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 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 89 65
Rank change year-on-year -88 -24 +16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 758 797 1,309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.53% 2.71% 3.00%
As % of the Applications category 28.05% 32.10% 40.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 453 695
10th Percentile £153 £160 £140
25th Percentile £221 £213 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £315 £275
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +14.55% -26.67%
75th Percentile £484 £500 £495
90th Percentile £588 £606 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £278 £240
% change year-on-year +17.12% +15.63% -26.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 100 300
10th Percentile £12.29 £14.17 £11.00
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.62 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.39 £17.00 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.26% +6.25% -29.30%
75th Percentile £25.00 £23.98 £23.94
90th Percentile £37.00 £32.05 £39.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.68 £16.67 £15.00
% change year-on-year +0.06% +11.10% -20.00%

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 2,702 2,483 3,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.46% 8.45% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,557 1,436 1,679
10th Percentile £232 £194 £165
25th Percentile £331 £263 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +8.36% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £550 £540 £538
90th Percentile £632 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £380 £375
% change year-on-year +11.84% +1.44% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 286 639
10th Percentile £13.15 £14.25 £11.64
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.66 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.23% +51.94% -42.71%
75th Percentile £34.46 £43.75 £36.57
90th Percentile £68.75 £65.45 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.52 £24.40 £16.06
% change year-on-year -15.90% +51.95% -39.35%

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 10 June 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 10 June 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 10 June 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 -83 655 £350 +9.38% 531
UK excluding London -52 507 £325 +17.12% 491
London -93 206 £406 +12.85% 107
Work from Home -56 184 £362 -12.24% 208
South East -33 124 £425 +54.78% 140
North of England -76 118 £365 +46.00% 95
Midlands -45 84 £314 +0.32% 96
North West -16 77 £375 +8.42% 60
East of England -8 63 £200 -36.00% 55
West Midlands -45 52 £314 -0.32% 54
South West -54 51 £292 -2.58% 74
Scotland -28 36 £209 -14.90% 24
Yorkshire -88 35 £368 +53.33% 25
East Midlands -16 32 £319 +59.50% 43
Northern Ireland +1 17 £288 -4.17% 13
Wales -10 16 £280 -6.67% 7
North East -26 6 £263 +34.62% 10
Channel Islands -2 1 £550 +84.87%

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 (15.57%) SharePoint
2 50 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 44 (5.80%) Confluence
4 11 (1.45%) Skype for Business
5 8 (1.06%) HCL Notes
6 7 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.92%) CMS
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.13%) Drupal
7 1 (0.13%) IIS
7 1 (0.13%) Moodle
7 1 (0.13%) SAS
7 1 (0.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 311 (41.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 197 (25.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (8.05%) MS Visio
4 38 (5.01%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (1.32%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.53%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.40%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.40%) Trello
8 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 22 (2.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 6 (0.79%) Finacle
3 6 (0.79%) Primavera
3 6 (0.79%) Veritas eDiscovery
4 4 (0.53%) Magento
4 4 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.53%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.40%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.40%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.40%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
5 3 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.26%) Shopify
7 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.13%) SystmOne
7 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 143 (18.87%) Microsoft 365
2 76 (10.03%) Azure
3 43 (5.67%) Power Platform
4 37 (4.88%) AWS
5 22 (2.90%) Entra ID
6 17 (2.24%) SaaS
7 13 (1.72%) GCP
7 13 (1.72%) OneDrive
8 12 (1.58%) Google Workspace
9 11 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
10 7 (0.92%) Amazon SageMaker
10 7 (0.92%) Dagster
10 7 (0.92%) GitHub
10 7 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
10 7 (0.92%) Mimecast
11 6 (0.79%) Google Docs
11 6 (0.79%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.66%) Dynamics 365
12 5 (0.66%) Google Sheets
12 5 (0.66%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.94%) VPN
2 30 (3.96%) TCP/IP
3 23 (3.03%) Skype
3 23 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.90%) Firewall
5 19 (2.51%) DNS
6 16 (2.11%) Ethernet
6 16 (2.11%) LAN
6 16 (2.11%) WAN
6 16 (2.11%) Wireless
7 15 (1.98%) Network Security
8 13 (1.72%) DHCP
9 8 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
10 7 (0.92%) Internet
10 7 (0.92%) VoIP
11 6 (0.79%) MPLS
11 6 (0.79%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.79%) WebEx
12 5 (0.66%) VLAN
13 4 (0.53%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (5.15%) Power BI
2 18 (2.37%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.19%) MySQL
4 8 (1.06%) Relational Database
5 7 (0.92%) Oracle Database
6 6 (0.79%) RDBMS
7 5 (0.66%) Data Mining
8 4 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
8 4 (0.53%) Tableau
9 3 (0.40%) EDMS
10 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.26%) Power Query
10 2 (0.26%) PowerPivot
11 1 (0.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 1 (0.13%) BigQuery
11 1 (0.13%) EDRMS
11 1 (0.13%) Looker
11 1 (0.13%) Metadata
11 1 (0.13%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 61 (8.05%) JIRA
2 13 (1.72%) Git
3 8 (1.06%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.92%) MLflow
4 7 (0.92%) Subversion
5 6 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.79%) Metasploit
6 4 (0.53%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (0.40%) Toad
8 2 (0.26%) Android Studio
8 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.26%) JMeter
8 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.26%) Tricentis qTest
9 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.13%) GitLab
9 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
9 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (0.13%) Rational Rhapsody
9 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 424 (55.94%) Social Skills
2 212 (27.97%) Finance
3 164 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (15.30%) Organisational Skills
5 63 (8.31%) Banking
6 53 (6.99%) Public Sector
7 46 (6.07%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (5.67%) Legal
9 25 (3.30%) Retail
10 24 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 22 (2.90%) Marketing
12 21 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.77%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (2.51%) Investment Banking
14 19 (2.51%) Manufacturing
15 18 (2.37%) Front Office
15 18 (2.37%) Law
16 17 (2.24%) Influencing Skills
17 13 (1.72%) French Language
Job Titles
1 153 (20.18%) Analyst
2 54 (7.12%) Business Analyst
3 49 (6.46%) Administrator
4 44 (5.80%) Senior
5 42 (5.54%) IT Support
6 38 (5.01%) Support Engineer
7 34 (4.49%) Support Officer
8 33 (4.35%) Project Manager
8 33 (4.35%) Project Officer
9 32 (4.22%) Project Support Officer
10 27 (3.56%) IT Analyst
11 26 (3.43%) Support Analyst
11 26 (3.43%) Technical Engineer
12 25 (3.30%) Service Analyst
13 24 (3.17%) 2nd Line Support
14 23 (3.03%) Coordinator
15 20 (2.64%) Consultant
15 20 (2.64%) Service Desk Analyst
16 19 (2.51%) Desktop Engineer
16 19 (2.51%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (0.92%) NumPy
1 7 (0.92%) Pandas
1 7 (0.92%) scikit-learn
1 7 (0.92%) Seaborn
2 5 (0.66%) JDO
2 5 (0.66%) VML
3 4 (0.53%) HTML
3 4 (0.53%) Web Services
4 3 (0.40%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.40%) REST
5 2 (0.26%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.26%) ADO
5 2 (0.26%) FHIR
5 2 (0.26%) JSON
5 2 (0.26%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.26%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.26%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.26%) SOAP
5 2 (0.26%) XML
5 2 (0.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 55 (7.26%) Onboarding
2 50 (6.60%) Self-Motivation
3 42 (5.54%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.64%) Robotics
5 19 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (2.37%) Social Media
7 16 (2.11%) Industry 4.0
8 15 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
9 12 (1.58%) Virtual Team
10 11 (1.45%) Life Science
11 10 (1.32%) Data Centre
12 9 (1.19%) Driving Licence
12 9 (1.19%) e-Learning
12 9 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.19%) Mobile Payment
12 9 (1.19%) PMI
12 9 (1.19%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.19%) Video Conferencing
13 8 (1.06%) Blackberry
13 8 (1.06%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 178 (23.48%) Windows
2 85 (11.21%) Windows 10
3 36 (4.75%) Android
4 20 (2.64%) Windows 7
5 19 (2.51%) Linux
6 12 (1.58%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.45%) Windows Server
8 9 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.53%) Unix
11 2 (0.26%) AIX
11 2 (0.26%) Solaris
12 1 (0.13%) MVS
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 212 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
2 130 (17.15%) Project Management
3 124 (16.36%) Customer Service
4 118 (15.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 98 (12.93%) Agile
6 91 (12.01%) Continuous Improvement
7 86 (11.35%) Project Delivery
8 78 (10.29%) ITIL
9 72 (9.50%) Decision-Making
10 66 (8.71%) AI
11 64 (8.44%) Change Management
12 60 (7.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 55 (7.26%) Service Management
14 53 (6.99%) ITSM
15 50 (6.60%) Time Management
16 48 (6.33%) Waterfall
17 46 (6.07%) Data Analysis
18 45 (5.94%) Data Protection
18 45 (5.94%) Process Improvement
19 44 (5.80%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 46 (6.07%) SQL
2 34 (4.49%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.90%) Python
4 19 (2.51%) VB
5 12 (1.58%) VBScript
6 5 (0.66%) VBA
7 4 (0.53%) C
7 4 (0.53%) Java
7 4 (0.53%) PL/SQL
7 4 (0.53%) T-SQL
8 3 (0.40%) C++
8 3 (0.40%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.40%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.26%) PHP
10 1 (0.13%) Ada
10 1 (0.13%) Bash
10 1 (0.13%) C#
10 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
10 1 (0.13%) Perl
10 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 265 (34.96%) Degree
2 145 (19.13%) Security Cleared
3 112 (14.78%) SC Cleared
4 31 (4.09%) DV Cleared
5 21 (2.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 21 (2.77%) PMI Certification
6 20 (2.64%) PMP
7 18 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 18 (2.37%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (2.24%) DBS Check
9 16 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
10 14 (1.85%) CCNP
10 14 (1.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 12 (1.58%) CBAP
12 11 (1.45%) A+ Certification
12 11 (1.45%) IIBA
12 11 (1.45%) Master's Degree
13 9 (1.19%) MCSE
13 9 (1.19%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (0.92%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (9.63%) PMO
2 49 (6.46%) SLA
3 32 (4.22%) QA
4 22 (2.90%) Data Quality
5 20 (2.64%) GDPR
6 18 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.92%) Accessibility
9 7 (0.92%) NIST
10 6 (0.79%) P3O
11 5 (0.66%) MiFID
12 4 (0.53%) EMIR
13 3 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 42001
13 3 (0.40%) WCAG
14 2 (0.26%) GRC
14 2 (0.26%) HL7
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
14 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (10.55%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.72%) BitLocker
3 8 (1.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Docker
5 4 (0.53%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.53%) XenApp
5 4 (0.53%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.40%) vSphere
7 2 (0.26%) Firmware
8 1 (0.13%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
8 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.13%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 46 (6.07%) SCCM
2 33 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (1.19%) Ansible
4 7 (0.92%) HP Quality Center
5 6 (0.79%) Nmap
6 4 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.53%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.53%) SCVMM
6 4 (0.53%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.53%) TeamSite
6 4 (0.53%) Terraform
7 3 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.40%) SCOM
7 3 (0.40%) SCSM
7 3 (0.40%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.40%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 533 (70.32%) Microsoft
2 74 (9.76%) ServiceNow
3 51 (6.73%) SAP
4 43 (5.67%) Cisco
5 29 (3.83%) Google
6 26 (3.43%) Oracle
7 22 (2.90%) Apple
8 16 (2.11%) Remedy
9 15 (1.98%) Citrix
9 15 (1.98%) Siemens
10 14 (1.85%) HP
11 13 (1.72%) Adobe
12 9 (1.19%) Salesforce
13 8 (1.06%) Lotus
13 8 (1.06%) Planview
13 8 (1.06%) VMware
14 7 (0.92%) Workday
15 6 (0.79%) Atlassian
15 6 (0.79%) Splunk
16 5 (0.66%) CyberArk