MOS Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office Specialist (MOS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for MOS qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 466 - 394
Rank change year-on-year - - +43
Contract jobs citing MOS 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.008% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.023% - 0.013%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £150 - -
UK median daily rate £150 £260 £655
% change year-on-year -42.31% -60.31% -4.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

MOS falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,780 4,994 7,569
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.12% 34.81% 35.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,644 2,999 4,400
10th Percentile £313 £205 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.13% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £610 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £521 £525
% change year-on-year +0.77% -0.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,064 518 960
10th Percentile £17.27 £17.48 £13.96
25th Percentile £23.00 £18.87 £19.13
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.23 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.22% -41.34% -19.40%
75th Percentile £72.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.15 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £27.53 £40.94
% change year-on-year +88.88% -32.76% -25.73%

MOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

MOS job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

MOS
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MOS

MOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing MOS

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 5 July 2026. 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
Midlands - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 £150 - 2
West Midlands - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 £150 - 2
MOS
UK

MOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Mimecast
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Defence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 1 (50.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Actionable Insight
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 1 (50.00%) Reverse Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) Sophos