Microsoft Office Contracts in Kent

Microsoft Office
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 17 32
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 -13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 6 10 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 5.04% 4.44% 1.79%
As % of the Applications category 60.00% 71.43% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 2
10th Percentile £129 £173 £108
25th Percentile £138 £203 £123
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £240 £153
Median % change year-on-year -35.42% +57.38% -12.86%
75th Percentile £158 £325 £178
90th Percentile - £406 £191
South East median daily rate £250 £232 £269
% change year-on-year +7.76% -13.66% -4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
Median hourly rate £16.36 £11.45 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.88% - -
South East median hourly rate £14.20 £17.80 £16.67
% change year-on-year -20.22% +6.78% +14.97%

All Software Application Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 10 14 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 8.40% 6.22% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 3
10th Percentile £141 £173 £118
25th Percentile £153 £203 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £240 £200
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +20.00% -39.97%
75th Percentile £459 £325 £344
90th Percentile £480 £406 £430
South East median daily rate £386 £363 £380
% change year-on-year +6.48% -4.61% -7.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile - - £48.53
25th Percentile - £11.45 £54.37
Median hourly rate £16.36 £11.90 £56.24
Median % change year-on-year +37.54% -78.85% +195.97%
75th Percentile - £22.02 £56.47
90th Percentile - £39.45 £69.99
South East median hourly rate £15.50 £17.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year -12.92% -28.80% +29.03%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Kent

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Kent

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Kent

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in Kent

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 Kent region over the 6 months to 6 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
Tonbridge - 2 £155 - 2
Dartford - 1 £125 - 5
Microsoft Office
South East

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Front Office
2 2 (33.33%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Legal
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Help Desk Officer
1 2 (33.33%) Help Desk Support
1 2 (33.33%) IT Support
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Officer
1 2 (33.33%) Service Desk Support
1 2 (33.33%) Support Officer
2 1 (16.67%) Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
1 2 (33.33%) Windows 10
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
1 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) BCP
2 2 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (16.67%) Data Entry
3 1 (16.67%) Logistics
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 2 (33.33%) Terminal Services
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) VMware