Microsoft Office Contracts in Manchester

Microsoft Office
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Microsoft Office skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 83 82
Rank change year-on-year +45 -1 -24
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 60 29 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 4.24% 1.61% 2.47%
As % of the Applications category 50.85% 27.10% 46.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 17 46
10th Percentile £210 - £120
25th Percentile £370 £150 £131
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £189
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +98.94% -0.79%
75th Percentile £436 £475 £319
90th Percentile £499 £575 £430
North West median daily rate £396 £425 £230
% change year-on-year -6.82% +84.78% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 5 3
10th Percentile £11.97 £13.89 £17.60
25th Percentile £12.00 £15.72 £18.50
Median hourly rate £13.78 £17.70 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% -11.50% +63.83%
75th Percentile £24.77 £17.72 £21.76
90th Percentile £26.50 £24.34 £22.82
North West median hourly rate £13.78 £27.50 £21.78
% change year-on-year -49.91% +26.26% +10.70%

All Software Application Skills
Manchester

Microsoft Office is in the Software Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 118 107 138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 8.33% 5.96% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 61 109
10th Percentile £210 £163 £125
25th Percentile £343 £250 £193
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% +7.14% +45.83%
75th Percentile £481 £475 £488
90th Percentile £600 £575 £570
North West median daily rate £433 £400 £380
% change year-on-year +8.13% +5.40% +33.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 14 6
10th Percentile £11.85 £15.99 £18.00
25th Percentile £12.84 £17.71 £19.06
Median hourly rate £24.15 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.64% +100.00% +48.15%
75th Percentile £36.81 £43.44 £22.90
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £26.14
North West median hourly rate £16.06 £40.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -59.85% +100.00% +11.61%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Microsoft Office as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft Office in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in Manchester over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in Manchester

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Bolton - 3 - - 12
Microsoft Office
North West

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 25 (41.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
4 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
5 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.33%) ResourceLink
2 1 (1.67%) SAP SD
2 1 (1.67%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (8.33%) Azure
2 5 (8.33%) SaaS
3 4 (6.67%) Google Workspace
3 4 (6.67%) IaaS
3 4 (6.67%) PaaS
4 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (21.67%) Cisco IOS
1 13 (21.67%) Cisco Nexus
1 13 (21.67%) DMZ
1 13 (21.67%) SD-WAN
2 11 (18.33%) Wireless
3 4 (6.67%) Firewall
3 4 (6.67%) LAN
3 4 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.00%) VLAN
4 3 (5.00%) VoIP
4 3 (5.00%) VPN
4 3 (5.00%) WAN
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (1.67%) NAS
5 1 (1.67%) SAN
5 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Rational Software Modeler
General
1 28 (46.67%) Finance
2 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Mandarin Language
5 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
6 6 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (10.00%) Banking
7 4 (6.67%) Legal
7 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
8 3 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (3.33%) Local Government
10 1 (1.67%) Advertising
10 1 (1.67%) Billing
10 1 (1.67%) German Language
10 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.67%) Military
10 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.67%) Police
10 1 (1.67%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Network Engineer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) Administrator
4 8 (13.33%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) IT Support
5 5 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Wireless Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Wireless Network Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.67%) IT Administrator
7 3 (5.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Business Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Systems Administrator
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Administrator
9 1 (1.67%) Senior Analyst
9 1 (1.67%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
3 4 (6.67%) Clustering
3 4 (6.67%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Mac OS
2 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (1.67%) Android
3 1 (1.67%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.33%) ITSM
2 11 (18.33%) Project Management
3 9 (15.00%) Time Management
4 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (10.00%) Agile
5 6 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 5 (8.33%) Change Management
6 5 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
6 5 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
7 4 (6.67%) Data Analysis
7 4 (6.67%) Decision-Making
7 4 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 4 (6.67%) Risk Management
7 4 (6.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (5.00%) DevOps
8 3 (5.00%) ITIL
8 3 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
8 3 (5.00%) Quality Management
8 3 (5.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 3 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Degree
2 9 (15.00%) PMI Certification
2 9 (15.00%) PMP
3 4 (6.67%) APMP
4 2 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.00%) PMO
2 3 (5.00%) SLA
3 2 (3.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) GxP
4 1 (1.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.00%) Autotask
2 3 (5.00%) Failover Clustering
2 3 (5.00%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (5.00%) SCCM
3 1 (1.67%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 33 (55.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (23.33%) Cisco
3 13 (21.67%) F5
3 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
4 4 (6.67%) Google
4 4 (6.67%) Oracle
4 4 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 3 (5.00%) Apple
5 3 (5.00%) Datto
5 3 (5.00%) VMware
6 2 (3.33%) Facebook
7 1 (1.67%) Citrix
7 1 (1.67%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.67%) HP
7 1 (1.67%) Meraki
7 1 (1.67%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (1.67%) Pega
7 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.67%) Veeam