Microsoft Office Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Office
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 70 61 45
Rank change year-on-year -9 -16 +50
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Microsoft Office 20 25 70
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.96% 2.07% 3.99%
As % of the Applications category 26.67% 47.17% 56.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 50
10th Percentile £299 £158 £150
25th Percentile £384 £200 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £240
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +61.46% +4.35%
75th Percentile £483 £499 £270
90th Percentile £515 £522 £475
North West median daily rate £400 £350 £240
% change year-on-year +14.29% +45.83% -36.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 11
10th Percentile - - £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £21.29 £16.00 £16.86
Median % change year-on-year +33.03% -5.10% -13.66%
75th Percentile £22.47 - £17.72
90th Percentile - - £19.75
North West median hourly rate £21.29 £11.20 £17.60
% change year-on-year +90.13% -36.39% -28.40%

All Software Application Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 75 53 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 7.37% 4.39% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 28 81
10th Percentile £280 £175 £163
25th Percentile £313 £200 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £400 £260
Median % change year-on-year +11.75% +53.85% -32.90%
75th Percentile £475 £499 £388
90th Percentile £535 £540 £500
North West median daily rate £447 £431 £310
% change year-on-year +3.65% +39.11% -27.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 18
10th Percentile - £27.03 £15.74
25th Percentile £19.07 £39.38 £15.89
Median hourly rate £22.32 £55.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -59.43% +210.38% -2.90%
75th Percentile £26.43 £87.50 £39.69
90th Percentile £35.50 £100.00 £42.88
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £16.06 £20.58
% change year-on-year +40.91% -21.96% -5.51%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bolton - 5 - - 10
Microsoft Office
North West

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 13 (65.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SSH
2 1 (5.00%) SSL
2 1 (5.00%) VPN
2 1 (5.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Ant
2 1 (5.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.00%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.00%) NUnit
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Italian Language
5 1 (5.00%) Military
5 1 (5.00%) Polish Language
5 1 (5.00%) Publishing
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Administrator
1 10 (50.00%) SAP Administrator
1 10 (50.00%) SAP Support
2 6 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (5.00%) Business Change Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Developer
4 1 (5.00%) HR Data Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Business Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
4 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (5.00%) Ajax
1 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.00%) EJB
1 1 (5.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (5.00%) HTML
1 1 (5.00%) J2EE
1 1 (5.00%) JavaBeans
1 1 (5.00%) JDBC
1 1 (5.00%) JMS
1 1 (5.00%) JSP
1 1 (5.00%) JSTL
1 1 (5.00%) Spring
1 1 (5.00%) Struts
1 1 (5.00%) Swing
1 1 (5.00%) Web Services
1 1 (5.00%) WinForms
1 1 (5.00%) XML
1 1 (5.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Tandem
2 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (5.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Unix
3 1 (5.00%) Android
3 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Change Management
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) IT Governance
3 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
5 3 (15.00%) Agile
5 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (15.00%) Release Management
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
6 2 (10.00%) Attestation
6 2 (10.00%) Customer Experience
6 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
6 2 (10.00%) Incident Response
6 2 (10.00%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) C#
1 1 (5.00%) Java
1 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (15.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) AirWatch
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (55.00%) SAP
3 2 (10.00%) IBM
4 1 (5.00%) Apple
4 1 (5.00%) Ariba
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco
4 1 (5.00%) Samsung
4 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.00%) Zscaler