Microsoft Office Contracts in Essex

Microsoft Office
East of England > Essex

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

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 15 35
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 8 14 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 10.13% 6.33% 0.84%
As % of the Applications category 80.00% 66.67% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 2
10th Percentile £206 £100 £243
25th Percentile £234 £104 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £245 £295 £338
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% -12.59% +17.39%
75th Percentile £287 £488 £413
90th Percentile £344 - £450
East of England median daily rate £245 £388 £250
% change year-on-year -36.77% +55.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £15.46 £11.27 -
25th Percentile £16.38 £12.13 -
Median hourly rate £17.92 £12.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +46.29% - -
75th Percentile £19.46 £12.74 -
90th Percentile £20.38 £14.31 -
East of England median hourly rate £17.80 £14.16 £22.00
% change year-on-year +25.71% -35.64% +51.72%

All Software Application Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 10 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 12.66% 9.50% 8.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 13
10th Percentile £216 £100 £215
25th Percentile £240 £104 £261
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £273 £295 £300
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% -1.67% -
75th Percentile £409 £488 £381
90th Percentile £496 - £575
East of England median daily rate £313 £375 £330
% change year-on-year -16.67% +13.64% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 2
10th Percentile £15.46 £11.61 £41.28
25th Percentile £16.38 £12.13 £41.31
Median hourly rate £17.92 £12.56 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.73% -70.63% +78.13%
75th Percentile £19.46 £20.26 £44.31
90th Percentile £20.38 £33.75 £44.43
East of England median hourly rate £21.46 £15.79 £42.50
% change year-on-year +35.91% -62.85% +73.47%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Essex

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Essex

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Essex

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Essex

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Essex

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Essex

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the Essex region over the 6 months to 2 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
Basildon +2 1 £375 +275.00% 2
Braintree -1 1 £188 - 3
Benfleet - 1 - -
Microsoft Office
East of England

Microsoft Office
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 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (50.00%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) LAN
1 3 (37.50%) VLAN
1 3 (37.50%) VoIP
1 3 (37.50%) VPN
1 3 (37.50%) WAN
1 3 (37.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Automotive
2 1 (12.50%) Back Office
2 1 (12.50%) General Ledger
2 1 (12.50%) Local Government
2 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Desktop Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support
1 3 (37.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Desktop Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Executive Assistant
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Project Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 1 (12.50%) Freedom of Information
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
2 1 (12.50%) Case Management
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
2 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) ITSM
2 1 (12.50%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 1 (12.50%) Network Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) AppManager
1 3 (37.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Ivanti
2 3 (37.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Adobe
3 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
3 1 (12.50%) Nokia
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle