Microsoft Office Contract Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Office
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 49 35
Rank change year-on-year -1 -14 +9
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 168 139 269
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 3.90% 4.14% 5.35%
As % of the Applications category 46.80% 48.94% 52.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 79 175
10th Percentile £182 £143 £148
25th Percentile £259 £195 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £315 £215
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% +46.51% -20.72%
75th Percentile £535 £434 £397
90th Percentile £610 £507 £525
England median daily rate £363 £300 £255
% change year-on-year +20.83% +17.65% -32.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 12 17
10th Percentile - £13.93 £12.79
25th Percentile £12.50 £23.75 £15.40
Median hourly rate £15.50 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -55.71% +62.79% +7.50%
75th Percentile £17.75 £35.25 £37.50
90th Percentile £29.59 £42.98 £57.60
England median hourly rate £18.82 £24.83 £18.93
% change year-on-year -24.20% +31.17% -12.97%

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 359 284 508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 8.33% 8.46% 10.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 148 327
10th Percentile £201 £170 £148
25th Percentile £311 £234 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £411 £315
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% +30.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £535 £501 £500
90th Percentile £608 £573 £600
England median daily rate £450 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -9.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 19 42
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.65 £13.15
25th Percentile £12.60 £27.71 £16.44
Median hourly rate £16.18 £35.00 £24.25
Median % change year-on-year -53.77% +44.36% -23.25%
75th Percentile £22.50 £48.38 £36.21
90th Percentile £29.61 £54.99 £58.38
England median hourly rate £19.91 £25.79 £25.50
% change year-on-year -22.80% +1.14% -21.54%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Office

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 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South East

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Office

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 12 January 2026.

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 12 January 2026. 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 +7 86 £465 +54.87% 60
Berkshire +5 57 £463 +46.83% 35
Hampshire -19 32 £475 +11.76% 26
Surrey -11 20 £500 +66.67% 25
Buckinghamshire +5 19 £475 +152.32% 10
East Sussex - 13 £130 - 2
Oxfordshire -5 10 £184 -45.48% 15
Sussex - 9 - -
Kent -3 8 £180 +41.18% 12
West Sussex -14 3 £525 +27.27% 3
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 25 (14.88%) SharePoint
2 16 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (7.74%) Skype for Business
4 9 (5.36%) Confluence
5 7 (4.17%) Mattermost
6 6 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2003
6 6 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2007
6 6 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2010
6 6 (3.57%) Exchange Server 2013
6 6 (3.57%) Office Communications Server
6 6 (3.57%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.60%) CMS
Applications
1 57 (33.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (18.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (13.10%) Microsoft Project
4 6 (3.57%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.60%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (4.17%) Primavera
1 7 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.60%) iTrent
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.60%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.60%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.60%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 33 (19.64%) Microsoft 365
2 21 (12.50%) Azure
3 16 (9.52%) Google Workspace
4 10 (5.95%) AWS
5 8 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.19%) Slack
8 1 (0.60%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.60%) Lucidchart
8 1 (0.60%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.60%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.60%) OCI
8 1 (0.60%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.60%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.60%) Viva Engage
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.93%) Firewall
2 13 (7.74%) VPN
3 12 (7.14%) Wireless
4 9 (5.36%) DNS
5 7 (4.17%) DHCP
5 7 (4.17%) Skype
6 6 (3.57%) DDNS
6 6 (3.57%) SAN
7 5 (2.98%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.19%) BGP
8 2 (1.19%) MPLS
8 2 (1.19%) Network Security
8 2 (1.19%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (1.19%) SNMP
8 2 (1.19%) TACACS
8 2 (1.19%) WAN
8 2 (1.19%) WebEx
8 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.60%) Intranet
9 1 (0.60%) Symposium
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.76%) Power BI
2 4 (2.38%) Azure SQL Database
2 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.60%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (7.14%) Burp Suite
1 12 (7.14%) Metasploit
2 6 (3.57%) JIRA
3 3 (1.79%) Android Studio
3 3 (1.79%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.79%) Subversion
General
1 91 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 36 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
3 30 (17.86%) Finance
4 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.74%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (3.57%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.38%) Legal
9 4 (2.38%) Marketing
10 3 (1.79%) Electronics
10 3 (1.79%) Law
10 3 (1.79%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.19%) Automotive
11 2 (1.19%) Aviation
11 2 (1.19%) General Ledger
11 2 (1.19%) Military
12 1 (0.60%) Agriculture
12 1 (0.60%) Banking
12 1 (0.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 28 (16.67%) Analyst
2 20 (11.90%) IT Support
2 20 (11.90%) Support Officer
3 12 (7.14%) Penetration Tester
3 12 (7.14%) Tester
4 11 (6.55%) IT Assistant
4 11 (6.55%) IT Support Assistant
4 11 (6.55%) Support Analyst
4 11 (6.55%) Support Assistant
5 10 (5.95%) Administrator
5 10 (5.95%) Senior
6 9 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 7 (4.17%) Data Analyst
7 7 (4.17%) Messaging Analyst
7 7 (4.17%) Messaging Support
7 7 (4.17%) Messaging Support Analyst
7 7 (4.17%) Project Planner
8 6 (3.57%) Development Officer
8 6 (3.57%) Exchange Support
8 6 (3.57%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (2.38%) .NET
2 2 (1.19%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.19%) OpenConfig
2 2 (1.19%) RESTCONF
2 2 (1.19%) YANG
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (5.95%) Security Posture
3 8 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 7 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 6 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (3.57%) Driving Licence
5 6 (3.57%) Replication
6 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (1.19%) IoT
8 2 (1.19%) Life Science
8 2 (1.19%) NHS
9 1 (0.60%) Fat Client
9 1 (0.60%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.60%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.60%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 51 (30.36%) Windows
2 22 (13.10%) Linux
3 6 (3.57%) Windows 10
3 6 (3.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (2.38%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.79%) Android
5 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.19%) Unix
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.60%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.60%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (20.24%) Customer Service
2 32 (19.05%) PRINCE2
3 28 (16.67%) Project Management
4 27 (16.07%) ITIL
5 26 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
6 25 (14.88%) Project Delivery
7 23 (13.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 23 (13.69%) Time Management
8 21 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 20 (11.90%) Line Management
10 18 (10.71%) Information Security
11 17 (10.12%) Collaborative Working
12 16 (9.52%) Business Intelligence
13 15 (8.93%) Regulatory Compliance
14 14 (8.33%) Incident Management
15 13 (7.74%) Agile
15 13 (7.74%) Change Management
15 13 (7.74%) Matrix Organization
15 13 (7.74%) Project Governance
16 12 (7.14%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (6.55%) SQL
2 10 (5.95%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.19%) Python
Qualifications
1 55 (32.74%) Security Cleared
2 47 (27.98%) Degree
3 38 (22.62%) SC Cleared
4 21 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 12 (7.14%) CHECK Team Member
6 10 (5.95%) CREST Certified
6 10 (5.95%) Cyber Scheme
6 10 (5.95%) Postgraduate
7 7 (4.17%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.38%) PMI Certification
8 4 (2.38%) PMP
9 3 (1.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 2 (1.19%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.19%) CCIE
10 2 (1.19%) CCSP
10 2 (1.19%) CISM
10 2 (1.19%) CISSP
10 2 (1.19%) GCFE
10 2 (1.19%) GREM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (20.83%) PMO
2 15 (8.93%) GDPR
3 13 (7.74%) PCI DSS
4 12 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (5.95%) QA
6 4 (2.38%) P3O
7 1 (0.60%) COSHH
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.60%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.57%) Brightmail
2 6 (3.57%) ISA Server
3 4 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.19%) Terminal Services
4 2 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (7.14%) Nmap
2 9 (5.36%) SCCM
3 8 (4.76%) SCOM
4 7 (4.17%) HP SiteScope
5 6 (3.57%) Microsoft Clustering
6 3 (1.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.79%) PaperCut
6 3 (1.79%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (1.19%) Ansible
7 2 (1.19%) EnCase
7 2 (1.19%) FTK
8 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 119 (70.83%) Microsoft
2 9 (5.36%) Cisco
2 9 (5.36%) SAP
3 7 (4.17%) Remedy
3 7 (4.17%) Splunk
4 5 (2.98%) Citrix
5 4 (2.38%) Oracle
6 3 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.79%) Autodesk
6 3 (1.79%) Coverity
6 3 (1.79%) Google
6 3 (1.79%) McAfee
6 3 (1.79%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.79%) Thales
6 3 (1.79%) Workday
7 2 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (1.19%) Darktrace
7 2 (1.19%) F5
7 2 (1.19%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.19%) Yealink