Microsoft Office Contracts in Scotland

Microsoft Office
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Microsoft Office skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 75 53
Rank change year-on-year +13 -22 +29
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 72 105 150
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.31% 3.80% 4.36%
As % of the Applications category 28.80% 39.62% 48.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 75 107
10th Percentile £160 £148 £137
25th Percentile £186 £173 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £206 £325 £230
Median % change year-on-year -36.54% +41.30% -12.38%
75th Percentile £389 £425 £390
90th Percentile £544 £522 £503
UK median daily rate £263 £375 £304
% change year-on-year -30.00% +23.36% -15.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 5
10th Percentile - £26.38 £12.91
25th Percentile £11.50 £39.36 £15.04
Median hourly rate £12.23 £62.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year -80.28% +268.50% +52.95%
75th Percentile £18.20 £63.00 £20.00
90th Percentile £21.94 - £33.76
UK median hourly rate £15.86 £22.63 £16.93
% change year-on-year -29.94% +33.67% +7.25%

All Software Application Skills
Scotland

Microsoft Office is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 250 265 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 11.48% 9.60% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 207 222
10th Percentile £156 £163 £158
25th Percentile £200 £250 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £373 £383 £367
Median % change year-on-year -2.61% +4.29% +17.36%
75th Percentile £488 £481 £450
90th Percentile £550 £560 £522
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £430
% change year-on-year -5.88% -1.16% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 8 10
10th Percentile £11.50 £14.88 £11.50
25th Percentile £12.00 £17.29 £15.40
Median hourly rate £17.00 £20.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -10.87% +50.82%
75th Percentile £19.75 £56.06 £28.43
90th Percentile £20.13 £63.00 £40.97
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -46.15% +51.16% +17.23%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Scotland

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Office within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 9 May 2024. 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
Edinburgh +24 33 £238 +35.71% 34
Glasgow +1 22 £300 -20.00% 19
South Lanarkshire +3 3 £575 +161.36% 1
Aberdeen -4 2 - - 12
Renfrewshire -4 2 £285 -21.38%
Argyll and Bute - 2 £193 -
Dundee +8 1 £166 - 3
Inverclyde - 1 £375 -
Lanarkshire - 1 £185 - 8
Midlothian - 1 - - 11
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 6 (8.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.17%) Confluence
3 3 (4.17%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (29.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (23.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (8.33%) MS Visio
4 3 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.39%) Acrobat
5 1 (1.39%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) iTrent
2 2 (2.78%) Teamcenter
3 1 (1.39%) assyst
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.56%) OneDrive
2 4 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.39%) Azure
3 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
3 1 (1.39%) OCI
3 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.28%) DHCP
1 11 (15.28%) DNS
1 11 (15.28%) VPN
2 5 (6.94%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (4.17%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (2.78%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (1.39%) Metadata
3 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 33 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 18 (25.00%) Finance
2 18 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 9 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
4 6 (8.33%) Legal
5 5 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.78%) Local Government
8 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.78%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.39%) Avionics
9 1 (1.39%) Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.39%) Marketing
9 1 (1.39%) Retail
9 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (26.39%) Analyst
2 13 (18.06%) Support Analyst
3 12 (16.67%) Administrator
4 10 (13.89%) Desktop Engineer
5 9 (12.50%) Desktop Support
5 9 (12.50%) IT Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) IT Support
5 9 (12.50%) IT Support Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.94%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 5 (6.94%) Coordinator
6 5 (6.94%) Help Desk Administrator
7 4 (5.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) IT Engineer
7 4 (5.56%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
7 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (4.17%) Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (4.17%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.94%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.94%) Product Ownership
2 4 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.17%) CMDB
3 3 (4.17%) iPhone
3 3 (4.17%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.78%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (2.78%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.78%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.39%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.39%) NHS
5 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.39%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.39%) Social Media
5 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (41.67%) Windows
2 23 (31.94%) Windows 10
3 9 (12.50%) Windows 7
4 5 (6.94%) Mac OS X
4 5 (6.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (5.56%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.39%) Android
6 1 (1.39%) Linux
6 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (23.61%) Customer Service
1 17 (23.61%) ITIL
2 11 (15.28%) Break/Fix
3 10 (13.89%) Service Delivery
4 9 (12.50%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.72%) Agile
5 7 (9.72%) Project Management
6 5 (6.94%) Document Management
6 5 (6.94%) Line Management
7 4 (5.56%) Business Analysis
7 4 (5.56%) Change Management
7 4 (5.56%) Data Entry
7 4 (5.56%) Decision-Making
7 4 (5.56%) Programme Management
7 4 (5.56%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.56%) Time Management
7 4 (5.56%) Workflow
7 4 (5.56%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (4.17%) ITSM
8 3 (4.17%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.78%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) Java
2 1 (1.39%) Perl
Qualifications
1 20 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 18 (25.00%) Degree
3 17 (23.61%) SC Cleared
4 9 (12.50%) A+ Certification
5 2 (2.78%) HNC
5 2 (2.78%) MCP
6 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.89%) SLA
2 6 (8.33%) PMO
3 4 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.78%) NIST
5 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.39%) ISO 9001
5 1 (1.39%) NCSC
5 1 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (1.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 21 (29.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (22.22%) SCCM
2 3 (4.17%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 56 (77.78%) Microsoft
2 11 (15.28%) Cisco
3 8 (11.11%) Apple
4 3 (4.17%) Atlassian
4 3 (4.17%) Citrix
4 3 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.39%) Adobe
5 1 (1.39%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.39%) Cadence
5 1 (1.39%) IFS
5 1 (1.39%) Okta
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) Reuters
5 1 (1.39%) SAP