Microsoft 365 Contracts in Cumbria

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 31 15
Rank change year-on-year +6 -16 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 14 9 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 7.18% 3.47% 3.51%
As % of the Cloud Services category 70.00% 45.00% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 1
10th Percentile £176 - -
25th Percentile £306 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +52.94% -
75th Percentile £538 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £350 £283 £425
% change year-on-year +23.67% -33.41% +70.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 0
Median hourly rate - £13.00 -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +79.69% -20.00% +14.29%

All Cloud Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 20 16
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 10.26% 7.72% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 10
10th Percentile £182 £471 £350
25th Percentile £247 £492 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £425
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +32.35% -10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £438
90th Percentile - - £470
North West median daily rate £473 £487 £500
% change year-on-year -3.03% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 0
10th Percentile £40.89 £12.70 -
25th Percentile £45.53 - -
Median hourly rate £56.55 £13.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +334.96% - -
75th Percentile £68.03 - -
90th Percentile £72.96 - -
North West median hourly rate £28.88 £16.06 £37.30
% change year-on-year +79.79% -56.94% +100.62%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cumbria.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Cumbria

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Cumbria

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Cumbria

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Cumbria

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Cumbria.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Cumbria

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Cumbria

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 Cumbria 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
Barrow-in-Furness - 2 - -
Carlisle - 2 £288 - 5
Microsoft 365
North West

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cumbria 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 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (57.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (71.43%) Azure
2 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) DHCP
1 8 (57.14%) DNS
2 1 (7.14%) LAN
2 1 (7.14%) WAN
General
1 4 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Military
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) IT Support
3 2 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Field Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) IT Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) IT Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Support Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
1 1 (7.14%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (64.29%) Windows
2 7 (50.00%) VMS
2 7 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (7.14%) Android
3 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (50.00%) ITSM
4 5 (35.71%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (7.14%) Asset Management
7 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
7 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
7 1 (7.14%) Information Security
7 1 (7.14%) Network Design
7 1 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
7 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) Project Delivery
7 1 (7.14%) Project Governance
7 1 (7.14%) Project Management
7 1 (7.14%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
2 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
2 1 (7.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 11 (78.57%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) WSUS
2 7 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 9 (64.29%) VMware
3 1 (7.14%) Apple