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 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 32 34
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 354 209 236
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 5.16% 6.05% 4.86%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.28% 17.96% 16.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 221 132 158
10th Percentile £135 £150 £149
25th Percentile £185 £200 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £338 £251
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +34.33% -16.25%
75th Percentile £525 £489 £425
90th Percentile £613 £556 £588
England median daily rate £425 £325 £368
% change year-on-year +30.77% -11.56% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 27
10th Percentile £17.60 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.25 £12.58 £13.13
Median hourly rate £25.38 £13.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.23% -18.75% -12.33%
75th Percentile - £30.63 £17.75
90th Percentile £178.75 - £20.60
England median hourly rate £21.00 £18.87 £16.63
% change year-on-year +11.29% +13.47% -16.85%

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 2,316 1,164 1,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.77% 33.72% 29.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,516 854 1,011
10th Percentile £313 £292 £266
25th Percentile £400 £390 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% -3.18% -4.88%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £575
90th Percentile £669 £638 £650
England median daily rate £513 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 28 75
10th Percentile £21.50 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £32.50 £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 £75.50 £48.47 £22.38
90th Percentile £90.00 £80.00 £45.21
England median hourly rate £41.06 £25.08 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.72% +16.65% -38.21%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -8 179 £450 +63.64% 87
North West -3 168 £245 -32.88% 121
North East -39 10 £273 -9.17% 35
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
1 128 (36.16%) SharePoint
2 93 (26.27%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.69%) Confluence
4 3 (0.85%) CMS
4 3 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
5 1 (0.28%) IIS
5 1 (0.28%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (8.19%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.13%) Acrobat
4 2 (0.56%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (2.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 127 (35.88%) Azure
2 92 (25.99%) Entra ID
3 74 (20.90%) OneDrive
4 56 (15.82%) Microsoft Copilot
5 49 (13.84%) Microsoft Purview
6 40 (11.30%) Power Platform
7 31 (8.76%) PowerApps
8 27 (7.63%) Power Automate
9 22 (6.21%) SaaS
10 16 (4.52%) AWS
10 16 (4.52%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (4.24%) Dynamics 365
12 12 (3.39%) Rubrik
13 10 (2.82%) GCP
13 10 (2.82%) GitHub
13 10 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
14 9 (2.54%) Google Workspace
15 7 (1.98%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (1.98%) Google Drive
15 7 (1.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
2 22 (6.21%) LAN
3 21 (5.93%) WAN
4 17 (4.80%) VPN
5 15 (4.24%) DNS
6 10 (2.82%) Firewall
7 9 (2.54%) TCP/IP
8 8 (2.26%) VLAN
9 6 (1.69%) DHCP
9 6 (1.69%) Skype
9 6 (1.69%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.41%) DKIM
10 5 (1.41%) DMARC
11 4 (1.13%) SAN
11 4 (1.13%) VoIP
12 3 (0.85%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.85%) PSTN
12 3 (0.85%) WLAN
13 2 (0.56%) SMTP
13 2 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (2.54%) Power BI
2 5 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
4 2 (0.56%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.28%) Metadata
5 1 (0.28%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (3.95%) JIRA
2 3 (0.85%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (0.85%) Fiddler
2 3 (0.85%) MSI
3 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.56%) Terragrunt
4 1 (0.28%) Postman
General
1 127 (35.88%) Social Skills
2 57 (16.10%) Public Sector
3 51 (14.41%) Legal
4 50 (14.12%) Finance
5 29 (8.19%) Analytical Skills
6 17 (4.80%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.82%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.54%) Banking
9 9 (2.54%) Local Government
9 9 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.13%) Law
11 3 (0.85%) Retail
12 2 (0.56%) Military
12 2 (0.56%) Presentation Skills
13 1 (0.28%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.28%) Games
13 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 63 (17.80%) IT Support
2 54 (15.25%) Architect
3 42 (11.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 37 (10.45%) Analyst
5 36 (10.17%) Support Engineer
6 33 (9.32%) IT Engineer
7 32 (9.04%) IT Support Engineer
8 27 (7.63%) 1st Line Support
9 24 (6.78%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 22 (6.21%) Support Analyst
11 21 (5.93%) IT Analyst
12 19 (5.37%) 2nd Line Support
13 17 (4.80%) IT Support Analyst
13 17 (4.80%) Solutions Architect
14 15 (4.24%) Administrator
14 15 (4.24%) Designer
15 14 (3.95%) Senior
16 12 (3.39%) 2nd Line Engineer
17 11 (3.11%) Content Designer
17 11 (3.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (11.02%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.26%) OAuth
3 6 (1.69%) .NET
4 5 (1.41%) OpenID
4 5 (1.41%) REST
4 5 (1.41%) SAML
4 5 (1.41%) YAML
5 4 (1.13%) JSON
6 3 (0.85%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.85%) FIDO
6 3 (0.85%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.85%) SOAP
6 3 (0.85%) Web Services
7 2 (0.56%) React
7 2 (0.56%) SPFx
7 2 (0.56%) XSLT
8 1 (0.28%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.28%) LDAP
8 1 (0.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 31 (8.76%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (1.98%) NHS
4 6 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.41%) CMDB
5 5 (1.41%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.13%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.13%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.85%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (0.85%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.85%) IoT
7 3 (0.85%) Low-Code
7 3 (0.85%) Private Cloud
7 3 (0.85%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.56%) CCTV
8 2 (0.56%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.56%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 172 (48.59%) Windows
2 71 (20.06%) Windows 10
3 20 (5.65%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.52%) Apple iOS
5 15 (4.24%) Android
6 6 (1.69%) Linux
7 5 (1.41%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
9 3 (0.85%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.28%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.93%) Customer Service
2 52 (14.69%) Problem-Solving
3 49 (13.84%) ITIL
4 42 (11.86%) Data Loss Prevention
5 34 (9.60%) Migration
6 33 (9.32%) E-Discovery
7 31 (8.76%) Service Management
8 29 (8.19%) DevOps
9 28 (7.91%) Records Management
10 27 (7.63%) ITSM
11 23 (6.50%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (6.50%) Identity Access Management
11 23 (6.50%) Information Governance
12 22 (6.21%) AI
13 21 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (5.93%) Observability
14 20 (5.65%) Agile
14 20 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 20 (5.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (5.37%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 67 (18.93%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.24%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (2.82%) Python
4 6 (1.69%) SQL
5 4 (1.13%) C#
6 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
7 2 (0.56%) T-SQL
7 2 (0.56%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.28%) Bash
8 1 (0.28%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 41 (11.58%) Degree
2 36 (10.17%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 32 (9.04%) SC Cleared
5 14 (3.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.39%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (3.11%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
9 3 (0.85%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.56%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.28%) CISM
11 1 (0.28%) CISSP
11 1 (0.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (9.32%) GDPR
2 12 (3.39%) FINRA
2 12 (3.39%) MiFID
3 6 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.41%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.41%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (1.41%) WCAG
5 4 (1.13%) SLA
6 3 (0.85%) NIST
7 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.28%) PMO
8 1 (0.28%) QA
8 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (40.68%) Active Directory
2 9 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.26%) Virtual Desktop
4 5 (1.41%) Docker
4 5 (1.41%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 62 (17.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (3.39%) Jamf Pro
2 12 (3.39%) Single Sign-On
3 9 (2.54%) SCCM
4 8 (2.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 8 (2.26%) Terraform
5 5 (1.41%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.56%) WSUS
8 1 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.28%) Norton AntiVirus
8 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.28%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 275 (77.68%) Microsoft
2 28 (7.91%) ServiceNow
3 17 (4.80%) Cisco
4 15 (4.24%) Bomgar
5 14 (3.95%) Google
5 14 (3.95%) iManage
6 12 (3.39%) VMware
7 10 (2.82%) Remedy
8 8 (2.26%) Citrix
9 7 (1.98%) Apple
9 7 (1.98%) Veeam
10 6 (1.69%) Adobe
10 6 (1.69%) Meraki
11 3 (0.85%) CyberArk
11 3 (0.85%) F5
11 3 (0.85%) SAP
12 2 (0.56%) Okta
12 2 (0.56%) Red Hat
12 2 (0.56%) SYSPRO
12 2 (0.56%) Tanium