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 20 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 33 27
Rank change year-on-year -5 -6 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 349 222 242
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.83% 5.78% 5.32%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.40% 17.38% 17.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 141 160
10th Percentile £135 £150 £152
25th Percentile £185 £188 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £300 £282
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +6.57% -13.38%
75th Percentile £510 £475 £450
90th Percentile £625 £550 £589
England median daily rate £400 £350 £375
% change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 25
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.66 £13.25
Median hourly rate £25.38 £13.00 £17.29
Median % change year-on-year +95.23% -24.79% -1.23%
75th Percentile - £30.63 £18.75
90th Percentile £178.75 - £21.80
England median hourly rate £19.00 £19.27 £17.69
% change year-on-year -1.40% +8.93% -6.89%

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 2,424 1,277 1,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.57% 33.26% 31.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,559 914 971
10th Percentile £313 £283 £268
25th Percentile £400 £384 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £467 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.07% -1.68% -5.09%
75th Percentile £588 £547 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 30 66
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £29.60 £12.82 -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.78 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% +91.66% -28.50%
75th Percentile £75.25 £51.16 £25.38
90th Percentile £88.75 £77.50 £57.97
England median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +57.06% +14.32% -36.77%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 20 July 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
North West -6 183 £225 -37.06% 114
Yorkshire -10 156 £445 +61.82% 68
North East -39 13 £270 +38.46% 39
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
1 121 (34.67%) SharePoint
2 78 (22.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (2.29%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (8.31%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 136 (38.97%) Azure
2 92 (26.36%) Entra ID
3 54 (15.47%) OneDrive
4 50 (14.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 48 (13.75%) Power Platform
6 32 (9.17%) PowerApps
7 30 (8.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (8.31%) Power Automate
9 18 (5.16%) SaaS
10 17 (4.87%) AWS
10 17 (4.87%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
12 11 (3.15%) GCP
13 10 (2.87%) GitHub
13 10 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.58%) Google Workspace
15 7 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (2.01%) Google Drive
15 7 (2.01%) PaaS
16 5 (1.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 31 (8.88%) VPN
2 21 (6.02%) LAN
3 20 (5.73%) DNS
3 20 (5.73%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (4.87%) WAN
5 13 (3.72%) DHCP
6 12 (3.44%) Firewall
6 12 (3.44%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.58%) VLAN
8 8 (2.29%) VoIP
9 7 (2.01%) Wireless
9 7 (2.01%) WLAN
10 6 (1.72%) SAN
10 6 (1.72%) Unified Communications
11 5 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (1.43%) Skype
12 4 (1.15%) BGP
12 4 (1.15%) Cisco Nexus
12 4 (1.15%) IPsec
12 4 (1.15%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (4.58%) Power BI
2 6 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.15%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (0.57%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.29%) Metadata
6 1 (0.29%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 21 (6.02%) 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
4 1 (0.29%) Zephyr
General
1 132 (37.82%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.05%) Public Sector
3 44 (12.61%) Legal
4 35 (10.03%) Finance
5 30 (8.60%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.72%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.87%) Banking
8 10 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.58%) Local Government
10 7 (2.01%) Law
10 7 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.15%) Police
13 2 (0.57%) Advertising
13 2 (0.57%) Games
13 2 (0.57%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Military
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Retail
Job Titles
1 71 (20.34%) IT Support
2 48 (13.75%) Support Engineer
3 44 (12.61%) IT Engineer
4 43 (12.32%) IT Support Engineer
5 42 (12.03%) Analyst
6 36 (10.32%) Architect
7 26 (7.45%) 2nd Line Support
8 25 (7.16%) 1st Line Support
9 24 (6.88%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 19 (5.44%) IT Analyst
11 18 (5.16%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 18 (5.16%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.87%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 17 (4.87%) Senior
12 17 (4.87%) Service Analyst
12 17 (4.87%) Service Desk Analyst
12 17 (4.87%) Support Analyst
13 15 (4.30%) Administrator
13 15 (4.30%) Designer
14 13 (3.72%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.16%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.29%) OAuth
3 5 (1.43%) .NET
3 5 (1.43%) OpenID
3 5 (1.43%) REST
3 5 (1.43%) SAML
3 5 (1.43%) YAML
4 4 (1.15%) JSON
5 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.86%) FIDO
5 3 (0.86%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.86%) SOAP
5 3 (0.86%) Web Services
6 2 (0.57%) React
6 2 (0.57%) SPFx
6 2 (0.57%) XSLT
7 1 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.29%) LDAP
7 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (8.02%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.44%) Enterprise Software
3 9 (2.58%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.01%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.72%) NHS
6 5 (1.43%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.43%) PKI
7 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.15%) Product Ownership
8 3 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.86%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.86%) IoT
8 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.57%) iPad
9 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 192 (55.01%) Windows
2 85 (24.36%) Windows 10
3 29 (8.31%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.58%) Apple iOS
5 15 (4.30%) Android
6 6 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.15%) Linux
8 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.86%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (20.34%) Customer Service
2 68 (19.48%) ITIL
3 62 (17.77%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (10.03%) Service Management
5 31 (8.88%) Data Loss Prevention
6 30 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
6 30 (8.60%) Migration
7 29 (8.31%) Agile
7 29 (8.31%) DevOps
8 27 (7.74%) ITSM
8 27 (7.74%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (6.59%) AI
10 21 (6.02%) Incident Management
11 20 (5.73%) Computer Science
11 20 (5.73%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (5.73%) User Experience
12 19 (5.44%) Data Protection
13 18 (5.16%) E-Discovery
14 17 (4.87%) Change Management
15 16 (4.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.19%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.87%) Python
3 8 (2.29%) Kusto Query Language
4 6 (1.72%) SQL
5 4 (1.15%) C#
6 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.57%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.57%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.29%) Bash
8 1 (0.29%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 48 (13.75%) Degree
2 46 (13.18%) Security Cleared
3 35 (10.03%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.60%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.87%) A+ Certification
6 10 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.43%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.15%) CCNP
9 4 (1.15%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 2 (0.57%) MCSE
11 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.29%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.58%) GDPR
2 7 (2.01%) SLA
3 5 (1.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.43%) FINRA
3 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.43%) MiFID
3 5 (1.43%) WCAG
4 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (1.15%) QA
5 3 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.29%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.29%) GRC
7 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.29%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 165 (47.28%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.72%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.15%) Docker
6 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.57%) vSphere
8 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 73 (20.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.16%) Jamf Pro
3 12 (3.44%) SCCM
3 12 (3.44%) Single Sign-On
4 8 (2.29%) Terraform
5 7 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.15%) Kubernetes
7 3 (0.86%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.57%) WSUS
9 1 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 250 (71.63%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.47%) ServiceNow
3 20 (5.73%) Cisco
4 18 (5.16%) Bomgar
5 15 (4.30%) iManage
6 14 (4.01%) Google
7 13 (3.72%) Apple
7 13 (3.72%) Citrix
7 13 (3.72%) Remedy
8 9 (2.58%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.58%) VMware
9 6 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.15%) Adobe
10 4 (1.15%) CheckPoint
10 4 (1.15%) Sophos
11 3 (0.86%) Ribbon
11 3 (0.86%) SAP
11 3 (0.86%) Splunk
11 3 (0.86%) Veeam
12 2 (0.57%) SYSPRO