MOS Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MOS qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 392 445 498
Rank change year-on-year +53 +53 -64
Contract jobs citing MOS 2 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.026% 0.030%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.026% 0.078% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £192
25th Percentile - - £203
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £170 £228
Median % change year-on-year - -25.27% -
75th Percentile - - £253
90th Percentile - - £265
UK median daily rate £610 £170 £425
% change year-on-year +258.82% -60.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £16.40 - £9.75
25th Percentile £16.63 £16.25 £11.14
Median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £16.41
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +6.67% -
75th Percentile £19.13 £19.00 £18.75
90th Percentile £19.20 £19.15 £49.38
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £16.41
% change year-on-year +2.86% +6.67% -6.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MOS is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,550 7,712 7,968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.87% 32.96% 26.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,353 5,158 5,161
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.62% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 638 529
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +2.12%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.84
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +13.33%

MOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing MOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for MOS in the UK excluding London

MOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing MOS in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for MOS in the UK excluding London

MOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing MOS in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for MOS in the UK excluding London

MOS
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
North of England +30 2 - - 4
North West +21 2 - - 3
MOS
UK

MOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 2 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (100.00%) Mimecast
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Service Desk Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 2 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos