Microsoft Office Contracts in England

Microsoft Office
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Microsoft Office skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microsoft Office over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 77 83
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +13
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 1,170 1,425 2,143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.12% 3.03% 3.05%
As % of the Applications category 41.88% 39.84% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 614 992 1,438
10th Percentile £140 £159 £140
25th Percentile £190 £210 £183
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £375 £310
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +20.99% -14.50%
75th Percentile £494 £553 £488
90th Percentile £611 £688 £589
UK median daily rate £275 £375 £320
% change year-on-year -26.67% +17.19% -11.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 84 175
10th Percentile £10.95 £13.05 £10.77
25th Percentile £12.53 £15.50 £12.50
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.36 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.09% +33.50% -3.72%
75th Percentile £23.93 £32.67 £23.00
90th Percentile £38.75 £53.24 £37.50
UK median hourly rate £16.00 £22.63 £16.75
% change year-on-year -29.30% +35.10% +6.11%

All Software Application Skills
England

Microsoft Office falls under the Software Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring software application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 2,794 3,577 5,342
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 7.45% 7.60% 7.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,440 2,352 3,553
10th Percentile £166 £190 £160
25th Percentile £220 £286 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +12.50%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £550
90th Percentile £650 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £400 £425 £445
% change year-on-year -5.88% -4.49% +11.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 588 217 367
10th Percentile £11.70 £14.46 £11.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £26.50 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -38.75% +18.30% +17.89%
75th Percentile £34.81 £48.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £57.50 £64.25 £55.00
UK median hourly rate £16.65 £27.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -39.45% +27.91% +21.13%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in England

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in England

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in England

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in England

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in England

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London -1 403 £350 -26.32% 434
North of England +29 243 £325 -10.34% 387
South East -2 221 £215 -21.17% 370
North West +40 177 £396 -6.82% 201
Midlands +21 119 £255 -17.07% 330
South West +6 113 £238 -52.50% 214
East Midlands +32 68 £255 +14.35% 137
Yorkshire +3 59 £208 -38.52% 136
West Midlands -11 51 £300 -11.11% 193
East of England -22 51 £400 +60.00% 157
North East +2 7 £195 -25.00% 58
Microsoft Office
UK

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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
1 100 (8.55%) SharePoint
2 62 (5.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 34 (2.91%) Confluence
4 23 (1.97%) CMS
5 18 (1.54%) Skype for Business
6 10 (0.85%) Sitecore CMS
7 6 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
8 4 (0.34%) Drupal
8 4 (0.34%) WordPress
9 3 (0.26%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
9 3 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2010
9 3 (0.26%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.17%) Apache
10 2 (0.17%) Apache Spark
10 2 (0.17%) Documentum
10 2 (0.17%) IBM Notes
10 2 (0.17%) IIS
11 1 (0.085%) Moodle
Applications
1 369 (31.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 184 (15.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 75 (6.41%) Microsoft Project
4 67 (5.73%) MS Visio
5 66 (5.64%) Spreadsheet
6 11 (0.94%) Photoshop
7 9 (0.77%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 8 (0.68%) Acrobat
8 8 (0.68%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.26%) Adobe Premiere
9 3 (0.26%) AutoCAD
9 3 (0.26%) MicroStation
9 3 (0.26%) Revit
10 2 (0.17%) InDesign
11 1 (0.085%) 3ds Max
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe After Effects
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.085%) Blender
11 1 (0.085%) CATIA
11 1 (0.085%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 10 (0.85%) Primavera
2 6 (0.51%) Magento
3 5 (0.43%) SmartPlant
4 3 (0.26%) NetSuite
4 3 (0.26%) OPENHousing
5 2 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.17%) ION MarketView
5 2 (0.17%) Maximo
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.17%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.17%) Remedy ITSM
5 2 (0.17%) ResourceLink
5 2 (0.17%) SAP Hybris
5 2 (0.17%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.17%) SystmOne
5 2 (0.17%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.085%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.085%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.085%) SAP PP
6 1 (0.085%) SAP PS
Cloud Services
1 231 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
2 98 (8.38%) Azure
3 52 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 32 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 27 (2.31%) OneDrive
6 25 (2.14%) Google Workspace
7 24 (2.05%) SaaS
8 20 (1.71%) Taleo
9 16 (1.37%) PowerApps
10 15 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.20%) PaaS
12 13 (1.11%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.11%) Slack
13 12 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
13 12 (1.03%) IaaS
14 11 (0.94%) WhatsApp
15 8 (0.68%) Google Docs
15 8 (0.68%) SAP Commerce Cloud
15 8 (0.68%) SuccessFactors
16 6 (0.51%) MailChimp
Communications & Networking
1 65 (5.56%) VPN
2 50 (4.27%) Wireless
3 49 (4.19%) LAN
4 38 (3.25%) Firewall
5 35 (2.99%) WAN
6 31 (2.65%) DNS
7 28 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.97%) Cisco IOS
9 22 (1.88%) Skype
10 21 (1.79%) VoIP
11 19 (1.62%) Internet
12 18 (1.54%) DHCP
13 17 (1.45%) SD-WAN
14 15 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
15 14 (1.20%) VLAN
16 13 (1.11%) DMZ
17 12 (1.03%) TCP/IP
18 11 (0.94%) Remote Desktop
19 7 (0.60%) PSTN
20 6 (0.51%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (3.93%) Power BI
2 22 (1.88%) SQL Server
3 10 (0.85%) Tableau
4 7 (0.60%) GIS
5 5 (0.43%) Metadata
5 5 (0.43%) Relational Database
6 4 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
6 4 (0.34%) SAP HANA
6 4 (0.34%) Spatial Data
6 4 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.26%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.26%) Geospatial Data
7 3 (0.26%) QGIS
7 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.17%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.17%) DTS
8 2 (0.17%) KNIME
8 2 (0.17%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 88 (7.52%) JIRA
2 4 (0.34%) ChangeMan
2 4 (0.34%) Git
2 4 (0.34%) Visual Website Optimizer
3 3 (0.26%) Jenkins
3 3 (0.26%) Subversion
4 2 (0.17%) Android Studio
4 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.17%) JUnit
4 2 (0.17%) Mockito
4 2 (0.17%) ScalaTest
4 2 (0.17%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.17%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio
4 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Code
4 2 (0.17%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (0.085%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (0.085%) LabVIEW
5 1 (0.085%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (0.085%) Yeoman
General
1 544 (46.50%) Social Skills
2 284 (24.27%) Finance
3 178 (15.21%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.32%) Organisational Skills
5 86 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 78 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
7 74 (6.32%) Telecoms
8 60 (5.13%) Banking
8 60 (5.13%) Legal
9 48 (4.10%) Manufacturing
9 48 (4.10%) Marketing
10 29 (2.48%) Retail
11 27 (2.31%) Mandarin Language
12 21 (1.79%) Local Government
13 18 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
13 18 (1.54%) Financial Institution
13 18 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.54%) Law
14 17 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 14 (1.20%) Military
Job Titles
1 213 (18.21%) Analyst
2 84 (7.18%) Support Engineer
3 81 (6.92%) Project Manager
4 80 (6.84%) IT Support
5 75 (6.41%) Lead
6 72 (6.15%) Administrator
7 67 (5.73%) Service Analyst
8 62 (5.30%) Desktop Support
9 61 (5.21%) Service Desk Analyst
10 59 (5.04%) Senior
11 58 (4.96%) 2nd Line Support
12 54 (4.62%) Support Analyst
13 49 (4.19%) IT Engineer
14 41 (3.50%) Desktop Engineer
15 36 (3.08%) Business Analyst
16 35 (2.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
17 33 (2.82%) Coordinator
18 32 (2.74%) 2nd Line Engineer
19 31 (2.65%) 1st/2nd Line Support
20 30 (2.56%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.54%) XML
2 14 (1.20%) .NET
3 10 (0.85%) HTML
4 7 (0.60%) CSS
4 7 (0.60%) ISPF
5 6 (0.51%) .NET Framework
5 6 (0.51%) Flash
5 6 (0.51%) JSON
6 4 (0.34%) AngularJS
6 4 (0.34%) React
6 4 (0.34%) REST
7 3 (0.26%) ADO
7 3 (0.26%) EDI
7 3 (0.26%) Web Services
7 3 (0.26%) XMPP
8 2 (0.17%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.17%) Ajax
8 2 (0.17%) DOM
8 2 (0.17%) jQuery
8 2 (0.17%) WSH
Miscellaneous
1 74 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
2 66 (5.64%) Management Information System
3 36 (3.08%) Driving Licence
4 30 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.39%) Virtual Team
6 23 (1.97%) Smartphone
7 22 (1.88%) NHS
7 22 (1.88%) Onboarding
8 21 (1.79%) iPhone
8 21 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
9 14 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (1.20%) iPad
10 13 (1.11%) Clustering
10 13 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (0.85%) Mainframe
12 9 (0.77%) CMDB
12 9 (0.77%) Product Ownership
13 8 (0.68%) PMI
14 7 (0.60%) Blackberry
14 7 (0.60%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 355 (30.34%) Windows
2 196 (16.75%) Windows 10
3 76 (6.50%) Windows 7
4 59 (5.04%) Windows Server
5 48 (4.10%) Android
6 37 (3.16%) Apple iOS
7 33 (2.82%) Mac OS
8 26 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
9 16 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
10 15 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
11 12 (1.03%) Linux
12 9 (0.77%) Mac OS X
13 7 (0.60%) zOS
14 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (0.34%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.26%) Unix
17 2 (0.17%) CentOS
17 2 (0.17%) VMS
17 2 (0.17%) Windows XP
18 1 (0.085%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 252 (21.54%) Problem-Solving
2 222 (18.97%) Customer Service
3 196 (16.75%) Project Management
4 134 (11.45%) ITIL
5 131 (11.20%) Agile
6 115 (9.83%) Time Management
7 106 (9.06%) Project Delivery
8 105 (8.97%) Decision-Making
9 95 (8.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 71 (6.07%) Change Management
11 68 (5.81%) Business Intelligence
12 66 (5.64%) PRINCE2
13 62 (5.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 60 (5.13%) Data Protection
15 57 (4.87%) Service Delivery
16 51 (4.36%) Asset Management
16 51 (4.36%) ITSM
17 50 (4.27%) Migration
17 50 (4.27%) Service Management
18 48 (4.10%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 38 (3.25%) PowerShell
2 36 (3.08%) SQL
3 21 (1.79%) Python
4 19 (1.62%) JavaScript
5 12 (1.03%) C#
6 9 (0.77%) VBA
7 8 (0.68%) Java
8 7 (0.60%) JCL
9 6 (0.51%) Bash
10 5 (0.43%) T-SQL
10 5 (0.43%) VB.NET
11 4 (0.34%) Google Apps Script
11 4 (0.34%) VB
12 3 (0.26%) MATLAB
12 3 (0.26%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.26%) R
12 3 (0.26%) REXX
13 2 (0.17%) Scala
13 2 (0.17%) VBScript
14 1 (0.085%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 350 (29.91%) Degree
2 226 (19.32%) Security Cleared
3 121 (10.34%) SC Cleared
4 64 (5.47%) DV Cleared
5 48 (4.10%) APMP
6 43 (3.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 32 (2.74%) PMP
8 31 (2.65%) PMI Certification
9 29 (2.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (2.39%) NVQ Level 3
11 18 (1.54%) Master's Degree
12 16 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 14 (1.20%) DBS Check
14 13 (1.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 12 (1.03%) CISM
15 12 (1.03%) CISSP
16 11 (0.94%) CCNP
16 11 (0.94%) CISA
16 11 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.26%) PMO
2 75 (6.41%) SLA
3 35 (2.99%) QA
4 26 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
5 25 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 24 (2.05%) GDPR
7 14 (1.20%) Data Quality
8 5 (0.43%) NIST
9 4 (0.34%) GRC
9 4 (0.34%) P3O
10 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.26%) NCSC
10 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.17%) Government Security Classifications
12 1 (0.085%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.085%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 1 (0.085%) ISO 22301
12 1 (0.085%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 193 (16.50%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.97%) Firmware
4 21 (1.79%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (0.60%) Job Entry Subsystem
7 6 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.43%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.26%) vSphere
10 2 (0.17%) Microsoft App-V
10 2 (0.17%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.085%) vCloud
11 1 (0.085%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.085%) XenApp
11 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 94 (8.03%) SCCM
2 46 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (1.37%) Jamf Pro
4 10 (0.85%) WSUS
5 9 (0.77%) AirWatch
6 8 (0.68%) Failover Clustering
7 7 (0.60%) Control-M
8 6 (0.51%) Autotask
8 6 (0.51%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.43%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 5 (0.43%) Terraform
9 5 (0.43%) WhatsUp Gold
10 4 (0.34%) SCOM
11 3 (0.26%) Ansible
11 3 (0.26%) AppManager
12 2 (0.17%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.17%) HP Quality Center
12 2 (0.17%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.17%) WMI
Vendors
1 835 (71.37%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.09%) ServiceNow
3 56 (4.79%) Apple
4 55 (4.70%) SAP
5 51 (4.36%) Citrix
6 48 (4.10%) Cisco
7 45 (3.85%) Google
8 42 (3.59%) VMware
9 36 (3.08%) Oracle
10 32 (2.74%) Adobe
11 31 (2.65%) HP
12 26 (2.22%) Salesforce
13 22 (1.88%) Atlassian
14 19 (1.62%) Palo Alto
15 17 (1.45%) F5
16 12 (1.03%) Veeam
17 10 (0.85%) Sitecore
18 9 (0.77%) CA
19 8 (0.68%) Samsung
20 7 (0.60%) CyberArk