Microsoft Office Contracts in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Office
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 49
Rank change year-on-year +4 +21 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 14 31 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 5.34% 7.49% 1.75%
As % of the Applications category 60.87% 62.00% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 2 6
10th Percentile £174 £481 £121
25th Percentile £184 £508 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £573 £138
Median % change year-on-year -60.70% +316.36% -11.29%
75th Percentile £275 £643 £161
90th Percentile £300 £674 £346
South West median daily rate £263 £250 £471
% change year-on-year +5.00% -46.92% +54.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
South West median hourly rate £25.00 £37.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -33.33% +97.37% -38.46%

All Software Application Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 23 50 44
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 8.78% 12.08% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 14 18
10th Percentile £184 £304 £132
25th Percentile £198 £334 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £475 £363
Median % change year-on-year -44.74% +31.03% +119.70%
75th Percentile £409 £575 £419
90th Percentile £456 £1,359 £585
South West median daily rate £375 £375 £434
% change year-on-year - -13.50% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile - - £36.00
25th Percentile - - £43.13
Median hourly rate £75.00 £14.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +435.71% -74.55% +69.23%
75th Percentile - £15.42 £74.75
90th Percentile - £17.01 £86.60
South West median hourly rate £58.75 £45.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +30.56% -18.18% +57.14%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Gloucestershire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Gloucestershire over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Gloucestershire

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 17 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
Gloucester 0 2 £250 -62.69% 7
Cheltenham -1 2 £225 - 5
Filton - 2 £300 - 2
Tewkesbury - 1 - - 3
Microsoft Office
South West

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) IBM Notes
2 1 (7.14%) MS Project Server
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) AutoCAD
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) LAN
1 3 (21.43%) VPN
1 3 (21.43%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
2 2 (14.29%) VLAN
2 2 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (7.14%) Firewall
3 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MS Access
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
1 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Legal
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (14.29%) Administrator
1 2 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365 Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Trainer
2 1 (7.14%) PC Support
2 1 (7.14%) PMO Administrator
2 1 (7.14%) Python Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Service Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (7.14%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (7.14%) Trainer
2 1 (7.14%) Wintel Architect
2 1 (7.14%) Wintel Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) CSS
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) ODBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.14%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Reinsurance
2 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (28.57%) Windows 10
3 2 (14.29%) Android
3 2 (14.29%) Mac OS
3 2 (14.29%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Computer Science
1 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
2 2 (14.29%) Migration
2 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
2 2 (14.29%) Project Management
2 2 (14.29%) Server Management
3 1 (7.14%) Analytics
3 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (7.14%) Change Control
3 1 (7.14%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (7.14%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (7.14%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
3 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.14%) Project Governance
3 1 (7.14%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.14%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
1 4 (28.57%) VBA
2 3 (21.43%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) VB
4 1 (7.14%) SQL
4 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
4 1 (7.14%) VB6
4 1 (7.14%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 4 (28.57%) MCSE
2 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 3 (21.43%) DBS Check
3 3 (21.43%) Degree
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 2 (14.29%) MCP
5 1 (7.14%) A+ Certification
5 1 (7.14%) Dell Certification
5 1 (7.14%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (7.14%) NCSC
2 1 (7.14%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (7.14%) BitLocker
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) SCCM
2 1 (7.14%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) Apple
2 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 3 (21.43%) VMware
3 2 (14.29%) Remedy
3 2 (14.29%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) Adobe
4 1 (7.14%) Autodesk
4 1 (7.14%) Dell
4 1 (7.14%) Lotus
4 1 (7.14%) McAfee
4 1 (7.14%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Symantec