Microsoft 365 Contracts in the East of England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 30 27
Rank change year-on-year +11 -3 -14
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 92 91 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 7.97% 4.80% 7.06%
As % of the Cloud Services category 25.92% 31.49% 27.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 37 101
10th Percentile £178 £180 £160
25th Percentile £186 £225 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £350 £240
Median % change year-on-year -35.71% +45.83% -16.52%
75th Percentile £406 £488 £438
90th Percentile £628 £567 £568
England median daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +4.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 43 15
10th Percentile - £14.16 -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.48 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -
75th Percentile £17.05 £21.37 £15.75
90th Percentile £21.90 - £21.30
England median hourly rate £19.07 £17.39 £19.00
% change year-on-year +9.64% -8.46% +8.57%

All Cloud Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 355 289 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 30.76% 15.26% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 199 168 368
10th Percentile £200 £220 £186
25th Percentile £389 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - -6.74%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 56 33
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.44 £14.48 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.46% -25.91% +41.94%
75th Percentile £31.64 £21.37 £62.50
90th Percentile £56.94 £65.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year +14.32% -33.33% +53.49%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the East of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the East of England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the East of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the East of England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the East of England over the 6 months to 7 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the East of England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 East of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Cambridgeshire +1 28 £193 -53.33% 53
Bedfordshire +8 23 £225 -48.57% 16
Suffolk +6 17 £200 +6.67% 16
Hertfordshire +21 12 £425 +21.43% 58
Essex +15 9 £225 -10.00% 35
Norfolk - 3 £200 - 22
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 20 (21.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (16.30%) SharePoint
3 8 (8.70%) IBM Domino
4 2 (2.17%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 16 (17.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 14 (15.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.09%) 1Password
Cloud Services
1 20 (21.74%) Azure
2 18 (19.57%) Entra ID
3 12 (13.04%) OneDrive
4 6 (6.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.43%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.17%) SaaS
8 1 (1.09%) AWS
8 1 (1.09%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.09%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.09%) GCP
8 1 (1.09%) IaaS
8 1 (1.09%) PaaS
8 1 (1.09%) Serverless
8 1 (1.09%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 22 (23.91%) Wi-Fi
2 9 (9.78%) Firewall
3 8 (8.70%) Cisco IOS
3 8 (8.70%) VLAN
4 4 (4.35%) DNS
5 3 (3.26%) LAN
5 3 (3.26%) WAN
6 2 (2.17%) DHCP
6 2 (2.17%) Internet
6 2 (2.17%) VPN
6 2 (2.17%) Wireless
7 1 (1.09%) Kerberos
7 1 (1.09%) Remote Desktop
7 1 (1.09%) SAN
7 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 1 (1.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.17%) Big Data
1 2 (2.17%) Power BI
2 1 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.09%) MSI
General
1 28 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 9 (9.78%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Games
4 7 (7.61%) Legal
5 6 (6.52%) Retail
6 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Banking
9 1 (1.09%) French Language
9 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Local Government
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 32 (34.78%) Analyst
2 27 (29.35%) Service Analyst
2 27 (29.35%) Service Desk Analyst
3 15 (16.30%) Technical Analyst
3 15 (16.30%) Technical Services Analyst
4 12 (13.04%) Support Engineer
5 10 (10.87%) IT Support
5 10 (10.87%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 8 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
7 7 (7.61%) 2nd Line Support
8 6 (6.52%) Desktop Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Desktop Support
8 6 (6.52%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.52%) Security Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (5.43%) Call Centre Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) IT Analyst
9 5 (5.43%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.09%) ARM Templates
1 1 (1.09%) Azure Blueprints
1 1 (1.09%) FIDO
1 1 (1.09%) HTML
1 1 (1.09%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.17%) IoT
2 2 (2.17%) Life Science
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Licensing
2 2 (2.17%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.17%) PMI
3 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (1.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.09%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (1.09%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.09%) NHS
3 1 (1.09%) PKI
3 1 (1.09%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.09%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 45 (48.91%) Windows
2 10 (10.87%) Mac OS
2 10 (10.87%) Windows 10
3 9 (9.78%) Android
4 3 (3.26%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.17%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.09%) Linux
6 1 (1.09%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.04%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (30.43%) Customer Service
3 27 (29.35%) ITIL
4 23 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 22 (23.91%) Incident Management
6 15 (16.30%) Mathematics
7 8 (8.70%) E-Commerce
7 8 (8.70%) Identity Access Management
7 8 (8.70%) ITSM
8 6 (6.52%) Data Loss Prevention
8 6 (6.52%) IT Strategy
8 6 (6.52%) Security Operations
8 6 (6.52%) Service Management
8 6 (6.52%) Zero Trust
9 5 (5.43%) Identity Management
9 5 (5.43%) Impact Analysis
9 5 (5.43%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (5.43%) Migration
9 5 (5.43%) PRINCE2
9 5 (5.43%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.65%) PowerShell
2 3 (3.26%) SQL
3 2 (2.17%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.09%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 29 (31.52%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (25.00%) A+ Certification
3 20 (21.74%) MCSA
4 18 (19.57%) SC Cleared
4 18 (19.57%) Security Cleared
5 9 (9.78%) Degree
6 6 (6.52%) DBS Check
7 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.78%) GDPR
2 7 (7.61%) HIPAA
2 7 (7.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.52%) Accessibility
3 6 (6.52%) NIST
4 2 (2.17%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.09%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 22301
5 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
5 1 (1.09%) QA
5 1 (1.09%) SOC 2
System Software
1 58 (63.04%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.09%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.09%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 14 (15.22%) SCCM
2 10 (10.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.09%) AppManager
3 1 (1.09%) CASB
3 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.09%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (72.83%) Microsoft
2 28 (30.43%) ServiceNow
3 20 (21.74%) Citrix
4 8 (8.70%) Cisco
4 8 (8.70%) Meraki
4 8 (8.70%) Splunk
5 3 (3.26%) VMware
6 2 (2.17%) Apple
6 2 (2.17%) Ariba
6 2 (2.17%) Dell
6 2 (2.17%) Google
6 2 (2.17%) HP
6 2 (2.17%) SAP
6 2 (2.17%) ZyXEL
7 1 (1.09%) Altiris
7 1 (1.09%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (1.09%) Ivanti
7 1 (1.09%) Netskope
7 1 (1.09%) Planview
7 1 (1.09%) Rapid7