Microsoft Office Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Office
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 36
Rank change year-on-year -9 +13 -18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 6 10 4
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 2.65% 5.75% 1.67%
As % of the Applications category 33.33% 55.56% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £123 - £181
25th Percentile £245 £513 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £525 £263
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +100.00% -4.55%
75th Percentile £350 £544 £309
90th Percentile - £548 £334
East of England median daily rate £350 £275 £381
% change year-on-year +27.27% -27.87% +48.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Median hourly rate £41.45 £30.78 -
Median % change year-on-year +34.67% - -
East of England median hourly rate £16.00 £30.78 £21.00
% change year-on-year -48.02% +46.57% -12.54%

All Software Application Skills
Bedfordshire

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 18 18 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 7.96% 10.34% 7.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 10
10th Percentile £58 £431 £331
25th Percentile £125 £513 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £538 £488
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% +10.26% +62.50%
75th Percentile £350 £550 £500
90th Percentile £468 - -
East of England median daily rate £413 £346 £350
% change year-on-year +19.22% -1.14% +0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £45.31 £29.50 -
25th Percentile £51.09 £30.20 -
Median hourly rate £60.73 £30.78 -
Median % change year-on-year +97.29% - -
75th Percentile £70.36 £45.20 -
90th Percentile £76.15 £52.83 -
East of England median hourly rate £19.71 £16.23 £40.28
% change year-on-year +21.41% -59.70% +22.05%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 6 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Bedfordshire

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 December 2025. 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
Luton -5 3 £350 - 3
Bedford 0 2 £41 -92.10% 2
Microsoft Office
East of England

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) SAN
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
1 3 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Technical Writer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Author
2 1 (16.67%) Help Desk Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Smartphone
2 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Budgeting
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Kalman Filter
3 1 (16.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Management
3 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) SAP
3 2 (33.33%) Barracuda Networks
3 2 (33.33%) Dell