Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 18 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 +3 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 17 29 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 4.79% 6.67% 6.30%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.50% 29.00% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 13
10th Percentile £181 £225 £141
25th Percentile £183 £361 £175
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £475 £180
Median % change year-on-year -57.89% +163.89% -44.62%
75th Percentile £414 £488 £388
90th Percentile £533 £524 £428
East of England median daily rate £225 £350 £200
% change year-on-year -35.71% +75.00% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 15
10th Percentile - - £14.10
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +5.16% +3.33%
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £16.86
90th Percentile - - £20.00
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year - +5.16% -

All Cloud Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 103 100 106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 29.01% 22.99% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 50 61
10th Percentile £246 £287 £180
25th Percentile £416 £340 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% -1.18% -
75th Percentile £650 £556 £506
90th Percentile £703 £601 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £423 £456
% change year-on-year +19.53% -7.40% -8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 18
10th Percentile - - £14.18
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £15.58
Median % change year-on-year - +4.65% +3.83%
75th Percentile £43.75 £21.37 £20.00
90th Percentile - - £67.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.03 £16.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year +84.23% -18.50% +29.03%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Cambridgeshire

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 September 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
Peterborough -3 11 £180 -64.27% 8
Cambridge -2 4 £388 +72.22% 7
Microsoft 365
East of England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) ChatGPT
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (5.88%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.88%) DHCP
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Retail
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (70.59%) Analyst
2 11 (64.71%) Service Analyst
2 11 (64.71%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (35.29%) Technical Services Analyst
4 5 (29.41%) Call Centre Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) IT Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) IT Support
5 2 (11.76%) Procurement Administrator
5 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
6 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Junior
6 1 (5.88%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Life Science
2 1 (5.88%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) CentOS
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Ubuntu
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Customer Service
1 11 (64.71%) Incident Management
1 11 (64.71%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Mathematics
3 6 (35.29%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Data Analysis
4 2 (11.76%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (11.76%) Service Management
5 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (5.88%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (64.71%) A+ Certification
1 11 (64.71%) MCSA
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (41.18%) Security Cleared
3 6 (35.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 7 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) ServiceNow
2 11 (64.71%) Citrix
3 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (11.76%) Ariba
4 2 (11.76%) SAP
5 1 (5.88%) Google
5 1 (5.88%) OpenAI
5 1 (5.88%) VMware