MOS Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for MOS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 100 -
Rank change year-on-year -21 - -
Contract jobs citing MOS 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.12% 0.074% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.45% 0.22% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £367 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £367 £260 £425
% change year-on-year +40.96% -38.82% -38.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £64.00 -
England median hourly rate - £38.94 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

MOS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 667 449 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 27.73% 33.16% 29.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 182 169
10th Percentile £203 £200 £200
25th Percentile £413 £387 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +7.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £580 £575
90th Percentile £750 £661 £600
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 217 151 110
10th Percentile £20.53 £15.50 £19.63
25th Percentile £36.43 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +158.45% -41.51% +95.45%
75th Percentile £75.00 £55.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £83.75 £69.20
England median hourly rate £48.92 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.51% -52.10% -2.17%

MOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

MOS job vacancy trend in the East of England

MOS
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MOS

MOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing MOS

MOS
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 MOS within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 October 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
Suffolk - 3 £367 - 3
MOS
England

MOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) RTP
1 3 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 3 (100.00%) VoIP
1 3 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (66.67%) INAP
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Locust
2 2 (66.67%) Robot Framework
2 2 (66.67%) TestCafe
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Engineering Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) QA Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) CentOS
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Build Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dialogic
1 2 (66.67%) Metaswitch