MOS Contract Job Trends in Suffolk

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
East of England > Suffolk

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Suffolk with a requirement for MOS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing MOS 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Suffolk 0.96% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.88% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £366 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 - -
75th Percentile £367 - -
90th Percentile £367 - -
East of England median daily rate £367 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Suffolk

MOS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Suffolk.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 41 20 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk 19.71% 32.79% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 13 23
10th Percentile £270 £200 £200
25th Percentile £400 £213 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £300 £220
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% +36.36% -66.15%
75th Percentile £638 £350 £494
90th Percentile £725 £546 £648
East of England median daily rate £500 £528 £500
% change year-on-year -5.30% +5.60% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £14.59 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year -41.99% - -
75th Percentile £16.16 - -
90th Percentile £17.10 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.38% -29.49% +104.76%

MOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Suffolk

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Suffolk.

MOS job vacancy trend in Suffolk

MOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Suffolk

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Suffolk citing MOS

MOS
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 MOS within the Suffolk region over the 6 months to 3 September 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
Ipswich - 2 £367 - 1
MOS
East of England

MOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Suffolk 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) RTP
1 2 (100.00%) tcpdump
1 2 (100.00%) VoIP
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
2 1 (50.00%) INAP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Locust
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Engineering Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) QA Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Taurus
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch