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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 90 68
Rank change year-on-year -83 -22 +11
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 765 814 1,306
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.52% 2.75% 3.00%
As % of the Applications category 28.00% 32.19% 40.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 401 462 687
10th Percentile £153 £160 £141
25th Percentile £220 £213 £196
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £275
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +18.18% -26.67%
75th Percentile £488 £500 £494
90th Percentile £588 £606 £606
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £299 £245
% change year-on-year +8.79% +21.94% -24.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 125 105 299
10th Percentile £12.29 £14.20 £10.99
25th Percentile £13.51 £15.62 £12.50
Median hourly rate £17.75 £17.80 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.28% +11.25% -29.30%
75th Percentile £25.75 £25.00 £24.02
90th Percentile £37.00 £32.47 £39.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.20 £16.67 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.21% +11.10% -18.92%

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 2,732 2,529 3,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 5.44% 8.54% 7.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,572 1,464 1,658
10th Percentile £228 £190 £166
25th Percentile £332 £263 £225
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £413 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.13% -5.88%
75th Percentile £551 £540 £538
90th Percentile £638 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £388 £371
% change year-on-year +9.68% +4.38% -4.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 294 645
10th Percentile £13.15 £14.23 £11.68
25th Percentile £16.04 £15.84 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £24.83 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +52.99% -40.98%
75th Percentile £34.50 £43.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £63.40 £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.72 £24.59 £16.06
% change year-on-year -11.67% +53.08% -35.76%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -88 661 £350 +7.69% 761
UK excluding London -60 512 £325 +8.79% 780
London -96 206 £400 +11.11% 139
Work from Home -56 182 £360 -12.73% 467
South East -29 127 £425 +62.16% 208
North of England -75 116 £396 +50.86% 148
Midlands -44 84 £315 +0.64% 137
North West -17 78 £400 +11.03% 83
East of England -11 65 £200 -36.00% 83
South West -61 53 £275 -8.33% 94
West Midlands -55 51 £314 -1.88% 66
Scotland -23 37 £209 -13.13% 56
East Midlands -10 33 £325 +62.50% 72
Yorkshire -89 32 £397 +51.38% 45
Northern Ireland -1 16 £225 -33.09% 43
Wales -10 16 £280 -6.67% 29
North East -36 6 £263 +34.62% 20
Channel Islands 0 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
1 115 (15.03%) SharePoint
2 50 (6.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 46 (6.01%) Confluence
4 11 (1.44%) Skype for Business
5 8 (1.05%) 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
1 314 (41.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 195 (25.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 61 (7.97%) MS Visio
4 43 (5.62%) Microsoft Project
5 11 (1.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.52%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 3 (0.39%) Adobe Illustrator
7 3 (0.39%) 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 23 (3.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (1.05%) Primavera
3 7 (0.92%) Finacle
3 7 (0.92%) Remedy ITSM
4 6 (0.78%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 5 (0.65%) SAP MM
6 4 (0.52%) Magento
6 4 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.52%) SAP Business One
7 3 (0.39%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.39%) Fidessa
7 3 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
7 3 (0.39%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.26%) iTrent
8 2 (0.26%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.26%) Shopify
9 1 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 1 (0.13%) SAP EHS
9 1 (0.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (18.30%) Microsoft 365
2 74 (9.67%) Azure
3 46 (6.01%) Power Platform
4 37 (4.84%) AWS
5 21 (2.75%) Entra ID
6 18 (2.35%) SaaS
7 13 (1.70%) Google Workspace
7 13 (1.70%) OneDrive
8 12 (1.57%) GCP
9 11 (1.44%) 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 (0.78%) Google Docs
11 6 (0.78%) Snowflake
12 5 (0.65%) Google Sheets
12 5 (0.65%) Lucidchart
12 5 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 44 (5.75%) VPN
2 30 (3.92%) TCP/IP
3 23 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
4 22 (2.88%) Skype
5 21 (2.75%) Firewall
6 19 (2.48%) DNS
7 16 (2.09%) Ethernet
7 16 (2.09%) LAN
7 16 (2.09%) WAN
8 15 (1.96%) Network Security
8 15 (1.96%) Wireless
9 13 (1.70%) DHCP
10 8 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
11 7 (0.92%) Internet
11 7 (0.92%) VoIP
12 6 (0.78%) MPLS
12 6 (0.78%) Unified Communications
12 6 (0.78%) WebEx
13 5 (0.65%) VLAN
14 4 (0.52%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (5.49%) Power BI
2 20 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 9 (1.18%) MySQL
3 9 (1.18%) Relational Database
4 8 (1.05%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.92%) RDBMS
6 5 (0.65%) Data Mining
7 4 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
7 4 (0.52%) Tableau
8 3 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (0.39%) EDMS
8 3 (0.39%) Power Query
9 2 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
9 2 (0.26%) Metadata
9 2 (0.26%) PowerPivot
9 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.13%) Data Mart
10 1 (0.13%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.13%) QlikView
10 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 63 (8.24%) JIRA
2 13 (1.70%) Git
3 8 (1.05%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.92%) MLflow
4 7 (0.92%) Subversion
5 5 (0.65%) Burp Suite
5 5 (0.65%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 3 (0.39%) Toad
7 2 (0.26%) Android Studio
7 2 (0.26%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.26%) JMeter
7 2 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.26%) Tricentis qTest
8 1 (0.13%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.13%) GitLab
8 1 (0.13%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.13%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (0.13%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.13%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 424 (55.42%) Social Skills
2 220 (28.76%) Finance
3 169 (22.09%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (15.16%) Organisational Skills
5 63 (8.24%) Banking
6 55 (7.19%) Public Sector
7 49 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (5.23%) Legal
9 25 (3.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 25 (3.27%) Retail
10 23 (3.01%) Documentation Skills
10 23 (3.01%) Marketing
11 22 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (2.75%) Manufacturing
12 21 (2.75%) Telecoms
13 18 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (2.35%) Law
14 17 (2.22%) Front Office
14 17 (2.22%) Investment Banking
15 13 (1.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 154 (20.13%) Analyst
2 53 (6.93%) Business Analyst
3 50 (6.54%) Administrator
4 43 (5.62%) Senior
5 41 (5.36%) IT Support
6 38 (4.97%) Support Engineer
7 35 (4.58%) Project Manager
7 35 (4.58%) Project Officer
7 35 (4.58%) Support Officer
8 33 (4.31%) Project Support Officer
9 27 (3.53%) IT Analyst
10 26 (3.40%) Support Analyst
10 26 (3.40%) Technical Engineer
11 25 (3.27%) Coordinator
11 25 (3.27%) Service Analyst
12 24 (3.14%) 2nd Line Support
13 22 (2.88%) Consultant
14 20 (2.61%) Service Desk Analyst
15 19 (2.48%) Desktop Engineer
15 19 (2.48%) 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 (0.65%) JDO
2 5 (0.65%) VML
2 5 (0.65%) Web Services
3 4 (0.52%) HTML
3 4 (0.52%) JSON
4 3 (0.39%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (0.39%) REST
4 3 (0.39%) XML
5 2 (0.26%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.26%) ADO
5 2 (0.26%) FHIR
5 2 (0.26%) LDAP
5 2 (0.26%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.26%) OpenConfig
5 2 (0.26%) RESTCONF
5 2 (0.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.45%) Onboarding
2 49 (6.41%) Self-Motivation
3 45 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 20 (2.61%) Robotics
5 18 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 18 (2.35%) Social Media
6 17 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
7 16 (2.09%) Industry 4.0
8 12 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 11 (1.44%) Life Science
10 10 (1.31%) Data Centre
10 10 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
11 9 (1.18%) Driving Licence
11 9 (1.18%) e-Learning
11 9 (1.18%) Mobile Payment
11 9 (1.18%) NHS
11 9 (1.18%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.18%) SWIFT Messaging Network
11 9 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
12 8 (1.05%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 177 (23.14%) Windows
2 84 (10.98%) Windows 10
3 36 (4.71%) Android
4 20 (2.61%) Windows 7
5 19 (2.48%) Linux
6 12 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.44%) Windows Server
8 8 (1.05%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.52%) Unix
11 2 (0.26%) AIX
11 2 (0.26%) Solaris
12 1 (0.13%) FreeRTOS
12 1 (0.13%) MVS
12 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.13%) SUSE
12 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 213 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
2 134 (17.52%) Project Management
3 122 (15.95%) Customer Service
3 122 (15.95%) Stakeholder Management
4 100 (13.07%) Agile
5 91 (11.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 87 (11.37%) Project Delivery
7 81 (10.59%) ITIL
8 73 (9.54%) Decision-Making
9 67 (8.76%) AI
10 64 (8.37%) Change Management
11 63 (8.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 56 (7.32%) Service Management
13 53 (6.93%) ITSM
14 50 (6.54%) Waterfall
15 47 (6.14%) Time Management
16 46 (6.01%) Data Analysis
16 46 (6.01%) PRINCE2
16 46 (6.01%) Process Improvement
17 45 (5.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 53 (6.93%) SQL
2 34 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 22 (2.88%) Python
4 19 (2.48%) VB
5 12 (1.57%) VBScript
6 6 (0.78%) VBA
7 5 (0.65%) PL/SQL
8 4 (0.52%) C
8 4 (0.52%) Java
8 4 (0.52%) T-SQL
9 3 (0.39%) C++
9 3 (0.39%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.39%) Kusto Query Language
10 2 (0.26%) PHP
11 1 (0.13%) Ada
11 1 (0.13%) Bash
11 1 (0.13%) C#
11 1 (0.13%) Google Apps Script
11 1 (0.13%) Perl
11 1 (0.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 268 (35.03%) Degree
2 146 (19.08%) Security Cleared
3 114 (14.90%) SC Cleared
4 33 (4.31%) DV Cleared
5 23 (3.01%) PMI Certification
6 22 (2.88%) PMP
7 21 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
9 18 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (2.22%) DBS Check
11 16 (2.09%) Cisco Certification
11 16 (2.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 14 (1.83%) CCNP
13 12 (1.57%) CBAP
14 11 (1.44%) A+ Certification
14 11 (1.44%) IIBA
14 11 (1.44%) Master's Degree
15 9 (1.18%) MCSE
15 9 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
16 8 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (8.89%) PMO
2 49 (6.41%) SLA
3 30 (3.92%) QA
4 22 (2.88%) Data Quality
5 21 (2.75%) GDPR
6 17 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 13 (1.70%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.92%) NIST
10 6 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.78%) P3O
11 4 (0.52%) EMIR
12 3 (0.39%) GRC
12 3 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 42001
12 3 (0.39%) MiFID
12 3 (0.39%) WCAG
13 2 (0.26%) HL7
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 20022
13 2 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (10.33%) Active Directory
2 13 (1.70%) BitLocker
3 8 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.92%) Docker
5 4 (0.52%) Hyper-V
5 4 (0.52%) XenApp
5 4 (0.52%) XenDesktop
6 3 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (0.39%) 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 (6.01%) SCCM
2 32 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 9 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 9 (1.18%) Ansible
4 7 (0.92%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (0.65%) Nmap
6 4 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (0.52%) HP ALM
6 4 (0.52%) SCVMM
6 4 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.52%) TeamSite
6 4 (0.52%) Terraform
7 3 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.39%) SCOM
7 3 (0.39%) SCSM
7 3 (0.39%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (0.39%) vCenter Server
8 1 (0.13%) Control-M
8 1 (0.13%) Puppet
8 1 (0.13%) WSUS
Vendors
1 537 (70.20%) Microsoft
2 76 (9.93%) ServiceNow
3 54 (7.06%) SAP
4 42 (5.49%) Cisco
5 29 (3.79%) Google
5 29 (3.79%) Oracle
6 22 (2.88%) Apple
7 15 (1.96%) Remedy
7 15 (1.96%) Siemens
8 14 (1.83%) Citrix
8 14 (1.83%) HP
9 13 (1.70%) Adobe
10 9 (1.18%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.05%) Lotus
11 8 (1.05%) Planview
11 8 (1.05%) VMware
12 7 (0.92%) Workday
13 6 (0.78%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.78%) Splunk
14 5 (0.65%) CyberArk