Microsoft Office Contracts in the South West

Microsoft Office
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 60 49
Rank change year-on-year +6 -11 +12
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Office 113 121 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.43% 3.57% 4.33%
As % of the Applications category 47.28% 48.02% 51.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 91 112
10th Percentile £129 £136 £110
25th Percentile £185 £206 £153
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £238 £500 £310
Median % change year-on-year -52.50% +61.42% +29.06%
75th Percentile £538 £591 £465
90th Percentile - £612 £538
England median daily rate £275 £375 £310
% change year-on-year -26.67% +20.99% -14.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 9
10th Percentile £12.94 £13.20 £11.42
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £17.17
Median hourly rate £37.50 £20.93 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year +79.17% -21.76% -38.86%
75th Percentile £51.25 £21.75 £37.50
90th Percentile - £113.70 £43.11
England median hourly rate £16.00 £21.36 £16.00
% change year-on-year -25.09% +33.50% -3.72%

All Software Application Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for software application skills 239 252 308
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 7.24% 7.44% 8.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 166 216
10th Percentile £135 £194 £131
25th Percentile £208 £304 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £513
90th Percentile £700 £620 £568
England median daily rate £400 £438 £450
% change year-on-year -8.57% -2.78% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 17 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.80 £12.76
25th Percentile £14.54 £21.25 £21.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +50.00% +9.03%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £56.80 £85.80 £60.93
England median hourly rate £16.23 £26.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year -38.75% +18.30% +17.89%

Microsoft Office
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Microsoft Office in the South West over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Microsoft Office in the South West

Microsoft Office
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 13 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
Wiltshire -18 36 £220 -60.00% 34
Gloucestershire +26 31 £573 +316.36% 34
Bristol -1 29 £525 +75.00% 46
Devon +2 10 £145 +11.15% 21
Somerset -2 4 £400 +107.79% 55
Dorset -9 2 - - 21
Cornwall -4 1 £225 - 4
Microsoft Office
England

Microsoft Office
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 12 (10.62%) CMS
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (8.85%) Sitecore CMS
4 7 (6.19%) Confluence
5 3 (2.65%) Skype for Business
6 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
Applications
1 40 (35.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (27.43%) Spreadsheet
3 25 (22.12%) Microsoft Project
4 5 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (3.54%) Acrobat
5 4 (3.54%) Adobe Illustrator
6 3 (2.65%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.88%) CATIA
7 1 (0.88%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (5.31%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (7.08%) Azure
3 6 (5.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (0.88%) AWS
4 1 (0.88%) Entra ID
4 1 (0.88%) OneDrive
4 1 (0.88%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.42%) Skype
1 5 (4.42%) VSAN
2 2 (1.77%) LAN
3 1 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.88%) DNS
3 1 (0.88%) Firewall
3 1 (0.88%) IP Telephony
3 1 (0.88%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (0.88%) WAN
3 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) MySQL
1 1 (0.88%) Power BI
1 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
1 1 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (27.43%) JIRA
2 1 (0.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (0.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 76 (67.26%) Social Skills
2 40 (35.40%) Analytical Skills
3 35 (30.97%) Finance
4 26 (23.01%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (6.19%) Public Sector
5 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.54%) Military
6 4 (3.54%) Multimedia
6 4 (3.54%) Publishing
7 3 (2.65%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.65%) Retail
8 2 (1.77%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.77%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.77%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.88%) Local Government
9 1 (0.88%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (21.24%) Lead
1 24 (21.24%) Project Leader
2 16 (14.16%) Analyst
3 12 (10.62%) Author
3 12 (10.62%) Technical Author
4 9 (7.96%) Administrator
5 7 (6.19%) Support Engineer
6 6 (5.31%) IT Analyst
6 6 (5.31%) Web Specialist
7 5 (4.42%) Desktop Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.42%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (3.54%) Content Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Desktop Support Engineer
8 4 (3.54%) IT Support
8 4 (3.54%) Service Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (3.54%) Web Content Manager
8 4 (3.54%) Web Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (11.50%) XML
2 4 (3.54%) Flash
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) .NET Core
3 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.88%) React
3 1 (0.88%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.19%) Self-Motivation
2 4 (3.54%) Animation
2 4 (3.54%) Clustering
2 4 (3.54%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.65%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.65%) PKI
4 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.77%) Blog
4 2 (1.77%) CMDB
4 2 (1.77%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.77%) iPhone
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Licensing
5 1 (0.88%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 26 (23.01%) Windows
2 17 (15.04%) Windows 10
3 4 (3.54%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.65%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.65%) Linux
4 3 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.77%) CentOS
5 2 (1.77%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.88%) Android
6 1 (0.88%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.97%) Project Management
2 33 (29.20%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (27.43%) Agile
3 31 (27.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 28 (24.78%) Project Delivery
5 26 (23.01%) Data Management
6 25 (22.12%) PRINCE2
7 24 (21.24%) Commercial Awareness
7 24 (21.24%) Creative Problem-Solving
7 24 (21.24%) Project Planning
7 24 (21.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 24 (21.24%) Workshop Facilitation
8 17 (15.04%) ITIL
9 16 (14.16%) CAD
10 15 (13.27%) Validation
11 13 (11.50%) Customer Service
12 12 (10.62%) Service Management
12 12 (10.62%) User Experience
13 8 (7.08%) Change Management
13 8 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.54%) PowerShell
1 4 (3.54%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) Bash
2 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 54 (47.79%) Security Cleared
2 25 (22.12%) APMP
2 25 (22.12%) DV Cleared
3 18 (15.93%) Degree
4 14 (12.39%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.42%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.42%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.54%) CCNA
6 4 (3.54%) Chartered Engineer
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.77%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.77%) MCSE
7 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.88%) HND
8 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (25.66%) PMO
2 4 (3.54%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.54%) QA
3 2 (1.77%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (15.04%) Active Directory
2 8 (7.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.42%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (4.42%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.88%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.88%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 5 (4.42%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.54%) SCCM
3 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.77%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.77%) WSUS
5 1 (0.88%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 89 (78.76%) Microsoft
2 13 (11.50%) Atlassian
3 10 (8.85%) Sitecore
4 9 (7.96%) Citrix
5 8 (7.08%) VMware
6 6 (5.31%) Cisco
7 4 (3.54%) Adobe
8 3 (2.65%) Apple
9 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
9 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
9 2 (1.77%) ServiceNow
10 1 (0.88%) Avaya
10 1 (0.88%) BT
10 1 (0.88%) Fujitsu
10 1 (0.88%) Oracle
10 1 (0.88%) Progress
10 1 (0.88%) SAP