3.29%) Azure Engineer
11 5 (3.29%) DevOps Manager
11 5 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
12 4 (2.63%) Systems Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.58%) Microsoft Graph
2 6 (3.95%) JSON
2 6 (3.95%) REST
2 6 (3.95%) XML
3 3 (1.97%) CSS
3 3 (1.97%) HTML5 Canvas
3 3 (1.97%) jQuery
4 1 (0.66%) LAMP
4 1 (0.66%) OAuth
4 1 (0.66%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (0.66%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (7.24%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.58%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.95%) Video Conferencing
4 5 (3.29%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.63%) Wiki
6 3 (1.97%) Security Posture
7 2 (1.32%) Clustering
7 2 (1.32%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.32%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.32%) IoT
7 2 (1.32%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.32%) PKI
7 2 (1.32%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.66%) EPoS
8 1 (0.66%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.66%) Handset
8 1 (0.66%) iPad
8 1 (0.66%) Replication
8 1 (0.66%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.66%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 69 (45.39%) Windows
2 25 (16.45%) Windows 10
3 10 (6.58%) Windows Server
4 8 (5.26%) Android
4 8 (5.26%) Windows 7
5 7 (4.61%) Mac OS
5 7 (4.61%) Mac OS X
6 5 (3.29%) Windows 8
6 5 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.63%) Linux
8 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (1.32%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.66%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.66%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (20.39%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (19.08%) Migration
3 26 (17.11%) Data Loss Prevention
4 25 (16.45%) Customer Service
5 22 (14.47%) Agile
6 21 (13.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (13.16%) ITIL
8 16 (10.53%) Change Management
8 16 (10.53%) Project Management
9 14 (9.21%) DevOps
9 14 (9.21%) PRINCE2
10 13 (8.55%) Business Intelligence
10 13 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (8.55%) Information Security
11 12 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 11 (7.24%) Roadmaps
13 9 (5.92%) Computer Science
13 9 (5.92%) Service Delivery
13 9 (5.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 8 (5.26%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 38 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (5.26%) C#
3 6 (3.95%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.63%) SQL
5 3 (1.97%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.32%) Python
7 1 (0.66%) Bash
Qualifications
1 22 (14.47%) Degree
2 10 (6.58%) Azure Certification
2 10 (6.58%) ITIL Certification
3 8 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (3.95%) CISSP
4 6 (3.95%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.63%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (1.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 3 (1.97%) CCSK
6 3 (1.97%) CISM
7 2 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (1.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.66%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.66%) CCNA
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
8 1 (0.66%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.89%) SLA
2 6 (3.95%) NIST
3 4 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.97%) NCSC
5 2 (1.32%) GRC
5 2 (1.32%) ISO 22301
5 2 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.32%) QA
6 1 (0.66%) GDPR
6 1 (0.66%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 70 (46.05%) Active Directory
2 13 (8.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (3.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.32%) vSphere
5 2 (1.32%) XenApp
6 1 (0.66%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 27 (17.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (7.89%) SCCM
3 8 (5.26%) PingFederate
4 5 (3.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (2.63%) FortiGate
6 3 (1.97%) Ansible
7 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (1.32%) Packer
7 2 (1.32%) QRadar
7 2 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (1.32%) Terraform
8 1 (0.66%) CASB
8 1 (0.66%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.66%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.66%) Kibana
8 1 (0.66%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.66%) logstash
8 1 (0.66%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
Vendors
1 110 (72.37%) Microsoft
2 17 (11.18%) Citrix
3 15 (9.87%) VMware
4 11 (7.24%) Apple
5 8 (5.26%) Adobe
5 8 (5.26%) iManage
6 7 (4.61%) Cisco
7 6 (3.95%) Cadence
7 6 (3.95%) Proofpoint
7 6 (3.95%) ServiceNow
8 5 (3.29%) Ivanti
8 5 (3.29%) Okta
9 4 (2.63%) Freshdesk
9 4 (2.63%) Google
9 4 (2.63%) IBM
10 3 (1.97%) Lotus
10 3 (1.97%) Symantec
11 2 (1.32%) Bloomberg
11 2 (1.32%) HP
11 2 (1.32%) Reuters