Microsoft 365 Contracts in the Midlands

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 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 20 19 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 130 173 330
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.79% 6.27% 9.59%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.30% 25.15% 26.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 131 247
10th Percentile £126 £150 £154
25th Percentile £166 £183 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £300 £375
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% -20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £422 £400 £538
90th Percentile £531 £638 £668
England median daily rate £375 £350 £383
% change year-on-year +7.14% -8.50% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 13
10th Percentile £14.19 £14.71 £14.62
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.94 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £19.57 £16.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +18.72% -5.83%
75th Percentile £19.93 £30.79 £20.00
90th Percentile £35.45 £43.46 £25.93
England median hourly rate £18.50 £17.10 £18.50
% change year-on-year +8.17% -7.55% +5.71%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 583 688 1,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.46% 24.95% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 411 519 879
10th Percentile £200 £198 £213
25th Percentile £375 £325 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £575
90th Percentile £675 £682 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 22 16
10th Percentile £14.82 - £14.76
25th Percentile £15.25 £14.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.00 £23.75 £18.86
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% +25.93% +9.00%
75th Percentile £19.87 £27.25 £24.47
90th Percentile £26.79 £50.04 £26.48
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the Midlands

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the Midlands

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the Midlands

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the Midlands

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the Midlands

Microsoft 365
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 within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +3 106 £210 -40.00% 89
East Midlands -11 23 £250 +28.21% 85
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
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 41 (31.54%) SharePoint
2 25 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.77%) CMS
3 1 (0.77%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 10 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.85%) InfoPath
2 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.77%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 29 (22.31%) Azure
2 24 (18.46%) Power Platform
3 21 (16.15%) Entra ID
4 18 (13.85%) OneDrive
4 18 (13.85%) PowerApps
5 17 (13.08%) Power Automate
6 8 (6.15%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (5.38%) SuccessFactors
8 6 (4.62%) ShareGate
9 5 (3.85%) Azure Functions
9 5 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
9 5 (3.85%) Serverless
10 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (1.54%) AWS
11 2 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
11 2 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.54%) Copilot Studio
12 1 (0.77%) Google Workspace
12 1 (0.77%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.08%) VPN
2 6 (4.62%) Firewall
3 4 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.54%) Intrusion Detection
4 2 (1.54%) Network Security
4 2 (1.54%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.77%) 4G
5 1 (0.77%) PBX
5 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.77%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.46%) Power BI
2 5 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 5 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 2 (1.54%) EDRMS
3 2 (1.54%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 1 (0.77%) JIRA
General
1 58 (44.62%) Social Skills
2 20 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (4.62%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.08%) Legal
4 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.31%) Local Government
5 3 (2.31%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.54%) Finance
7 1 (0.77%) Advertising
7 1 (0.77%) Electronics
7 1 (0.77%) Law
7 1 (0.77%) Marketing
7 1 (0.77%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (12.31%) Architect
2 15 (11.54%) Analyst
3 14 (10.77%) Support Engineer
4 13 (10.00%) Support Officer
5 12 (9.23%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (6.92%) Developer
6 9 (6.92%) IT Support
6 9 (6.92%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (6.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) ICT Officer
7 8 (6.15%) ICT Support
7 8 (6.15%) ICT Support Officer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior
7 8 (6.15%) Service Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (6.15%) Windows Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) 1st Line Support
8 7 (5.38%) Deployment Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.15%) CSS
1 8 (6.15%) HTML
2 5 (3.85%) .NET
2 5 (3.85%) .NET Framework
2 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET
2 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET MVC
2 5 (3.85%) Entity Framework
2 5 (3.85%) HTML5 Canvas
2 5 (3.85%) SailPoint
3 4 (3.08%) React
4 3 (2.31%) SPFx
5 2 (1.54%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.77%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.62%) NHS
2 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Cloud
2 5 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (3.85%) Smartphone
3 4 (3.08%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.31%) iPhone
4 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (1.54%) Replication
5 2 (1.54%) Security Posture
5 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.77%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.77%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.77%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.77%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 55 (42.31%) Windows
2 34 (26.15%) Windows 10
3 12 (9.23%) Android
4 4 (3.08%) Mac OS
5 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.54%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (23.85%) Customer Service
3 29 (22.31%) Migration
4 16 (12.31%) ITIL
5 12 (9.23%) Business Intelligence
6 10 (7.69%) Agile
7 9 (6.92%) Asset Management
7 9 (6.92%) ITSM
8 8 (6.15%) Workflow
9 7 (5.38%) Multi-Factor Authentication
9 7 (5.38%) Task Automation
10 6 (4.62%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (4.62%) Data Loss Prevention
10 6 (4.62%) Identity Access Management
10 6 (4.62%) Knowledge Transfer
10 6 (4.62%) Process Improvement
10 6 (4.62%) Service Delivery
11 5 (3.85%) Change Management
11 5 (3.85%) Computer Science
11 5 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 8 (6.15%) JavaScript
2 8 (6.15%) SQL
3 5 (3.85%) C#
4 4 (3.08%) TypeScript
5 3 (2.31%) Python
6 2 (1.54%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (0.77%) Bash
Qualifications
1 20 (15.38%) Degree
2 9 (6.92%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.38%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.08%) Azure Certification
4 4 (3.08%) DBS Check
4 4 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.54%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.54%) CEH
6 2 (1.54%) CISM
6 2 (1.54%) CISSP
6 2 (1.54%) MCP
6 2 (1.54%) MCSE
7 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) SLA
2 2 (1.54%) QA
3 1 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 50 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.69%) BitLocker
3 3 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.77%) Docker
5 1 (0.77%) Firmware
5 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (18.46%) SCCM
2 22 (16.92%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.54%) Terraform
4 1 (0.77%) CASB
4 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.77%) Podman
Vendors
1 81 (62.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (13.08%) Cisco
2 17 (13.08%) ServiceNow
3 14 (10.77%) Citrix
4 11 (8.46%) Nexthink
5 8 (6.15%) SAP
6 7 (5.38%) Apple
7 6 (4.62%) VMware
8 3 (2.31%) Dell
8 3 (2.31%) Proofpoint
9 2 (1.54%) Google
9 2 (1.54%) HP
10 1 (0.77%) Avaya
10 1 (0.77%) CheckPoint
10 1 (0.77%) Logitech
10 1 (0.77%) Snow
10 1 (0.77%) Veeam