OneDrive Contracts in the West Midlands

Microsoft OneDrive (formerly SkyDrive)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring OneDrive skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited OneDrive 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 82 88 127
Rank change year-on-year +6 +39 +37
Contract jobs citing OneDrive 15 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.12% 1.18% 0.50%
As % of the Cloud Services category 3.46% 4.90% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 10
10th Percentile £196 £165 £345
25th Percentile £210 - £377
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £271 £350 £463
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -24.32% +68.18%
75th Percentile £288 £400 £528
90th Percentile £334 £850 £556
England median daily rate £420 £400 £425
% change year-on-year +5.00% -5.88% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £16.26 - -
England median hourly rate £16.26 £17.72 £26.48
% change year-on-year -8.24% -33.08% -0.08%

All Cloud Skills
West Midlands

OneDrive falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 434 469 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.27% 24.09% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 364 648
10th Percentile £200 £213 £300
25th Percentile £393 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £457 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.53% -8.75% +2.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 4
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.08 £15.54
25th Percentile £16.38 £19.95 £15.98
Median hourly rate £18.07 £26.00 £20.24
Median % change year-on-year -30.52% +28.46% +15.66%
75th Percentile £19.93 £26.50 £24.47
90th Percentile £35.45 £55.00 £25.31
England median hourly rate £25.50 £20.77 £32.30
% change year-on-year +22.77% -35.70% +53.81%

OneDrive
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for OneDrive in the West Midlands

OneDrive
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for OneDrive in the West Midlands

OneDrive
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for OneDrive in the West Midlands

OneDrive
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for OneDrive in the West Midlands

OneDrive
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 OneDrive 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
Birmingham +15 6 £275 -21.43% 4
Coventry +4 3 £268 -61.79% 1
Shropshire -2 3 £210 +79.49%
Warwickshire -2 1 - - 4
Staffordshire - 1 - - 4
OneDrive
England

OneDrive
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 13 (86.67%) SharePoint
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (6.67%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 14 (93.33%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 5 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 3 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (13.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (6.67%) SaaS
5 1 (6.67%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) VPN
2 2 (13.33%) Firewall
2 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (6.67%) Network Security
3 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) ICT Officer
3 1 (6.67%) ICT Support
3 1 (6.67%) ICT Support Officer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support
3 1 (6.67%) IT Support Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365 Specialist
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Migration Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Senior
3 1 (6.67%) Senior ICT Officer
3 1 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Support Officer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows 10
3 2 (13.33%) Mac OS
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Patch Management
4 3 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 3 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (13.33%) Data Loss Prevention
5 2 (13.33%) Data Modelling
5 2 (13.33%) RBAC
5 2 (13.33%) Security Patching
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
5 2 (13.33%) Workflow
6 1 (6.67%) Change Management
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (6.67%) Data Security
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
1 3 (20.00%) MCSE
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (73.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) Apple
2 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow