Microsoft 365 Contracts in Yorkshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 38 30
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 -16
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 89 81 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 6.77% 4.72% 4.96%
As % of the Cloud Services category 18.82% 15.52% 15.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 56 71
10th Percentile £138 £148 £155
25th Percentile £185 £181 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 £228 £275
Median % change year-on-year +16.48% -17.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £456 £481 £441
90th Percentile £545 £575 £575
England median daily rate £325 £375 £375
% change year-on-year -13.33% - +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 3
10th Percentile - £13.38 £17.70
25th Percentile - £15.25 £18.00
Median hourly rate - £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.67%
75th Percentile - £21.88 £33.50
90th Percentile - £22.00 £40.10
England median hourly rate £19.07 £17.39 £19.50
% change year-on-year +9.64% -10.81% +11.43%

All Cloud Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 473 522 696
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 35.97% 30.40% 31.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 367 499
10th Percentile £261 £250 £235
25th Percentile £375 £400 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £625
90th Percentile £618 £640 £689
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 5
10th Percentile £27.82 £13.48 £17.90
25th Percentile £30.17 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £32.96 £15.00 £22.51
Median % change year-on-year +119.73% -33.36% +17.92%
75th Percentile £50.48 £21.50 £44.50
90th Percentile £79.33 £22.00 £51.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £22.00 £33.90
% change year-on-year +14.32% -35.10% +57.66%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in Yorkshire

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
West Yorkshire +25 46 £320 +32.23% 130
South Yorkshire -5 23 £406 +84.55% 65
East Yorkshire +1 9 £145 -51.67% 28
North Yorkshire +4 7 £200 +29.03% 39
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 13 (14.61%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (14.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.12%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (34.83%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (5.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.12%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 41 (46.07%) Entra ID
2 30 (33.71%) Azure
3 8 (8.99%) AWS
4 7 (7.87%) Amazon EKS
4 7 (7.87%) GCP
4 7 (7.87%) SaaS
5 6 (6.74%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (6.74%) Azure AKS
5 6 (6.74%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 3 (3.37%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (3.37%) IaaS
6 3 (3.37%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.37%) PaaS
6 3 (3.37%) Power Automate
6 3 (3.37%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.12%) Azure Storage
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.12%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (13.48%) VPN
2 8 (8.99%) Firewall
3 3 (3.37%) Network Security
3 3 (3.37%) Remote Desktop
3 3 (3.37%) SAN
3 3 (3.37%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.12%) BGP
5 1 (1.12%) Broadband
5 1 (1.12%) EIGRP
5 1 (1.12%) HSRP
5 1 (1.12%) Internet
5 1 (1.12%) Intranet
5 1 (1.12%) MPLS
5 1 (1.12%) NAS
5 1 (1.12%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.37%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.12%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.12%) JIRA
General
1 48 (53.93%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.35%) Retail
3 18 (20.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 8 (8.99%) Banking
5 6 (6.74%) Finance
6 5 (5.62%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Local Government
7 4 (4.49%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.12%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Law
8 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.12%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (25.84%) IT Support
2 19 (21.35%) Support Manager
3 14 (15.73%) Analyst
4 13 (14.61%) 1st Line Support
4 13 (14.61%) IT Manager
5 12 (13.48%) 1st Line Support Manager
5 12 (13.48%) IT Support Manager
6 11 (12.36%) Support Engineer
7 9 (10.11%) Desktop Support
7 9 (10.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Desktop Engineer
8 8 (8.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 7 (7.87%) Project Manager
9 7 (7.87%) Support Technician
9 7 (7.87%) Technical Support
10 6 (6.74%) Developer
10 6 (6.74%) IT Support Technician
10 6 (6.74%) IT Technician
10 6 (6.74%) Support Assistant
11 5 (5.62%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.87%) JSON
2 6 (6.74%) OAuth
2 6 (6.74%) OAuth2
2 6 (6.74%) OpenID
2 6 (6.74%) SAML
3 2 (2.25%) .NET
4 1 (1.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.35%) iPhone
1 19 (21.35%) Smartphone
2 7 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 6 (6.74%) Cloud Native
3 6 (6.74%) HTC Vive
3 6 (6.74%) Virtual Reality
4 2 (2.25%) CCTV
4 2 (2.25%) Cyber Defence
4 2 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.12%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.12%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.12%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.12%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 24 (26.97%) Mac OS
2 19 (21.35%) Windows
3 10 (11.24%) Windows 10
4 4 (4.49%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.25%) Android
5 2 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 1 (1.12%) Amazon Linux
6 1 (1.12%) Linux
6 1 (1.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (34.83%) ITIL
2 29 (32.58%) Customer Service
3 26 (29.21%) ITSM
3 26 (29.21%) Mobile Device Management
4 23 (25.84%) Incident Management
5 19 (21.35%) Service Management
6 12 (13.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (11.24%) Problem-Solving
8 8 (8.99%) Collaborative Working
8 8 (8.99%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (7.87%) RBAC
9 7 (7.87%) Service Delivery
10 6 (6.74%) Case Management
10 6 (6.74%) GAP Analysis
10 6 (6.74%) Identity Management
10 6 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (6.74%) Privileged Identity Management
10 6 (6.74%) User Experience
10 6 (6.74%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 8 (8.99%) PowerShell
2 5 (5.62%) Python
3 4 (4.49%) Bash
4 3 (3.37%) VBA
5 1 (1.12%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.12%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (8.99%) Degree
2 6 (6.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (4.49%) CCNA
3 4 (4.49%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.37%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (2.25%) CISMP
5 2 (2.25%) GSEC
5 2 (2.25%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.12%) ACSP
6 1 (1.12%) ACTC
6 1 (1.12%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.12%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (3.37%) SOC 2
3 2 (2.25%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) QA
4 1 (1.12%) SLA
System Software
1 54 (60.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (4.49%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.37%) vSphere
4 1 (1.12%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.12%) Terminal Services
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.12%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.12%) XenApp
4 1 (1.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (32.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (25.84%) Jamf Pro
3 10 (11.24%) Terraform
4 7 (7.87%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (6.74%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.74%) SCCM
6 4 (4.49%) vCenter Server
7 1 (1.12%) Ansible
7 1 (1.12%) SCOM
7 1 (1.12%) vRealize
Vendors
1 70 (78.65%) Microsoft
2 27 (30.34%) Apple
3 25 (28.09%) ServiceNow
4 13 (14.61%) Citrix
5 7 (7.87%) Cisco
6 6 (6.74%) Alibaba
7 4 (4.49%) Veeam
7 4 (4.49%) VMware
8 3 (3.37%) Meraki
8 3 (3.37%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.12%) AppDynamics
9 1 (1.12%) BMC
9 1 (1.12%) Dell
9 1 (1.12%) HP
9 1 (1.12%) IBM
9 1 (1.12%) MobileIron
9 1 (1.12%) Red Hat
9 1 (1.12%) Spiceworks
9 1 (1.12%) Splunk
9 1 (1.12%) Toshiba