Microsoft Office Contracts

Microsoft Office
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 79 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 +8
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 1,292 1,662 2,569
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.00% 2.96% 2.93%
As % of the Applications category 40.19% 40.03% 39.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 680 1,139 1,735
10th Percentile £140 £159 £140
25th Percentile £190 £206 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £263 £375 £315
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +19.05% -12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £549 £488
90th Percentile £600 £684 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £225 £325 £232
% change year-on-year -30.77% +40.39% -11.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 99 200
10th Percentile £11.00 £13.26 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.38 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.63 £16.61
Median % change year-on-year -29.30% +36.24% +7.30%
75th Percentile £24.10 £52.50 £23.58
90th Percentile £42.50 £67.50 £41.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £15.80
% change year-on-year -21.05% +20.25% +0.32%

All Software Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for software application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 3,215 4,152 6,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 7.47% 7.41% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,653 2,721 4,306
10th Percentile £165 £185 £161
25th Percentile £213 £281 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £684 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 £390 £375
% change year-on-year -10.26% +4.00% +10.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 633 253 409
10th Percentile £11.54 £14.27 £11.24
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £30.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.90% +39.53% +21.13%
75th Percentile £37.50 £52.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.06 £26.48 £19.00
% change year-on-year -39.35% +39.37% +8.39%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the UK

Microsoft Office
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +12 1,161 £263 -30.00% 2,039
UK excluding London +7 829 £225 -30.77% 1,673
London +5 411 £340 -25.27% 483
Work from Home -9 303 £400 -5.88% 738
North of England +30 242 £266 -29.13% 419
South East -4 219 £215 -21.82% 414
North West +41 176 £396 -6.82% 245
South West +5 117 £248 -49.10% 192
Midlands +12 98 £225 -30.77% 329
Scotland +22 78 £206 -36.54% 107
East Midlands +33 58 £245 +9.87% 129
Yorkshire +10 58 £195 -42.22% 129
East of England -22 53 £388 +55.00% 198
West Midlands -24 40 £200 -42.86% 201
Wales +11 17 £503 +140.43% 45
North East +4 8 £195 -25.00% 53
Northern Ireland -19 6 £113 -43.75% 27

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 115 (8.90%) SharePoint
2 75 (5.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (2.40%) Confluence
4 26 (2.01%) Skype for Business
5 25 (1.93%) CMS
6 10 (0.77%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.46%) SharePoint 2013
8 5 (0.39%) WordPress
9 4 (0.31%) Drupal
10 3 (0.23%) ArcGIS
10 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
10 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.15%) Apache
11 2 (0.15%) Apache Spark
11 2 (0.15%) Documentum
11 2 (0.15%) IBM Notes
11 2 (0.15%) IIS
12 1 (0.077%) Moodle
Applications
1 398 (30.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 200 (15.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 82 (6.35%) Microsoft Project
4 75 (5.80%) MS Visio
5 69 (5.34%) Spreadsheet
6 12 (0.93%) Acrobat
6 12 (0.93%) Photoshop
7 10 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.62%) Adobe Illustrator
9 4 (0.31%) AutoCAD
9 4 (0.31%) Revit
10 3 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
10 3 (0.23%) MicroStation
11 2 (0.15%) InDesign
12 1 (0.077%) 3ds Max
12 1 (0.077%) Adobe After Effects
12 1 (0.077%) Adobe Captivate
12 1 (0.077%) Blender
12 1 (0.077%) CATIA
12 1 (0.077%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 13 (1.01%) Primavera
2 6 (0.46%) Magento
2 6 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.39%) SmartPlant
4 4 (0.31%) OPENHousing
4 4 (0.31%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.23%) iTrent
5 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 3 (0.23%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.15%) ION MarketView
6 2 (0.15%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.15%) ResourceLink
6 2 (0.15%) SAP EWM
6 2 (0.15%) SAP Hybris
6 2 (0.15%) SAP PS
6 2 (0.15%) WebTrends
7 1 (0.077%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.077%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.077%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 257 (19.89%) Microsoft 365
2 115 (8.90%) Azure
3 54 (4.18%) Power Platform
4 39 (3.02%) Entra ID
5 37 (2.86%) OneDrive
6 28 (2.17%) Google Workspace
7 25 (1.93%) SaaS
8 20 (1.55%) Taleo
9 17 (1.32%) PowerApps
10 15 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
10 15 (1.16%) PaaS
11 13 (1.01%) IaaS
11 13 (1.01%) Power Automate
12 12 (0.93%) Slack
13 11 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
13 11 (0.85%) WhatsApp
14 8 (0.62%) Google Docs
14 8 (0.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
14 8 (0.62%) SuccessFactors
15 7 (0.54%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 85 (6.58%) VPN
2 53 (4.10%) LAN
3 51 (3.95%) Wireless
4 49 (3.79%) DNS
5 39 (3.02%) Firewall
6 38 (2.94%) WAN
7 35 (2.71%) DHCP
8 30 (2.32%) Skype
9 28 (2.17%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.86%) Cisco IOS
11 19 (1.47%) Internet
11 19 (1.47%) VoIP
12 17 (1.32%) Remote Desktop
12 17 (1.32%) SD-WAN
13 16 (1.24%) Cisco Nexus
14 14 (1.08%) VLAN
15 13 (1.01%) DMZ
16 11 (0.85%) TCP/IP
17 8 (0.62%) PSTN
18 7 (0.54%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.64%) Power BI
2 25 (1.93%) SQL Server
3 9 (0.70%) Tableau
4 7 (0.54%) GIS
5 6 (0.46%) MySQL
5 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
5 6 (0.46%) Relational Database
6 5 (0.39%) Metadata
7 4 (0.31%) RDBMS
7 4 (0.31%) SAP HANA
7 4 (0.31%) Spatial Data
7 4 (0.31%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
8 3 (0.23%) Geospatial Data
8 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
8 3 (0.23%) QGIS
9 2 (0.15%) Apache Cassandra
9 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.15%) BusinessObjects
9 2 (0.15%) KNIME
Development Applications
1 98 (7.59%) JIRA
2 4 (0.31%) Git
2 4 (0.31%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 3 (0.23%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.23%) Subversion
3 3 (0.23%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.15%) Android Studio
4 2 (0.15%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.15%) JUnit
4 2 (0.15%) Mockito
4 2 (0.15%) ScalaTest
4 2 (0.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.15%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.15%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.077%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (0.077%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.077%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.077%) Yeoman
General
1 616 (47.68%) Social Skills
2 306 (23.68%) Finance
3 197 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 120 (9.29%) Organisational Skills
5 115 (8.90%) Public Sector
6 84 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
7 71 (5.50%) Telecoms
8 70 (5.42%) Legal
9 63 (4.88%) Banking
10 50 (3.87%) Manufacturing
11 48 (3.72%) Marketing
12 36 (2.79%) Mandarin Language
13 31 (2.40%) Retail
14 20 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 20 (1.55%) Local Government
15 19 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
17 17 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.32%) Law
18 15 (1.16%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 243 (18.81%) Analyst
2 97 (7.51%) Support Engineer
3 94 (7.28%) Project Manager
4 92 (7.12%) IT Support
5 86 (6.66%) Administrator
6 79 (6.11%) Desktop Support
7 77 (5.96%) Lead
8 72 (5.57%) Service Analyst
8 72 (5.57%) Support Analyst
9 65 (5.03%) 2nd Line Support
10 64 (4.95%) Service Desk Analyst
11 62 (4.80%) Desktop Engineer
12 60 (4.64%) Senior
13 52 (4.02%) IT Engineer
14 46 (3.56%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 39 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 39 (3.02%) Coordinator
16 35 (2.71%) 1st/2nd Line Support
17 34 (2.63%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 33 (2.55%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (1.63%) XML
2 15 (1.16%) .NET
3 11 (0.85%) HTML
4 8 (0.62%) CSS
5 7 (0.54%) Flash
5 7 (0.54%) JSON
6 6 (0.46%) .NET Framework
7 4 (0.31%) AngularJS
7 4 (0.31%) React
8 3 (0.23%) ADO
8 3 (0.23%) EDI
8 3 (0.23%) jQuery
8 3 (0.23%) Web Services
8 3 (0.23%) XMPP
9 2 (0.15%) .NET Core
9 2 (0.15%) Ajax
9 2 (0.15%) ARM Templates
9 2 (0.15%) DOM
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle Fusion
9 2 (0.15%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 76 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
2 65 (5.03%) Management Information System
3 38 (2.94%) Driving Licence
4 37 (2.86%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.32%) Virtual Team
6 27 (2.09%) iPhone
7 26 (2.01%) Smartphone
8 25 (1.93%) NHS
8 25 (1.93%) Onboarding
9 21 (1.63%) Video Conferencing
10 17 (1.32%) Analytical Mindset
10 17 (1.32%) Product Ownership
11 16 (1.24%) iPad
12 14 (1.08%) Clustering
12 14 (1.08%) CMDB
13 13 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.70%) Blackberry
15 8 (0.62%) Hedge funds
15 8 (0.62%) PMI
16 7 (0.54%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 406 (31.42%) Windows
2 230 (17.80%) Windows 10
3 98 (7.59%) Windows 7
4 61 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 42 (3.25%) Apple iOS
6 41 (3.17%) Android
7 36 (2.79%) Mac OS
8 25 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
9 22 (1.70%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.16%) Mac OS X
10 15 (1.16%) Windows Server 2019
11 13 (1.01%) Linux
12 7 (0.54%) Windows Server 2008
13 5 (0.39%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.23%) Unix
14 3 (0.23%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.15%) CentOS
15 2 (0.15%) VMS
15 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2003
16 1 (0.077%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 283 (21.90%) Problem-Solving
2 261 (20.20%) Customer Service
3 210 (16.25%) Project Management
4 164 (12.69%) ITIL
5 145 (11.22%) Agile
6 123 (9.52%) Time Management
7 114 (8.82%) Decision-Making
8 112 (8.67%) Project Delivery
9 104 (8.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 83 (6.42%) Service Delivery
11 75 (5.80%) Change Management
12 74 (5.73%) PRINCE2
13 67 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (5.03%) Business Intelligence
15 61 (4.72%) Asset Management
15 61 (4.72%) Data Protection
16 60 (4.64%) ITSM
17 59 (4.57%) Service Management
18 56 (4.33%) Risk Management
19 53 (4.10%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 40 (3.10%) SQL
2 36 (2.79%) PowerShell
3 23 (1.78%) Python
4 20 (1.55%) JavaScript
5 15 (1.16%) C#
6 11 (0.85%) Java
7 9 (0.70%) VBA
8 7 (0.54%) T-SQL
9 6 (0.46%) Bash
9 6 (0.46%) PHP
10 5 (0.39%) PL/SQL
10 5 (0.39%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.31%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (0.31%) VB
12 3 (0.23%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.23%) R
13 2 (0.15%) Scala
13 2 (0.15%) VBScript
14 1 (0.077%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.077%) Perl
Qualifications
1 389 (30.11%) Degree
2 255 (19.74%) Security Cleared
3 142 (10.99%) SC Cleared
4 69 (5.34%) DV Cleared
5 51 (3.95%) APMP
6 38 (2.94%) BPSS Clearance
7 34 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 33 (2.55%) PMI Certification
9 32 (2.48%) PMP
10 28 (2.17%) NVQ Level 3
11 27 (2.09%) A+ Certification
11 27 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 25 (1.93%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
13 19 (1.47%) DBS Check
14 16 (1.24%) CISM
14 16 (1.24%) CISSP
15 15 (1.16%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 14 (1.08%) CCNA
17 13 (1.01%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (7.04%) SLA
2 90 (6.97%) PMO
3 39 (3.02%) QA
4 30 (2.32%) Disclosure Scotland
5 26 (2.01%) Accessibility
5 26 (2.01%) GDPR
6 15 (1.16%) Data Quality
7 12 (0.93%) NIST
8 9 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.54%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.39%) P3O
11 4 (0.31%) GRC
12 3 (0.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
13 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.15%) NCSC
13 2 (0.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 1 (0.077%) GMP
14 1 (0.077%) GxP
System Software
1 238 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 41 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.78%) Hyper-V
4 21 (1.63%) Firmware
5 7 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (0.54%) VMware NSX
6 5 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.15%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.15%) vSphere
9 1 (0.077%) vCloud
9 1 (0.077%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 123 (9.52%) SCCM
2 56 (4.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 23 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (0.77%) WSUS
5 8 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
6 7 (0.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 7 (0.54%) vCenter Server
7 6 (0.46%) Argo
7 6 (0.46%) Autotask
8 5 (0.39%) Terraform
8 5 (0.39%) WhatsUp Gold
9 3 (0.23%) Ansible
9 3 (0.23%) AppManager
10 2 (0.15%) FortiGate
10 2 (0.15%) HP Quality Center
10 2 (0.15%) Netcool
10 2 (0.15%) Rundeck
10 2 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.15%) WMI
11 1 (0.077%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 939 (72.68%) Microsoft
2 87 (6.73%) ServiceNow
3 73 (5.65%) Cisco
4 67 (5.19%) Apple
5 58 (4.49%) SAP
6 56 (4.33%) Citrix
7 50 (3.87%) Google
8 41 (3.17%) VMware
9 37 (2.86%) Adobe
9 37 (2.86%) Oracle
10 35 (2.71%) HP
11 29 (2.24%) Atlassian
12 27 (2.09%) Salesforce
13 19 (1.47%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.39%) F5
15 12 (0.93%) Veeam
16 10 (0.77%) Sitecore
17 9 (0.70%) Progress
18 7 (0.54%) Dell
18 7 (0.54%) MicroStrategy