Microsoft Office Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Office
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 28 29 45
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 9 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.69% 1.23% 2.30%
As % of the Applications category 50.00% 8.33% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 7
10th Percentile £132 - £134
25th Percentile £169 £188 £144
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £195 £190
Median % change year-on-year - +2.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £211 £203 £229
90th Percentile £227 - £263
North East median daily rate £195 £195 £190
% change year-on-year - +2.63% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £13.30 -
North East median hourly rate £53.61 £15.46 -
% change year-on-year +246.77% - -

All Software Application Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 18 36 14
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 7.38% 14.81% 4.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 12
10th Percentile £154 - £136
25th Percentile £188 £188 £177
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £260 £255
Median % change year-on-year -14.42% +1.96% -46.03%
75th Percentile £481 £416 £312
90th Percentile £517 £556 £348
North East median daily rate £350 £230 £255
% change year-on-year +52.17% -9.80% -40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £13.99 -
North East median hourly rate £53.61 £13.99 -
% change year-on-year +283.20% - -

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Tyne and Wear

Microsoft Office
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 Office within the Tyne and Wear 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 6 £185 - 32
Sunderland +2 3 £195 -
Microsoft Office
North East

Microsoft Office
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 (44.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DHCP
1 2 (22.22%) DNS
1 2 (22.22%) Remote Desktop
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WebEx
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Desktop Support
1 5 (55.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 3 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Service Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) PMI
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Android
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
1 3 (33.33%) Patch Management
1 3 (33.33%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Lead Generation
3 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Governance
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Management
3 1 (11.11%) Project Delivery
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) A+ Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 1 (11.11%) Bomgar