Microsoft 365 Engineer Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer)
England > Midlands

The median Microsoft 365 Engineer (M365 Engineer) daily rate in the Midlands is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 135 128 141
Rank change year-on-year -7 +13 +67
Contract jobs requiring a Microsoft 365 Engineer 6 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.23% 0.15% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.16% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 7
10th Percentile £270 - £191
25th Percentile - £350 £198
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £375 £215
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +74.42% -22.52%
75th Percentile £410 £428 £288
90th Percentile £479 £477 £350
England median daily rate £300 £406 £375
% change year-on-year -26.15% +8.33% +18.11%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,306 2,487 2,807
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.31% 92.76% 94.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,510 1,621 1,955
10th Percentile £224 £250 £223
25th Percentile £358 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.20% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 118 103
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £16.17 £14.26 £16.50
Median hourly rate £24.83 £19.80 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year +25.44% -5.60% +16.50%
75th Percentile £33.16 £37.50 £32.77
90th Percentile £50.00 £51.91 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.23 £43.86
% change year-on-year -45.60% +5.40% +66.34%

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings that featured Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 Engineer in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Microsoft 365 Engineer job vacancies in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 Engineer within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 September 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
West Midlands -7 5 £300 -14.29% 2
East Midlands -4 1 £500 -1.96%
Microsoft 365 Engineer
England

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands

For the 6 months to 6 September 2025, Microsoft 365 Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Midlands region featuring Microsoft 365 Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Data Security
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (33.33%) Trello
3 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 2 (33.33%) ShareGate
3 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
4 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) PBX
4 1 (16.67%) Windows
4 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Management

Microsoft 365 Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (33.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure Storage
2 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 2 (33.33%) OneDrive
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (33.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) PBX
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Data Security
1 2 (33.33%) Migration
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft