Microsoft 365 Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 30 33
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 -16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 213 252 288
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 5.70% 5.26% 5.18%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.90% 17.15% 14.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 171 196
10th Percentile £142 £150 £155
25th Percentile £188 £189 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £280 £300
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -6.67% +13.21%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £457
90th Percentile £548 £588 £575
England median daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 28 22
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.00 £14.17
25th Percentile £12.58 £13.44 £16.05
Median hourly rate £13.00 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% -8.57% -5.41%
75th Percentile £30.63 £18.19 £20.00
90th Percentile - £21.65 £22.49
England median hourly rate £19.07 £17.39 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.64% -10.81% +11.43%

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 1,260 1,469 1,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 33.69% 30.67% 35.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,023 1,449
10th Percentile £299 £263 £284
25th Percentile £391 £388 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% -7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £590
90th Percentile £638 £645 £685
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 76 47
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.13 £15.89
25th Percentile £12.82 £15.50 £17.06
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.72% +4.79%
75th Percentile £46.19 £26.50 £43.88
90th Percentile £82.50 £46.18 £59.04
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 -11 106 £365 +21.67% 239
Yorkshire +13 89 £265 +16.48% 159
North East +4 18 £300 +57.89% 58
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 55 (25.82%) SharePoint
2 51 (23.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.94%) OpenEdge
3 2 (0.94%) SAS
4 1 (0.47%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 46 (21.60%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) assyst
2 2 (0.94%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 93 (43.66%) Azure
2 78 (36.62%) Entra ID
3 17 (7.98%) Power Platform
4 16 (7.51%) SaaS
5 15 (7.04%) AWS
6 13 (6.10%) OneDrive
7 12 (5.63%) Microsoft Purview
8 11 (5.16%) IaaS
9 10 (4.69%) PowerApps
10 8 (3.76%) Azure Sentinel
10 8 (3.76%) Power Automate
11 7 (3.29%) Amazon EKS
11 7 (3.29%) GCP
12 6 (2.82%) AWS CloudFormation
12 6 (2.82%) Azure AKS
12 6 (2.82%) Google Kubernetes Engine
13 3 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
13 3 (1.41%) PaaS
14 2 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 25 (11.74%) Firewall
2 18 (8.45%) VPN
3 12 (5.63%) DHCP
3 12 (5.63%) Network Security
4 11 (5.16%) DNS
5 7 (3.29%) SAN
6 6 (2.82%) Intrusion Detection
7 4 (1.88%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (1.88%) TCP/IP
7 4 (1.88%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.94%) Internet
8 2 (0.94%) LAN
8 2 (0.94%) WAN
8 2 (0.94%) Wireless
9 1 (0.47%) BGP
9 1 (0.47%) Broadband
9 1 (0.47%) EIGRP
9 1 (0.47%) Intranet
9 1 (0.47%) MPLS
9 1 (0.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (4.23%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.76%) Power BI
3 3 (1.41%) Dremio
3 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (0.94%) MySQL
4 2 (0.94%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (1.41%) Hudson
1 3 (1.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 3 (1.41%) Visual Studio
2 1 (0.47%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.47%) JIRA
General
1 85 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 21 (9.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 21 (9.86%) Retail
3 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.04%) Banking
4 15 (7.04%) Finance
5 10 (4.69%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 4 (1.88%) Legal
7 4 (1.88%) Local Government
7 4 (1.88%) Military
8 3 (1.41%) Japanese Language
8 3 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Automotive
9 1 (0.47%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.47%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.47%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (16.43%) IT Support
2 30 (14.08%) Analyst
3 27 (12.68%) Support Engineer
4 25 (11.74%) 1st Line Support
5 21 (9.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
6 19 (8.92%) Support Manager
7 15 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (6.57%) IT Manager
9 13 (6.10%) Desktop Support
10 12 (5.63%) 1st Line Support Manager
10 12 (5.63%) Desktop Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) IT Engineer
10 12 (5.63%) IT Support Manager
11 11 (5.16%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (4.23%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Cloud Engineer
12 9 (4.23%) Developer
12 9 (4.23%) Project Manager
12 9 (4.23%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.29%) JSON
2 6 (2.82%) OAuth
2 6 (2.82%) OAuth2
2 6 (2.82%) OpenID
2 6 (2.82%) SAML
3 3 (1.41%) .NET
4 2 (0.94%) Software Packaging
4 2 (0.94%) Web Services
5 1 (0.47%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.47%) Middleware
5 1 (0.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.92%) iPhone
1 19 (8.92%) Smartphone
2 10 (4.69%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.23%) Cloud Native
4 6 (2.82%) HTC Vive
4 6 (2.82%) Virtual Reality
5 5 (2.35%) Data Centre
5 5 (2.35%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.35%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.41%) Operational Technology
6 3 (1.41%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (0.94%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.94%) CCTV
7 2 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (0.94%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 82 (38.50%) Windows
2 30 (14.08%) Windows 10
3 26 (12.21%) Windows Server
4 25 (11.74%) Mac OS
5 10 (4.69%) Linux
6 8 (3.76%) VMS
7 7 (3.29%) Apple iOS
8 6 (2.82%) Android
8 6 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (2.35%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (1.88%) Unix
10 4 (1.88%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.47%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.11%) ITIL
2 50 (23.47%) Customer Service
3 43 (20.19%) ITSM
4 40 (18.78%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (15.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 30 (14.08%) Service Management
7 27 (12.68%) Incident Management
7 27 (12.68%) Mobile Device Management
8 22 (10.33%) Cybersecurity
9 19 (8.92%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (7.98%) DevOps
10 17 (7.98%) Migration
11 16 (7.51%) Information Security
12 14 (6.57%) Agile
12 14 (6.57%) Collaborative Working
13 12 (5.63%) Cloud Security
13 12 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (5.63%) Data Loss Prevention
13 12 (5.63%) High Availability
13 12 (5.63%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 29 (13.62%) PowerShell
2 7 (3.29%) Python
3 6 (2.82%) Kusto Query Language
4 4 (1.88%) Bash
4 4 (1.88%) SQL
5 3 (1.41%) T-SQL
5 3 (1.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (11.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (9.86%) Degree
3 17 (7.98%) Security Cleared
4 13 (6.10%) Azure Certification
4 13 (6.10%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (2.35%) DBS Check
7 4 (1.88%) CCNA
7 4 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.88%) MCSE
7 4 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 2 (0.94%) CISMP
8 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.94%) CREST Certified
8 2 (0.94%) GCIA
8 2 (0.94%) GCIH
8 2 (0.94%) GSEC
8 2 (0.94%) OSCE
9 1 (0.47%) ACSP
9 1 (0.47%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (2.82%) SLA
2 3 (1.41%) QA
2 3 (1.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (1.41%) SOC 2
3 2 (0.94%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.94%) GDPR
4 1 (0.47%) NCSC
4 1 (0.47%) NIST
4 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 114 (53.52%) Active Directory
2 15 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (4.23%) vSphere
4 8 (3.76%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.82%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.41%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.47%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.47%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.47%) XenApp
8 1 (0.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 54 (25.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (11.27%) Jamf Pro
3 14 (6.57%) SCCM
3 14 (6.57%) Single Sign-On
4 13 (6.10%) WSUS
5 10 (4.69%) Terraform
6 8 (3.76%) vCenter Server
7 6 (2.82%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.47%) Ansible
8 1 (0.47%) QRadar
8 1 (0.47%) SCOM
8 1 (0.47%) vRealize
Vendors
1 173 (81.22%) Microsoft
2 40 (18.78%) ServiceNow
3 28 (13.15%) Apple
4 26 (12.21%) VMware
5 18 (8.45%) Citrix
6 9 (4.23%) Cisco
7 6 (2.82%) Alibaba
7 6 (2.82%) Dell
8 5 (2.35%) Darktrace
8 5 (2.35%) Veeam
9 4 (1.88%) HP
9 4 (1.88%) Meraki
9 4 (1.88%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.41%) Axway
10 3 (1.41%) Bomgar
10 3 (1.41%) Databricks
10 3 (1.41%) iManage
10 3 (1.41%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.41%) Varonis
11 2 (0.94%) SAP