Microsoft 365 Contracts in the North East

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 29 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -31
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 24 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 7.36% 3.22% 3.13%
As % of the Cloud Services category 21.62% 17.74% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 13
10th Percentile £188 £150 £138
25th Percentile £263 £154 £155
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £190 £213
Median % change year-on-year +147.37% -10.59% +18.06%
75th Percentile £625 £196 £238
90th Percentile £700 £203 £550
England median daily rate £375 £350 £388
% change year-on-year +7.14% -9.68% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £18.51 £16.63 £18.50
% change year-on-year +11.27% -10.11% +5.71%

All Cloud Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 111 62 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 34.05% 18.13% 45.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 32 145
10th Percentile £325 £161 £350
25th Percentile £410 £190 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £453 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.82% +13.00%
75th Percentile £590 £550 £700
90th Percentile £650 £650 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
10th Percentile - £11.44 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.77 £48.50
Median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%
75th Percentile £13.50 - £49.50
90th Percentile - £33.48 -
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.66%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the North East

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North East

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North East over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North East

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North East

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 4 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
Tyne and Wear +7 16 £500 +177.78% 17
Durham +6 8 £470 +147.37% 10
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 8 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (8.33%) OpenEdge
4 1 (4.17%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Power Platform
1 7 (29.17%) PowerApps
2 6 (25.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeCommit
5 1 (4.17%) AWS CodeDeploy
5 1 (4.17%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) MySQL
1 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) GitLab
1 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Legal
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (25.00%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) 1st Line Support
2 4 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365 Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Power Platform Developer
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 3 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Consultant
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 3 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Mobile Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 2 (8.33%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) React
2 3 (12.50%) CSS
2 3 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (12.50%) SPFx
3 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (8.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (20.83%) ITIL
2 4 (16.67%) Service Management
3 3 (12.50%) Agile
3 3 (12.50%) Patch Management
3 3 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 3 (12.50%) Project Management
3 3 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
3 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
3 3 (12.50%) Web Development
4 2 (8.33%) Business Transformation
4 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 2 (8.33%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) IT Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Kalman Filter
4 2 (8.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (8.33%) Technology Strategy
4 2 (8.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.33%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 4 (16.67%) TypeScript
2 3 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) PMP
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Kibana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.17%) logstash
2 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Citrix