OneDrive Contracts in the North West

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring OneDrive skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OneDrive over the 6 months leading up to 13 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 123 132
Rank change year-on-year +11 +9 +29
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 13 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.60% 0.37% 0.74%
As % of the Cloud Services category 1.91% 1.16% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile £350 £212 £140
25th Percentile £380 £235 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £454 £390 £350
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +11.43% +108.96%
75th Percentile £538 £438 £400
90th Percentile £580 £443 £508
England median daily rate £415 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -2.35% +6.25% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £16.98 £22.11
25th Percentile - £17.26 £22.27
Median hourly rate £71.45 £17.72 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +303.22% -21.35% -14.64%
75th Percentile - £25.14 -
90th Percentile - £29.56 -
England median hourly rate £68.23 £17.72 £26.48
% change year-on-year +285.02% -33.08% -0.08%

All Cloud Skills
North West

OneDrive 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 682 865 1,162
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.41% 31.95% 37.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 514 611 872
10th Percentile £311 £284 £300
25th Percentile £388 £388 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% -5.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £547 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £643 £656
England median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 58 43
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.75 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.85 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -28.34% -12.79%
75th Percentile £59.29 £26.50 £44.72
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.28 £61.68
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

OneDrive
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing OneDrive as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for OneDrive in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing OneDrive in the North West.

Daily rate trend for OneDrive in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing OneDrive in the North West over the 6 months to 13 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for OneDrive in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing OneDrive in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for OneDrive in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing OneDrive within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Lancashire +5 6 £375 +70.45% 7
Cheshire -9 6 £454 +81.40% 4
Manchester +13 1 £525 +23.53% 8
OneDrive
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 13 (100.00%) SharePoint
2 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.69%) Skype for Business
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (69.23%) Azure
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Purview
4 4 (30.77%) Entra ID
5 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
5 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) SAN
2 1 (7.69%) Skype
2 1 (7.69%) WebEx
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support
4 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Head of Digital
4 1 (7.69%) Integration Specialist
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Unix
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Technical Leadership
2 5 (38.46%) Cloud Security
2 5 (38.46%) Data Governance
2 5 (38.46%) Data Loss Prevention
2 5 (38.46%) Data Protection
2 5 (38.46%) Mentoring
2 5 (38.46%) Performance Optimisation
2 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Zero Trust
3 4 (30.77%) E-Discovery
3 4 (30.77%) High Availability
3 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (30.77%) Multi-Factor Authentication
3 4 (30.77%) RBAC
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (7.69%) Human-Centred Design
5 1 (7.69%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (7.69%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (53.85%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 4 (30.77%) MCSE
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (30.77%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) vCenter Server
1 4 (30.77%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (30.77%) Citrix
2 4 (30.77%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow