Microsoft 365 Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 10 11
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 2 11 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staffordshire 3.51% 8.46% 9.76%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.18% 33.33% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 17
10th Percentile - £137 -
25th Percentile - £148 £160
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £190 £165 £175
Median % change year-on-year +15.15% -5.71% -1.41%
75th Percentile - £183 £388
90th Percentile - £193 £453
West Midlands median daily rate £275 £260 £350
% change year-on-year +5.77% -25.71% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £34.98 £33.93 £18.50
% change year-on-year +3.09% +83.41% +12.12%

All Cloud Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 11 33 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 19.30% 25.38% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 40
10th Percentile £204 £218 £160
25th Percentile £225 £306 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% -17.65% +16.44%
75th Percentile £463 £438 £502
90th Percentile £718 £468 £625
West Midlands median daily rate £513 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +7.89% - -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.47 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £35.49 £33.74 £19.00
% change year-on-year +5.20% +77.55% +11.76%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Staffordshire

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Microsoft 365
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

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

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

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
Stafford -5 2 £190 -5.00% 1
Microsoft 365
West Midlands

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Patch Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory