Microsoft Office Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Office
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 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 57 25 49
Rank change year-on-year -32 +24 -21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 45 164 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.98% 6.11% 4.10%
As % of the Applications category 38.14% 60.07% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 90 75
10th Percentile £144 £114 £175
25th Percentile £176 £148 £247
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £210 £375
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% -44.00% +4.90%
75th Percentile £450 £372 £510
90th Percentile £494 £517 £550
South East median daily rate £375 £210 £300
% change year-on-year +78.57% -30.00% +8.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 22 5
10th Percentile £13.08 £11.96 £14.89
25th Percentile - £15.85 £17.72
Median hourly rate £14.20 £20.25 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.88% +6.58% +76.42%
75th Percentile £14.88 £43.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £26.88 £55.10 £20.30
South East median hourly rate £14.20 £17.60 £20.00
% change year-on-year -19.32% -12.00% +37.93%

All Software Application Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 118 273 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.81% 10.16% 9.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 156 175
10th Percentile £152 £133 £193
25th Percentile £214 £185 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £215 £400
Median % change year-on-year +94.77% -46.25% +5.57%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £510
90th Percentile £604 £531 £625
South East median daily rate £413 £275 £375
% change year-on-year +50.00% -26.67% -3.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 30 14
10th Percentile £13.75 £11.79 £14.42
25th Percentile - £15.85 £18.75
Median hourly rate £14.20 £22.90 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.98% -8.41% +132.13%
75th Percentile £32.05 £43.75 £29.77
90th Percentile £50.78 £61.55 £32.30
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £17.50 £32.30
% change year-on-year +8.57% -45.82% +65.64%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire -47 23 £400 +90.60% 131
Buckinghamshire +12 19 £190 -52.50% 86
Oxfordshire +1 3 - - 63
Microsoft Office
South East

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.44%) CMS
3 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (4.44%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
1 6 (13.33%) Power Platform
2 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.44%) AWS
5 1 (2.22%) GCP
5 1 (2.22%) IaaS
5 1 (2.22%) PaaS
5 1 (2.22%) SaaS
5 1 (2.22%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) Wireless
2 6 (13.33%) Firewall
2 6 (13.33%) Internet
3 5 (11.11%) Radio Access Network
4 4 (8.89%) 3G
4 4 (8.89%) 4G
4 4 (8.89%) 5G
5 3 (6.67%) DNS
6 2 (4.44%) 2G
6 2 (4.44%) Diameter Protocol
6 2 (4.44%) GGSN
6 2 (4.44%) LTE
6 2 (4.44%) RANAP
6 2 (4.44%) SGSN
6 2 (4.44%) VLAN
6 2 (4.44%) VoLTE
6 2 (4.44%) VPN
6 2 (4.44%) Wireshark
7 1 (2.22%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.22%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.89%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) JIRA
General
1 27 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Finance
3 7 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.89%) Automotive
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Law
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Multimedia
6 2 (4.44%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (24.44%) Help Desk Support
2 7 (15.56%) Analyst
3 6 (13.33%) Help Desk Agent
4 3 (6.67%) Administrator
4 3 (6.67%) Coordinator
4 3 (6.67%) Senior
4 3 (6.67%) Service Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Architect
5 2 (4.44%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.44%) Development Specialist
5 2 (4.44%) Network Manager
5 2 (4.44%) PMO Administrator
5 2 (4.44%) Project Coordinator
5 2 (4.44%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (2.22%) Compliance Specialist
6 1 (2.22%) IT Support
6 1 (2.22%) IT Technician
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Architect
6 1 (2.22%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.44%) Learning Management System
3 2 (4.44%) Life Science
3 2 (4.44%) NHS
3 2 (4.44%) Onboarding
3 2 (4.44%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) PKI
4 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.44%) Android
2 2 (4.44%) Mac OS
2 2 (4.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (35.56%) Time Management
2 13 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (13.33%) Project Management
4 5 (11.11%) Analytics
4 5 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (8.89%) Agile
5 4 (8.89%) Change Management
5 4 (8.89%) DevOps
5 4 (8.89%) ITIL
5 4 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (6.67%) Computer Science
6 3 (6.67%) Deadline-Driven
6 3 (6.67%) DevSecOps
6 3 (6.67%) Migration
6 3 (6.67%) Project Governance
6 3 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
6 3 (6.67%) Risk Register
6 3 (6.67%) Workflow
6 3 (6.67%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 8 (17.78%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ISEB
5 1 (2.22%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) PMO
2 3 (6.67%) SLA
3 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (2.22%) GRC
3 1 (2.22%) NCSC
3 1 (2.22%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.22%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (2.22%) Amdocs OSS
1 1 (2.22%) NSN NetAct
1 1 (2.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 34 (75.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.44%) Empirix
2 2 (4.44%) HP
2 2 (4.44%) NetScout
2 2 (4.44%) Nokia
3 1 (2.22%) Apple
3 1 (2.22%) Ciena
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco
3 1 (2.22%) Cramer
3 1 (2.22%) Dell
3 1 (2.22%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.22%) Huawei
3 1 (2.22%) McAfee
3 1 (2.22%) Oracle
3 1 (2.22%) Palo Alto
3 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.22%) VMware