Microsoft 365 Engineer Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
North West > Cheshire

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) daily rate in Cheshire is £240, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 57 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 +2 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 7 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.56% 0.20% 0.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.78% 0.21% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £230 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £240 £475 £564
Median % change year-on-year -49.47% -15.78% +12.80%
75th Percentile £381 £488 -
90th Percentile £425 - -
North West median daily rate £438 £375 £488
% change year-on-year +16.67% -23.08% +14.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 394 472 477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 87.75% 93.65% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 273 324 329
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £358 £374 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £575
90th Percentile £640 £629 £651
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 36 20
10th Percentile £19.00 £14.00 £14.23
25th Percentile £26.71 £16.47 £19.71
Median hourly rate £47.50 £20.11 £29.26
Median % change year-on-year +136.20% -31.27% +19.43%
75th Percentile £86.00 £38.00 £35.00
90th Percentile - £43.75 £42.58
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in Cheshire

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in Cheshire

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in Cheshire

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warrington - 5 £328 -
Microsoft 365 Engineer
North West

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Microsoft 365 Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
2 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
3 4 (57.14%) SaaS
3 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (42.86%) ITSM
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
5 2 (28.57%) Agile
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
5 2 (28.57%) Confluence
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
6 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 1 (14.29%) DevOps
6 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
6 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (14.29%) WSUS
6 1 (14.29%) Windows

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
1 7 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (57.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 1 (14.29%) Military
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) VMS
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
1 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Task Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) VMware