Microsoft 365 Contracts in the Thames Valley

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 32 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -11 +20
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 103 189 291
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.80% 6.42% 8.34%
As % of the Cloud Services category 13.22% 22.45% 26.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 154 218
10th Percentile £143 £200 £130
25th Percentile £169 £266 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £404 £231
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +74.59% -47.14%
75th Percentile £569 £616 £438
90th Percentile £608 £698 £538
South East median daily rate £275 £350 £293
% change year-on-year -21.43% +19.66% -18.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 13
10th Percentile £16.05 £17.26 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.13 £20.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £39.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.13% +95.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £18.75 £75.52 £21.05
90th Percentile - £79.19 -
South East median hourly rate £17.69 £18.75 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.65% -6.25% -4.99%

All Cloud Skills
Thames Valley

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 779 842 1,079
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.70% 28.62% 30.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 522 617 832
10th Percentile £275 £300 £180
25th Percentile £413 £425 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £597
90th Percentile £686 £697 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 21 21
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.72 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.74 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.16 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.92% +34.10% -0.24%
75th Percentile £60.73 £57.50 £26.50
90th Percentile £61.60 £79.19 £80.40
South East median hourly rate £23.22 £23.30 £21.05
% change year-on-year -0.36% +10.69% -2.21%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the Thames Valley

Microsoft 365
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 365 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. 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 -21 66 £500 -21.26% 18
Oxfordshire -3 21 £284 -18.93% 27
Buckinghamshire -10 16 £225 -29.69% 40
Microsoft 365
South East

Microsoft 365
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 32 (31.07%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (14.56%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.94%) Confluence
3 2 (1.94%) nginx
Applications
1 26 (25.24%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (7.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 6 (5.83%) MS Visio
4 5 (4.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.94%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 27 (26.21%) Azure
2 17 (16.50%) Entra ID
3 14 (13.59%) Azure Monitor
3 14 (13.59%) Azure Storage
4 7 (6.80%) OneDrive
5 6 (5.83%) Power Automate
6 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.88%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.91%) ShareGate
8 2 (1.94%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.97%) AWS
9 1 (0.97%) NuGet
9 1 (0.97%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.45%) Firewall
2 17 (16.50%) DNS
2 17 (16.50%) VoIP
3 16 (15.53%) DHCP
4 9 (8.74%) Cisco IOS
4 9 (8.74%) WAN
5 8 (7.77%) Remote Desktop
5 8 (7.77%) VPN
6 7 (6.80%) LAN
7 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
8 2 (1.94%) SAN
8 2 (1.94%) WebEx
8 2 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.94%) Wireless
9 1 (0.97%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.94%) Metadata
2 2 (1.94%) MySQL
3 1 (0.97%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) JIRA
General
1 43 (41.75%) Social Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (7.77%) Marketing
3 5 (4.85%) Legal
4 4 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (2.91%) Finance
6 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (0.97%) Law
7 1 (0.97%) Public Sector
7 1 (0.97%) Retail
7 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (19.42%) Support Specialist
2 18 (17.48%) Active Directory Support
3 15 (14.56%) Support Engineer
4 14 (13.59%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (13.59%) Azure Specialist
5 10 (9.71%) IT Support
6 8 (7.77%) Creative Designer
6 8 (7.77%) Designer
6 8 (7.77%) Desktop Support
6 8 (7.77%) IT Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Analyst
7 7 (6.80%) Audio Visual Technician
7 7 (6.80%) Desktop Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Desktop Support Engineer
7 7 (6.80%) Lead
8 6 (5.83%) 1st Line Support
8 6 (5.83%) IT Support Engineer
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Specialist
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Support
8 6 (5.83%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) ARM Templates
2 3 (2.91%) CSS
2 3 (2.91%) HTML
2 3 (2.91%) jQuery
2 3 (2.91%) SPFx
3 2 (1.94%) EDI
3 2 (1.94%) OLE
4 1 (0.97%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.50%) Video Editing
2 16 (15.53%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (13.59%) PKI
4 8 (7.77%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.94%) CCTV
6 2 (1.94%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.94%) Taxonomies
7 1 (0.97%) BYOD
7 1 (0.97%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 62 (60.19%) Windows
2 24 (23.30%) Windows 10
3 21 (20.39%) Android
4 19 (18.45%) Windows Server
5 16 (15.53%) Linux
5 16 (15.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (13.59%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (12.62%) Apple iOS
8 8 (7.77%) Mac OS
9 2 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (1.94%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.45%) Agile
1 19 (18.45%) ITIL
2 18 (17.48%) Customer Service
3 16 (15.53%) Identity Management
4 15 (14.56%) Analytics
4 15 (14.56%) CI/CD
4 15 (14.56%) DevOps
4 15 (14.56%) Infrastructure as Code
4 15 (14.56%) Service Management
5 14 (13.59%) Log Analytics
5 14 (13.59%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 14 (13.59%) Privileged Identity Management
5 14 (13.59%) RBAC
5 14 (13.59%) Release Management
6 11 (10.68%) Migration
6 11 (10.68%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (9.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (7.77%) Storytelling
8 8 (7.77%) Strategic Thinking
9 6 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.50%) PowerShell
2 14 (13.59%) Bicep
2 14 (13.59%) C#
2 14 (13.59%) VB
2 14 (13.59%) VBScript
3 2 (1.94%) SQL
4 1 (0.97%) R
Qualifications
1 29 (28.16%) Degree
2 28 (27.18%) Security Cleared
3 23 (22.33%) DV Cleared
4 19 (18.45%) SC Cleared
5 14 (13.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.88%) A+ Certification
8 3 (2.91%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.94%) MCITP
10 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (14.56%) SLA
2 8 (7.77%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.91%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (49.51%) Active Directory
2 14 (13.59%) Virtual Desktop
2 14 (13.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (2.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.94%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.97%) Docker
5 1 (0.97%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 30 (29.13%) SCCM
2 25 (24.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (14.56%) Kubernetes
4 14 (13.59%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 14 (13.59%) SCOM
4 14 (13.59%) WSUS
5 3 (2.91%) AirWatch
6 2 (1.94%) PaperCut
7 1 (0.97%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 58 (56.31%) Microsoft
2 21 (20.39%) Apple
3 15 (14.56%) HP
4 14 (13.59%) Cisco
5 12 (11.65%) ServiceNow
6 8 (7.77%) Adobe
7 7 (6.80%) Polycom
7 7 (6.80%) VMware
8 5 (4.85%) Aruba
9 3 (2.91%) Citrix
9 3 (2.91%) F5
9 3 (2.91%) Planview
10 2 (1.94%) Bloomberg
10 2 (1.94%) McAfee
10 2 (1.94%) MobileIron
10 2 (1.94%) Red Hat
10 2 (1.94%) Reuters
10 2 (1.94%) Sage
10 2 (1.94%) Sophos
10 2 (1.94%) WatchGuard