Microsoft Office Contracts in Cheshire

Microsoft Office
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 26 46
Rank change year-on-year -30 +20 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 12 25 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.99% 5.30% 1.56%
As % of the Applications category 33.33% 49.02% 18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 14 4
10th Percentile £200 - -
25th Percentile £292 £158 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £165 £200
Median % change year-on-year +142.42% -17.50% -33.33%
75th Percentile £478 £238 £269
90th Percentile £492 £391 £393
North West median daily rate £413 £245 £263
% change year-on-year +68.65% -6.91% -27.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - - £17.18
25th Percentile - - £17.23
Median hourly rate - £11.00 £17.32
Median % change year-on-year - -36.49% +3.46%
75th Percentile - £12.50 £17.41
90th Percentile - £13.40 £17.46
North West median hourly rate £21.29 £16.00 £17.71
% change year-on-year +33.03% -9.66% -23.18%

All Software Application Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 36 51 37
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.98% 10.81% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 21
10th Percentile £303 £158 £200
25th Percentile £358 £200 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £478 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +19.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £511 £552 £475
90th Percentile £591 £610 £488
North West median daily rate £447 £403 £356
% change year-on-year +11.06% +13.06% -13.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - - £16.27
25th Percentile £26.50 £11.00 £17.41
Median hourly rate £29.00 £12.50 £22.27
Median % change year-on-year +132.00% -43.86% +4.09%
75th Percentile £31.50 £15.19 £23.52
90th Percentile - £17.33 £30.55
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £16.06 £20.58
% change year-on-year +40.91% -21.96% -5.51%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Cheshire

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Cheshire

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Cheshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Cheshire

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Cheshire

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Knutsford -12 4 £346 -11.48%
Wilmslow 0 2 £200 -
Northwich -1 2 £400 - 4
Chester -6 2 £600 +166.67% 4
Microsoft Office
North West

Microsoft Office
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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
1 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) NetScaler
1 2 (16.67%) SSH
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (8.33%) DMZ
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) DWDM
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
2 1 (8.33%) L2TP
2 1 (8.33%) MPLS
2 1 (8.33%) Multicast
2 1 (8.33%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Hudson
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Publishing
5 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix Technical Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Service Transition Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Technical Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Transition Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Commercial Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Commercial Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Service Management
2 6 (50.00%) Change Management
2 6 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (41.67%) Computer Science
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
3 5 (41.67%) Release Management
4 3 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Programme Governance
4 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) Service Design
4 3 (25.00%) Test Management
4 3 (25.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Incident Response
5 2 (16.67%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Perl
1 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (8.33%) CCIE
4 1 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) Citrix
3 2 (16.67%) Dell
3 2 (16.67%) IBM
4 1 (8.33%) Arista
4 1 (8.33%) Cisco
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) McAfee
4 1 (8.33%) Splunk