Microsoft Office Contracts in Cumbria

Microsoft Office
North West > Cumbria

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cumbria 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 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 29 11 8
Rank change year-on-year -18 -3 -
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 10 34 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cumbria 5.13% 13.13% 15.79%
As % of the Applications category 41.67% 79.07% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £474 - -
25th Percentile £499 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +28.57% -
75th Percentile £538 £519 £418
90th Percentile - £560 £459
North West median daily rate £250 £396 £375
% change year-on-year -36.87% +5.60% +63.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 31 3
10th Percentile - - £20.28
25th Percentile - - £21.68
Median hourly rate - £10.95 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.38% -
75th Percentile - £11.32 £40.75
90th Percentile - £11.38 £50.80
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £13.89 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.01% -65.79% +24.91%

All Software Application Skills
Cumbria

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 Cumbria.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 24 43 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cumbria 12.31% 16.60% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 3
10th Percentile £438 £450 -
25th Percentile £445 £463 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £575 £350
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% +64.29% +3.70%
75th Percentile £538 £613 £418
90th Percentile - - £459
North West median daily rate £431 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +2.07% +5.63% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 3
10th Percentile - - £20.28
25th Percentile £25.26 - £21.68
Median hourly rate £27.13 £10.95 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +147.72% -54.38% -12.73%
75th Percentile £28.99 £11.38 £40.75
90th Percentile - £38.43 £50.80
North West median hourly rate £27.13 £16.06 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.90% -59.85% +90.48%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Cumbria

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Cumbria

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Cumbria

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cumbria

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Cumbria

Microsoft Office
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 Office 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 -5 3 £465 - 4
Microsoft Office
North West

Microsoft Office
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 10 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 4 (40.00%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Entra ID
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) DHCP
1 10 (100.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) LAN
2 4 (40.00%) Skype
2 4 (40.00%) VLAN
2 4 (40.00%) VPN
2 4 (40.00%) WAN
2 4 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Military
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Deployment Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Consultant
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (50.00%) VMS
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 10
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) ITSM
2 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) ITIL
4 4 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
4 4 (40.00%) Disk Encryption
4 4 (40.00%) Service Management
5 1 (10.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (40.00%) VB
1 4 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) BitLocker
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (60.00%) WSUS
2 4 (40.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (60.00%) VMware
3 4 (40.00%) ServiceNow