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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 34 40 33
Rank change year-on-year +6 -7 -8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 386 205 186
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 5.24% 5.13% 4.54%
As % of the Cloud Services category 15.48% 15.46% 14.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 128 128
10th Percentile £143 £138 £157
25th Percentile £185 £184 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £256 £300
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -14.58% -
75th Percentile £500 £449 £491
90th Percentile £598 £552 £638
England median daily rate £400 £325 £400
% change year-on-year +23.08% -18.75% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 11
10th Percentile £16.75 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £12.74 £13.13
Median hourly rate £25.38 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.23% -35.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £27.06 £30.63 £21.75
90th Percentile £178.75 - £22.00
England median hourly rate £18.50 £19.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.47% -3.18% +5.26%

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 2,493 1,326 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.86% 33.21% 31.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,602 953 870
10th Percentile £300 £282 £288
25th Percentile £400 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -5.94%
75th Percentile £588 £538 £575
90th Percentile £675 £629 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 30 45
10th Percentile £17.55 £12.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £25.38 £12.82 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £30.93 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +110.15% +92.59% -40.96%
75th Percentile £70.00 £51.16 £32.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £77.50 £65.05
England median hourly rate £35.50 £26.00 £24.59
% change year-on-year +36.54% +5.73% -23.92%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +15 225 £250 -28.57% 134
Yorkshire -8 147 £325 +30.65% 90
North East -40 17 £250 +28.21% 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
1 131 (33.94%) SharePoint
2 80 (20.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.81%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (1.30%) Confluence
5 3 (0.78%) CMS
6 1 (0.26%) IIS
6 1 (0.26%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 21 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.78%) Acrobat
3 3 (0.78%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (2.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 150 (38.86%) Azure
2 102 (26.42%) Entra ID
3 58 (15.03%) Microsoft Copilot
4 56 (14.51%) Power Platform
5 54 (13.99%) OneDrive
6 35 (9.07%) PowerApps
7 33 (8.55%) Power Automate
8 17 (4.40%) AWS
8 17 (4.40%) Azure DevOps
9 16 (4.15%) Microsoft Purview
10 15 (3.89%) Dynamics 365
11 14 (3.63%) GCP
12 13 (3.37%) SaaS
13 11 (2.85%) GitHub
13 11 (2.85%) Google Workspace
14 10 (2.59%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.33%) Azure AI
16 7 (1.81%) Google Drive
17 6 (1.55%) Copilot Studio
17 6 (1.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (8.81%) VPN
2 21 (5.44%) DNS
3 16 (4.15%) LAN
4 14 (3.63%) DHCP
5 13 (3.37%) Firewall
5 13 (3.37%) VLAN
5 13 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
6 10 (2.59%) WAN
7 9 (2.33%) SAN
7 9 (2.33%) TCP/IP
7 9 (2.33%) VoIP
8 8 (2.07%) Wireless
9 7 (1.81%) WLAN
10 5 (1.30%) Cisco ASA
10 5 (1.30%) NAS
10 5 (1.30%) Skype
11 4 (1.04%) BGP
11 4 (1.04%) Cisco Firepower
11 4 (1.04%) IPsec
11 4 (1.04%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (4.66%) Power BI
2 6 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (1.55%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.78%) Metadata
4 2 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (0.52%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.52%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.52%) EDRMS
5 1 (0.26%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 18 (4.66%) JIRA
2 3 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (0.78%) Fiddler
2 3 (0.78%) MSI
3 2 (0.52%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.52%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (0.52%) Terragrunt
3 2 (0.52%) Zephyr
4 1 (0.26%) Postman
General
1 143 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 55 (14.25%) Public Sector
3 41 (10.62%) Analytical Skills
3 41 (10.62%) Legal
4 30 (7.77%) Finance
5 15 (3.89%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (2.85%) Law
7 10 (2.59%) Manufacturing
8 9 (2.33%) Local Government
9 8 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.81%) Banking
11 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.30%) Games
12 5 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.04%) Police
14 2 (0.52%) Advertising
14 2 (0.52%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (23.32%) IT Support
2 63 (16.32%) Support Engineer
3 55 (14.25%) IT Engineer
4 54 (13.99%) IT Support Engineer
5 47 (12.18%) Analyst
6 30 (7.77%) 2nd Line Support
7 27 (6.99%) Architect
8 25 (6.48%) 1st Line Support
8 25 (6.48%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 24 (6.22%) Service Analyst
9 24 (6.22%) Service Desk Analyst
10 22 (5.70%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 19 (4.92%) IT Analyst
11 19 (4.92%) Senior
12 17 (4.40%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 17 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
13 15 (3.89%) Designer
13 15 (3.89%) Lead
13 15 (3.89%) Support Analyst
14 13 (3.37%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (3.89%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.07%) OAuth
3 5 (1.30%) OpenID
3 5 (1.30%) REST
3 5 (1.30%) SAML
3 5 (1.30%) YAML
4 4 (1.04%) .NET
5 3 (0.78%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.78%) FIDO
5 3 (0.78%) JSON
5 3 (0.78%) OAuth2
5 3 (0.78%) SOAP
5 3 (0.78%) Web Services
6 2 (0.52%) ODBC
6 2 (0.52%) React
6 2 (0.52%) SPFx
6 2 (0.52%) XSLT
7 1 (0.26%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.26%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 29 (7.51%) Onboarding
2 14 (3.63%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (2.59%) Data Centre
3 10 (2.59%) Driving Licence
4 9 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 7 (1.81%) Blackberry
5 7 (1.81%) CMDB
5 7 (1.81%) Mobile App
5 7 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.30%) Animation
6 5 (1.30%) Handset
6 5 (1.30%) NHS
6 5 (1.30%) PKI
7 4 (1.04%) Product Ownership
7 4 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.78%) Freedom of Information
8 3 (0.78%) Housing Association
8 3 (0.78%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.52%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 215 (55.70%) Windows
2 86 (22.28%) Windows 10
3 41 (10.62%) Windows Server
4 23 (5.96%) Android
5 19 (4.92%) Apple iOS
6 5 (1.30%) Linux
6 5 (1.30%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (1.04%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 7
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.26%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (21.76%) Customer Service
2 81 (20.98%) ITIL
2 81 (20.98%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (10.88%) Service Management
4 37 (9.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 34 (8.81%) ITSM
6 32 (8.29%) Migration
6 32 (8.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 31 (8.03%) Agile
8 28 (7.25%) DevOps
9 27 (6.99%) Incident Management
10 23 (5.96%) AI
10 23 (5.96%) Computer Science
10 23 (5.96%) Data Loss Prevention
11 22 (5.70%) User Experience
12 19 (4.92%) Analytics
12 19 (4.92%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 19 (4.92%) Identity Access Management
13 18 (4.66%) Change Management
13 18 (4.66%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 38 (9.84%) PowerShell
2 7 (1.81%) Python
2 7 (1.81%) SQL
3 4 (1.04%) C#
3 4 (1.04%) T-SQL
4 3 (0.78%) JavaScript
4 3 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.52%) Bicep
5 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
5 2 (0.52%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.26%) Bash
6 1 (0.26%) Google Apps Script
Qualifications
1 56 (14.51%) Degree
2 51 (13.21%) Security Cleared
3 37 (9.59%) SC Cleared
4 28 (7.25%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (5.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 11 (2.85%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (2.33%) A+ Certification
7 9 (2.33%) Network+ Certification
8 7 (1.81%) DBS Check
8 7 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 6 (1.55%) DV Cleared
10 5 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.04%) CCNP
11 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.52%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.52%) MCSE
13 2 (0.52%) Numerate Degree
13 2 (0.52%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.63%) SLA
2 8 (2.07%) GDPR
3 5 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.30%) QA
3 5 (1.30%) WCAG
4 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 3 (0.78%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.78%) GRC
5 3 (0.78%) NIST
6 2 (0.52%) IASME
6 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.26%) FINRA
7 1 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.26%) MiFID
7 1 (0.26%) PMO
System Software
1 187 (48.45%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (2.59%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.52%) Docker
7 1 (0.26%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 77 (19.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.15%) Jamf Pro
2 16 (4.15%) SCCM
3 12 (3.11%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (2.33%) Terraform
5 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (0.78%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.78%) WSUS
7 2 (0.52%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.26%) CA Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.26%) Tivoli
8 1 (0.26%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 283 (73.32%) Microsoft
2 62 (16.06%) ServiceNow
3 21 (5.44%) iManage
4 19 (4.92%) Cisco
5 17 (4.40%) Bomgar
5 17 (4.40%) Google
6 13 (3.37%) Apple
6 13 (3.37%) Citrix
6 13 (3.37%) VMware
7 12 (3.11%) Remedy
8 9 (2.33%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.33%) Sophos
9 6 (1.55%) BeyondTrust
10 5 (1.30%) Adobe
10 5 (1.30%) Perforce
11 4 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 3 (0.78%) IBM
12 3 (0.78%) Ribbon
12 3 (0.78%) SAP
12 3 (0.78%) Splunk