Microsoft 365 Contracts in the South East

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 32 24
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 225 386 595
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.08% 6.82% 7.79%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.02% 22.75% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 272 428
10th Percentile £147 £175 £140
25th Percentile £194 £205 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £281 £350 £293
Median % change year-on-year -19.64% +19.66% -18.88%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £475
90th Percentile £608 £688 £575
England median daily rate £350 £388 £350
% change year-on-year -9.68% +10.71% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 28 40
10th Percentile £15.80 £16.12 £12.55
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.74 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.02% -6.88% -4.99%
75th Percentile £18.49 £57.06 £22.25
90th Percentile £21.88 £76.26 £22.46
England median hourly rate £16.30 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.89% +5.71% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,322 1,697 2,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 23.95% 30.00% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 910 1,238 1,781
10th Percentile £250 £252 £205
25th Percentile £406 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £629 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 56 60
10th Percentile £16.25 £15.51 £13.27
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.22 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £22.88 £21.28
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% +7.52% -1.16%
75th Percentile £54.75 £65.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £21.00 £33.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +54.65% -

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the South East

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the South East

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the South East

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the South East

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the South East over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the South East

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 11 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
Thames Valley -21 103 £375 -6.25% 81
Berkshire -18 66 £538 -12.60% 23
Hampshire -25 58 £200 -40.74% 51
Kent +5 22 £400 +6.67% 37
Surrey -14 20 £275 - 33
Oxfordshire -4 19 £175 -50.00% 25
Buckinghamshire -10 18 £225 -38.36% 33
West Sussex -4 9 £173 -13.75% 28
Middlesex - 6 £275 -
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 37 (16.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (12.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
3 2 (0.89%) nginx
4 1 (0.44%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.44%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 35 (15.56%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.56%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (3.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.67%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.78%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 55 (24.44%) Azure
2 31 (13.78%) Entra ID
3 16 (7.11%) Azure Monitor
3 16 (7.11%) Azure Storage
4 13 (5.78%) OneDrive
5 8 (3.56%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.11%) PowerApps
7 6 (2.67%) AWS
7 6 (2.67%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.67%) SaaS
8 3 (1.33%) ShareGate
9 2 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.44%) GCP
10 1 (0.44%) GitHub
10 1 (0.44%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.44%) NuGet
10 1 (0.44%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 32 (14.22%) Firewall
2 28 (12.44%) DHCP
3 27 (12.00%) DNS
4 21 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
4 21 (9.33%) Wireless
5 19 (8.44%) VoIP
6 17 (7.56%) WAN
7 15 (6.67%) LAN
8 12 (5.33%) Cisco IOS
8 12 (5.33%) VPN
9 9 (4.00%) Network Security
9 9 (4.00%) TCP/IP
10 6 (2.67%) Remote Desktop
11 5 (2.22%) VLAN
11 5 (2.22%) WebEx
12 4 (1.78%) SAN
13 2 (0.89%) CTI
14 1 (0.44%) Fibre Channel
14 1 (0.44%) Skype
14 1 (0.44%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.22%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.89%) Metadata
2 2 (0.89%) MySQL
2 2 (0.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (2.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.44%) GitLab
General
1 83 (36.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (11.56%) Organisational Skills
3 23 (10.22%) Public Sector
4 15 (6.67%) Marketing
5 14 (6.22%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (5.78%) Finance
7 9 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.00%) Retail
8 8 (3.56%) Telecoms
9 7 (3.11%) Electronics
10 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.78%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.33%) Legal
13 2 (0.89%) Automotive
13 2 (0.89%) French Language
13 2 (0.89%) Portuguese Language
13 2 (0.89%) Spanish Language
14 1 (0.44%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.44%) Banking
14 1 (0.44%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (16.00%) IT Support
1 36 (16.00%) Support Engineer
2 21 (9.33%) Active Directory Support
3 20 (8.89%) IT Engineer
3 20 (8.89%) Support Specialist
4 16 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 16 (7.11%) IT Support Engineer
5 15 (6.67%) Senior
6 14 (6.22%) Active Directory Specialist
6 14 (6.22%) Analyst
6 14 (6.22%) Azure Specialist
6 14 (6.22%) Support Technician
7 13 (5.78%) Desktop Support
8 12 (5.33%) 1st Line Support
8 12 (5.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 11 (4.89%) Audio Visual Technician
10 10 (4.44%) Desktop Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Active Directory Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.11%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.33%) CSS
2 3 (1.33%) HTML
2 3 (1.33%) jQuery
2 3 (1.33%) SPFx
2 3 (1.33%) XMPP
3 2 (0.89%) EDI
4 1 (0.44%) JSON
4 1 (0.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.22%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (8.44%) Video Editing
3 16 (7.11%) PKI
4 10 (4.44%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.11%) Digital Signage
5 7 (3.11%) NHS
6 5 (2.22%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.22%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.78%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.89%) CCTV
8 2 (0.89%) Smartphone
8 2 (0.89%) Taxonomies
9 1 (0.44%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.44%) BYOD
9 1 (0.44%) CMDB
9 1 (0.44%) Cyber Threat
9 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.44%) EPoS
9 1 (0.44%) iPhone
9 1 (0.44%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 145 (64.44%) Windows
2 79 (35.11%) Windows 10
3 43 (19.11%) Apple iOS
4 34 (15.11%) Windows Server
5 33 (14.67%) Linux
6 26 (11.56%) Android
6 26 (11.56%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (8.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 15 (6.67%) Windows 7
9 9 (4.00%) Mac OS
9 9 (4.00%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.44%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (20.44%) Customer Service
2 33 (14.67%) ITIL
3 25 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (10.67%) Agile
5 19 (8.44%) Service Management
6 18 (8.00%) DevOps
6 18 (8.00%) Identity Management
6 18 (8.00%) Infrastructure as Code
6 18 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (7.56%) Analytics
7 17 (7.56%) CI/CD
8 16 (7.11%) Log Analytics
8 16 (7.11%) Multi-Factor Authentication
8 16 (7.11%) Privileged Identity Management
8 16 (7.11%) RBAC
8 16 (7.11%) Release Management
9 15 (6.67%) Migration
10 10 (4.44%) Change Management
10 10 (4.44%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (4.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.89%) PowerShell
2 16 (7.11%) Bicep
2 16 (7.11%) C#
2 16 (7.11%) VB
2 16 (7.11%) VBScript
3 13 (5.78%) SQL
4 2 (0.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 39 (17.33%) Security Cleared
2 36 (16.00%) Degree
3 28 (12.44%) SC Cleared
4 27 (12.00%) DV Cleared
5 17 (7.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 9 (4.00%) DBS Check
7 6 (2.67%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.89%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.44%) CISM
10 1 (0.44%) CISSP
10 1 (0.44%) CRISC
10 1 (0.44%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.67%) SLA
2 8 (3.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.33%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 128 (56.89%) Active Directory
2 16 (7.11%) Virtual Desktop
2 16 (7.11%) Virtual Machines
3 12 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (3.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.78%) BitLocker
5 4 (1.78%) vSphere
6 1 (0.44%) Docker
6 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 51 (22.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 51 (22.67%) SCCM
2 18 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 17 (7.56%) WSUS
4 16 (7.11%) SCOM
5 4 (1.78%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.33%) AppManager
6 3 (1.33%) Terraform
7 2 (0.89%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.44%) Ansible
8 1 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.44%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.44%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.44%) VxRail
Vendors
1 128 (56.89%) Microsoft
2 52 (23.11%) Apple
3 26 (11.56%) VMware
4 25 (11.11%) Cisco
5 21 (9.33%) HP
6 16 (7.11%) ServiceNow
7 12 (5.33%) MobileIron
8 10 (4.44%) Aruba
8 10 (4.44%) Polycom
9 9 (4.00%) Adobe
10 7 (3.11%) SAP
11 4 (1.78%) Dell
11 4 (1.78%) F5
11 4 (1.78%) Ivanti
11 4 (1.78%) Planview
12 3 (1.33%) Citrix
12 3 (1.33%) Google
12 3 (1.33%) Veeam
13 2 (0.89%) Reuters
13 2 (0.89%) Sage