Microsoft 365 Contracts in Leicester

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Leicestershire > Leicester

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

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 16 19
Rank change year-on-year +7 +3 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 7 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicester 7.87% 2.94% 2.63%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.14% 11.11% 6.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile - £280 -
25th Percentile - £294 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £338 £350
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -3.57% +55.56%
75th Percentile - £356 £375
90th Percentile - - -
Leicestershire median daily rate £250 £304 £255
% change year-on-year -17.70% +19.12% +94.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £15.63
25th Percentile - - £16.56
Median hourly rate - - £18.75
75th Percentile - - £21.56
90th Percentile - - £22.88
Leicestershire median hourly rate - - £18.75
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

All Cloud Skills
Leicester

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 Leicester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 29 27 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicester 32.58% 26.47% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 18 39
10th Percentile £250 £303 £313
25th Percentile £363 £320 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -5.88% -3.41%
75th Percentile £475 £502 £530
90th Percentile £488 £584 £563
Leicestershire median daily rate £463 £388 £425
% change year-on-year +19.35% -8.82% +5.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - - £15.63
25th Percentile - £22.50 £16.56
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £27.50 £21.56
90th Percentile - - £22.88
Leicestershire median hourly rate £19.75 £25.00 £14.50
% change year-on-year -21.00% +72.41% -30.95%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicester

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicester

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicester

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicester 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 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
2 1 (14.29%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
1 1 (14.29%) VSAN
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (14.29%) 1st Line Support Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Analyst
1 1 (14.29%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Android
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Customer Service
1 5 (71.43%) Process Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Computer Science
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Operations Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) IT Audit
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (14.29%) ITSM
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile Device Management
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) BitLocker
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (14.29%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (14.29%) VxRail
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Apple
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) MobileIron
3 1 (14.29%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) Zerto