Microsoft Office Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft Office
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 64 43
Rank change year-on-year +2 -21 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 35 47 118
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.60% 2.41% 4.95%
As % of the Applications category 27.34% 28.83% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 29 81
10th Percentile £157 £147 £163
25th Percentile £199 £180 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £200 £425
Median % change year-on-year +112.50% -52.94% +93.18%
75th Percentile £529 £338 £538
90th Percentile £541 £545 £540
England median daily rate £325 £255 £375
% change year-on-year +27.45% -32.00% +28.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 6
10th Percentile - £11.55 £12.25
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £12.50 £14.44 £13.68
Median % change year-on-year -13.40% +5.52% -8.80%
75th Percentile £12.75 £26.50 £16.59
90th Percentile - £28.53 £18.04
England median hourly rate £17.25 £16.03 £22.00
% change year-on-year +7.61% -27.14% +29.68%

All Software Application Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 128 163 270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 9.52% 8.37% 11.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 84 159
10th Percentile £200 £156 £162
25th Percentile £235 £205 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £329 £422
Median % change year-on-year +29.28% -22.10% +5.50%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £528
90th Percentile £598 £650 £540
England median daily rate £423 £400 £429
% change year-on-year +5.75% -6.76% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 32 13
10th Percentile £12.25 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.38 £12.59 £14.36
Median hourly rate £18.74 £26.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.92% +20.93% +39.88%
75th Percentile £33.91 £39.04 £25.88
90th Percentile - £58.75 £52.50
England median hourly rate £24.40 £17.50 £39.00
% change year-on-year +39.44% -55.13% +81.40%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the West Midlands

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the West Midlands

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the West Midlands

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the West Midlands

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire +4 13 £525 +64.71% 28
Shropshire +4 12 £314 +168.38% 3
Staffordshire +5 4 £150 +11.11% 27
Birmingham -1 4 £160 -20.00% 27
Coventry +8 1 - - 11
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (8.57%) IBM Notes
1 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.71%) Confluence
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (5.71%) InfoPath
4 2 (5.71%) Open Workbench
5 1 (2.86%) Final Cut Pro
5 1 (2.86%) MS Visio
5 1 (2.86%) QuarkXPress
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.43%) Azure
2 4 (11.43%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Functions
3 2 (5.71%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (5.71%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
3 2 (5.71%) Power Automate
3 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.71%) Serverless
4 1 (2.86%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) VPN
1 3 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.86%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.71%) Power BI
1 2 (5.71%) RDBMS
1 2 (5.71%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (22.86%) JIRA
General
1 19 (54.29%) Social Skills
2 11 (31.43%) Finance
3 10 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.57%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Billing
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (11.43%) Lead
3 3 (8.57%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Administrator
3 3 (8.57%) Desktop Engineer
3 3 (8.57%) First Line Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Help Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) PMO Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) PMO Lead
3 3 (8.57%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Service Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Business Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Engagement Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Security Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Security Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.71%) .NET
1 2 (5.71%) .NET Framework
1 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET
1 2 (5.71%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (5.71%) CSS
1 2 (5.71%) Entity Framework
1 2 (5.71%) HTML
1 2 (5.71%) HTML5 Canvas
1 2 (5.71%) OLE
2 1 (2.86%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Cloud
2 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 5 (14.29%) Windows 10
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS
3 3 (8.57%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (31.43%) Customer Service
3 9 (25.71%) Agile
3 9 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (22.86%) Workflow
5 7 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 6 (17.14%) Change Management
6 6 (17.14%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (17.14%) Project Management
7 5 (14.29%) Data Collection
7 5 (14.29%) Demand Management
7 5 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 5 (14.29%) Project Planning
8 4 (11.43%) Commercial Awareness
8 4 (11.43%) Matrix Management
8 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
9 3 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (8.57%) CRM
9 3 (8.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.71%) C#
1 2 (5.71%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Degree
2 3 (8.57%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (8.57%) DBS Check
3 2 (5.71%) A+ Certification
3 2 (5.71%) MCP
3 2 (5.71%) MCSE
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CISSP
4 1 (2.86%) NVQ Level 3
4 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.86%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.14%) PMO
2 2 (5.71%) SLA
3 1 (2.86%) COSHH
3 1 (2.86%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.86%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (51.43%) Microsoft
2 7 (20.00%) Atlassian
3 3 (8.57%) Apple
3 3 (8.57%) Lotus
3 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco
5 1 (2.86%) Adobe
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) Quark