Microsoft 365 Contracts in West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Microsoft 365 skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 49 34
Rank change year-on-year +30 -15 -4
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 44 26 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 7.94% 2.62% 4.55%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.18% 8.93% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 59
10th Percentile £186 £158 £155
25th Percentile £235 £163 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £254 £282 £338
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% -16.59% +20.54%
75th Percentile £419 £475 £530
90th Percentile £488 £613 £648
Yorkshire median daily rate £264 £240 £269
% change year-on-year +9.90% -10.70% +18.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £40.50 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £41.00 - £32.50
75th Percentile £41.50 - £33.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £41.00 £18.25 £26.25
% change year-on-year +124.66% -30.48% +41.89%

All Cloud Skills
West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365 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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 242 291 580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 43.68% 29.28% 35.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 203 432
10th Percentile £263 £280 £331
25th Percentile £375 £409 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £595 £604
90th Percentile £680 £669 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £475 £525
% change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 3
10th Percentile £29.90 - £35.40
25th Percentile £31.69 - £41.63
Median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +338.05% -72.22% +170.00%
75th Percentile £99.42 - £68.00
90th Percentile £102.00 - £75.20
Yorkshire median hourly rate £65.71 £15.00 £43.25
% change year-on-year +338.05% -65.32% +129.14%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft 365 within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Leeds +18 38 £243 -24.69% 26
Mirfield - 2 £275 -
Huddersfield - 1 £320 - 2
Halifax - 1 £188 - 1
Microsoft 365
Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 16 (36.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (27.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (61.36%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (43.18%) Entra ID
2 10 (22.73%) Azure
3 5 (11.36%) OneDrive
4 3 (6.82%) IaaS
4 3 (6.82%) PaaS
4 3 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
5 2 (4.55%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.27%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (2.27%) AWS
6 1 (2.27%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) VPN
2 5 (11.36%) DHCP
2 5 (11.36%) DNS
2 5 (11.36%) LAN
2 5 (11.36%) VLAN
2 5 (11.36%) VoIP
2 5 (11.36%) WAN
2 5 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (9.09%) Firewall
3 4 (9.09%) Network Security
4 1 (2.27%) DKIM
4 1 (2.27%) DMARC
4 1 (2.27%) Internet
4 1 (2.27%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Power BI
General
1 24 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 13 (29.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 13 (29.55%) Retail
3 3 (6.82%) Local Government
4 2 (4.55%) Finance
4 2 (4.55%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (29.55%) Support Manager
2 11 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 9 (20.45%) 1st Line Support
4 8 (18.18%) 1st Line Support Manager
4 8 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) Desktop Support
4 8 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 8 (18.18%) IT Manager
4 8 (18.18%) IT Support
4 8 (18.18%) IT Support Manager
5 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (11.36%) Support Assistant
7 3 (6.82%) Analyst
7 3 (6.82%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (6.82%) Developer
7 3 (6.82%) IT Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
8 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) iPhone
1 13 (29.55%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.27%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.27%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Mac OS
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 8 (18.18%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.27%) Amazon Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (56.82%) Customer Service
2 18 (40.91%) ITIL
3 17 (38.64%) ITSM
4 14 (31.82%) Service Management
5 13 (29.55%) Incident Management
5 13 (29.55%) Mobile Device Management
6 7 (15.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (11.36%) Service Delivery
8 4 (9.09%) Case Management
8 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (6.82%) Attestation
9 3 (6.82%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (6.82%) Information Security
9 3 (6.82%) Mentoring
9 3 (6.82%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (4.55%) Data Security
10 2 (4.55%) User Experience
11 1 (2.27%) Data Protection
11 1 (2.27%) Migration
11 1 (2.27%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (11.36%) Degree
2 4 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (6.82%) CCNA
3 3 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (6.82%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (81.82%) Active Directory
2 6 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.82%) vSphere
4 2 (4.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.27%) Terminal Services
5 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (31.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (29.55%) Jamf Pro
3 8 (18.18%) SCCM
4 5 (11.36%) AppManager
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
5 1 (2.27%) vRealize
Vendors
1 39 (88.64%) Microsoft
2 17 (38.64%) ServiceNow
3 14 (31.82%) Apple
4 9 (20.45%) VMware
5 5 (11.36%) Cisco
5 5 (11.36%) Citrix
5 5 (11.36%) Ivanti
5 5 (11.36%) Meraki
6 4 (9.09%) Veeam
7 3 (6.82%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.27%) MobileIron
8 1 (2.27%) Proofpoint
8 1 (2.27%) Red Hat