Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Oxford

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Oxfordshire > Oxford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Oxford requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 8 10
Rank change year-on-year 0 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Oxford 6.78% 8.11% 4.35%
As % of the Cloud Services category 19.05% 16.67% 16.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £222 £228
25th Percentile - £245 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £294 £463
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -36.49% +32.14%
75th Percentile - £345 £556
90th Percentile - £371 £568
Oxfordshire median daily rate £238 £375 £205
% change year-on-year -36.67% +82.93% -41.43%

All Cloud Computing Skills
Oxford

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 Oxford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 21 18 25
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford 35.59% 48.65% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 11 21
10th Percentile £219 £206 £350
25th Percentile £316 £300 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £488
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +21.88%
75th Percentile £541 £575 £575
90th Percentile £716 £700 £750
Oxfordshire median daily rate £450 £368 £450
% change year-on-year +22.45% -18.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £25.72 - -
Median hourly rate £26.44 £46.30 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.89% - -
75th Percentile £27.16 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Oxfordshire median hourly rate £26.44 £46.30 £17.50
% change year-on-year -42.89% +164.57% -30.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft 365 relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxford.

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Oxford

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Oxford

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Microsoft 365.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Oxford citing Microsoft 365

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Oxford 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 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (50.00%) Mac OS
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (50.00%) Customer Experience
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Ariba
2 1 (25.00%) SAP