Microsoft Office Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Office
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Microsoft Office skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 95 75
Rank change year-on-year -83 -20 0
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 809 872 1,160
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 2.67% 2.82%
As % of the Applications category 28.77% 31.41% 41.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 474 621
10th Percentile £158 £157 £140
25th Percentile £213 £216 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £354 £325
Median % change year-on-year -1.13% +8.92% -10.34%
75th Percentile £488 £525 £488
90th Percentile £588 £613 £594
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £300 £245
% change year-on-year +8.33% +22.45% -18.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 127 218
10th Percentile £12.60 £13.94 £10.99
25th Percentile £14.43 £15.84 £13.22
Median hourly rate £17.73 £18.77 £16.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.53% +12.60% -18.11%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.15 £26.69
90th Percentile £69.45 £32.75 £51.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year - +8.97% -9.37%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,812 2,776 2,810
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.33% 8.50% 6.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,577 1,546
10th Percentile £213 £197 £163
25th Percentile £325 £295 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £442 £415 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +3.79% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £525
90th Percentile £631 £641 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £400 £375
% change year-on-year +2.50% +6.67% -1.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 346 490
10th Percentile £13.51 £14.20 £11.76
25th Percentile £16.25 £15.84 £14.44
Median hourly rate £22.68 £23.05 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.61% +29.79% -28.96%
75th Percentile £35.78 £35.88 £40.75
90th Percentile £74.25 £60.00 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.50 £16.23
% change year-on-year +0.58% +38.63% -26.23%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Microsoft Office relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Microsoft Office job vacancy trend in the UK

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microsoft Office

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Top 18 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 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
England -90 684 £350 -2.23% 612
UK excluding London -48 531 £325 +8.33% 518
London -98 223 £373 -10.28% 178
Work from Home -72 194 £362 -15.62% 208
South East -38 133 £360 +44.00% 167
North of England -71 117 £386 +41.99% 106
North West -11 85 £365 -8.88% 71
Midlands -52 85 £325 +6.04% 86
South West -49 63 £310 +3.17% 58
East of England -15 56 £243 -35.33% 73
West Midlands -64 55 £325 - 48
Scotland +2 52 £196 -18.33% 29
East Midlands -6 29 £375 +87.50% 38
Yorkshire -93 28 £400 +50.80% 27
Northern Ireland +4 19 £225 -39.60% 5
Wales -22 15 £340 +13.33% 11
North East -40 6 £263 +34.62% 10
Channel Islands - 1 £550 -

Microsoft Office
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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
1 118 (14.59%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
3 38 (4.70%) Confluence
4 11 (1.36%) HCL Notes
5 9 (1.11%) CMS
6 8 (0.99%) Skype for Business
7 7 (0.87%) IIS
8 6 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.49%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.25%) Moodle
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.25%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) Drupal
11 1 (0.12%) SAS
11 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 329 (40.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (24.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 64 (7.91%) MS Visio
4 53 (6.55%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.99%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.37%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.25%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.25%) Navisworks
8 2 (0.25%) ProjectWise
8 2 (0.25%) Revit
8 2 (0.25%) Windchill
9 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) SOLIDWORKS
9 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 22 (2.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.48%) Primavera
3 10 (1.24%) Finacle
4 8 (0.99%) Magento
5 6 (0.74%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.62%) Remedy ITSM
6 5 (0.62%) SAP PSCD
7 4 (0.49%) iTrent
7 4 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.49%) SAP Business One
7 4 (0.49%) Teamcenter
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Financials
9 2 (0.25%) Changepoint
9 2 (0.25%) Fidessa
9 2 (0.25%) IntelliMatch
9 2 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.25%) Shopify
9 2 (0.25%) SimCorp Dimension
9 2 (0.25%) Summit
9 2 (0.25%) TrackWise
Cloud Services
1 140 (17.31%) Microsoft 365
2 82 (10.14%) Azure
3 51 (6.30%) Power Platform
4 33 (4.08%) AWS
5 25 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 24 (2.97%) OneDrive
7 20 (2.47%) SaaS
8 16 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (1.98%) Google Workspace
9 10 (1.24%) GCP
10 7 (0.87%) GitHub
10 7 (0.87%) Google Sheets
11 6 (0.74%) Amazon SageMaker
11 6 (0.74%) Dagster
11 6 (0.74%) GitHub Actions
11 6 (0.74%) Google Docs
11 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Purview
12 5 (0.62%) Lucidchart
12 5 (0.62%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 47 (5.81%) VPN
2 37 (4.57%) TCP/IP
3 25 (3.09%) Wi-Fi
4 20 (2.47%) DNS
4 20 (2.47%) Firewall
4 20 (2.47%) Network Security
5 19 (2.35%) LAN
5 19 (2.35%) WAN
6 18 (2.22%) Skype
7 16 (1.98%) Ethernet
8 14 (1.73%) DHCP
9 13 (1.61%) Wireless
10 12 (1.48%) MPLS
11 11 (1.36%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (1.11%) BGP
12 9 (1.11%) Internet
13 8 (0.99%) VoIP
14 7 (0.87%) TACACS
14 7 (0.87%) Unified Communications
14 7 (0.87%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (5.69%) Power BI
2 31 (3.83%) SQL Server
3 14 (1.73%) Oracle Database
4 13 (1.61%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.36%) RDBMS
6 7 (0.87%) MS Access
6 7 (0.87%) MySQL
6 7 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 5 (0.62%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.49%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (0.49%) EDMS
8 4 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.49%) Power Query
8 4 (0.49%) Tableau
9 3 (0.37%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 2 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.25%) Oracle Database 11g
10 2 (0.25%) PowerPivot
10 2 (0.25%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 62 (7.66%) JIRA
2 21 (2.60%) Git
3 15 (1.85%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.11%) Subversion
5 7 (0.87%) Visual Studio
6 6 (0.74%) MLflow
6 6 (0.74%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 6 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.25%) Toad
8 1 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.12%) GitLab
8 1 (0.12%) JMeter
8 1 (0.12%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.12%) Metasploit
8 1 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.12%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (0.12%) Selenium
8 1 (0.12%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 450 (55.62%) Social Skills
2 220 (27.19%) Finance
3 207 (25.59%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (16.93%) Organisational Skills
5 60 (7.42%) Banking
6 58 (7.17%) Public Sector
7 54 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
8 39 (4.82%) Legal
9 32 (3.96%) Retail
10 31 (3.83%) Marketing
11 26 (3.21%) Telecoms
12 25 (3.09%) Documentation Skills
13 24 (2.97%) Manufacturing
14 23 (2.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 23 (2.84%) Pharmaceutical
15 22 (2.72%) Front Office
16 19 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
16 19 (2.35%) Law
17 13 (1.61%) Back Office
18 12 (1.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 151 (18.67%) Analyst
2 56 (6.92%) Administrator
3 52 (6.43%) IT Support
4 48 (5.93%) Senior
5 41 (5.07%) Project Manager
6 40 (4.94%) Support Engineer
7 39 (4.82%) Business Analyst
8 34 (4.20%) IT Analyst
9 33 (4.08%) Consultant
10 31 (3.83%) Service Analyst
11 29 (3.58%) Support Analyst
12 28 (3.46%) Coordinator
13 27 (3.34%) Project Officer
14 25 (3.09%) Service Desk Analyst
15 24 (2.97%) Lead
16 23 (2.84%) Technical Engineer
17 22 (2.72%) 2nd Line Support
17 22 (2.72%) IT Support Analyst
18 21 (2.60%) Support Officer
19 20 (2.47%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (1.36%) JSON
1 11 (1.36%) XML
2 10 (1.24%) HTML
3 9 (1.11%) VML
4 8 (0.99%) REST
4 8 (0.99%) SOAP
5 7 (0.87%) .NET
5 7 (0.87%) ASP.NET
5 7 (0.87%) WinForms
6 6 (0.74%) ASP.NET Web API
6 6 (0.74%) NETCONF
6 6 (0.74%) NumPy
6 6 (0.74%) OpenConfig
6 6 (0.74%) Pandas
6 6 (0.74%) RESTCONF
6 6 (0.74%) scikit-learn
6 6 (0.74%) Seaborn
6 6 (0.74%) WCF
6 6 (0.74%) XSLT
6 6 (0.74%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 62 (7.66%) Onboarding
2 60 (7.42%) Management Information System
3 53 (6.55%) Self-Motivation
4 29 (3.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 20 (2.47%) Robotics
6 17 (2.10%) Data Centre
6 17 (2.10%) Social Media
7 16 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 16 (1.98%) Industry 4.0
8 14 (1.73%) Virtual Team
9 13 (1.61%) Life Science
9 13 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
10 11 (1.36%) Blackberry
11 10 (1.24%) e-Learning
11 10 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
11 10 (1.24%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.24%) SWIFT Messaging Network
12 9 (1.11%) Smartphone
13 8 (0.99%) Driving Licence
13 8 (0.99%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 197 (24.35%) Windows
2 72 (8.90%) Windows 10
3 35 (4.33%) Android
4 20 (2.47%) Linux
5 14 (1.73%) Windows 7
5 14 (1.73%) Windows Server
6 13 (1.61%) Unix
7 11 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 4 (0.49%) Solaris
10 3 (0.37%) VMS
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.25%) AIX
12 1 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.12%) MVS
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE
12 1 (0.12%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.12%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.12%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 246 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
2 145 (17.92%) Project Management
3 139 (17.18%) Customer Service
4 137 (16.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 120 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
6 100 (12.36%) Agile
7 99 (12.24%) ITIL
8 93 (11.50%) Project Delivery
9 78 (9.64%) Decision-Making
10 77 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 70 (8.65%) Change Management
12 67 (8.28%) AI
13 62 (7.66%) Service Management
14 60 (7.42%) ITSM
15 57 (7.05%) Data Analysis
16 55 (6.80%) Service Delivery
17 51 (6.30%) Waterfall
18 50 (6.18%) Time Management
19 49 (6.06%) Risk Management
20 47 (5.81%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 67 (8.28%) SQL
2 26 (3.21%) Python
3 24 (2.97%) PowerShell
4 15 (1.85%) VB
5 13 (1.61%) VBA
5 13 (1.61%) VBScript
6 12 (1.48%) PL/SQL
7 10 (1.24%) T-SQL
8 9 (1.11%) Java
9 7 (0.87%) C#
9 7 (0.87%) VB.NET
10 6 (0.74%) XPath
11 5 (0.62%) ABAP
12 4 (0.49%) C
13 3 (0.37%) C++
13 3 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
14 2 (0.25%) JavaScript
14 2 (0.25%) Perl
14 2 (0.25%) PHP
15 1 (0.12%) Ada
Qualifications
1 280 (34.61%) Degree
2 151 (18.67%) Security Cleared
3 114 (14.09%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.83%) PMP
5 30 (3.71%) PMI Certification
6 26 (3.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 22 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
7 22 (2.72%) DV Cleared
8 20 (2.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 19 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.22%) DBS Check
11 16 (1.98%) CCNP
12 15 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (1.24%) Master's Degree
14 9 (1.11%) A+ Certification
14 9 (1.11%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 8 (0.99%) BC Cleared
15 8 (0.99%) CCIE
16 7 (0.87%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (7.91%) PMO
2 51 (6.30%) SLA
3 23 (2.84%) QA
4 21 (2.60%) Data Quality
5 17 (2.10%) GDPR
6 14 (1.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (0.99%) P3O
8 7 (0.87%) Accessibility
8 7 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (0.87%) NIST
8 7 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 5 (0.62%) EMIR
10 4 (0.49%) GRC
10 4 (0.49%) MiFID
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 19650
11 3 (0.37%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 42001
11 3 (0.37%) WCAG
12 2 (0.25%) GMP
12 2 (0.25%) HL7
System Software
1 81 (10.01%) Active Directory
2 10 (1.24%) BitLocker
2 10 (1.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (0.74%) Docker
4 3 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (0.37%) vSphere
5 2 (0.25%) Firmware
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (0.12%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) XenApp
6 1 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (5.81%) SCCM
2 29 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (1.61%) Ansible
4 5 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (0.62%) HP Quality Center
5 4 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (0.37%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (0.37%) HP ALM
6 3 (0.37%) SCOM
6 3 (0.37%) SCSM
6 3 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
6 3 (0.37%) Terraform
6 3 (0.37%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.25%) Data Guard
7 2 (0.25%) Oracle RMAN
7 2 (0.25%) TeamSite
8 1 (0.12%) Control-M
8 1 (0.12%) Nmap
8 1 (0.12%) WSUS
Vendors
1 574 (70.95%) Microsoft
2 87 (10.75%) ServiceNow
3 59 (7.29%) SAP
4 51 (6.30%) Cisco
5 43 (5.32%) Oracle
6 34 (4.20%) Google
7 24 (2.97%) Apple
8 19 (2.35%) HP
9 15 (1.85%) Adobe
9 15 (1.85%) Siemens
10 13 (1.61%) VMware
11 11 (1.36%) Lotus
12 9 (1.11%) Fortinet
12 9 (1.11%) Remedy
12 9 (1.11%) Salesforce
13 8 (0.99%) Citrix
13 8 (0.99%) Juniper
13 8 (0.99%) Workday
14 7 (0.87%) JD Edwards
14 7 (0.87%) Planview