Microsoft 365 Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 30 39
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 15 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 5.98% 1.66% 2.56%
As % of the Cloud Services category 14.71% 10.53% 5.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 8
10th Percentile £186 £161 £134
25th Percentile £188 £178 £149
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £398 £195 £201
Median % change year-on-year +103.85% -3.11% -48.06%
75th Percentile £625 £314 £238
90th Percentile £633 £516 -
North East median daily rate £300 £190 £200
% change year-on-year +57.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 - -

All Cloud Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 102 38 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 40.64% 15.77% 50.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 22 125
10th Percentile £325 £204 £335
25th Percentile £410 £379 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.25% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £700
90th Percentile £625 £650 £775
North East median daily rate £480 £488 £565
% change year-on-year -1.54% -13.72% +13.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.50 - -
Median hourly rate £13.00 - -
75th Percentile £13.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £13.00 £20.77 £49.00
% change year-on-year -37.41% -57.61% +188.24%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 9 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 8 £600 -7.69% 12
South Shields - 4 - -
Sunderland +2 3 £195 - 8
Microsoft 365
North East

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (26.67%) SharePoint
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (13.33%) OpenEdge
4 1 (6.67%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 3 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeCommit
4 1 (6.67%) AWS CodeDeploy
4 1 (6.67%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) Relational Database
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) 1st Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Consultant
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 3 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Migration Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Support Technician
4 1 (6.67%) Trainee
4 1 (6.67%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.67%) REST
1 1 (6.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
3 3 (20.00%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (20.00%) Patch Management
4 2 (13.33%) Migration
4 2 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (13.33%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 1 (6.67%) API Management
5 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
5 1 (6.67%) Containerisation
5 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Automation
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) ITSM
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum
5 1 (6.67%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
2 1 (6.67%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.67%) logstash
2 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Citrix