Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 6 -
Rank change year-on-year -13 - -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 3 8 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.35% 17.39% -
As % of the Cloud Services category 6.67% 32.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £205 £280 -
25th Percentile £254 £325 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £450 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £419 £556 -
90th Percentile £468 £590 -
Central London median daily rate £388 £496 £463
% change year-on-year -21.80% +7.14% +23.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.87 -
Central London median hourly rate - £24.66 £27.00
% change year-on-year - -8.67% +20.00%

All Cloud Computing Skills
City of Westminster

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 the City of Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 25 10
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 65.22% 54.35% 27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 10
10th Percentile £393 £419 £461
25th Percentile £500 £472 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +10.58%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £743 £669 £709
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -2.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £63.75 - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +297.46% - -
75th Percentile £82.50 - -
90th Percentile £86.25 - -
Central London median hourly rate £36.25 £34.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year +6.62% +25.93% -28.95%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the City of Westminster

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 17 August 2026. 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
Paddington -1 2 £338 - 2
Westminster -9 1 - - 1
Microsoft 365
Central London

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DKIM
1 1 (33.33%) DMARC
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support
1 1 (33.33%) IT Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Security Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 1 (33.33%) Cyber Resilience
1 1 (33.33%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile Device Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Security Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) SIEM
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) User Experience
1 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft