Microsoft Office Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Office
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 59 67
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 88 111 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.01% 3.38% 3.31%
As % of the Applications category 47.31% 47.44% 46.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 50 86
10th Percentile £184 £129 £138
25th Percentile £218 £185 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £223 £513
Median % change year-on-year +34.83% -56.59% +65.46%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £575
90th Percentile £649 £545 £612
England median daily rate £350 £300 £388
% change year-on-year +16.67% -22.58% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 28 4
10th Percentile - £12.94 £12.90
25th Percentile - £14.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £37.50 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +105.48% -31.78%
75th Percentile - £51.25 £60.06
90th Percentile - - £129.03
England median hourly rate £18.88 £16.06 £21.27
% change year-on-year +17.57% -24.48% +25.61%

All Software Application Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 186 234 247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 10.60% 7.12% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 106 156
10th Percentile £184 £134 £196
25th Percentile £220 £208 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -11.76% +1.49%
75th Percentile £578 £538 £556
90th Percentile £638 £698 £612
England median daily rate £421 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +5.19% -11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 56 16
10th Percentile £9.05 £14.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £25.38 £15.55 £22.19
Median hourly rate £32.50 £45.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% -16.28% +53.57%
75th Percentile £63.75 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £57.50 £87.25
England median hourly rate £25.08 £16.23 £26.00
% change year-on-year +54.53% -37.58% +15.56%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South West over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 28 June 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
Wiltshire +26 28 £569 +158.52% 14
Gloucestershire +12 17 £225 -60.70% 41
Bristol +6 15 £235 -55.24% 47
Dorset +19 14 £500 - 21
Somerset +9 12 £250 -37.50% 32
Devon +5 6 - - 13
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 22 (25.00%) Confluence
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (11.36%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.68%) Skype for Business
4 1 (1.14%) IBM Notes
4 1 (1.14%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 23 (26.14%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (11.36%) Azure
3 5 (5.68%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.41%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.14%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 23 (26.14%) VPN
2 16 (18.18%) DNS
3 13 (14.77%) Unified Communications
4 10 (11.36%) Skype
5 9 (10.23%) VoIP
6 8 (9.09%) BGP
6 8 (9.09%) DHCP
7 7 (7.95%) IPsec
7 7 (7.95%) MPLS
8 6 (6.82%) LAN
8 6 (6.82%) VLAN
8 6 (6.82%) WAN
9 4 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.27%) Firewall
10 2 (2.27%) SAN
11 1 (1.14%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.68%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.14%) MS Access
3 1 (1.14%) MySQL
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (26.14%) JIRA
2 5 (5.68%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.14%) Git
3 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 64 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 39 (44.32%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Public Sector
4 15 (17.05%) Legal
5 11 (12.50%) Finance
6 7 (7.95%) Local Government
6 7 (7.95%) Marketing
7 2 (2.27%) Law
7 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.14%) Electronics
8 1 (1.14%) Italian Language
8 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 21 (23.86%) Support Engineer
2 10 (11.36%) Analyst
2 10 (11.36%) Desktop Engineer
3 9 (10.23%) Desktop Support
3 9 (10.23%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 9 (10.23%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 8 (9.09%) Service Analyst
4 8 (9.09%) Service Desk Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) Network Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) Customer Executive
6 6 (6.82%) IT Engineer
6 6 (6.82%) IT Support
6 6 (6.82%) IT Support Engineer
7 5 (5.68%) Technical Support
8 4 (4.55%) Senior
8 4 (4.55%) Senior Wintel Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Technical Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Technical Support Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Wintel Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Flash
2 7 (7.95%) NETCONF
2 7 (7.95%) RESTCONF
3 5 (5.68%) CSS
3 5 (5.68%) HTML
4 1 (1.14%) .NET
4 1 (1.14%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.14%) ODBC
4 1 (1.14%) REST
4 1 (1.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) PKI
2 9 (10.23%) Clustering
3 8 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.55%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.14%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.14%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.14%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 40 (45.45%) Windows
2 28 (31.82%) Windows 10
3 12 (13.64%) Windows Server
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (5.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.14%) Android
5 1 (1.14%) Linux
5 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Service Management
2 32 (36.36%) ITIL
3 29 (32.95%) Critical Thinking
4 25 (28.41%) System Testing
5 22 (25.00%) NsoIT
6 18 (20.45%) Agile
7 17 (19.32%) Validation
7 17 (19.32%) Waterfall
8 16 (18.18%) Customer Service
8 16 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
9 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
10 14 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (11.36%) ITSM
12 10 (11.36%) Service Delivery
13 9 (10.23%) High Availability
13 9 (10.23%) Power Management
14 8 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
14 8 (9.09%) Incident Management
14 8 (9.09%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.91%) Python
2 11 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 10 (11.36%) SQL
4 6 (6.82%) VBA
5 1 (1.14%) VB
5 1 (1.14%) VB.NET
5 1 (1.14%) VB6
Qualifications
1 46 (52.27%) Security Cleared
2 43 (48.86%) SC Cleared
3 41 (46.59%) Degree
4 19 (21.59%) DV Cleared
5 17 (19.32%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 10 (11.36%) Master's Degree
8 9 (10.23%) CCNA
8 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (9.09%) CCNP
9 8 (9.09%) MCSE
10 7 (7.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 6 (6.82%) A+ Certification
12 5 (5.68%) DBS Check
13 3 (3.41%) CESG Certified Professional
13 3 (3.41%) CISA
13 3 (3.41%) CISSP
14 2 (2.27%) Azure Certification
14 2 (2.27%) MCSA
15 1 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (5.68%) SLA
3 3 (3.41%) JSP 440
3 3 (3.41%) RMADS
4 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.14%) PMO
System Software
1 34 (38.64%) Active Directory
2 26 (29.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (10.23%) VMware NSX
5 7 (7.95%) Hyper-V
6 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 5 (5.68%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (11.36%) vCenter Server
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (10.23%) WSUS
3 8 (9.09%) Ansible
4 4 (4.55%) SCCM
5 3 (3.41%) AppManager
6 1 (1.14%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 55 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 26 (29.55%) VMware
3 22 (25.00%) Atlassian
4 18 (20.45%) Cisco
5 15 (17.05%) ServiceNow
6 8 (9.09%) Veeam
7 7 (7.95%) Citrix
8 6 (6.82%) Salesforce
9 5 (5.68%) Apple
9 5 (5.68%) Remedy
10 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.41%) Ivanti
12 2 (2.27%) iManage
12 2 (2.27%) Oracle
12 2 (2.27%) SAP
13 1 (1.14%) Aruba
13 1 (1.14%) Dell
13 1 (1.14%) HP
13 1 (1.14%) Juniper
13 1 (1.14%) Lotus