Microsoft 365 Contracts in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 25 34 35
Rank change year-on-year +9 +1 -16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 245 245 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 7.44% 5.14% 5.08%
As % of the Cloud Services category 22.05% 17.40% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 162 229
10th Percentile £156 £143 £153
25th Percentile £191 £185 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £260 £305
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% -14.61% +32.39%
75th Percentile £488 £425 £500
90th Percentile £572 £550 £564
England median daily rate £375 £350 £383
% change year-on-year +7.14% -8.50% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 33 17
10th Percentile - £13.00 £13.47
25th Percentile £12.50 £13.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.69% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £30.63 £17.72 £22.41
90th Percentile - £19.15 £25.75
England median hourly rate £18.50 £17.10 £18.50
% change year-on-year +8.17% -7.55% +5.71%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,111 1,408 2,141
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.72% 29.53% 36.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 838 999 1,595
10th Percentile £248 £263 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £643 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 79 37
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £16.22
25th Percentile £26.72 £15.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.91 £16.06 £39.60
Median % change year-on-year +92.43% -59.44% +111.93%
75th Percentile £73.44 £20.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £97.98 £43.75 £70.00
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +7 151 £350 +23.67% 171
Yorkshire +5 73 £264 -0.47% 109
North East +12 25 £470 +147.37% 33
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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
1 101 (41.22%) SharePoint
2 84 (34.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.82%) Confluence
3 2 (0.82%) OpenEdge
3 2 (0.82%) SAS
4 1 (0.41%) nginx
4 1 (0.41%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 57 (23.27%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.63%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.82%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.41%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 106 (43.27%) Azure
2 80 (32.65%) Entra ID
3 39 (15.92%) Power Platform
4 33 (13.47%) PowerApps
5 23 (9.39%) OneDrive
6 21 (8.57%) Power Automate
7 18 (7.35%) IaaS
8 15 (6.12%) SaaS
9 13 (5.31%) Microsoft Purview
10 10 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
11 6 (2.45%) PaaS
12 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.22%) AWS
13 3 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
14 2 (0.82%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.82%) Azure Sentinel
15 1 (0.41%) AWS CodeCommit
15 1 (0.41%) Azure Key Vault
15 1 (0.41%) Azure Storage
15 1 (0.41%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 26 (10.61%) Firewall
2 21 (8.57%) DHCP
2 21 (8.57%) DNS
3 19 (7.76%) VPN
4 15 (6.12%) Network Security
5 12 (4.90%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (4.49%) Intrusion Detection
7 9 (3.67%) LAN
7 9 (3.67%) Remote Desktop
7 9 (3.67%) WAN
8 7 (2.86%) VoIP
9 6 (2.45%) VLAN
10 5 (2.04%) SAN
11 4 (1.63%) Internet
11 4 (1.63%) Skype
11 4 (1.63%) Wireless
12 3 (1.22%) iSCSI
12 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
13 2 (0.82%) Intranet
13 2 (0.82%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 14 (5.71%) Power BI
3 3 (1.22%) Dremio
3 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.82%) MySQL
4 2 (0.82%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (2.45%) Hudson
2 3 (1.22%) JIRA
2 3 (1.22%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (1.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (0.41%) GitLab
3 1 (0.41%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (36.33%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.24%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 14 (5.71%) Finance
5 13 (5.31%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (5.31%) Retail
6 12 (4.90%) Banking
7 11 (4.49%) Telecoms
8 7 (2.86%) Military
9 6 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.45%) Legal
10 5 (2.04%) Marketing
11 4 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.22%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.22%) Local Government
13 2 (0.82%) Manufacturing
14 1 (0.41%) Automotive
14 1 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.41%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 45 (18.37%) Support Engineer
2 30 (12.24%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 29 (11.84%) Analyst
4 23 (9.39%) 1st Line Support
4 23 (9.39%) Developer
4 23 (9.39%) IT Support
5 19 (7.76%) Desktop Support
6 17 (6.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (6.53%) Desktop Engineer
7 16 (6.53%) Microsoft 365 Developer
7 16 (6.53%) Service Analyst
8 15 (6.12%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) IT Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Service Desk Analyst
9 14 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
10 13 (5.31%) Support Manager
11 12 (4.90%) IT Manager
11 12 (4.90%) Software Developer
12 11 (4.49%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 10 (4.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.31%) CSS
1 13 (5.31%) HTML
2 10 (4.08%) React
3 9 (3.67%) SPFx
4 2 (0.82%) .NET
4 2 (0.82%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.41%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.41%) LDAP
5 1 (0.41%) REST
5 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.41%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.71%) Smartphone
2 13 (5.31%) iPhone
3 9 (3.67%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.04%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.04%) NHS
4 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 3 (1.22%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.22%) IVR
5 3 (1.22%) Mobile App
5 3 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
6 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (0.82%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.41%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.41%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 1 (0.41%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 118 (48.16%) Windows
2 50 (20.41%) Windows 10
3 36 (14.69%) Windows Server
4 16 (6.53%) Mac OS
5 11 (4.49%) VMS
6 9 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 8 (3.27%) Linux
8 7 (2.86%) Android
8 7 (2.86%) Apple iOS
9 6 (2.45%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.04%) Windows 7
11 4 (1.63%) Unix
11 4 (1.63%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.41%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (26.94%) ITIL
2 62 (25.31%) Customer Service
3 49 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (18.78%) ITSM
5 34 (13.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 24 (9.80%) Agile
6 24 (9.80%) Incident Management
6 24 (9.80%) Service Management
7 21 (8.57%) Migration
8 18 (7.35%) Data Loss Prevention
9 17 (6.94%) Task Automation
10 16 (6.53%) Collaborative Working
10 16 (6.53%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (6.53%) Information Security
11 15 (6.12%) Change Management
11 15 (6.12%) Project Delivery
12 14 (5.71%) DevOps
12 14 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (5.31%) Mobile Device Management
13 13 (5.31%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 50 (20.41%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.31%) JavaScript
3 10 (4.08%) TypeScript
4 3 (1.22%) SQL
4 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
4 3 (1.22%) VBA
5 1 (0.41%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.41%) Python
5 1 (0.41%) VB
5 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 28 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (10.20%) Security Cleared
3 20 (8.16%) Degree
4 18 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.90%) Azure Certification
6 7 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 5 (2.04%) MCSE
8 4 (1.63%) CCNA
8 4 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.63%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (1.22%) PMP
10 2 (0.82%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.82%) CREST Certified
10 2 (0.82%) OSCE
11 1 (0.41%) A+ Certification
11 1 (0.41%) MCP
11 1 (0.41%) MCSA
11 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.31%) SLA
2 4 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.22%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.22%) QA
3 3 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (1.22%) SOC 2
4 2 (0.82%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.41%) NCSC
System Software
1 139 (56.73%) Active Directory
2 26 (10.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.71%) vSphere
4 7 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.63%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.22%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.41%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.41%) Docker
8 1 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 56 (22.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.57%) SCCM
3 17 (6.94%) WSUS
4 14 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
5 13 (5.31%) Jamf Pro
6 7 (2.86%) vCenter Server
7 5 (2.04%) AppManager
8 4 (1.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.41%) Grafana
9 1 (0.41%) Kibana
9 1 (0.41%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.41%) logstash
9 1 (0.41%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.41%) Terraform
9 1 (0.41%) vRealize
Vendors
1 195 (79.59%) Microsoft
2 41 (16.73%) VMware
3 38 (15.51%) ServiceNow
4 21 (8.57%) Apple
5 19 (7.76%) Citrix
6 10 (4.08%) Cisco
7 5 (2.04%) Ivanti
7 5 (2.04%) Meraki
8 4 (1.63%) Bomgar
8 4 (1.63%) Dell
8 4 (1.63%) iManage
8 4 (1.63%) Remedy
8 4 (1.63%) Veeam
9 3 (1.22%) Databricks
9 3 (1.22%) HP
9 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.41%) MobileIron
10 1 (0.41%) Spiceworks
10 1 (0.41%) Splunk
10 1 (0.41%) Zscaler