Microsoft 365 Contracts in Preston

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 13 22
Rank change year-on-year +5 +9 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 10 3 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 14.49% 5.45% 1.27%
As % of the Cloud Services category 30.30% 9.68% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £253 £177 -
25th Percentile - £284 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £850
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% -44.12% +392.75%
75th Percentile £538 £488 -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £363 £338 £211
% change year-on-year +7.41% +59.76% +20.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 - -
Median hourly rate £28.75 - -
75th Percentile £30.63 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 - -

All Cloud Skills
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 31 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 47.83% 56.36% 8.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 10 4
10th Percentile £362 £326 £293
25th Percentile £500 £378 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £433
Median % change year-on-year +10.36% +12.72% +103.53%
75th Percentile £630 £748 £580
90th Percentile £671 £796 £742
Lancashire median daily rate £538 £600 £495
% change year-on-year -10.33% +21.21% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 21 2
10th Percentile - - £47.18
25th Percentile £26.88 - £48.72
Median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £52.99
Median % change year-on-year +79.02% -69.69% +179.38%
75th Percentile £30.63 - £55.55
90th Percentile £37.01 - £56.06
Lancashire median hourly rate £28.75 £16.06 £52.99
% change year-on-year +79.02% -69.69% +184.98%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Preston

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Preston

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Preston

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Daily Rate Histogram in Preston

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Preston over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Preston

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Preston

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) Entra ID
1 4 (40.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
General
1 5 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Administrator
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Security Posture
2 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
2 4 (40.00%) Unix
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Budget Management
1 5 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Migration
1 5 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 5 (50.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 4 (40.00%) E-Discovery
2 4 (40.00%) High Availability
2 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (40.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
2 4 (40.00%) RBAC
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) MCSE
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (10.00%) DBS Check
System Software
1 5 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (40.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 4 (40.00%) VMware