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

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 30 32
Rank change year-on-year -7 +2 +2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 350 210 247
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 4.99% 5.81% 5.11%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.63% 17.30% 16.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 131 167
10th Percentile £135 £150 £150
25th Percentile £185 £188 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £320 £280
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% +14.29% -6.67%
75th Percentile £525 £488 £438
90th Percentile £625 £550 £593
England median daily rate £415 £325 £375
% change year-on-year +27.69% -13.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 27
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.58 £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 £17.89
90th Percentile £178.75 - £21.70
England median hourly rate £21.00 £18.87 £17.28
% change year-on-year +11.29% +9.22% -13.61%

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 2,392 1,214 1,478
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 34.07% 33.58% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 884 1,031
10th Percentile £313 £292 £268
25th Percentile £400 £391 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% -1.26% -7.32%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £638 £645
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 28 75
10th Percentile £18.95 £12.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £29.96 £12.82 £15.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.75 £16.06
Median % change year-on-year +126.09% +79.02% -28.65%
75th Percentile £75.00 £48.47 £26.50
90th Percentile £88.50 £80.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £40.53 £25.15 £22.00
% change year-on-year +61.15% +14.32% -31.89%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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
Yorkshire -11 172 £450 +66.67% 86
North West -4 170 £255 -28.67% 105
North East -37 11 £270 -10.00% 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 (36.57%) SharePoint
2 86 (24.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (0.86%) CMS
5 1 (0.29%) IIS
5 1 (0.29%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 29 (8.29%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.57%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 129 (36.86%) Azure
2 98 (28.00%) Entra ID
3 70 (20.00%) OneDrive
4 55 (15.71%) Microsoft Copilot
5 44 (12.57%) Power Platform
6 38 (10.86%) Microsoft Purview
7 31 (8.86%) PowerApps
8 28 (8.00%) Power Automate
9 18 (5.14%) SaaS
10 17 (4.86%) AWS
11 16 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
12 15 (4.29%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (3.14%) GCP
14 10 (2.86%) GitHub
14 10 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
14 10 (2.86%) Rubrik
15 9 (2.57%) Google Workspace
16 7 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.00%) Google Drive
16 7 (2.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (5.71%) VPN
1 20 (5.71%) Wi-Fi
2 18 (5.14%) LAN
3 16 (4.57%) WAN
4 15 (4.29%) DNS
5 9 (2.57%) Firewall
5 9 (2.57%) VLAN
6 8 (2.29%) DHCP
7 7 (2.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (1.71%) SAN
8 6 (1.71%) Unified Communications
9 5 (1.43%) Skype
9 5 (1.43%) VoIP
10 4 (1.14%) WLAN
11 3 (0.86%) DKIM
11 3 (0.86%) DMARC
11 3 (0.86%) NAS
11 3 (0.86%) PSTN
12 2 (0.57%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.57%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.00%) Power BI
2 5 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (1.14%) 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 16 (4.57%) 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
1 129 (36.86%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.00%) Public Sector
3 44 (12.57%) Finance
4 42 (12.00%) Legal
5 29 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
6 16 (4.57%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.86%) Manufacturing
9 9 (2.57%) Banking
9 9 (2.57%) Local Government
9 9 (2.57%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.14%) Law
11 2 (0.57%) Games
11 2 (0.57%) Military
11 2 (0.57%) Police
11 2 (0.57%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.57%) Retail
12 1 (0.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 69 (19.71%) IT Support
2 47 (13.43%) Architect
3 40 (11.43%) Support Engineer
4 37 (10.57%) Analyst
4 37 (10.57%) IT Engineer
5 36 (10.29%) IT Support Engineer
6 31 (8.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
7 24 (6.86%) 1st Line Support
7 24 (6.86%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 23 (6.57%) 2nd Line Support
9 22 (6.29%) IT Analyst
10 21 (6.00%) Support Analyst
11 17 (4.86%) Administrator
11 17 (4.86%) IT Support Analyst
11 17 (4.86%) Solutions Architect
12 15 (4.29%) Designer
13 14 (4.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 14 (4.00%) Senior
14 11 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
14 11 (3.14%) Content Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (9.71%) Microsoft Graph
2 8 (2.29%) OAuth
3 6 (1.71%) .NET
4 5 (1.43%) OpenID
4 5 (1.43%) REST
4 5 (1.43%) SAML
4 5 (1.43%) YAML
5 4 (1.14%) JSON
6 3 (0.86%) .NET Framework
6 3 (0.86%) FIDO
6 3 (0.86%) OAuth2
6 3 (0.86%) SOAP
6 3 (0.86%) Web Services
7 2 (0.57%) React
7 2 (0.57%) SPFx
7 2 (0.57%) XSLT
8 1 (0.29%) HTML5 Canvas
8 1 (0.29%) LDAP
8 1 (0.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (7.71%) Onboarding
2 8 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
3 7 (2.00%) NHS
4 6 (1.71%) Data Centre
4 6 (1.71%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.14%) Driving Licence
6 4 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 4 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (0.86%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (0.86%) Housing Association
7 3 (0.86%) IoT
7 3 (0.86%) Low-Code
8 2 (0.57%) Animation
8 2 (0.57%) CCTV
8 2 (0.57%) CMDB
8 2 (0.57%) PKI
8 2 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 178 (50.86%) Windows
2 74 (21.14%) Windows 10
3 25 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.57%) Apple iOS
5 15 (4.29%) Android
6 5 (1.43%) Linux
6 5 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.86%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.57%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.29%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (18.29%) Customer Service
2 55 (15.71%) ITIL
3 54 (15.43%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (10.29%) Data Loss Prevention
5 33 (9.43%) Service Management
6 31 (8.86%) Migration
7 28 (8.00%) DevOps
8 25 (7.14%) E-Discovery
9 24 (6.86%) Agile
9 24 (6.86%) AI
10 23 (6.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 22 (6.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (6.29%) Records Management
12 21 (6.00%) Identity Access Management
13 20 (5.71%) Computer Science
13 20 (5.71%) ITSM
13 20 (5.71%) User Experience
14 19 (5.43%) Data Protection
14 19 (5.43%) Observability
14 19 (5.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 62 (17.71%) PowerShell
2 12 (3.43%) Kusto Query Language
3 10 (2.86%) Python
4 6 (1.71%) SQL
5 4 (1.14%) 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 46 (13.14%) Degree
2 41 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 33 (9.43%) SC Cleared
4 30 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 19 (5.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (3.43%) Network+ Certification
7 11 (3.14%) A+ Certification
8 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.14%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.86%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (0.86%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 2 (0.57%) Numerate Degree
11 1 (0.29%) CCNP
11 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (7.43%) GDPR
2 9 (2.57%) FINRA
2 9 (2.57%) MiFID
3 6 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.43%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.43%) WCAG
5 4 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (1.14%) SLA
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
7 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.57%) QA
8 1 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.29%) GRC
8 1 (0.29%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.29%) PMO
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 155 (44.29%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.43%) Hyper-V
4 5 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.14%) Docker
6 2 (0.57%) vSphere
7 1 (0.29%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 68 (19.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.57%) Jamf Pro
3 12 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
4 11 (3.14%) SCCM
5 8 (2.29%) Terraform
6 7 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.14%) 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%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 263 (75.14%) Microsoft
2 33 (9.43%) ServiceNow
3 15 (4.29%) Bomgar
3 15 (4.29%) Cisco
4 14 (4.00%) Google
5 11 (3.14%) Apple
5 11 (3.14%) Citrix
5 11 (3.14%) iManage
5 11 (3.14%) VMware
6 10 (2.86%) Remedy
7 7 (2.00%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
9 3 (0.86%) Ribbon
9 3 (0.86%) SAP
9 3 (0.86%) Splunk
9 3 (0.86%) Veeam
10 2 (0.57%) Dell
10 2 (0.57%) HP
10 2 (0.57%) Perforce
10 2 (0.57%) Red Hat