Microsoft 365 Contracts in Oxfordshire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 11 12 9
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 16 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.85% 6.12% 10.20%
As % of the Cloud Services category 34.04% 20.55% 32.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 23
10th Percentile £200 £135 £176
25th Percentile £206 £143 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £369 £350
Median % change year-on-year -25.42% +5.36% +71.78%
75th Percentile £388 £519 £453
90th Percentile £500 £650 £638
South East median daily rate £250 £370 £313
% change year-on-year -32.43% +18.40% +6.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.00 -
South East median hourly rate £26.33 £22.50 £25.48
% change year-on-year +17.02% -11.68% +34.08%

All Cloud Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 47 73 76
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 34.81% 29.80% 31.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 52 51
10th Percentile £209 £154 £200
25th Percentile £250 £363 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -38.89% - -
75th Percentile £500 £511 £600
90th Percentile £575 £650 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £538
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £32.86 £16.65 £23.93
25th Percentile £41.50 £17.63 £26.08
Median hourly rate £46.30 £20.50 £32.30
Median % change year-on-year +125.85% -36.53% +61.50%
75th Percentile - £24.63 -
90th Percentile - £26.35 -
South East median hourly rate £18.85 £30.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -37.18% +11.11% +35.00%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Oxfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Oxfordshire

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Oxfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Oxfordshire

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 5 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
Oxford -1 4 £294 -28.79% 21
Wantage - 3 £275 -
Banbury - 2 £195 - 1
Abingdon +1 1 - - 6
Microsoft 365
South East

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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 5 (31.25%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) DHCP
1 1 (6.25%) DNS
1 1 (6.25%) Firewall
1 1 (6.25%) Internet
1 1 (6.25%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.25%) IP Telephony
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) MPLS
1 1 (6.25%) NAS
1 1 (6.25%) NetScaler
1 1 (6.25%) SAN
1 1 (6.25%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Skype
1 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
1 1 (6.25%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.25%) VPN
1 1 (6.25%) WAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (6.25%) Wireless
General
1 10 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Support Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Support
4 2 (12.50%) 1st Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) Active Directory Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Build Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Build Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support
4 2 (12.50%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (6.25%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Driving Licence
1 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (68.75%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.25%) Android
4 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (18.75%) Customer-Centricity
3 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (12.50%) ITIL
4 2 (12.50%) Logistics
4 2 (12.50%) User Experience
5 1 (6.25%) Application Packaging
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science
5 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (6.25%) Inventory Management
5 1 (6.25%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (6.25%) Service Management
5 1 (6.25%) Threat Management
5 1 (6.25%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 1 (6.25%) A+ Certification
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) MCP
3 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Hyper-V
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
2 1 (6.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (18.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.25%) Cisco
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) F5
2 1 (6.25%) VMware