Microsoft 365 Contracts in Leeds

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 39 44
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 38 24 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 8.17% 3.00% 4.14%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.76% 9.45% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 19 42
10th Percentile £187 £153 £153
25th Percentile £232 £189 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £243 £363 £389
Median % change year-on-year -33.10% -6.82% +40.20%
75th Percentile £419 £541 £546
90th Percentile £438 £628 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £254 £322 £338
% change year-on-year -21.20% -4.59% +20.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - -
Median hourly rate £41.00 - -
75th Percentile £41.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 - £32.50
% change year-on-year - - +75.68%

All Cloud Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 214 254 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 46.02% 31.79% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 179 366
10th Percentile £263 £295 £388
25th Percentile £375 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £618
90th Percentile £714 £670 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
10th Percentile £31.64 - £54.80
25th Percentile £36.13 - £59.00
Median hourly rate £90.42 - £67.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +216.04%
75th Percentile £100.28 - £74.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £77.60
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Leeds

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leeds

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Leeds over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Leeds

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leeds

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 16 (42.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (26.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (71.05%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (47.37%) Entra ID
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 5 (13.16%) OneDrive
4 3 (7.89%) IaaS
4 3 (7.89%) PaaS
5 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS
5 1 (2.63%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.63%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.63%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (23.68%) VPN
2 5 (13.16%) DHCP
2 5 (13.16%) DNS
2 5 (13.16%) LAN
2 5 (13.16%) VLAN
2 5 (13.16%) VoIP
2 5 (13.16%) WAN
2 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (10.53%) Firewall
4 3 (7.89%) Network Security
5 1 (2.63%) DKIM
5 1 (2.63%) DMARC
5 1 (2.63%) Internet
5 1 (2.63%) Intranet
General
1 23 (60.53%) Social Skills
2 13 (34.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (34.21%) Retail
3 3 (7.89%) Local Government
4 2 (5.26%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (34.21%) Support Manager
2 10 (26.32%) Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) 1st Line Support
3 8 (21.05%) 1st Line Support Manager
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Support
3 8 (21.05%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) IT Manager
3 8 (21.05%) IT Support
3 8 (21.05%) IT Support Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Support Assistant
5 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) IT Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Security Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Deployment Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) SharePoint Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (34.21%) iPhone
1 13 (34.21%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (34.21%) Mac OS
2 11 (28.95%) Windows
3 7 (18.42%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.63%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (60.53%) Customer Service
2 18 (47.37%) ITIL
3 17 (44.74%) ITSM
4 14 (36.84%) Service Management
5 13 (34.21%) Incident Management
5 13 (34.21%) Mobile Device Management
6 5 (13.16%) Service Delivery
7 4 (10.53%) Case Management
7 4 (10.53%) Collaborative Working
7 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 3 (7.89%) Attestation
8 3 (7.89%) Identity Access Management
8 3 (7.89%) Information Security
8 3 (7.89%) Mentoring
9 2 (5.26%) Data Security
9 2 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (5.26%) User Experience
10 1 (2.63%) Cost Optimisation
10 1 (2.63%) Proactive Management
10 1 (2.63%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (15.79%) PowerShell
2 3 (7.89%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (7.89%) CCNA
3 3 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (7.89%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.89%) vSphere
4 1 (2.63%) Terminal Services
4 1 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (34.21%) Jamf Pro
2 11 (28.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 8 (21.05%) SCCM
4 5 (13.16%) AppManager
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.63%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.63%) vRealize
Vendors
1 36 (94.74%) Microsoft
2 17 (44.74%) ServiceNow
3 14 (36.84%) Apple
4 9 (23.68%) VMware
5 5 (13.16%) Citrix
5 5 (13.16%) Ivanti
6 4 (10.53%) Veeam
7 3 (7.89%) Cisco
7 3 (7.89%) Meraki
7 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.63%) MobileIron
8 1 (2.63%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.63%) Red Hat