Microsoft Office Contracts in the South East

Microsoft Office
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 44 42
Rank change year-on-year -17 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 95 228 277
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 3.15% 4.11% 4.80%
As % of the Applications category 44.19% 55.21% 50.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 106 170
10th Percentile £154 £114 £181
25th Percentile £211 £150 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £210 £299
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -29.71% +7.85%
75th Percentile £434 £419 £460
90th Percentile £536 £517 £550
England median daily rate £325 £255 £375
% change year-on-year +27.45% -32.00% +28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 44 15
10th Percentile £13.23 £11.45 £15.79
25th Percentile - £13.05 £17.38
Median hourly rate £14.20 £17.55 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.09% -12.25% +37.93%
75th Percentile £18.18 £33.44 £28.45
90th Percentile £24.93 £45.00 £49.50
England median hourly rate £17.00 £16.06 £22.00
% change year-on-year +5.85% -27.00% +29.68%

All Software Application Skills
South East

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 215 413 551
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 7.14% 7.44% 9.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 204 322
10th Percentile £150 £134 £185
25th Percentile £225 £198 £240
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £281 £375
Median % change year-on-year +46.67% -25.00% -3.54%
75th Percentile £513 £466 £500
90th Percentile £600 £576 £609
England median daily rate £425 £400 £428
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.54% +0.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 81 50
10th Percentile £14.06 £11.71 £17.68
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £21.40
Median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £38.65
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -54.72% +98.21%
75th Percentile £32.05 £26.88 £47.50
90th Percentile £61.50 £45.00 £50.00
England median hourly rate £24.62 £17.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year +40.70% -51.39% +67.44%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South East over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Thames Valley -33 45 £375 +78.57% 152
Hampshire +31 30 £425 -1.16% 71
Berkshire -48 23 £400 +90.60% 84
Buckinghamshire +14 19 £190 -52.50% 43
Surrey 0 10 £243 +46.97% 40
West Sussex +11 4 £350 +211.11% 18
Kent +5 4 £135 -34.15% 32
Oxfordshire +2 3 - - 46
East Sussex -2 2 £163 - 15
Home Counties - 1 - -
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 16 (16.84%) Confluence
2 10 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (3.16%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (3.16%) Office Communications Server
4 3 (3.16%) SharePoint Server
4 3 (3.16%) Skype for Business
5 2 (2.11%) CMS
Applications
1 40 (42.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (14.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.26%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.05%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.58%) Azure
2 6 (6.32%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (6.32%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.21%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.16%) AWS
5 2 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.05%) GCP
6 1 (1.05%) IaaS
6 1 (1.05%) PaaS
6 1 (1.05%) SaaS
6 1 (1.05%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) Firewall
1 9 (9.47%) Wireless
2 8 (8.42%) DNS
3 7 (7.37%) Internet
3 7 (7.37%) VPN
4 5 (5.26%) DHCP
4 5 (5.26%) Radio Access Network
5 4 (4.21%) 3G
5 4 (4.21%) 4G
5 4 (4.21%) 5G
5 4 (4.21%) VLAN
6 3 (3.16%) DDNS
6 3 (3.16%) SAN
7 2 (2.11%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (2.11%) Diameter Protocol
7 2 (2.11%) GGSN
7 2 (2.11%) RANAP
7 2 (2.11%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (2.11%) VoLTE
7 2 (2.11%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Power BI
2 2 (2.11%) Metadata
3 1 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 17 (17.89%) JIRA
2 14 (14.74%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.05%) Git
General
1 52 (54.74%) Social Skills
2 28 (29.47%) Finance
3 14 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.63%) Manufacturing
5 11 (11.58%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (10.53%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.32%) Automotive
7 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.26%) Law
9 3 (3.16%) Legal
9 3 (3.16%) Retail
10 2 (2.11%) Aviation
10 2 (2.11%) Banking
10 2 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.11%) Marketing
10 2 (2.11%) Multimedia
10 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (1.05%) Billing
11 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.05%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (16.84%) Analyst
2 15 (15.79%) Developer
3 14 (14.74%) Delphi Developer
4 11 (11.58%) Help Desk Support
5 7 (7.37%) Administrator
5 7 (7.37%) Senior
5 7 (7.37%) Service Analyst
5 7 (7.37%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.32%) Help Desk Agent
7 5 (5.26%) Coordinator
7 5 (5.26%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (4.21%) Desktop Engineer
8 4 (4.21%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Exchange Engineer
9 3 (3.16%) Exchange Support
9 3 (3.16%) Information Manager
9 3 (3.16%) IT Support
9 3 (3.16%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.11%) ADO
2 1 (1.05%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (3.16%) Learning Management System
2 3 (3.16%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.16%) Replication
2 3 (3.16%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.11%) Life Science
3 2 (2.11%) NHS
3 2 (2.11%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.05%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.05%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.05%) PKI
4 1 (1.05%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 32 (33.68%) Windows
2 3 (3.16%) Mac OS
2 3 (3.16%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (2.11%) Android
3 2 (2.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (20.00%) Time Management
3 16 (16.84%) Functional Testing
3 16 (16.84%) Root Cause Analysis
4 13 (13.68%) ITIL
4 13 (13.68%) Project Management
5 12 (12.63%) Collaborative Working
5 12 (12.63%) Customer Service
6 10 (10.53%) Agile
7 9 (9.47%) Change Management
7 9 (9.47%) Migration
8 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (6.32%) Analytics
9 6 (6.32%) DevOps
9 6 (6.32%) Service Management
10 5 (5.26%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (5.26%) Content Management
10 5 (5.26%) Operational Stability
10 5 (5.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (4.21%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.84%) SQL
2 15 (15.79%) PL/SQL
3 14 (14.74%) C#
3 14 (14.74%) Delphi
4 1 (1.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (16.84%) Degree
2 9 (9.47%) Security Cleared
3 5 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 4 (4.21%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.11%) CCNA
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.11%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.11%) HP APS
6 1 (1.05%) ISEB
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.32%) PMO
1 6 (6.32%) SLA
2 1 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.05%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.05%) GRC
2 1 (1.05%) NCSC
2 1 (1.05%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (10.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.16%) Brightmail
2 3 (3.16%) ISA Server
3 1 (1.05%) Docker
3 1 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.05%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (2.11%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.05%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.05%) NSN NetAct
3 1 (1.05%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (77.89%) Microsoft
2 16 (16.84%) Oracle
3 4 (4.21%) HP
4 3 (3.16%) Cisco
4 3 (3.16%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.11%) Autodesk
5 2 (2.11%) CheckPoint
5 2 (2.11%) Empirix
5 2 (2.11%) Infoblox
5 2 (2.11%) NetScout
5 2 (2.11%) Nokia
5 2 (2.11%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.05%) Apple
6 1 (1.05%) Cramer
6 1 (1.05%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.05%) Huawei
6 1 (1.05%) McAfee
6 1 (1.05%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.05%) VMware