Microsoft 365 Contracts in the North West

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 29 26
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 -2
Contract jobs citing Microsoft 365 152 173 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 5.47% 5.74% 7.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 17.14% 15.36% 20.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 120 213
10th Percentile £149 £175 £155
25th Percentile £200 £206 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 £338 £275
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +22.73% +8.91%
75th Percentile £431 £475 £438
90th Percentile £623 £575 £500
England median daily rate £350 £375 £363
% change year-on-year -6.67% +3.45% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 23
10th Percentile - £13.47 £15.05
25th Percentile £13.00 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -5.41% -2.63%
75th Percentile £17.72 £20.00 £22.65
90th Percentile £17.98 £20.96 £28.42
England median hourly rate £16.47 £19.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -13.34% +8.57% +7.69%

All Cloud Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for cloud computing skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 887 1,126 1,436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.90% 37.37% 35.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 838 1,110
10th Percentile £282 £302 £213
25th Percentile £393 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £599
90th Percentile £650 £656 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 36 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.86 £14.70
25th Percentile - £16.53 £16.25
Median hourly rate £16.06 £22.47 £26.40
Median % change year-on-year -28.53% -14.87% +38.92%
75th Percentile £26.50 £43.98 £75.00
90th Percentile £71.54 £65.38 £77.50
England median hourly rate £21.46 £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -38.69% +62.79% +2.14%

Microsoft 365
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft 365 in the North West

Microsoft 365
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North West

Microsoft 365
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft 365 in the North West over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft 365 in the North West

Microsoft 365
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft 365 in the North West

Microsoft 365
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 9 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
Manchester +4 68 £361 -3.67% 73
Cheshire -4 33 £350 +62.79% 35
Merseyside +13 29 £225 -47.06% 12
Lancashire +2 10 £200 -5.33% 25
Cumbria -10 7 - - 6
Microsoft 365
England

Microsoft 365
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 35 (23.03%) SharePoint
2 25 (16.45%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (3.29%) CMS
4 2 (1.32%) IBM Notes
5 1 (0.66%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (17.76%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 2 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.66%) Azure
2 15 (9.87%) AWS
3 14 (9.21%) Power Platform
4 13 (8.55%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.61%) Mimecast
6 5 (3.29%) IaaS
6 5 (3.29%) OneDrive
6 5 (3.29%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.63%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (2.63%) GCP
7 4 (2.63%) SaaS
8 3 (1.97%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.32%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.66%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.66%) Cloudflare
10 1 (0.66%) PaaS
10 1 (0.66%) Supabase
10 1 (0.66%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 13 (8.55%) Firewall
2 7 (4.61%) VPN
3 6 (3.95%) DNS
4 5 (3.29%) LAN
4 5 (3.29%) WAN
5 4 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.97%) VLAN
6 3 (1.97%) VoIP
7 2 (1.32%) DHCP
7 2 (1.32%) Internet
7 2 (1.32%) Intranet
8 1 (0.66%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.66%) HTTP
8 1 (0.66%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.66%) IPsec
8 1 (0.66%) SAN
8 1 (0.66%) SNMP
8 1 (0.66%) SSH
8 1 (0.66%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.66%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.61%) Power BI
2 5 (3.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.66%) MySQL
3 1 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (4.61%) Hudson
General
1 51 (33.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.42%) Public Sector
3 11 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (4.61%) Finance
5 6 (3.95%) Retail
6 5 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (3.29%) Legal
6 5 (3.29%) Local Government
7 3 (1.97%) Aviation
7 3 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.97%) Publishing
7 3 (1.97%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.32%) Banking
8 2 (1.32%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.32%) Marketing
8 2 (1.32%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.66%) Automotive
9 1 (0.66%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.66%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 29 (19.08%) Analyst
2 19 (12.50%) IT Support
3 17 (11.18%) Senior
4 14 (9.21%) Service Analyst
4 14 (9.21%) Service Desk Analyst
4 14 (9.21%) Support Engineer
5 11 (7.24%) Architect
6 9 (5.92%) 2nd Line Support
6 9 (5.92%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Desktop Support
6 9 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (5.92%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (5.26%) Lead
8 7 (4.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) 1st/2nd Line Support
9 6 (3.95%) Desktop Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) IT Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Microsoft Engineer
9 6 (3.95%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.66%) LDAP
1 1 (0.66%) Node.js
1 1 (0.66%) Svelte
1 1 (0.66%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
2 7 (4.61%) Virtual Team
3 6 (3.95%) EPoS
4 5 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.63%) Clustering
5 4 (2.63%) Digital Signage
5 4 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 4 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 4 (2.63%) NHS
5 4 (2.63%) Video\Live Streaming
6 3 (1.97%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.97%) PKI
7 2 (1.32%) iPad
7 2 (1.32%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.66%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.66%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.66%) Hedge funds
8 1 (0.66%) Security Operations Centre
8 1 (0.66%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 79 (51.97%) Windows
2 41 (26.97%) Windows 10
3 17 (11.18%) Windows Server
4 13 (8.55%) Mac OS
5 10 (6.58%) Apple iOS
5 10 (6.58%) Windows Server 2012
6 6 (3.95%) Linux
7 4 (2.63%) Windows 7
7 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.32%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.66%) Android
9 1 (0.66%) Debian
9 1 (0.66%) VMS
9 1 (0.66%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (19.08%) Customer Service
2 24 (15.79%) ITIL
3 23 (15.13%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (14.47%) Migration
5 19 (12.50%) Mobile Device Management
6 10 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (5.92%) Asset Management
8 8 (5.26%) Agile
8 8 (5.26%) Decision-Making
8 8 (5.26%) Project Management
8 8 (5.26%) Service Management
9 7 (4.61%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (4.61%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (3.95%) Change Management
10 6 (3.95%) Desktop Virtualisation
10 6 (3.95%) E-Commerce
10 6 (3.95%) ITSM
10 6 (3.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (3.29%) Data Protection
11 5 (3.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.47%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.32%) SQL
3 1 (0.66%) Bash
3 1 (0.66%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.66%) Kusto Query Language
3 1 (0.66%) Python
3 1 (0.66%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (12.50%) Degree
1 19 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 12 (7.89%) Security Cleared
3 9 (5.92%) ITIL Certification
3 9 (5.92%) SC Cleared
4 6 (3.95%) MCSE
5 4 (2.63%) CCNA
5 4 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (1.97%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.32%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.32%) APMG
7 2 (1.32%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.32%) HND
7 2 (1.32%) MCITP
7 2 (1.32%) MCP
8 1 (0.66%) CISSP
8 1 (0.66%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.66%) GIAC
8 1 (0.66%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (7.24%) SLA
2 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 76 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (6.58%) Hyper-V
4 5 (3.29%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.66%) NFS
5 1 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 39 (25.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (11.18%) SCCM
3 5 (3.29%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 4 (2.63%) Jamf Pro
4 4 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (1.97%) Autotask
5 3 (1.97%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.66%) Nessus
Vendors
1 91 (59.87%) Microsoft
2 25 (16.45%) VMware
3 16 (10.53%) ServiceNow
4 11 (7.24%) Citrix
5 9 (5.92%) Apple
5 9 (5.92%) Sophos
6 5 (3.29%) Cisco
6 5 (3.29%) Veeam
7 4 (2.63%) Logitech
8 3 (1.97%) Datto
8 3 (1.97%) Dell
9 2 (1.32%) Adobe
9 2 (1.32%) Autodesk
9 2 (1.32%) Bomgar
9 2 (1.32%) CA
9 2 (1.32%) Google
9 2 (1.32%) iManage
9 2 (1.32%) Lotus
9 2 (1.32%) Meraki
9 2 (1.32%) Wyse