Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 31 33
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 349 210 235
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 5.20% 6.17% 4.85%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.47% 18.55% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 136 158
10th Percentile £135 £151 £149
25th Percentile £185 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £323 £250
Median % change year-on-year +12.40% +29.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £425
90th Percentile £607 £544 £588
England median daily rate £425 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 14 26
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £12.58 £13.06
Median hourly rate £25.38 £13.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.23% -18.75% -12.33%
75th Percentile - £30.63 £17.72
90th Percentile £178.75 - £19.38
England median hourly rate £20.25 £18.87 £16.47
% change year-on-year +7.31% +14.61% -13.34%

All Cloud Computing 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 2,256 1,132 1,449
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.63% 33.25% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,482 837 1,010
10th Percentile £313 £267 £263
25th Percentile £400 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -2.86% -4.59%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £575
90th Percentile £651 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 27 74
10th Percentile £18.88 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £33.75 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +126.09% +79.02% -28.72%
75th Percentile £75.25 £49.81 £22.56
90th Percentile £92.50 £81.25 £45.45
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.00 £21.46
% change year-on-year +58.00% +16.50% -38.69%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft 365

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 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Microsoft 365

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 10 June 2026.

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 10 June 2026. 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
Yorkshire -8 177 £450 +69.81% 69
North West -7 166 £235 -37.33% 117
North East -33 7 £270 -10.00% 27
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 129 (36.96%) SharePoint
2 93 (26.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
4 3 (0.86%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
Applications
1 31 (8.88%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.15%) Acrobat
3 4 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 126 (36.10%) Azure
2 93 (26.65%) Entra ID
3 73 (20.92%) OneDrive
4 53 (15.19%) Microsoft Copilot
5 46 (13.18%) Microsoft Purview
6 37 (10.60%) Power Platform
7 28 (8.02%) PowerApps
8 24 (6.88%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.30%) SaaS
10 17 (4.87%) AWS
11 15 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
12 14 (4.01%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (3.44%) Rubrik
14 11 (3.15%) GCP
15 10 (2.87%) GitHub
15 10 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (2.87%) Google Workspace
16 7 (2.01%) Google Drive
16 7 (2.01%) PaaS
17 6 (1.72%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (7.16%) Wi-Fi
2 23 (6.59%) LAN
3 22 (6.30%) WAN
4 17 (4.87%) VPN
5 16 (4.58%) DNS
6 10 (2.87%) Firewall
6 10 (2.87%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.29%) VLAN
8 7 (2.01%) DHCP
8 7 (2.01%) Skype
9 6 (1.72%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.43%) DKIM
10 5 (1.43%) DMARC
11 4 (1.15%) NetScaler
11 4 (1.15%) VoIP
12 3 (0.86%) PSTN
12 3 (0.86%) SAN
12 3 (0.86%) Wireless
12 3 (0.86%) WLAN
13 2 (0.57%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.58%) Power BI
2 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.86%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (4.01%) JIRA
2 3 (0.86%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (0.86%) Fiddler
2 3 (0.86%) MSI
3 2 (0.57%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.57%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.29%) Postman
General
1 128 (36.68%) Social Skills
2 53 (15.19%) Finance
2 53 (15.19%) Public Sector
3 52 (14.90%) Legal
4 30 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (5.16%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.15%) Banking
8 9 (2.58%) Local Government
8 9 (2.58%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.58%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.15%) Law
10 3 (0.86%) Retail
11 2 (0.57%) Military
12 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.29%) Police
12 1 (0.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 62 (17.77%) IT Support
2 51 (14.61%) Architect
3 42 (12.03%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 40 (11.46%) Analyst
5 34 (9.74%) Support Engineer
6 32 (9.17%) IT Engineer
7 30 (8.60%) IT Support Engineer
8 28 (8.02%) 1st Line Support
9 25 (7.16%) Support Analyst
10 24 (6.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
11 23 (6.59%) IT Analyst
12 19 (5.44%) IT Support Analyst
13 18 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
14 14 (4.01%) Senior
15 13 (3.72%) Administrator
15 13 (3.72%) Designer
15 13 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
16 11 (3.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 11 (3.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (3.15%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.17%) Microsoft Graph
2 10 (2.87%) OAuth
3 6 (1.72%) .NET
3 6 (1.72%) OpenID
3 6 (1.72%) SAML
4 5 (1.43%) REST
4 5 (1.43%) YAML
5 4 (1.15%) JSON
6 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.86%) FIDO
6 3 (0.86%) LDAP
6 3 (0.86%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.86%) SOAP
6 3 (0.86%) Web Services
7 2 (0.57%) React
7 2 (0.57%) SPFx
7 2 (0.57%) XSLT
8 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.46%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.01%) NHS
4 6 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.43%) CMDB
5 5 (1.43%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.15%) Private Cloud
6 4 (1.15%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (0.86%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.86%) IoT
7 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.86%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.57%) CCTV
8 2 (0.57%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.57%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.29%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 173 (49.57%) Windows
2 75 (21.49%) Windows 10
3 19 (5.44%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.87%) Apple iOS
5 16 (4.58%) Android
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (1.43%) Linux
7 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.86%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (19.48%) Customer Service
2 54 (15.47%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (13.47%) ITIL
4 39 (11.17%) Data Loss Prevention
5 35 (10.03%) Migration
6 31 (8.88%) E-Discovery
7 30 (8.60%) Service Management
8 29 (8.31%) DevOps
9 28 (8.02%) Records Management
10 27 (7.74%) ITSM
11 24 (6.88%) Cybersecurity
12 23 (6.59%) AI
12 23 (6.59%) Identity Access Management
12 23 (6.59%) Information Governance
13 21 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 21 (6.02%) Observability
13 21 (6.02%) Root Cause Analysis
14 20 (5.73%) Agile
14 20 (5.73%) Continuous Improvement
14 20 (5.73%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (19.20%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.30%) Kusto Query Language
3 9 (2.58%) Python
4 5 (1.43%) SQL
5 3 (0.86%) C#
6 2 (0.57%) Bash
6 2 (0.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 38 (10.89%) Degree
2 34 (9.74%) Security Cleared
3 32 (9.17%) Microsoft Certification
4 30 (8.60%) SC Cleared
5 13 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (3.15%) A+ Certification
6 11 (3.15%) Network+ Certification
7 4 (1.15%) DBS Check
8 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (0.57%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 1 (0.29%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.29%) CISM
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
10 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.29%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (10.03%) GDPR
2 12 (3.44%) FINRA
2 12 (3.44%) MiFID
3 7 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.43%) WCAG
5 4 (1.15%) SLA
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) QA
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SOC 2
System Software
1 147 (42.12%) Active Directory
2 10 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (2.58%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (1.72%) Docker
5 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.15%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 63 (18.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (3.72%) Single Sign-On
3 12 (3.44%) Jamf Pro
4 11 (3.15%) SCCM
5 10 (2.87%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 7 (2.01%) Terraform
7 6 (1.72%) Kubernetes
8 3 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (0.57%) WSUS
10 1 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.29%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 271 (77.65%) Microsoft
2 29 (8.31%) ServiceNow
3 18 (5.16%) Cisco
4 16 (4.58%) Bomgar
4 16 (4.58%) Google
5 15 (4.30%) iManage
6 13 (3.72%) VMware
7 11 (3.15%) Remedy
8 10 (2.87%) Citrix
9 8 (2.29%) Veeam
10 7 (2.01%) Apple
11 6 (1.72%) Adobe
11 6 (1.72%) Meraki
12 4 (1.15%) F5
13 3 (0.86%) CyberArk
14 2 (0.57%) Okta
14 2 (0.57%) Red Hat
14 2 (0.57%) SAP
14 2 (0.57%) SYSPRO
14 2 (0.57%) Tanium