Microsoft 365 Contracts in Northern Ireland

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 7
Rank change year-on-year -3 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 11 7 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 6.83% 4.83% 14.00%
As % of the Cloud Services category 29.73% 18.92% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 5
10th Percentile - £366 £124
25th Percentile - £391 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £148 £438 £170
Median % change year-on-year -66.17% +157.35% -62.22%
75th Percentile £172 £491 £223
90th Percentile £186 £519 £232
UK median daily rate £375 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +7.14% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.50 - £14.09
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £14.19
75th Percentile - - £14.28
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £16.78 £18.93
% change year-on-year +34.07% -11.34% +8.17%

All Cloud Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 37 37 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 22.98% 25.52% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 24 24
10th Percentile £189 £469 £178
25th Percentile £292 £525 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £569 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +19.74% -5.00%
75th Percentile £510 £646 £588
90th Percentile £548 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £13.33
25th Percentile £22.50 - £13.46
Median hourly rate £24.18 - £13.84
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.04%
75th Percentile - - £14.15
90th Percentile - - £14.22
UK median hourly rate £27.35 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +30.24% -40.00% +62.79%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Northern Ireland

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Northern Ireland

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Northern Ireland.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Northern Ireland

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
County Antrim -8 10 £148 -66.17% 9
Microsoft 365
UK

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Entra ID
2 1 (9.09%) AWS
2 1 (9.09%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) VPN
2 1 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (9.09%) TCP/IP
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Telecoms
3 2 (18.18%) Electronics
3 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) IT Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support
3 2 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Customer Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Deskside Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support
4 1 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) BYOD
Operating Systems
1 9 (81.82%) Windows
2 8 (72.73%) Windows 10
2 8 (72.73%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Customer Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Customer Service
2 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
2 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) People Management
3 1 (9.09%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
2 2 (18.18%) Computacenter
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) Bloomberg