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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 81 67
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 +18
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 900 1,038 1,566
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.74% 2.69% 3.13%
As % of the Applications category 32.35% 40.55% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 482 580 1,033
10th Percentile £156 £143 £153
25th Percentile £211 £200 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £325 £325
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% - -
75th Percentile £525 £500 £538
90th Percentile £638 £613 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £300 £250 £260
% change year-on-year +20.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 78 103
10th Percentile £13.80 £13.60 £13.29
25th Percentile £16.02 £18.03 £15.50
Median hourly rate £20.53 £25.15 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year -18.39% +32.86% +2.32%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £27.25
90th Percentile £35.00 £48.23 £46.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £18.94 £24.08 £17.72
% change year-on-year -21.37% +35.89% +1.26%

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 2,782 2,560 3,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 8.46% 6.64% 7.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,566 1,445 2,478
10th Percentile £200 £165 £180
25th Percentile £300 £250 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £542 £525 £550
90th Percentile £649 £638 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £375 £375
% change year-on-year +6.67% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 339 273 262
10th Percentile £13.56 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.02 £15.34 £16.61
Median hourly rate £23.45 £17.50 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -22.33% +2.41%
75th Percentile £35.00 £35.00 £42.88
90th Percentile £56.92 £58.50 £54.94
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £16.23 £22.00
% change year-on-year +37.49% -26.23% +9.24%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office 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 20 September 2025.

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 20 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Top 17 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 20 September 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
England -4 793 £350 +0.72% 1,201
UK excluding London -16 540 £300 +20.00% 1,032
London +3 328 £400 +5.12% 378
Work from Home -39 200 £450 +12.50% 440
North of England -5 135 £275 +23.60% 245
South East -13 109 £259 -26.00% 365
Midlands -18 94 £300 -25.93% 154
West Midlands -2 74 £313 -26.35% 90
South West +2 73 £250 +13.64% 88
Yorkshire +8 69 £262 +20.89% 76
North West -15 60 £332 +15.43% 147
East of England +17 45 £404 +11.38% 105
Scotland -39 39 £311 +38.33% 57
Northern Ireland +5 26 £373 +148.33% 13
East Midlands -15 20 £195 -47.95% 64
Wales -4 19 £298 +39.18% 25
North East -8 6 £198 -46.62% 26

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 152 (16.89%) SharePoint
2 86 (9.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (6.11%) Confluence
4 36 (4.00%) Skype for Business
5 20 (2.22%) Exchange Server 2013
6 13 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2003
6 13 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2007
6 13 (1.44%) Exchange Server 2010
6 13 (1.44%) Office Communications Server
6 13 (1.44%) SharePoint Server
7 9 (1.00%) CMS
7 9 (1.00%) IIS
8 7 (0.78%) Mattermost
9 6 (0.67%) HCL Notes
9 6 (0.67%) Moodle
10 3 (0.33%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.22%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 294 (32.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 189 (21.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 72 (8.00%) MS Visio
4 52 (5.78%) Microsoft Project
5 8 (0.89%) Adobe Captivate
6 7 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.67%) Maya
7 6 (0.67%) Simulink
8 5 (0.56%) Windchill
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 4 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.44%) Photoshop
9 4 (0.44%) Trello
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
10 2 (0.22%) Adobe Premiere
10 2 (0.22%) InDesign
10 2 (0.22%) Oracle Smart View
11 1 (0.11%) ProjectWise
11 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 18 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 6 (0.67%) Salesforce CRM
5 5 (0.56%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.44%) CA PPM
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.44%) SAP PLM
7 3 (0.33%) BPCS
7 3 (0.33%) Teamcenter
8 2 (0.22%) Alphatax
8 2 (0.22%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.22%) Oracle 11i
8 2 (0.22%) SAP HCM
8 2 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
8 2 (0.22%) Shopify
9 1 (0.11%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.11%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 179 (19.89%) Microsoft 365
2 78 (8.67%) Azure
3 53 (5.89%) Power Platform
4 38 (4.22%) Entra ID
5 26 (2.89%) OneDrive
6 13 (1.44%) Google Workspace
6 13 (1.44%) PowerApps
7 12 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
8 10 (1.11%) OCI
9 9 (1.00%) Lucidchart
9 9 (1.00%) SaaS
10 8 (0.89%) Power Automate
11 7 (0.78%) AWS
11 7 (0.78%) Slack
12 6 (0.67%) Dynamics 365
12 6 (0.67%) GitHub
13 4 (0.44%) Asana
13 4 (0.44%) Canva
13 4 (0.44%) Figma
13 4 (0.44%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 73 (8.11%) DNS
2 72 (8.00%) VPN
3 53 (5.89%) DHCP
4 34 (3.78%) TCP/IP
5 33 (3.67%) LAN
6 32 (3.56%) Firewall
7 31 (3.44%) WAN
8 29 (3.22%) Wireless
9 25 (2.78%) Skype
10 20 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
11 18 (2.00%) VoIP
12 16 (1.78%) SAN
13 15 (1.67%) Cisco IOS
14 14 (1.56%) PuTTY
14 14 (1.56%) Unified Communications
15 13 (1.44%) BGP
15 13 (1.44%) DDNS
15 13 (1.44%) Internet
16 11 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
17 9 (1.00%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.22%) Power BI
2 13 (1.44%) Tableau
3 9 (1.00%) Power Query
4 8 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 7 (0.78%) Oracle Database
5 7 (0.78%) Relational Database
6 6 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (0.56%) BusinessObjects
7 5 (0.56%) MS Access
8 4 (0.44%) Data Mart
8 4 (0.44%) Metadata
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
9 3 (0.33%) BigQuery
9 3 (0.33%) Looker
10 2 (0.22%) Big Data
10 2 (0.22%) EDRMS
10 2 (0.22%) MySQL
10 2 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
10 2 (0.22%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.22%) Spotfire
Development Applications
1 89 (9.89%) JIRA
2 7 (0.78%) PVCS
3 5 (0.56%) ClearCase
3 5 (0.56%) Hudson
4 4 (0.44%) Rational DOORS
4 4 (0.44%) Rational Rhapsody
5 3 (0.33%) Ant
5 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.33%) JUnit
6 2 (0.22%) Git
6 2 (0.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.22%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.22%) TestPartner
6 2 (0.22%) Toad
6 2 (0.22%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.11%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.11%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.11%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.11%) NUnit
7 1 (0.11%) Subversion
General
1 483 (53.67%) Social Skills
2 266 (29.56%) Finance
3 191 (21.22%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (11.56%) Organisational Skills
5 99 (11.00%) Banking
6 78 (8.67%) Public Sector
7 45 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (4.56%) Manufacturing
9 39 (4.33%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (3.78%) Legal
11 32 (3.56%) Retail
12 21 (2.33%) Telecoms
13 20 (2.22%) Financial Institution
13 20 (2.22%) Marketing
14 18 (2.00%) Law
15 16 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
16 15 (1.67%) Local Government
17 14 (1.56%) Back Office
17 14 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
18 12 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 255 (28.33%) Analyst
2 105 (11.67%) Support Engineer
3 77 (8.56%) IT Support
4 69 (7.67%) Business Analyst
5 63 (7.00%) Support Analyst
6 52 (5.78%) Desktop Support
7 49 (5.44%) Administrator
7 49 (5.44%) Desktop Engineer
8 46 (5.11%) Project Manager
9 44 (4.89%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 41 (4.56%) Coordinator
11 38 (4.22%) 2nd Line Support
12 33 (3.67%) IT Manager
12 33 (3.67%) Senior
13 31 (3.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
14 29 (3.22%) Lead
15 28 (3.11%) 1st Line Support
16 26 (2.89%) Data Analyst
17 24 (2.67%) Support Officer
18 23 (2.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (1.78%) HTML
1 16 (1.78%) XML
2 12 (1.33%) CSS
3 10 (1.11%) EDI
4 7 (0.78%) NETCONF
4 7 (0.78%) RESTCONF
5 6 (0.67%) Django
5 6 (0.67%) Unreal Engine
5 6 (0.67%) V-Ray
6 5 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (0.44%) ADO
7 4 (0.44%) Middleware
8 3 (0.33%) .NET
9 2 (0.22%) IBM Integration Bus
9 2 (0.22%) Kafka
9 2 (0.22%) React
9 2 (0.22%) REST
9 2 (0.22%) SOAP
9 2 (0.22%) Web Services
9 2 (0.22%) WF
Miscellaneous
1 46 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
2 41 (4.56%) Management Information System
3 31 (3.44%) Data Centre
3 31 (3.44%) Smartphone
4 26 (2.89%) Driving Licence
5 25 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.56%) iPhone
6 23 (2.56%) Virtual Team
7 19 (2.11%) PKI
8 13 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 13 (1.44%) Replication
9 11 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
9 11 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
9 11 (1.22%) Video Conferencing
10 9 (1.00%) e-Learning
11 8 (0.89%) Mobile App
11 8 (0.89%) PMI
12 7 (0.78%) Life Science
12 7 (0.78%) Market Risk
13 6 (0.67%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 224 (24.89%) Windows
2 75 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 50 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 41 (4.56%) Apple iOS
5 30 (3.33%) Android
6 27 (3.00%) Linux
7 19 (2.11%) Windows Server
8 13 (1.44%) Windows Server 2003
9 12 (1.33%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (1.22%) Windows 7
11 10 (1.11%) Unix
12 7 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
13 6 (0.67%) Windows 8
14 5 (0.56%) Mac OS X
14 5 (0.56%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.33%) AIX
16 2 (0.22%) Windows XP
17 1 (0.11%) Solaris
17 1 (0.11%) VMS
17 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (23.11%) Problem-Solving
2 169 (18.78%) ITIL
3 162 (18.00%) Customer Service
4 148 (16.44%) Project Management
5 126 (14.00%) Agile
6 111 (12.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 95 (10.56%) ITSM
8 89 (9.89%) Change Management
8 89 (9.89%) Service Management
9 65 (7.22%) Project Delivery
10 63 (7.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 62 (6.89%) Business Intelligence
12 56 (6.22%) Computer Science
13 53 (5.89%) Analytics
13 53 (5.89%) Risk Management
14 52 (5.78%) Data Analysis
14 52 (5.78%) Decision-Making
15 51 (5.67%) Incident Management
15 51 (5.67%) Service Delivery
16 48 (5.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 71 (7.89%) SQL
2 33 (3.67%) Python
3 28 (3.11%) PowerShell
4 16 (1.78%) Java
5 10 (1.11%) VBA
6 9 (1.00%) VB
7 8 (0.89%) C
7 8 (0.89%) C++
8 7 (0.78%) C#
9 6 (0.67%) PL/SQL
9 6 (0.67%) R
10 5 (0.56%) JavaScript
10 5 (0.56%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.44%) Korn
11 4 (0.44%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.33%) Perl
13 2 (0.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.11%) TypeScript
14 1 (0.11%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 250 (27.78%) Degree
2 121 (13.44%) Security Cleared
3 88 (9.78%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 33 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
7 26 (2.89%) ITIL Certification
8 24 (2.67%) CCNP
9 22 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 18 (2.00%) CCNA
10 18 (2.00%) PMI Certification
11 16 (1.78%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.67%) PMP
13 14 (1.56%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.44%) A+ Certification
15 12 (1.33%) HNC
16 10 (1.11%) Master's Degree
17 8 (0.89%) CISSP
17 8 (0.89%) HND
17 8 (0.89%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (7.22%) PMO
2 35 (3.89%) SLA
3 30 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 26 (2.89%) QA
5 19 (2.11%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.78%) GDPR
7 14 (1.56%) Data Quality
8 9 (1.00%) NIST
9 8 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 6 (0.67%) WCAG
11 3 (0.33%) COBIT
11 3 (0.33%) Def Stans
11 3 (0.33%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
11 3 (0.33%) JSP 440
11 3 (0.33%) RMADS
12 2 (0.22%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.22%) SEPA
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 22301
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 172 (19.11%) Active Directory
2 25 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (1.44%) Brightmail
3 13 (1.44%) Firmware
3 13 (1.44%) ISA Server
4 10 (1.11%) Hyper-V
4 10 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.89%) BitLocker
6 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.56%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 4 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
8 4 (0.44%) vSphere
8 4 (0.44%) XenApp
9 1 (0.11%) Snort
9 1 (0.11%) Xen
9 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (4.56%) SCCM
2 40 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
4 15 (1.67%) HP SiteScope
4 15 (1.67%) SCOM
5 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Clustering
6 10 (1.11%) Ansible
7 7 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.44%) AppManager
8 4 (0.44%) WSUS
9 3 (0.33%) FortiGate
9 3 (0.33%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.33%) NSN NetAct
9 3 (0.33%) Terraform
9 3 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.22%) AirWatch
10 2 (0.22%) EnCase
10 2 (0.22%) FTK
10 2 (0.22%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 616 (68.44%) Microsoft
2 91 (10.11%) ServiceNow
3 74 (8.22%) Apple
4 63 (7.00%) Cisco
5 60 (6.67%) SAP
6 48 (5.33%) Oracle
7 40 (4.44%) Citrix
8 33 (3.67%) Remedy
9 31 (3.44%) VMware
10 26 (2.89%) HP
11 25 (2.78%) Adobe
11 25 (2.78%) Salesforce
12 23 (2.56%) Dell
13 21 (2.33%) Splunk
14 15 (1.67%) Google
15 11 (1.22%) Atlassian
15 11 (1.22%) McAfee
16 9 (1.00%) Autodesk
16 9 (1.00%) IBM
16 9 (1.00%) SolarWinds