Microsoft Office Contracts in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 36 52
Rank change year-on-year -20 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 498 885 990
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.90% 4.28% 4.14%
As % of the Applications category 39.18% 43.38% 45.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 427 659
10th Percentile £150 £126 £153
25th Percentile £195 £167 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £220 £325
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -32.31% +44.44%
75th Percentile £481 £475 £488
90th Percentile £581 £538 £600
UK median daily rate £325 £255 £375
% change year-on-year +27.45% -32.00% +22.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 252 68
10th Percentile £13.08 £10.95 £12.90
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £15.38
Median hourly rate £16.36 £15.00 £20.48
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% -26.74% +32.10%
75th Percentile £21.13 £19.26 £42.35
90th Percentile £30.78 £43.38 £56.73
UK median hourly rate £17.00 £16.00 £22.63
% change year-on-year +6.25% -29.30% +34.80%

All Software Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 1,271 2,040 2,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.95% 9.86% 9.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 856 1,381
10th Percentile £160 £150 £163
25th Percentile £225 £200 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £350 £394
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -11.05% +4.93%
75th Percentile £500 £500 £500
90th Percentile £575 £623 £600
UK median daily rate £413 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +3.13% -5.88% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 535 193
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.09 £13.78
25th Percentile £15.26 £13.75 £17.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £16.06 £31.27
Median % change year-on-year +40.10% -48.64% +63.52%
75th Percentile £45.98 £38.75 £51.52
90th Percentile £76.13 £57.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £17.72 £35.75
% change year-on-year +29.80% -50.43% +66.28%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Office
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 Microsoft Office within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
North of England -19 139 £235 -7.84% 324
South East -22 93 £375 +78.57% 445
South West +2 86 £249 +5.85% 186
Yorkshire +14 70 £235 +6.82% 112
Scotland +1 59 £250 +21.21% 65
North West -47 59 £250 -36.87% 175
Midlands -20 55 £313 +39.11% 228
East of England +25 44 £245 -36.77% 145
West Midlands +5 36 £425 +112.50% 118
East Midlands -18 18 £200 -18.37% 100
Northern Ireland +1 12 £160 +28.00% 24
North East -4 10 £195 - 41
Wales -9 9 £344 -33.09% 43
Channel Islands - 2 £298 -
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
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 75 (15.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 74 (14.86%) SharePoint
3 42 (8.43%) Confluence
4 16 (3.21%) Skype for Business
5 5 (1.00%) IBM Notes
5 5 (1.00%) SharePoint Server
6 4 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.80%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.60%) Office Communications Server
8 2 (0.40%) CMS
8 2 (0.40%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.20%) CICS
9 1 (0.20%) SAS
Applications
1 127 (25.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (14.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 22 (4.42%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (1.81%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.60%) InfoPath
7 2 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.40%) Open Workbench
8 1 (0.20%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.20%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.20%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.20%) QuarkXPress
8 1 (0.20%) Revit
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.60%) iTrent
4 1 (0.20%) Actimize
4 1 (0.20%) ContrOCC
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.20%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 123 (24.70%) Microsoft 365
2 59 (11.85%) Azure
3 38 (7.63%) Entra ID
4 25 (5.02%) Power Platform
5 15 (3.01%) OneDrive
6 8 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (1.61%) PowerApps
7 6 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (1.00%) AWS
9 4 (0.80%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Functions
10 3 (0.60%) Azure Logic Apps
10 3 (0.60%) Google Docs
10 3 (0.60%) Google Sheets
10 3 (0.60%) Power Automate
10 3 (0.60%) Serverless
11 2 (0.40%) Yammer
12 1 (0.20%) GCP
12 1 (0.20%) IaaS
12 1 (0.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 61 (12.25%) VPN
2 58 (11.65%) DNS
3 42 (8.43%) DHCP
4 27 (5.42%) LAN
4 27 (5.42%) WAN
5 26 (5.22%) VLAN
6 24 (4.82%) Skype
7 23 (4.62%) Firewall
7 23 (4.62%) TCP/IP
7 23 (4.62%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (3.61%) Wireless
9 16 (3.21%) Internet
9 16 (3.21%) Remote Desktop
10 15 (3.01%) VoIP
11 11 (2.21%) Intranet
12 8 (1.61%) SAN
12 8 (1.61%) Unified Communications
13 6 (1.20%) BGP
13 6 (1.20%) OSPF
13 6 (1.20%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (4.22%) Power BI
2 7 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 4 (0.80%) Tableau
4 3 (0.60%) RDBMS
4 3 (0.60%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.40%) Metadata
6 1 (0.20%) Big Data
6 1 (0.20%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.20%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.20%) GIS
6 1 (0.20%) MySQL
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 58 (11.65%) JIRA
2 14 (2.81%) Visual Studio
3 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.60%) Hudson
4 3 (0.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.60%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (0.40%) Git
5 2 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.20%) Axure RP
6 1 (0.20%) Rational DOORS
6 1 (0.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 281 (56.43%) Social Skills
2 102 (20.48%) Finance
3 101 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
4 69 (13.86%) Public Sector
5 41 (8.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 40 (8.03%) Organisational Skills
7 39 (7.83%) Banking
8 25 (5.02%) Legal
9 23 (4.62%) Manufacturing
10 20 (4.02%) Retail
11 16 (3.21%) Local Government
12 14 (2.81%) Marketing
13 13 (2.61%) Telecoms
14 12 (2.41%) Law
14 12 (2.41%) Public Speaking
15 10 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
16 9 (1.81%) Automotive
17 7 (1.41%) Documentation Skills
17 7 (1.41%) Electronics
17 7 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 93 (18.67%) Analyst
2 60 (12.05%) Support Engineer
3 44 (8.84%) IT Support
4 40 (8.03%) Desktop Engineer
5 39 (7.83%) Service Analyst
6 35 (7.03%) Service Desk Analyst
7 33 (6.63%) Desktop Support
8 30 (6.02%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 29 (5.82%) Administrator
10 23 (4.62%) 2nd Line Engineer
11 22 (4.42%) 2nd Line Support
11 22 (4.42%) IT Engineer
12 19 (3.82%) Developer
12 19 (3.82%) Senior
13 17 (3.41%) 1st Line Support
14 16 (3.21%) Help Desk Support
15 15 (3.01%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
15 15 (3.01%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
16 14 (2.81%) Delphi Developer
16 14 (2.81%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (2.41%) Flash
2 7 (1.41%) CSS
3 6 (1.20%) HTML
4 4 (0.80%) .NET
4 4 (0.80%) .NET Framework
5 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET
5 3 (0.60%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (0.60%) Entity Framework
5 3 (0.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 2 (0.40%) OLE
7 1 (0.20%) .NET Core
7 1 (0.20%) 802.1X
7 1 (0.20%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.20%) ISPF
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (0.20%) React
7 1 (0.20%) REST
7 1 (0.20%) TensorFlow
7 1 (0.20%) Vue
7 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.62%) Management Information System
2 18 (3.61%) Driving Licence
3 14 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (2.81%) Smartphone
4 13 (2.61%) iPhone
5 12 (2.41%) Clustering
5 12 (2.41%) Data Centre
5 12 (2.41%) PKI
6 10 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
9 6 (1.20%) Blackberry
9 6 (1.20%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.20%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.00%) PMI
10 5 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
11 4 (0.80%) Molecular Biology
12 3 (0.60%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (0.60%) Learning Management System
Operating Systems
1 194 (38.96%) Windows
2 82 (16.47%) Windows 10
3 32 (6.43%) Windows Server
4 26 (5.22%) Mac OS
5 17 (3.41%) Apple iOS
5 17 (3.41%) Linux
6 14 (2.81%) Android
7 12 (2.41%) VMS
8 11 (2.21%) Windows 7
8 11 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (2.01%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (1.00%) Windows Vista
11 4 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.80%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.60%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.60%) Unix
12 3 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.40%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (25.30%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (22.49%) ITIL
3 101 (20.28%) Customer Service
4 76 (15.26%) ITSM
5 72 (14.46%) Service Management
6 68 (13.65%) Agile
7 44 (8.84%) Collaborative Working
8 41 (8.23%) Project Management
9 39 (7.83%) Time Management
10 35 (7.03%) Stakeholder Management
11 32 (6.43%) Incident Management
12 31 (6.22%) Decision-Making
13 30 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 28 (5.62%) Service Delivery
15 25 (5.02%) Critical Thinking
16 24 (4.82%) Change Management
16 24 (4.82%) Computer Science
16 24 (4.82%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (4.62%) Business Intelligence
18 22 (4.42%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (6.22%) SQL
2 23 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 20 (4.02%) C#
4 15 (3.01%) PL/SQL
5 14 (2.81%) Delphi
6 13 (2.61%) Python
7 6 (1.20%) VB
7 6 (1.20%) VBA
7 6 (1.20%) VBScript
8 4 (0.80%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.40%) C++
9 2 (0.40%) Groovy
10 1 (0.20%) Bash
10 1 (0.20%) JCL
10 1 (0.20%) Perl
Qualifications
1 129 (25.90%) Degree
2 87 (17.47%) Security Cleared
3 76 (15.26%) SC Cleared
4 26 (5.22%) DV Cleared
5 25 (5.02%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (4.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (3.82%) CCNA
8 15 (3.01%) Master's Degree
8 15 (3.01%) MCSE
9 14 (2.81%) A+ Certification
9 14 (2.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 11 (2.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 10 (2.01%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.81%) CCNP
13 7 (1.41%) MCP
13 7 (1.41%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.20%) MCSA
15 5 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
15 5 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
15 5 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.22%) SLA
2 27 (5.42%) PMO
3 11 (2.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.41%) Data Quality
5 6 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 4 (0.80%) QA
7 3 (0.60%) GDPR
7 3 (0.60%) NCSC
7 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 2 (0.40%) JSP 440
8 2 (0.40%) RMADS
9 1 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.20%) COSHH
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
9 1 (0.20%) Disclosure Scotland
9 1 (0.20%) GRC
9 1 (0.20%) NIST
System Software
1 132 (26.51%) Active Directory
2 36 (7.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (2.61%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (2.61%) VMware NSX
4 10 (2.01%) Hyper-V
5 8 (1.61%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 8 (1.61%) Virtual Servers
6 6 (1.20%) BitLocker
7 3 (0.60%) Brightmail
7 3 (0.60%) ISA Server
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.40%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.40%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.20%) Docker
9 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.20%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.20%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 37 (7.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (7.03%) SCCM
3 19 (3.82%) WSUS
4 13 (2.61%) Jamf Pro
4 13 (2.61%) vCenter Server
5 10 (2.01%) AppManager
6 4 (0.80%) Ansible
7 3 (0.60%) AirWatch
7 3 (0.60%) FortiGate
7 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Clustering
7 3 (0.60%) TeamSite
7 3 (0.60%) Terraform
8 2 (0.40%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 2 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.40%) PowerCLI
8 2 (0.40%) SCOM
8 2 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (0.20%) NSN NetAct
9 1 (0.20%) Sysprep
9 1 (0.20%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 363 (72.89%) Microsoft
2 53 (10.64%) ServiceNow
3 47 (9.44%) VMware
4 41 (8.23%) Apple
5 32 (6.43%) Cisco
6 31 (6.22%) Atlassian
7 27 (5.42%) Citrix
8 19 (3.82%) Oracle
9 14 (2.81%) HP
10 11 (2.21%) Ivanti
10 11 (2.21%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.61%) Remedy
11 8 (1.61%) Veeam
12 7 (1.41%) SAP
13 6 (1.20%) Adobe
13 6 (1.20%) Google
13 6 (1.20%) Palo Alto
14 5 (1.00%) iManage
14 5 (1.00%) Lotus
14 5 (1.00%) SolarWinds