Microsoft 365 Contracts in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 15 11
Rank change year-on-year -7 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 50 98 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 6.52% 9.39% 10.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.27% 32.45% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 68 87
10th Percentile £145 £135 £105
25th Percentile £160 £166 £154
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £250 £245
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.04% +36.11%
75th Percentile £338 £388 £438
90th Percentile £368 £461 £526
England median daily rate £350 £383 £350
% change year-on-year -8.50% +9.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 7
10th Percentile £19.49 £14.52 £13.40
25th Percentile £23.78 £15.13 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.60 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.94% +1.26% +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.09 £21.88 £19.88
90th Percentile £48.38 £26.48 £21.50
England median hourly rate £17.27 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.65% +5.71% +2.94%

All Cloud Skills
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 206 302 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 26.86% 28.93% 30.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 231 297
10th Percentile £164 £181 £165
25th Percentile £311 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £440 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% -2.22% +13.07%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £519
90th Percentile £663 £700 £619
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 12 17
10th Percentile - £14.57 £14.40
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.19 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.63 £18.86 £17.11
Median % change year-on-year -11.82% +10.26% +14.03%
75th Percentile £27.50 £24.43 £21.00
90th Percentile £32.10 £26.48 £26.90
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.00
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.81% -4.55%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 28 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
Derbyshire +4 18 £160 -14.67% 28
Nottinghamshire +1 16 £210 -50.30% 17
Lincolnshire +15 7 £325 +124.14% 11
Northamptonshire -6 4 £190 -15.56% 11
Leicestershire -10 4 £304 +21.50% 10
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 10 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Azure
2 9 (18.00%) AWS
3 8 (16.00%) SaaS
4 4 (8.00%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.00%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (10.00%) DNS
3 4 (8.00%) Firewall
4 3 (6.00%) Ethernet
5 2 (4.00%) VoIP
5 2 (4.00%) VPN
6 1 (2.00%) DHCP
6 1 (2.00%) LAN
6 1 (2.00%) VLAN
6 1 (2.00%) WAN
6 1 (2.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Metadata
1 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.00%) JIRA
General
1 9 (18.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Legal
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (28.00%) Support Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
2 8 (16.00%) IT Manager
2 8 (16.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
2 8 (16.00%) IT Services Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery Manager
2 8 (16.00%) Service Manager
3 7 (14.00%) IT Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) IT Support
3 7 (14.00%) Windows Engineer
4 6 (12.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) Analyst
6 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Coordinator
7 3 (6.00%) Printer Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Project Coordinator
7 3 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) HTML
2 1 (2.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (2.00%) CSS
2 1 (2.00%) HTML5
2 1 (2.00%) SPFx
2 1 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.00%) Driving Licence
2 2 (4.00%) iPad
3 1 (2.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.00%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 35 (70.00%) Windows
2 18 (36.00%) Windows Server
3 14 (28.00%) Windows 10
4 13 (26.00%) Apple iOS
5 3 (6.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (4.00%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.00%) Migration
1 10 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 10 (20.00%) Service Management
2 9 (18.00%) Change Management
2 9 (18.00%) Information Security
2 9 (18.00%) ITSM
3 8 (16.00%) Business Analysis
3 8 (16.00%) Decision-Making
3 8 (16.00%) IT Governance
3 8 (16.00%) People Management
3 8 (16.00%) Performance Metrics
3 8 (16.00%) Problem Management
3 8 (16.00%) Service Delivery Management
4 6 (12.00%) Customer Service
5 4 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (6.00%) Ticket Management
7 2 (4.00%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.00%) Server Monitoring
7 2 (4.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.00%) Swift
2 4 (8.00%) SQL
3 3 (6.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (2.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (2.00%) CISM
2 1 (2.00%) CISSP
2 1 (2.00%) MCSE
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (2.00%) GRC
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 25 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) Firmware
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (18.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (16.00%) SCCM
3 3 (6.00%) Autotask
4 1 (2.00%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (2.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (16.00%) Okta
3 3 (6.00%) Cisco
3 3 (6.00%) Remedy
3 3 (6.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.00%) Apple
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk