MOS Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for MOS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +13
Contract jobs citing MOS 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 0.33% - 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.38% - 1.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 - -
North West median daily rate £150 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

MOS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 42 64 66
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 13.86% 39.02% 28.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 32
10th Percentile £160 £208 £164
25th Percentile £298 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £524 £373
Median % change year-on-year +5.01% +40.60% -25.50%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £581
90th Percentile - £775 £668
North West median daily rate £492 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.60% - -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 12 13
10th Percentile £22.20 - £11.36
25th Percentile £30.00 £12.21 £14.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.44 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +152.06% -45.70% +83.51%
75th Percentile - £18.08 £34.32
90th Percentile - £21.37 £50.06
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £31.00 £16.06
% change year-on-year +41.81% +93.03% -60.63%

MOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

MOS job vacancy trend in Merseyside

MOS
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing MOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing MOS

MOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing MOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing MOS

MOS
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 MOS within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 5 July 2026. 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 £150 - 2
MOS
North West

MOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos