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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 33 22
Rank change year-on-year -6 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 247 396 611
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.45% 6.79% 7.87%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.71% 23.21% 25.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 282 438
10th Percentile £148 £175 £140
25th Percentile £198 £205 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £350 £291
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +20.17% -18.78%
75th Percentile £509 £555 £484
90th Percentile £608 £688 £575
England median daily rate £350 £375 £350
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 31 45
10th Percentile £15.80 £15.81 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.94 £14.00
Median hourly rate £17.69 £18.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% -6.25% -4.99%
75th Percentile £18.49 £39.83 £22.25
90th Percentile £21.88 £75.00 £22.62
England median hourly rate £17.27 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -6.65% +5.71% +2.94%

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 1,395 1,706 2,443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 25.14% 29.24% 31.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 932 1,252 1,796
10th Percentile £243 £252 £200
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 £631 £600
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 54 54 65
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.10 £12.52
25th Percentile £17.80 £18.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £23.22 £23.23 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -0.04% +10.33% -4.32%
75th Percentile £58.06 £63.06 £35.00
90th Percentile £61.60 £75.00 £62.15
England median hourly rate £20.77 £30.38 £21.00
% change year-on-year -31.62% +44.64% -2.33%

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 26 April 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 26 April 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 26 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
Thames Valley -17 104 £375 -10.71% 79
Berkshire -15 67 £500 -21.26% 18
Hampshire -15 64 £210 -35.38% 60
Kent +5 27 £400 +21.21% 34
Surrey -12 25 £250 -9.09% 27
Oxfordshire 0 21 £284 -18.93% 28
Buckinghamshire -9 16 £225 -37.50% 33
West Sussex -4 11 £173 -13.75% 27
Middlesex - 6 £275 -
East Sussex -3 2 £415 -12.63% 12
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 40 (16.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 30 (12.15%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) Confluence
4 2 (0.81%) nginx
5 1 (0.40%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.40%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 41 (16.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 7 (2.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 6 (2.43%) MS Visio
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 61 (24.70%) Azure
2 31 (12.55%) Entra ID
3 15 (6.07%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (6.07%) Azure Storage
4 13 (5.26%) OneDrive
5 8 (3.24%) AWS
6 7 (2.83%) Power Automate
6 7 (2.83%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.83%) PowerApps
7 5 (2.02%) SaaS
8 3 (1.21%) ShareGate
8 3 (1.21%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.81%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.40%) GCP
10 1 (0.40%) GitHub
10 1 (0.40%) Mimecast
10 1 (0.40%) NuGet
10 1 (0.40%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 33 (13.36%) Firewall
2 31 (12.55%) DNS
3 29 (11.74%) DHCP
4 21 (8.50%) Wireless
5 20 (8.10%) Wi-Fi
6 19 (7.69%) VoIP
7 18 (7.29%) LAN
7 18 (7.29%) WAN
8 15 (6.07%) VPN
9 14 (5.67%) Network Security
10 12 (4.86%) Cisco IOS
11 11 (4.45%) TCP/IP
12 9 (3.64%) Remote Desktop
13 7 (2.83%) VLAN
14 5 (2.02%) WebEx
15 4 (1.62%) DMZ
15 4 (1.62%) SAN
16 2 (0.81%) CTI
17 1 (0.40%) Fibre Channel
17 1 (0.40%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.81%) Metadata
2 2 (0.81%) MySQL
2 2 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (1.62%) JIRA
2 1 (0.40%) GitLab
2 1 (0.40%) Hudson
General
1 83 (33.60%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.15%) Organisational Skills
3 22 (8.91%) Public Sector
4 17 (6.88%) Analytical Skills
5 16 (6.48%) Marketing
6 13 (5.26%) Finance
7 10 (4.05%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.05%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.24%) Electronics
8 8 (3.24%) Legal
8 8 (3.24%) Retail
9 4 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.81%) Automotive
11 2 (0.81%) French Language
11 2 (0.81%) Law
11 2 (0.81%) Portuguese Language
11 2 (0.81%) Spanish Language
12 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
12 1 (0.40%) Banking
Job Titles
1 41 (16.60%) Support Engineer
2 39 (15.79%) IT Support
3 22 (8.91%) IT Engineer
4 20 (8.10%) Active Directory Support
4 20 (8.10%) Support Specialist
5 18 (7.29%) IT Support Engineer
5 18 (7.29%) Senior
6 17 (6.88%) Desktop Support
6 17 (6.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 15 (6.07%) Support Technician
8 14 (5.67%) 1st Line Support
8 14 (5.67%) 2nd Line Support
8 14 (5.67%) Active Directory Specialist
8 14 (5.67%) Analyst
8 14 (5.67%) Azure Specialist
8 14 (5.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 13 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
10 11 (4.45%) Audio Visual Technician
10 11 (4.45%) Desktop Support Engineer
11 10 (4.05%) Senior Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.07%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.62%) HTML
3 3 (1.21%) CSS
3 3 (1.21%) jQuery
3 3 (1.21%) SPFx
3 3 (1.21%) XMPP
4 2 (0.81%) EDI
4 2 (0.81%) OLE
5 1 (0.40%) JSON
5 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 22 (8.91%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (7.69%) Video Editing
3 15 (6.07%) PKI
4 9 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
5 8 (3.24%) NHS
6 6 (2.43%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.43%) Smartphone
7 5 (2.02%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.62%) CMDB
8 4 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.62%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.21%) CCTV
9 3 (1.21%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.81%) Taxonomies
11 1 (0.40%) Blackberry
11 1 (0.40%) BYOD
11 1 (0.40%) Educational Technology
11 1 (0.40%) Enterprise Software
11 1 (0.40%) EPoS
11 1 (0.40%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 157 (63.56%) Windows
2 84 (34.01%) Windows 10
3 47 (19.03%) Apple iOS
4 35 (14.17%) Windows Server
5 32 (12.96%) Linux
6 28 (11.34%) Android
7 25 (10.12%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (7.69%) Windows Server 2016
9 14 (5.67%) Windows 7
10 9 (3.64%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (3.24%) Mac OS
12 5 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.81%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.40%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (17.81%) Customer Service
2 32 (12.96%) ITIL
3 27 (10.93%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (9.72%) Agile
5 20 (8.10%) Migration
6 19 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (7.69%) Service Management
7 18 (7.29%) DevOps
8 17 (6.88%) Identity Management
8 17 (6.88%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (6.48%) Analytics
9 16 (6.48%) CI/CD
10 15 (6.07%) Log Analytics
10 15 (6.07%) Multi-Factor Authentication
10 15 (6.07%) Privileged Identity Management
10 15 (6.07%) RBAC
10 15 (6.07%) Release Management
11 12 (4.86%) Change Management
12 11 (4.45%) Risk Assessment
13 10 (4.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (10.12%) PowerShell
2 15 (6.07%) Bicep
2 15 (6.07%) C#
2 15 (6.07%) VB
2 15 (6.07%) VBScript
3 12 (4.86%) SQL
4 2 (0.81%) Python
5 1 (0.40%) R
Qualifications
1 42 (17.00%) Degree
2 37 (14.98%) Security Cleared
3 25 (10.12%) SC Cleared
4 24 (9.72%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.48%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 10 (4.05%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.43%) Azure Certification
8 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (2.02%) A+ Certification
10 3 (1.21%) MCITP
11 2 (0.81%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.81%) CISM
11 2 (0.81%) CISSP
11 2 (0.81%) CRISC
12 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.31%) SLA
2 8 (3.24%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.62%) GDPR
4 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.81%) PMO
System Software
1 140 (56.68%) Active Directory
2 16 (6.48%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (6.07%) Virtual Machines
4 12 (4.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (2.83%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.62%) vSphere
7 2 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.40%) Docker
8 1 (0.40%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 50 (20.24%) SCCM
2 49 (19.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (6.88%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 16 (6.48%) WSUS
5 15 (6.07%) SCOM
6 3 (1.21%) AirWatch
6 3 (1.21%) AppManager
6 3 (1.21%) Terraform
7 2 (0.81%) PaperCut
8 1 (0.40%) Ansible
8 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) SmoothWall
8 1 (0.40%) VxRail
Vendors
1 135 (54.66%) Microsoft
2 52 (21.05%) Apple
3 26 (10.53%) VMware
4 25 (10.12%) Cisco
5 19 (7.69%) HP
6 18 (7.29%) ServiceNow
7 12 (4.86%) MobileIron
8 10 (4.05%) Aruba
8 10 (4.05%) Polycom
9 9 (3.64%) Adobe
10 8 (3.24%) SAP
11 5 (2.02%) Citrix
12 4 (1.62%) Ivanti
13 3 (1.21%) F5
13 3 (1.21%) Google
13 3 (1.21%) Planview
13 3 (1.21%) Veeam
14 2 (0.81%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.81%) SonicWALL
14 2 (0.81%) WatchGuard