MOS Contracts in the North West

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for MOS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 153 179
Rank change year-on-year +14 +26 -
Contract jobs citing MOS 2 4 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.072% 0.12% 0.075%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.24% 0.40% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £170 -
England median daily rate £610 £170 £265
% change year-on-year +258.82% -35.85% -40.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £16.40 - £15.50
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £15.78
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% - -
75th Percentile £19.13 £19.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £19.20 £19.15 -
England median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £15.31
% change year-on-year +2.86% +14.30% -12.51%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

MOS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 836 1,010 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.09% 31.29% 22.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 692 584
10th Percentile £248 £325 £263
25th Percentile £413 £425 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% +4.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £610 £625
90th Percentile £725 £700 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 68 68
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £24.75 £18.63
Median hourly rate £16.06 £37.50 £39.87
Median % change year-on-year -57.17% -5.94% -4.50%
75th Percentile £38.43 £49.52 £54.11
90th Percentile £54.00 £66.03 £65.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -1.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing MOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for MOS in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MOS in the North West.

Daily rate trend for MOS in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MOS in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for MOS in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 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
Merseyside +17 2 - -
MOS
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Mimecast
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos