Microsoft 365 Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 8 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 -20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 24 25 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.37% 11.63% 7.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 53.33% 56.82% 22.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 13
10th Percentile £133 £143 £251
25th Percentile £142 £144 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 £225 £460
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% -51.09% +15.00%
75th Percentile £241 £238 £475
90th Percentile £400 £268 £535
North West median daily rate £313 £282 £400
% change year-on-year +11.01% -29.63% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
10th Percentile - - £16.20
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.23
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.80 -
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +79.69% -8.57% -2.78%

All Cloud Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 45 44 99
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 26.95% 20.47% 32.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 74
10th Percentile £133 £143 £361
25th Percentile £148 £163 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £248 £500
Median % change year-on-year +61.62% -50.50% +17.65%
75th Percentile £478 £388 £547
90th Percentile £539 £445 £675
North West median daily rate £468 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £15.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - -8.57% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £17.63 £18.75
90th Percentile - £18.80 £23.88
North West median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £31.25
% change year-on-year +79.02% -48.61% +21.61%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Merseyside

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Merseyside

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Merseyside

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Merseyside

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
Liverpool -1 21 £150 -33.33% 13
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Microsoft 365
North West

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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 9 (37.50%) SharePoint
2 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 6 (25.00%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Firewall
2 3 (12.50%) Internet
2 3 (12.50%) iSCSI
2 3 (12.50%) LAN
2 3 (12.50%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (12.50%) WAN
2 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (12.50%) Wireless
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Banking
2 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Service Analyst
2 7 (29.17%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (20.83%) 1st Line Support
4 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) IT Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) IT Support
5 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Support
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Support Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Desktop Migration Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (4.17%) SIEM Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (12.50%) IVR
3 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (100.00%) Windows
2 15 (62.50%) Windows 10
3 5 (20.83%) Android
4 3 (12.50%) Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Customer Service
2 11 (45.83%) ITIL
3 8 (33.33%) Incident Management
4 6 (25.00%) Information Security
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (16.67%) Service Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) BCP
6 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
6 3 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (12.50%) Fintech
6 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Remediation
7 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
7 2 (8.33%) Server Hardening
8 1 (4.17%) Data Loss Prevention
8 1 (4.17%) Incident Response
8 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (4.17%) ITSM
8 1 (4.17%) Migration
8 1 (4.17%) SIEM
8 1 (4.17%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (41.67%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (12.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 13 (54.17%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) Bomgar
3 4 (16.67%) iManage
4 3 (12.50%) Apple
5 2 (8.33%) Darktrace
5 2 (8.33%) Dell
5 2 (8.33%) HP
5 2 (8.33%) Varonis
6 1 (4.17%) Zscaler