Microsoft 365 Contracts in Leicestershire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
East Midlands > Leicestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leicestershire 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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 17 22
Rank change year-on-year +3 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 8 4 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leicestershire 6.15% 2.88% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.22% 12.90% 13.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 5
10th Percentile £219 £200 -
25th Percentile - £245 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £304 £218
Median % change year-on-year -17.70% +39.66% +45.00%
75th Percentile - £356 £375
90th Percentile - - £383
East Midlands median daily rate £250 £210 £225
% change year-on-year +19.05% -6.67% +18.42%
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
East Midlands median hourly rate £21.39 £16.63 £15.00
% change year-on-year +28.62% +10.87% -18.92%

All Cloud Skills
Leicestershire

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 Leicestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 36 31 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leicestershire 27.69% 22.30% 38.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 55
10th Percentile £250 £180 £294
25th Percentile £334 £293 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £388 £420
Median % change year-on-year +19.35% -7.74% +1.82%
75th Percentile £478 £434 £486
90th Percentile £509 £570 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £445 £450
% change year-on-year +0.45% -1.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £18.68 - -
25th Percentile £18.94 £22.50 £13.00
Median hourly rate £19.75 £25.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.00% +72.41% -27.50%
75th Percentile £20.44 £27.50 £17.19
90th Percentile £20.63 - £21.13
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.95 £17.48 £22.01
% change year-on-year +19.86% -20.60% +10.04%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Leicestershire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicestershire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicestershire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leicestershire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Leicestershire

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Leicestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the Leicestershire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Leicester +7 7 £250 -25.93% 4
Market Harborough - 1 £195 -
Microsoft 365
East Midlands

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leicestershire 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) VSAN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Smartphone
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (12.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Android
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Customer Service
1 5 (62.50%) Process Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (50.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (12.50%) IT Audit
4 1 (12.50%) ITSM
4 1 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
4 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
4 1 (12.50%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) BitLocker
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (12.50%) VxRail
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (50.00%) Apple
3 1 (12.50%) Dell
3 1 (12.50%) MobileIron
3 1 (12.50%) Veeam
3 1 (12.50%) VMware
3 1 (12.50%) Zerto