Microsoft 365 Contracts in Essex

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 24 24
Rank change year-on-year +11 0 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 6 7 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 6.90% 3.13% 5.69%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.00% 15.91% 17.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 12
10th Percentile £180 £181 £192
25th Percentile £181 £189 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £213 £213 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -52.78% +157.14%
75th Percentile £280 £384 £575
90th Percentile £344 £566 -
East of England median daily rate £220 £265 £250
% change year-on-year -16.98% +6.00% -19.03%

All Cloud Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 25 44 81
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 28.74% 19.64% 32.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 33 56
10th Percentile £196 £205 £208
25th Percentile £315 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £500 £519
Median % change year-on-year -36.02% -3.57% +4.75%
75th Percentile £474 £556 £577
90th Percentile £482 £650 £647
East of England median daily rate £503 £451 £450
% change year-on-year +11.36% +0.28% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £64.00 £23.18 £22.30
25th Percentile £115.00 £33.99 £23.79
Median hourly rate £200.00 £51.99 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +284.69% +111.17% -61.30%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £36.03
90th Percentile - £80.80 £56.57
East of England median hourly rate £18.31 £16.30 £22.00
% change year-on-year +12.33% -25.91% +41.94%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Essex

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Essex

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Essex over the 6 months to 2 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Essex

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Essex

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Braintree +1 2 £184 -64.15% 3
Basildon - 1 £375 - 79
Microsoft 365
East of England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (16.67%) LAN
2 1 (16.67%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VoIP
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) WAN
2 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Automotive
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Consultant
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Document Management
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) ITSM
2 1 (16.67%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (16.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) AppManager
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Ivanti