Microsoft 365 Contracts in the North of England

Microsoft 365 (M365, Office 365, O365)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Microsoft 365 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Microsoft 365 over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 33 18
Rank change year-on-year 0 -15 +7
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 236 292 575
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.97% 5.27% 8.04%
As % of the Cloud Services category 16.58% 14.61% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 206 452
10th Percentile £145 £155 £150
25th Percentile £185 £200 £166
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £253 £300 £260
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £425 £469 £438
90th Percentile £588 £564 £525
England median daily rate £350 £380 £363
% change year-on-year -7.89% +4.83% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 20 40
10th Percentile £13.00 £13.87 £15.23
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.14 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £18.25 £17.82
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% +2.41% +4.82%
75th Percentile £17.72 £20.60 £21.78
90th Percentile £19.25 £29.25 £25.21
England median hourly rate £16.30 £18.97 £17.50
% change year-on-year -14.05% +8.37% +9.38%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Microsoft 365 is in the Cloud Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,423 1,999 2,535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 29.98% 36.05% 35.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,001 1,484 1,942
10th Percentile £263 £288 £186
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.37% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £650 £688 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 44 79
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.06 £15.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.25 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £27.35 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.28% +36.75% +5.26%
75th Percentile £22.38 £56.10 £60.88
90th Percentile £45.21 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.37 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.94% +62.79% +2.14%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Microsoft 365 as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North of England

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
North West +4 151 £284 -15.85% 160
Yorkshire -3 75 £228 -13.33% 123
North East +15 10 £190 +8.57% 39
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 51 (21.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 44 (18.64%) SharePoint
3 7 (2.97%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) IBM Notes
4 2 (0.85%) IIS
4 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.42%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.42%) Umbraco
Applications
1 44 (18.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.42%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 68 (28.81%) Azure
2 27 (11.44%) Entra ID
3 18 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 16 (6.78%) AWS
5 10 (4.24%) OneDrive
6 7 (2.97%) Mimecast
7 6 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (2.12%) IaaS
8 5 (2.12%) PowerApps
8 5 (2.12%) SaaS
9 4 (1.69%) GCP
10 3 (1.27%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Stack
12 1 (0.42%) Cloudflare
12 1 (0.42%) Google Analytics
12 1 (0.42%) PaaS
12 1 (0.42%) Supabase
Communications & Networking
1 21 (8.90%) Firewall
2 13 (5.51%) VPN
3 11 (4.66%) DNS
4 8 (3.39%) LAN
4 8 (3.39%) WAN
5 5 (2.12%) DHCP
5 5 (2.12%) VLAN
5 5 (2.12%) VoIP
5 5 (2.12%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.27%) Internet
7 3 (1.27%) Intranet
7 3 (1.27%) NAS
7 3 (1.27%) SAN
8 2 (0.85%) Skype
9 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (0.42%) Fibre Channel
9 1 (0.42%) NetScaler
9 1 (0.42%) Network Security
9 1 (0.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (3.39%) Power BI
1 8 (3.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.42%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (0.42%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.42%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Hudson
2 1 (0.42%) Dreamweaver
2 1 (0.42%) Git
General
1 86 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 30 (12.71%) Public Sector
3 16 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.51%) Finance
5 9 (3.81%) Retail
6 7 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (2.97%) Law
6 7 (2.97%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.69%) Local Government
7 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
8 3 (1.27%) Aviation
8 3 (1.27%) Banking
8 3 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.27%) Legal
8 3 (1.27%) Marketing
8 3 (1.27%) Publishing
9 2 (0.85%) Automotive
9 2 (0.85%) German Language
9 2 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (0.42%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 49 (20.76%) Analyst
2 41 (17.37%) IT Support
3 32 (13.56%) Support Engineer
4 21 (8.90%) Service Analyst
4 21 (8.90%) Service Desk Analyst
5 20 (8.47%) 2nd Line Support
6 19 (8.05%) Architect
7 18 (7.63%) Desktop Support
8 17 (7.20%) Senior
8 17 (7.20%) Support Analyst
9 14 (5.93%) 2nd Line Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) IT Engineer
10 13 (5.51%) Solutions Architect
11 11 (4.66%) IT Technician
12 10 (4.24%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Desktop Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.24%) Support Technician
13 9 (3.81%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.85%) ADSI
2 1 (0.42%) .NET
2 1 (0.42%) J2EE
2 1 (0.42%) LDAP
2 1 (0.42%) Node.js
2 1 (0.42%) Svelte
2 1 (0.42%) SvelteKit
2 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.51%) EPoS
2 8 (3.39%) Driving Licence
2 8 (3.39%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (3.39%) Virtual Team
3 5 (2.12%) iPhone
4 4 (1.69%) Clustering
4 4 (1.69%) Digital Signage
4 4 (1.69%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.69%) NHS
4 4 (1.69%) Video\Live Streaming
5 3 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.27%) PKI
6 2 (0.85%) BYOD
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (0.85%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.85%) iPad
6 2 (0.85%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 143 (60.59%) Windows
2 70 (29.66%) Windows 10
3 34 (14.41%) Windows Server
4 15 (6.36%) Mac OS
5 14 (5.93%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (5.51%) Apple iOS
7 11 (4.66%) Windows Server 2016
8 9 (3.81%) Linux
9 6 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (2.12%) Android
10 5 (2.12%) VMS
11 4 (1.69%) Ubuntu
11 4 (1.69%) Windows 7
12 3 (1.27%) Debian
13 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
14 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (24.15%) Customer Service
2 35 (14.83%) ITIL
3 32 (13.56%) Migration
4 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
5 24 (10.17%) Mobile Device Management
6 19 (8.05%) Service Management
7 12 (5.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (5.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (4.24%) ITSM
8 10 (4.24%) Project Management
9 9 (3.81%) Asset Management
9 9 (3.81%) Cybersecurity
9 9 (3.81%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (3.81%) E-Commerce
9 9 (3.81%) Information Security
10 8 (3.39%) Agile
10 8 (3.39%) CRM
10 8 (3.39%) Decision-Making
11 7 (2.97%) Software Deployment
12 6 (2.54%) Server Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.02%) PowerShell
2 6 (2.54%) SQL
3 2 (0.85%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.42%) Bash
4 1 (0.42%) C#
4 1 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
4 1 (0.42%) Python
4 1 (0.42%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (10.17%) Degree
2 20 (8.47%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (4.66%) Security Cleared
4 9 (3.81%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (3.81%) SC Cleared
5 6 (2.54%) MCSE
6 5 (2.12%) Azure Certification
7 4 (1.69%) CCNA
7 4 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (1.27%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.85%) A+ Certification
9 2 (0.85%) APMG
9 2 (0.85%) MCITP
9 2 (0.85%) MCP
10 1 (0.42%) CISSP
10 1 (0.42%) GIAC
10 1 (0.42%) HND
10 1 (0.42%) PMP
10 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.36%) SLA
2 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.42%) GDPR
4 1 (0.42%) GRC
4 1 (0.42%) NIST
System Software
1 141 (59.75%) Active Directory
2 23 (9.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.54%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) NFS
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.42%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (23.31%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (8.90%) SCCM
3 7 (2.97%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 5 (2.12%) Jamf Pro
4 5 (2.12%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.27%) Autotask
5 3 (1.27%) Failover Clustering
6 2 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.42%) Nessus
7 1 (0.42%) Terraform
Vendors
1 146 (61.86%) Microsoft
2 33 (13.98%) VMware
3 20 (8.47%) ServiceNow
4 18 (7.63%) Citrix
5 12 (5.08%) Apple
6 10 (4.24%) Sophos
7 9 (3.81%) Cisco
8 7 (2.97%) Veeam
9 4 (1.69%) Google
9 4 (1.69%) Logitech
10 3 (1.27%) Adobe
10 3 (1.27%) Datto
10 3 (1.27%) Dell
10 3 (1.27%) iManage
11 2 (0.85%) Autodesk
11 2 (0.85%) CA
11 2 (0.85%) HP
11 2 (0.85%) Lotus
11 2 (0.85%) Oracle
11 2 (0.85%) Wyse