Microsoft Office Contracts in Merseyside

Microsoft Office
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 21 15
Rank change year-on-year +3 -6 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 11 12 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 6.55% 5.26% 11.99%
As % of the Applications category 57.89% 25.53% 73.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 35
10th Percentile £160 £152 £261
25th Percentile £163 £161 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £188 £425
Median % change year-on-year +14.67% -55.88% -
75th Percentile £223 £334 £650
90th Percentile £255 £432 £690
North West median daily rate £250 £396 £375
% change year-on-year -36.87% +5.60% +63.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £32.12 -
North West median hourly rate £20.00 £13.89 £40.59
% change year-on-year +44.01% -65.79% +24.91%

All Software Application Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 19 47 56
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 11.31% 20.61% 16.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 8 45
10th Percentile - £154 £300
25th Percentile £163 £162 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £198 £425
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -53.47% -
75th Percentile £375 £292 £531
90th Percentile £638 £429 £675
North West median daily rate £431 £423 £400
% change year-on-year +2.07% +5.63% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 1
10th Percentile - £10.57 -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £11.59 £14.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.07% -17.14% +47.28%
75th Percentile - £17.21 £17.75
90th Percentile - £34.32 -
North West median hourly rate £27.13 £16.06 £40.00
% change year-on-year +68.90% -59.85% +90.48%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Merseyside

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Merseyside

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Merseyside

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 1 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 +6 7 £175 - 32
Prescot - 3 £215 -
Bootle +1 1 £250 -44.44%
Microsoft Office
North West

Microsoft Office
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 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (54.55%) Azure
3 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) Internet
2 3 (27.27%) iSCSI
2 3 (27.27%) LAN
2 3 (27.27%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
2 3 (27.27%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (27.27%) Wireless
3 1 (9.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (45.45%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Banking
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Legal
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Support
2 2 (18.18%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Azure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Executive
2 2 (18.18%) IT Technician
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Support
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Desktop Migration Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
3 1 (9.09%) IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) Payments Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) IVR
2 1 (9.09%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Android
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 7
4 1 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Customer Service
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
1 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) BCP
3 3 (27.27%) Information Security
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Vulnerability Remediation
4 2 (18.18%) Business Development
4 2 (18.18%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (18.18%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) Line Management
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Time Management
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.09%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (27.27%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (9.09%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Microsoft
2 4 (36.36%) Apple
3 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
4 1 (9.09%) Adobe