Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 1.00% 0.60% 5.65%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.67% 1.82% 31.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £220 - £115
25th Percentile £273 - £117
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 - £136
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.50%
75th Percentile £513 - £177
90th Percentile £573 - £221
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £388 £550 £169
% change year-on-year -29.55% +225.93% -48.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - £18.63
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £15.08
% change year-on-year -25.44% +42.35% -2.74%

All Cloud Skills
Cambridge

Microsoft 365 falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 75 55 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 37.50% 33.13% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 16
10th Percentile £335 £303 £127
25th Percentile £400 £340 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.53% -10.00%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £547
90th Percentile £675 £624 £700
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £500 £507
% change year-on-year -5.00% -1.28% +6.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £19.54
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £20.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £37.50 £21.46 £16.00
% change year-on-year +74.74% +34.13% +3.23%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridge

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Cambridge over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Cambridge

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) CentOS
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) VMware