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 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 27 26
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 293 219 287
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 6.20% 6.16% 6.21%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.40% 18.45% 17.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 139 207
10th Percentile £130 £152 £155
25th Percentile £154 £196 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £350 £275
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £400 £500 £450
90th Percentile £525 £628 £550
England median daily rate £373 £400 £325
% change year-on-year -6.88% +23.08% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 10 28
10th Percentile £14.25 £16.93 £13.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £17.75 £22.09 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -19.65% +25.44% -18.09%
75th Percentile £28.75 £24.18 £19.56
90th Percentile £69.45 £30.25 £20.45
England median hourly rate £20.23 £21.46 £18.50
% change year-on-year -5.73% +16.00% +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 1,787 1,187 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.81% 33.36% 34.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,298 776 1,186
10th Percentile £214 £266 £257
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.30%
75th Percentile £538 £574 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -5.66% +0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 59
10th Percentile £15.00 £17.75 £15.74
25th Percentile £18.78 £21.83 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £35.00 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +19.64% +48.24% -2.05%
75th Percentile £58.81 £66.81 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.73 £95.73 £54.00
England median hourly rate £26.50 £29.00 £23.61
% change year-on-year -8.62% +22.83% +4.93%

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 21 December 2025.

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 21 December 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 21 December 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 -7 157 £200 -42.86% 100
Yorkshire -10 105 £220 -26.67% 70
North East +6 34 £213 -56.19% 20
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 83 (28.33%) SharePoint
2 61 (20.82%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.41%) Exchange Server 2013
4 7 (2.39%) Skype for Business
5 3 (1.02%) Confluence
6 2 (0.68%) IIS
6 2 (0.68%) NetWeaver
7 1 (0.34%) Apache
7 1 (0.34%) CMS
7 1 (0.34%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 50 (17.06%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (8.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (5.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 8 (2.73%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.34%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.34%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.34%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 120 (40.96%) Azure
2 51 (17.41%) Entra ID
3 36 (12.29%) OneDrive
4 27 (9.22%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.78%) AWS
6 12 (4.10%) SaaS
7 10 (3.41%) Microsoft Purview
8 9 (3.07%) Microsoft Copilot
9 8 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
9 8 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (2.73%) GCP
9 8 (2.73%) PowerApps
10 6 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 6 (2.05%) Power Automate
11 5 (1.71%) Azure Monitor
11 5 (1.71%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (1.37%) Google Workspace
12 4 (1.37%) Mimecast
13 3 (1.02%) GitHub
13 3 (1.02%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 22 (7.51%) DNS
2 21 (7.17%) Wi-Fi
3 16 (5.46%) VPN
4 15 (5.12%) Wireless
5 12 (4.10%) DHCP
5 12 (4.10%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.75%) Firewall
6 11 (3.75%) LAN
6 11 (3.75%) Skype
7 10 (3.41%) WAN
8 7 (2.39%) Internet
9 6 (2.05%) Unified Communications
10 5 (1.71%) VLAN
11 4 (1.37%) VoIP
12 3 (1.02%) Network Security
13 2 (0.68%) DKIM
13 2 (0.68%) Kerberos
13 2 (0.68%) NetScaler
13 2 (0.68%) SMTP
13 2 (0.68%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.75%) Power BI
2 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.34%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 7 (2.39%) JIRA
2 1 (0.34%) Appium
2 1 (0.34%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.34%) MSI
2 1 (0.34%) Selenium
General
1 129 (44.03%) Social Skills
2 44 (15.02%) Finance
3 33 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (7.51%) Legal
6 15 (5.12%) Banking
7 12 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.10%) Manufacturing
8 11 (3.75%) Electronics
8 11 (3.75%) Marketing
8 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.05%) Retail
10 5 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (1.37%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.37%) Military
12 2 (0.68%) Japanese Language
12 2 (0.68%) Local Government
12 2 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
13 1 (0.34%) Polish Language
Job Titles
1 86 (29.35%) IT Support
2 67 (22.87%) Analyst
3 45 (15.36%) Support Engineer
4 39 (13.31%) 2nd Line Support
5 31 (10.58%) IT Engineer
6 29 (9.90%) 1st Line Support
7 27 (9.22%) Desktop Support
7 27 (9.22%) Support Analyst
8 24 (8.19%) IT Support Engineer
9 17 (5.80%) Service Analyst
10 16 (5.46%) Business Analyst
10 16 (5.46%) Senior
10 16 (5.46%) Service Desk Analyst
11 15 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (5.12%) IT Technician
12 14 (4.78%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
13 13 (4.44%) IT Analyst
13 13 (4.44%) Support Technician
14 12 (4.10%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.05%) OAuth
2 4 (1.37%) JSON
2 4 (1.37%) Microsoft Graph
2 4 (1.37%) OpenID
2 4 (1.37%) SAML
3 3 (1.02%) LDAP
3 3 (1.02%) OAuth2
4 2 (0.68%) Web Services
4 2 (0.68%) XMPP
5 1 (0.34%) Middleware
5 1 (0.34%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 33 (11.26%) Onboarding
2 15 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
3 12 (4.10%) Data Centre
4 11 (3.75%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.05%) CMDB
5 6 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.71%) iPhone
6 5 (1.71%) Low-Code
6 5 (1.71%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.37%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.02%) Clustering
8 3 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.02%) HTC Vive
8 3 (1.02%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.02%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.02%) Public Cloud
8 3 (1.02%) Virtual Reality
9 2 (0.68%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.68%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 165 (56.31%) Windows
2 69 (23.55%) Windows 10
3 26 (8.87%) Windows Server
4 23 (7.85%) Mac OS
5 19 (6.48%) Android
6 10 (3.41%) Apple iOS
7 4 (1.37%) Linux
7 4 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.34%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (21.84%) Customer Service
1 64 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (17.75%) ITIL
3 48 (16.38%) Migration
4 33 (11.26%) Business Intelligence
5 31 (10.58%) ITSM
5 31 (10.58%) Service Management
6 28 (9.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (8.53%) Cybersecurity
8 22 (7.51%) Mobile Device Management
9 20 (6.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 19 (6.48%) Agile
11 18 (6.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 18 (6.14%) User Experience
12 16 (5.46%) Problem Management
13 15 (5.12%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 15 (5.12%) Project Management
13 15 (5.12%) Service Delivery
14 14 (4.78%) Analytics
14 14 (4.78%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 37 (12.63%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.05%) Kusto Query Language
3 4 (1.37%) Bash
3 4 (1.37%) Python
4 2 (0.68%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.34%) Java
5 1 (0.34%) Perl
5 1 (0.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (16.04%) Degree
2 41 (13.99%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.60%) SC Cleared
4 13 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 12 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (3.07%) BPSS Clearance
7 7 (2.39%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.37%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.02%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.02%) PMP
10 2 (0.68%) ACSP
10 2 (0.68%) ACTC
10 2 (0.68%) GCIA
10 2 (0.68%) GCIH
11 1 (0.34%) CCNA
11 1 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.34%) CISMP
11 1 (0.34%) CISSP
11 1 (0.34%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.78%) GDPR
2 11 (3.75%) SLA
3 6 (2.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.37%) NIST
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) COBIT
6 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.34%) QA
6 1 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 144 (49.15%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.75%) Virtual Desktop
3 10 (3.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (1.37%) vSphere
5 3 (1.02%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 67 (22.87%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (14.33%) SCCM
3 8 (2.73%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 7 (2.39%) Jamf Pro
4 7 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (1.71%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (1.37%) Kubernetes
7 3 (1.02%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Clustering
8 2 (0.68%) Terraform
9 1 (0.34%) AirWatch
9 1 (0.34%) Ansible
9 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 200 (68.26%) Microsoft
2 40 (13.65%) ServiceNow
3 27 (9.22%) Apple
4 21 (7.17%) Cisco
5 16 (5.46%) HP
6 13 (4.44%) Citrix
6 13 (4.44%) SAP
6 13 (4.44%) VMware
7 11 (3.75%) Dell
8 8 (2.73%) Google
9 6 (2.05%) Remedy
10 5 (1.71%) Bomgar
10 5 (1.71%) iManage
10 5 (1.71%) McAfee
10 5 (1.71%) Meraki
10 5 (1.71%) MobileIron
10 5 (1.71%) Symantec
11 4 (1.37%) Veeam
12 3 (1.02%) LogRhythm
12 3 (1.02%) Workday