Microsoft 365 Contracts in Suffolk

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 10 12
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 17 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Suffolk 22.97% 6.56% 8.84%
As % of the Cloud Services category 51.52% 20.00% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 9
10th Percentile £170 £158 £139
25th Percentile £178 £171 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £186 £275
Median % change year-on-year +7.38% -32.27% +35.80%
75th Percentile £238 £280 £488
90th Percentile £380 £434 £800
East of England median daily rate £208 £250 £300
% change year-on-year -17.00% -16.67% -1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
East of England median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% -

All Cloud Skills
Suffolk

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 Suffolk.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 33 20 42
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 44.59% 32.79% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 36
10th Percentile £171 £176 £213
25th Percentile £184 £199 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £278 £700
Median % change year-on-year -22.52% -60.36% +64.71%
75th Percentile £316 £563 -
90th Percentile £443 £644 -
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 £11.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +301.57% -30.30% +6.45%
East of England median hourly rate £18.82 £16.30 £19.00
% change year-on-year +15.46% -14.21% +22.58%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Suffolk

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Suffolk.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Suffolk

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Suffolk

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Suffolk over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Suffolk

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Suffolk.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Suffolk

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Suffolk

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 Suffolk region over the 6 months to 1 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
Ipswich +6 14 £194 +3.33% 25
Leiston - 2 £200 -
Bury St Edmunds +2 1 £450 +200.00%
Microsoft 365
East of England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Suffolk 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 4 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) OneDrive
2 1 (5.88%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Azure AKS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (5.88%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.88%) GCP
2 1 (5.88%) IaaS
2 1 (5.88%) PaaS
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (41.18%) VLAN
2 1 (5.88%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
General
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Legal
3 2 (11.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) Desktop Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Desktop Support
2 4 (23.53%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) IT Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support
3 3 (17.65%) IT Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint Support
3 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Windows Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.88%) Azure Blueprints
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.88%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (5.88%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 14 (82.35%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (11.76%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
3 1 (5.88%) Cloud Security
3 1 (5.88%) Cost Management
3 1 (5.88%) Customer Service
3 1 (5.88%) Data Protection
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps
3 1 (5.88%) High Availability
3 1 (5.88%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.88%) ITIL
3 1 (5.88%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 5 (29.41%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.88%) Bicep
2 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) DBS Check
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) SLA
1 1 (5.88%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) ZyXEL
3 1 (5.88%) Okta
3 1 (5.88%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.88%) Zscaler