Microsoft 365 Contracts in the Midlands

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 19 20
Rank change year-on-year 0 +1 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 167 316 388
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 6.11% 9.26% 7.73%
As % of the Cloud Services category 24.85% 26.40% 23.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 239 267
10th Percentile £150 £160 £125
25th Percentile £181 £206 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £375 £250
Median % change year-on-year -24.67% +50.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £400 £538 £438
90th Percentile £638 £675 £588
England median daily rate £350 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 13 24
10th Percentile £14.73 £14.62 £13.33
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.25 £15.03
Median hourly rate £16.63 £16.48 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -5.83% +16.67%
75th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £40.64 £25.93 £23.75
England median hourly rate £16.63 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -10.11% +5.71% +2.94%

All Cloud Skills
Midlands

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 672 1,197 1,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.58% 35.07% 33.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 864 1,216
10th Percentile £195 £213 £204
25th Percentile £325 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +1.05% +11.76%
75th Percentile £592 £575 £575
90th Percentile £679 £684 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 34
10th Percentile - £14.76 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.25 £16.10
Median hourly rate £21.23 £18.86 £17.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.54% +9.00% +15.35%
75th Percentile £26.50 £24.47 £20.88
90th Percentile £32.68 £26.48 £23.75
England median hourly rate £20.77 £32.30 £21.04
% change year-on-year -35.70% +53.52% -4.36%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 -2 114 £350 -17.65% 128
East Midlands -2 52 £195 -22.00% 80
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 53 (31.74%) SharePoint
2 46 (27.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.20%) IIS
3 2 (1.20%) WordPress
4 1 (0.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) nginx
Applications
1 18 (10.78%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.60%) Sage 200
1 1 (0.60%) Sage X3
1 1 (0.60%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 77 (46.11%) Azure
2 25 (14.97%) OneDrive
3 22 (13.17%) Entra ID
4 13 (7.78%) AWS
5 12 (7.19%) Power Automate
6 11 (6.59%) Power Platform
7 9 (5.39%) PowerApps
7 9 (5.39%) SaaS
8 8 (4.79%) Azure Monitor
9 5 (2.99%) PaaS
10 3 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.80%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (1.20%) ShareGate
12 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.60%) Azure Storage
12 1 (0.60%) IaaS
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.60%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 28 (16.77%) DNS
2 16 (9.58%) Firewall
3 14 (8.38%) VPN
4 11 (6.59%) DHCP
5 10 (5.99%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.79%) NetScaler
7 6 (3.59%) LAN
7 6 (3.59%) Unified Communications
7 6 (3.59%) WAN
7 6 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (2.99%) SAN
8 5 (2.99%) VoIP
9 4 (2.40%) VLAN
10 3 (1.80%) Ethernet
10 3 (1.80%) Network Security
10 3 (1.80%) Wireless
11 2 (1.20%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.20%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.20%) NAS
11 2 (1.20%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.38%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.19%) Power BI
3 2 (1.20%) EDRMS
4 1 (0.60%) Metadata
4 1 (0.60%) MS Access
4 1 (0.60%) MySQL
4 1 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (2.40%) JIRA
2 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio
General
1 53 (31.74%) Social Skills
2 17 (10.18%) Finance
3 10 (5.99%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (5.99%) Public Sector
4 9 (5.39%) Legal
5 4 (2.40%) Automotive
5 4 (2.40%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.80%) Advertising
6 3 (1.80%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.20%) Local Government
8 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.60%) Law
8 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.60%) Police
8 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (17.37%) Support Engineer
2 23 (13.77%) Analyst
3 16 (9.58%) 2nd Line Support
4 15 (8.98%) Service Desk Analyst
5 14 (8.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) IT Engineer
5 14 (8.38%) Service Analyst
6 13 (7.78%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 13 (7.78%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 13 (7.78%) Architect
7 12 (7.19%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 12 (7.19%) Administrator
7 12 (7.19%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 11 (6.59%) IT Support
9 9 (5.39%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
9 9 (5.39%) IT Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Desktop Engineer
10 8 (4.79%) Service Delivery Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Service Manager
10 8 (4.79%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.20%) .NET
1 2 (1.20%) HTML
1 2 (1.20%) LAMP
1 2 (1.20%) XML
2 1 (0.60%) .NET Framework
2 1 (0.60%) ADO
2 1 (0.60%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (0.60%) CSS
2 1 (0.60%) EDI
2 1 (0.60%) HTML5
2 1 (0.60%) SOAP
2 1 (0.60%) Software Packaging
2 1 (0.60%) SPFx
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.19%) Driving Licence
2 6 (3.59%) Digital Signage
2 6 (3.59%) Onboarding
2 6 (3.59%) PKI
3 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.40%) Fat Client
4 4 (2.40%) iPad
4 4 (2.40%) Thin Client
5 3 (1.80%) Clustering
5 3 (1.80%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (1.20%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.20%) Replication
6 2 (1.20%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) CMDB
7 1 (0.60%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.60%) Grid Computing
7 1 (0.60%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.60%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 106 (63.47%) Windows
2 55 (32.93%) Windows Server
3 52 (31.14%) Windows 10
4 19 (11.38%) Apple iOS
5 16 (9.58%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (8.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 12 (7.19%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (5.39%) Mac OS
9 6 (3.59%) Linux
9 6 (3.59%) Windows 7
10 4 (2.40%) Android
11 3 (1.80%) Ubuntu
11 3 (1.80%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (1.20%) VMS
13 1 (0.60%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (17.37%) Customer Service
2 26 (15.57%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (11.98%) Change Management
4 18 (10.78%) Service Delivery
5 16 (9.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 16 (9.58%) ITIL
6 13 (7.78%) Migration
7 12 (7.19%) Decision-Making
8 11 (6.59%) Information Security
9 10 (5.99%) Mobile Device Management
9 10 (5.99%) Service Management
10 9 (5.39%) Agile
10 9 (5.39%) ITSM
10 9 (5.39%) Patch Management
11 8 (4.79%) IT Governance
11 8 (4.79%) People Management
11 8 (4.79%) Performance Metrics
11 8 (4.79%) Proactive Management
11 8 (4.79%) Service Delivery Management
11 8 (4.79%) Web SSO
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.96%) PowerShell
2 8 (4.79%) Swift
3 7 (4.19%) SQL
4 3 (1.80%) C#
4 3 (1.80%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.60%) Python
5 1 (0.60%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (6.59%) SC Cleared
1 11 (6.59%) Security Cleared
2 9 (5.39%) Degree
3 4 (2.40%) Azure Certification
3 4 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (1.80%) MCSE
5 2 (1.20%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 2 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.20%) CISSP
5 2 (1.20%) DBS Check
5 2 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.60%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.60%) CCSP
6 1 (0.60%) CISM
6 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.60%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.99%) SLA
2 2 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (0.60%) GDPR
3 1 (0.60%) GRC
3 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.60%) NIST
System Software
1 85 (50.90%) Active Directory
2 12 (7.19%) Hyper-V
3 10 (5.99%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (4.79%) Citrix Hypervisor
4 8 (4.79%) XenApp
4 8 (4.79%) XenDesktop
5 5 (2.99%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.80%) BitLocker
6 3 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.80%) vSphere
7 2 (1.20%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.60%) Firmware
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (21.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 32 (19.16%) SCCM
3 13 (7.78%) Single Sign-On
4 6 (3.59%) Autotask
5 4 (2.40%) vCenter Server
6 3 (1.80%) Failover Clustering
6 3 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.60%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.60%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.60%) WSUS
Vendors
1 91 (54.49%) Microsoft
2 22 (13.17%) VMware
3 12 (7.19%) Citrix
4 8 (4.79%) NetApp
4 8 (4.79%) Okta
5 7 (4.19%) Apple
5 7 (4.19%) Cisco
6 6 (3.59%) Oracle
6 6 (3.59%) ServiceNow
7 4 (2.40%) SAP
8 3 (1.80%) Aruba
8 3 (1.80%) Datto
8 3 (1.80%) Remedy
8 3 (1.80%) Veeam
9 2 (1.20%) Palo Alto
9 2 (1.20%) ProCurve
9 2 (1.20%) Rapid7
9 2 (1.20%) Sophos
9 2 (1.20%) Synology
9 2 (1.20%) Zerto