Microsoft Office Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 9 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 71 82
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 63 58 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.40% 2.69% 2.82%
As % of the Applications category 31.03% 42.96% 33.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 38 79
10th Percentile £221 £129 £139
25th Percentile £263 £198 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £325 £375
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -13.33% +29.31%
75th Percentile £531 £550 £550
90th Percentile £630 £624 £700
Central London median daily rate £401 £325 £300
% change year-on-year +23.46% +8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Median hourly rate - £20.25 -
Central London median hourly rate - £20.25 -

All Software Application Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 203 135 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 10.94% 6.26% 8.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 86 211
10th Percentile £257 £154 £195
25th Percentile £325 £251 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £494 £498
Median % change year-on-year -3.80% -0.75% +0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £638
90th Percentile £810 £684 £738
Central London median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 6
10th Percentile £15.45 - £13.22
25th Percentile £23.44 £12.75 £14.45
Median hourly rate £31.08 £20.61 £16.88
Median % change year-on-year +50.81% +22.10% -35.10%
75th Percentile £39.19 £27.00 £44.04
90th Percentile £51.15 - £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £20.61 £16.88
% change year-on-year +41.08% +22.10% -35.10%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the City of London over the 6 months to 9 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the City of London

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
Moorgate - 1 £230 -
Microsoft Office
Central London

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 11 (17.46%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) CMS
2 3 (4.76%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.17%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 24 (38.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (23.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (17.46%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (11.11%) MS Visio
5 1 (1.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.59%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (1.59%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (4.76%) CA PPM
2 2 (3.17%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (12.70%) Azure
3 7 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.35%) Asana
5 2 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.59%) AWS
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) LAN
1 2 (3.17%) Skype
1 2 (3.17%) VPN
1 2 (3.17%) WAN
1 2 (3.17%) WebEx
1 2 (3.17%) Wireless
2 1 (1.59%) Firewall
2 1 (1.59%) Internet
2 1 (1.59%) Intranet
2 1 (1.59%) IP Telephony
2 1 (1.59%) IPsec
2 1 (1.59%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.59%) Network Security
2 1 (1.59%) SSL
2 1 (1.59%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.11%) Power BI
2 4 (6.35%) Tableau
3 1 (1.59%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.59%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.59%) Looker
3 1 (1.59%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 10 (15.87%) JIRA
General
1 39 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 31 (49.21%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 9 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
5 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Documentation Skills
7 4 (6.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (6.35%) Law
8 3 (4.76%) Arabic Language
8 3 (4.76%) Back Office
8 3 (4.76%) Czech Language
8 3 (4.76%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.76%) Front Office
8 3 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 2 (3.17%) International Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Billing
10 1 (1.59%) Corporate Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (38.10%) Analyst
2 10 (15.87%) Project Manager
3 8 (12.70%) Business Analyst
3 8 (12.70%) IT Support
3 8 (12.70%) Support Analyst
4 6 (9.52%) Support Assistant
5 4 (6.35%) Coordinator
5 4 (6.35%) IT Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) IT Assistant
5 4 (6.35%) IT Support Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) IT Support Assistant
5 4 (6.35%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Data Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Remote Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Solutions Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Communications Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Developer
7 2 (3.17%) Report Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.59%) .NET
1 1 (1.59%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.59%) ADO
1 1 (1.59%) Bootstrap
1 1 (1.59%) CSS
1 1 (1.59%) HTML
1 1 (1.59%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.94%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.76%) Market Risk
2 3 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 3 (4.76%) PMI
2 3 (4.76%) Reference Data
2 3 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (3.17%) Credit Risk
3 2 (3.17%) iPad
3 2 (3.17%) iPhone
4 1 (1.59%) CMDB
4 1 (1.59%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.59%) Derivative
4 1 (1.59%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.59%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.59%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 7 (11.11%) Windows 10
3 4 (6.35%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.17%) Android
5 1 (1.59%) Linux
5 1 (1.59%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.59%) Unix
5 1 (1.59%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.59%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (36.51%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (34.92%) Project Management
3 16 (25.40%) Agile
4 10 (15.87%) ITIL
5 9 (14.29%) Change Management
6 8 (12.70%) Data Analysis
6 8 (12.70%) Project Delivery
6 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (11.11%) Analytics
7 7 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
8 6 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
8 6 (9.52%) CRM
8 6 (9.52%) Decision-Making
8 6 (9.52%) Resource Allocation
8 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
9 5 (7.94%) Asset Management
9 5 (7.94%) IT Strategy
9 5 (7.94%) Waterfall
10 4 (6.35%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.94%) SQL
2 3 (4.76%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) VBA
4 1 (1.59%) C
4 1 (1.59%) C#
4 1 (1.59%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.59%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 17 (26.98%) Degree
2 5 (7.94%) PMI Certification
3 2 (3.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (3.17%) PMP
4 1 (1.59%) ACCA
4 1 (1.59%) CBAP
4 1 (1.59%) CCNP
4 1 (1.59%) CCSE
4 1 (1.59%) CFA
4 1 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.59%) IIBA
4 1 (1.59%) MCSA
4 1 (1.59%) MCSE
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.59%) MOS
4 1 (1.59%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.59%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.52%) PMO
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.17%) SLA
4 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.59%) Firmware
2 1 (1.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.59%) XenApp
2 1 (1.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) SCCM
2 3 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 45 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) Apple
2 4 (6.35%) Salesforce
2 4 (6.35%) ServiceNow
3 3 (4.76%) Broadcom
3 3 (4.76%) Citrix
3 3 (4.76%) HP
3 3 (4.76%) Polycom
4 2 (3.17%) Adobe
4 2 (3.17%) Alteryx
4 2 (3.17%) SAP
5 1 (1.59%) 3PAR
5 1 (1.59%) Avaya
5 1 (1.59%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (1.59%) Cisco
5 1 (1.59%) Juniper
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) Planview
5 1 (1.59%) Progress
5 1 (1.59%) Trend Micro