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 8 February 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Feb 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 38 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 -2 +3
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 30 44 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 5.32% 3.69% 5.17%
As % of the Cloud Services category 11.81% 11.28% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 83
10th Percentile £188 £157 £153
25th Percentile £223 £186 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £251 £260
Median % change year-on-year +9.45% -3.37% -17.46%
75th Percentile £419 £383 £488
90th Percentile £475 £544 £610
Yorkshire median daily rate £310 £238 £255
% change year-on-year +30.53% -6.86% +4.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £15.12 - £25.63
25th Percentile £19.35 - £26.56
Median hourly rate £26.65 - £28.75
75th Percentile £34.20 - £31.56
90th Percentile £38.58 - £32.88
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.65 £14.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +90.36% -44.00% +26.58%

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 254 390 681
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 45.04% 32.75% 35.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 275 503
10th Percentile £266 £275 £238
25th Percentile £405 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% +7.50%
75th Percentile £567 £600 £600
90th Percentile £713 £675 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 5
10th Percentile £23.46 - £27.50
25th Percentile £26.25 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £32.81 £15.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +118.73% -70.00% +123.21%
75th Percentile £96.64 - £56.00
90th Percentile £102.00 £43.20 £70.40
Yorkshire median hourly rate £32.81 £15.00 £41.25
% change year-on-year +118.73% -63.64% +87.50%

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 8 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft 365 in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 8 February 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 8 February 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 +7 22 £245 -15.74% 17
Wakefield +12 2 - - 3
Mirfield - 2 £275 -
Halifax - 1 - -
Huddersfield - 1 £320 - 2
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 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 14 (46.67%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (13.33%) Entra ID
4 3 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (6.67%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
1 6 (20.00%) VPN
1 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (16.67%) DHCP
2 5 (16.67%) LAN
2 5 (16.67%) VLAN
2 5 (16.67%) VoIP
2 5 (16.67%) WAN
3 3 (10.00%) Firewall
4 1 (3.33%) DKIM
4 1 (3.33%) DMARC
4 1 (3.33%) Internet
4 1 (3.33%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (3.33%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.33%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
3 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (6.67%) Police
4 1 (3.33%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.33%) Local Government
4 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 5 (16.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Digital Developer
3 2 (6.67%) Mobile Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Security Engineer
3 2 (6.67%) Service Analyst
3 2 (6.67%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (3.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (3.33%) Fat Client
2 1 (3.33%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (33.33%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (13.33%) Identity Access Management
4 3 (10.00%) Attestation
4 3 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 3 (10.00%) Data Security
4 3 (10.00%) Information Security
4 3 (10.00%) ITIL
4 3 (10.00%) User Experience
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.67%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (6.67%) DSDM
5 2 (6.67%) Information Management
5 2 (6.67%) Migration
5 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 2 (6.67%) Scrum
5 2 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.33%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 3 (10.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) Terminal Services
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (30.00%) SCCM
3 5 (16.67%) AppManager
4 2 (6.67%) SCOrch
4 2 (6.67%) SCSM
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Ivanti
2 5 (16.67%) VMware
3 2 (6.67%) Cisco
3 2 (6.67%) Meraki
3 2 (6.67%) Qualys
4 1 (3.33%) Citrix
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Proofpoint