Microsoft Office Contracts in Chester

Microsoft Office
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester 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 18 12 20
Rank change year-on-year -6 +8 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Chester 2.70% 3.77% 2.86%
As % of the Applications category 40.00% 40.00% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £225 -
Median % change year-on-year +166.67% - -
Cheshire median daily rate £400 £165 £200
% change year-on-year +142.42% -17.50% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.18
25th Percentile - - £17.23
Median hourly rate - - £17.32
75th Percentile - - £17.41
90th Percentile - - £17.46
Cheshire median hourly rate - £11.00 £17.32
% change year-on-year - -36.49% +3.46%

All Software Application Skills
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 5 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 6.76% 9.43% 7.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 3
10th Percentile £604 £220 £353
25th Percentile £609 £250 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £552 £550
Median % change year-on-year +13.22% +0.36% +46.67%
75th Percentile £638 £577 £575
90th Percentile - £597 -
Cheshire median daily rate £438 £478 £400
% change year-on-year -8.47% +19.50% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.21
25th Percentile - - £17.32
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.19%
75th Percentile - - £28.75
90th Percentile - - £35.50
Cheshire median hourly rate £29.00 £12.50 £22.27
% change year-on-year +132.00% -43.86% +4.09%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Chester

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Chester

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Chester

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Chester 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) DMZ
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) DWDM
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) IPsec
1 1 (50.00%) L2TP
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) Multicast
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) OSPF
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Commercial Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Contract Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Arista
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk