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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 35 34
Rank change year-on-year +6 -1 -4
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft 365 37 27 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 6.32% 3.74% 5.01%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.45% 9.82% 15.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 18 34
10th Percentile - £149 £155
25th Percentile £235 £208 £267
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £249 £463 £420
Median % change year-on-year -46.22% +10.12% +52.73%
75th Percentile £350 £525 £550
90th Percentile £517 £653 £723
West Yorkshire median daily rate £249 £438 £400
% change year-on-year -43.14% +9.38% +50.94%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 275 275 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 47.01% 38.09% 31.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 198 265
10th Percentile £335 £296 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% +0.48%
75th Percentile £550 £555 £600
90th Percentile £602 £655 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £463 £525
% change year-on-year +8.11% -11.90% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £37.07 - -
25th Percentile £45.03 - -
Median hourly rate £62.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.53 - -
90th Percentile £92.15 - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £91.69 - -

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
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Leeds over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Leeds

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
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 10 (27.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (67.57%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 27 (72.97%) Entra ID
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 2 (5.41%) IaaS
3 2 (5.41%) PaaS
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (2.70%) AWS
4 1 (2.70%) Power Automate
4 1 (2.70%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.70%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) VPN
2 2 (5.41%) Firewall
2 2 (5.41%) Network Security
3 1 (2.70%) Intranet
3 1 (2.70%) Wi-Fi
General
1 27 (72.97%) Social Skills
2 19 (51.35%) Retail
3 18 (48.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (5.41%) Local Government
5 1 (2.70%) Banking
5 1 (2.70%) Finance
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (51.35%) Support Manager
2 12 (32.43%) 1st Line Support
2 12 (32.43%) 1st Line Support Manager
2 12 (32.43%) IT Manager
2 12 (32.43%) IT Support
2 12 (32.43%) IT Support Manager
3 6 (16.22%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Desktop Support
3 6 (16.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (16.22%) Support Assistant
3 6 (16.22%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Mac Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Senior
4 4 (10.81%) Senior Mac Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 1 (2.70%) SharePoint Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (51.35%) iPhone
1 19 (51.35%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 23 (62.16%) Mac OS
2 3 (8.11%) Windows
3 2 (5.41%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.70%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (67.57%) Customer Service
1 25 (67.57%) ITIL
1 25 (67.57%) ITSM
2 23 (62.16%) Incident Management
3 19 (51.35%) Mobile Device Management
3 19 (51.35%) Service Management
4 9 (24.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (16.22%) Case Management
5 6 (16.22%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (16.22%) Service Delivery
6 4 (10.81%) IT Strategy
6 4 (10.81%) User Experience
7 3 (8.11%) Mentoring
8 2 (5.41%) Data Security
9 1 (2.70%) Change Management
9 1 (2.70%) Content Management
9 1 (2.70%) Data Protection
9 1 (2.70%) Migration
9 1 (2.70%) Proactive Management
9 1 (2.70%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.81%) Bash
1 4 (10.81%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.81%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) Degree
1 6 (16.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 2 (5.41%) CCNA
2 2 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.70%) ACSP
3 1 (2.70%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 31 (83.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.41%) vSphere
3 1 (2.70%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (62.16%) Jamf Pro
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (10.81%) Terraform
4 3 (8.11%) SCCM
5 1 (2.70%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.70%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 35 (94.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (67.57%) ServiceNow
3 24 (64.86%) Apple
4 6 (16.22%) Citrix
5 3 (8.11%) Veeam
5 3 (8.11%) VMware
6 2 (5.41%) Cisco
6 2 (5.41%) Meraki
6 2 (5.41%) Palo Alto
7 1 (2.70%) MobileIron
7 1 (2.70%) Red Hat