Microsoft Office Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft Office
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 48 44
Rank change year-on-year -1 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 15 20 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.50% 2.78% 3.44%
As % of the Applications category 25.86% 45.45% 47.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 15
10th Percentile £150 - £178
25th Percentile £250 £143 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £170 £350
Median % change year-on-year +76.47% -51.43% +55.56%
75th Percentile £350 £444 £455
90th Percentile £460 £563 £601
West Midlands median daily rate £313 £425 £281
% change year-on-year -26.35% +51.11% +20.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £13.10
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £17.63
90th Percentile - - £18.30
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +88.02%

All Software Application Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 58 44 61
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 9.67% 6.11% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 36 33
10th Percentile £232 £143 £188
25th Percentile £277 £169 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £300 £415
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -27.71% +33.87%
75th Percentile £540 £450 £550
90th Percentile £596 £538 £629
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £405
% change year-on-year - +4.94% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 6
10th Percentile £19.81 - £13.32
25th Percentile £22.53 £47.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £30.29 £50.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% +189.86% -9.21%
75th Percentile £44.00 £52.50 £22.50
90th Percentile £49.10 - £24.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £38.96 £48.75 £22.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +121.59% +53.20%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Birmingham

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Birmingham over the 6 months to 20 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Birmingham

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

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

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (20.00%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (6.67%) ProjectWise
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) VoIP
2 1 (6.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Mining
1 1 (6.67%) EDMS
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Reports
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Organisational Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Public Sector
3 3 (20.00%) Finance
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.67%) Legal
5 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Project Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Project Support Officer
3 2 (13.33%) Support Officer
4 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Compliance Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Compliance Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Document Controller
4 1 (6.67%) Functional Business Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) IT Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) PMO Manager
4 1 (6.67%) SharePoint Administrator
4 1 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) OLE
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (6.67%) CCTV
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) ITIL
1 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (20.00%) Customer Service
2 3 (20.00%) Data Analysis
2 3 (20.00%) ITSM
3 2 (13.33%) Dashboard Development
3 2 (13.33%) Data Governance
3 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Service Management
4 1 (6.67%) Contract Management
4 1 (6.67%) Data Loss Prevention
4 1 (6.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (6.67%) Innovative Thinking
4 1 (6.67%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (6.67%) Prototyping
4 1 (6.67%) Records Management
4 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (6.67%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (6.67%) Workflow Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (6.67%) R
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PMO
2 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) BitLocker
2 1 (6.67%) Firmware
2 1 (6.67%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) Apple
3 1 (6.67%) Autodesk
3 1 (6.67%) HP
3 1 (6.67%) McAfee
3 1 (6.67%) MobileIron
3 1 (6.67%) Oracle