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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 33 28
Rank change year-on-year -4 -5 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 348 219 244
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.85% 5.77% 5.28%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.35% 17.28% 16.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 222 138 161
10th Percentile £135 £147 £153
25th Percentile £185 £188 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £300 £270
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £510 £463 £438
90th Percentile £625 £538 £588
England median daily rate £400 £337 £375
% change year-on-year +18.69% -10.13% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 27
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.66 £13.38
Median hourly rate £25.38 £13.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.23% -18.75% -8.57%
75th Percentile - £30.63 £18.38
90th Percentile £178.75 - £21.70
England median hourly rate £19.00 £19.27 £17.60
% change year-on-year -1.40% +9.52% -7.39%

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 2,425 1,267 1,438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.79% 33.38% 31.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,569 909 991
10th Percentile £313 £286 £268
25th Percentile £400 £384 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% -5.94%
75th Percentile £588 £544 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £643
England median daily rate £523 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.95% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 133 30 69
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £28.50 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.78 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +119.30% +91.66% -28.65%
75th Percentile £76.00 £51.16 £22.00
90th Percentile £89.50 £77.50 £50.89
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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -35.71% 103
Yorkshire -9 155 £440 +60.00% 65
North East -41 13 £270 +38.46% 36
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
1 119 (34.20%) SharePoint
2 78 (22.41%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.72%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.86%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.57%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 135 (38.79%) Azure
2 93 (26.72%) Entra ID
3 53 (15.23%) OneDrive
4 49 (14.08%) Microsoft Copilot
5 47 (13.51%) Power Platform
6 32 (9.20%) PowerApps
7 30 (8.62%) Microsoft Purview
8 29 (8.33%) Power Automate
9 18 (5.17%) SaaS
10 17 (4.89%) AWS
11 16 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.31%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (3.16%) GCP
14 10 (2.87%) GitHub
14 10 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
15 9 (2.59%) Google Workspace
16 7 (2.01%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.01%) Google Drive
16 7 (2.01%) PaaS
17 5 (1.44%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 30 (8.62%) VPN
2 20 (5.75%) LAN
3 19 (5.46%) DNS
3 19 (5.46%) Wi-Fi
4 17 (4.89%) WAN
5 12 (3.45%) DHCP
6 11 (3.16%) Firewall
6 11 (3.16%) TCP/IP
7 8 (2.30%) VLAN
8 7 (2.01%) VoIP
9 6 (1.72%) SAN
9 6 (1.72%) Unified Communications
9 6 (1.72%) Wireless
9 6 (1.72%) WLAN
10 5 (1.44%) Skype
11 4 (1.15%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (0.86%) Cisco Firepower
12 3 (0.86%) DKIM
12 3 (0.86%) DMARC
12 3 (0.86%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.31%) 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 19 (5.46%) 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
1 131 (37.64%) Social Skills
2 54 (15.52%) Public Sector
3 44 (12.64%) Legal
4 35 (10.06%) Finance
5 29 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.87%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.59%) Banking
9 9 (2.59%) Local Government
10 7 (2.01%) Law
10 7 (2.01%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (0.86%) Police
13 2 (0.57%) Advertising
13 2 (0.57%) Games
13 2 (0.57%) Military
13 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.57%) Retail
14 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 71 (20.40%) IT Support
2 48 (13.79%) Support Engineer
3 44 (12.64%) IT Engineer
4 43 (12.36%) IT Support Engineer
5 41 (11.78%) Analyst
6 36 (10.34%) Architect
7 26 (7.47%) 2nd Line Support
8 25 (7.18%) 1st Line Support
9 24 (6.90%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
10 19 (5.46%) IT Analyst
11 18 (5.17%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 18 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
12 17 (4.89%) Microsoft 365 Architect
12 17 (4.89%) Service Analyst
12 17 (4.89%) Service Desk Analyst
12 17 (4.89%) Support Analyst
13 16 (4.60%) Senior
14 15 (4.31%) Administrator
14 15 (4.31%) Designer
15 13 (3.74%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (7.18%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.30%) OAuth
3 5 (1.44%) .NET
3 5 (1.44%) OpenID
3 5 (1.44%) REST
3 5 (1.44%) SAML
3 5 (1.44%) 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 (8.05%) Onboarding
2 12 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (2.30%) Data Centre
4 7 (2.01%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.72%) Mobile App
5 6 (1.72%) NHS
5 6 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.15%) PKI
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%) CMDB
9 2 (0.57%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.57%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 193 (55.46%) Windows
2 86 (24.71%) Windows 10
3 29 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.60%) Apple iOS
5 15 (4.31%) 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 (20.40%) Customer Service
2 68 (19.54%) ITIL
3 60 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (10.06%) Service Management
5 31 (8.91%) Data Loss Prevention
6 30 (8.62%) Migration
7 28 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (8.05%) DevOps
8 27 (7.76%) Agile
8 27 (7.76%) ITSM
8 27 (7.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 23 (6.61%) AI
10 21 (6.03%) Incident Management
11 20 (5.75%) Computer Science
11 20 (5.75%) Identity Access Management
11 20 (5.75%) User Experience
12 19 (5.46%) Data Protection
13 18 (5.17%) E-Discovery
14 16 (4.60%) Analytics
14 16 (4.60%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.23%) PowerShell
2 10 (2.87%) Python
3 8 (2.30%) 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 (13.79%) Degree
2 45 (12.93%) Security Cleared
3 34 (9.77%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.62%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (5.46%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (2.87%) A+ Certification
6 10 (2.87%) Network+ Certification
7 6 (1.72%) DV Cleared
8 5 (1.44%) DBS Check
9 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.86%) CCNP
10 3 (0.86%) Cisco 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%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.60%) GDPR
2 7 (2.01%) SLA
3 5 (1.44%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.44%) FINRA
3 5 (1.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.44%) MiFID
3 5 (1.44%) WCAG
4 4 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (0.86%) NIST
6 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.57%) QA
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
1 166 (47.70%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.74%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.44%) 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 74 (21.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.17%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (4.02%) SCCM
4 12 (3.45%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (2.30%) Terraform
6 7 (2.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.15%) 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%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 249 (71.55%) Microsoft
2 47 (13.51%) ServiceNow
3 19 (5.46%) Cisco
4 18 (5.17%) Bomgar
5 15 (4.31%) iManage
6 14 (4.02%) Google
7 13 (3.74%) Apple
7 13 (3.74%) Citrix
7 13 (3.74%) Remedy
8 9 (2.59%) CyberArk
8 9 (2.59%) VMware
9 6 (1.72%) BeyondTrust
10 4 (1.15%) Adobe
10 4 (1.15%) Sophos
11 3 (0.86%) CheckPoint
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