Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Slough

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Berkshire > Slough

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Slough requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 11 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 10 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in Slough 16.39% 1.49% 8.24%
As % of the Cloud Services category 50.00% 8.33% 46.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £129 - £415
25th Percentile £212 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.29%
75th Percentile £488 - £569
90th Percentile £509 - £663
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £425 £200
% change year-on-year +23.53% +112.50% -53.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £17.36 - -
25th Percentile £18.33 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £18.87 £42.50 £18.95
% change year-on-year -55.60% +124.27% -9.76%

All Cloud Skills
Slough

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 Slough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 20 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Slough 32.79% 17.91% 17.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 14
10th Percentile £151 £401 £403
25th Percentile £388 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -1.37% +1.39%
75th Percentile £488 £538 £538
90th Percentile £526 £541 £619
Berkshire median daily rate £492 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -13.72% +3.68% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £17.36 - -
25th Percentile £18.33 - -
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.72 £42.50 £63.00
% change year-on-year +35.81% -32.54% +186.36%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Slough

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

Microsoft 365 job vacancy trend in Slough

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Slough

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

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

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Slough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Slough over the 6 months to 23 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Slough

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Slough

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

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

Microsoft 365
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Slough 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
General
1 6 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (30.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) SCCM Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (10.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support
4 1 (10.00%) IT Support Technician
4 1 (10.00%) IT Technician
4 1 (10.00%) Service Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Support Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) ITIL
2 5 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 5 (50.00%) Time Management
3 3 (30.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
4 1 (10.00%) Commercialisation
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Immunology
4 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) SCCM
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) VMware